When selling a bike is like losing a family member - motorcycles

When selling a bike is like losing a family member



I don?t think I?ll ever get used to seeing someone load my pride and joy into their van. You might have just shoved a fist full of dollars into your sky rocket but it?ll be scant redemption. And if seeing it disappearing down the street doesn?t put a knot in your stomach, then it probably wasn?t the right bike for you in the first place. For many of us though, selling a bike is like losing a family member. Like someone chopping your arm off. And it doesn?t get any better.

A couple of years ago, I had to sell a race bike that I?d had for about six years. I?d raced it in BSB, all over Europe, the Isle of man TT, you name it. I really, really, really didn?t want to sell it. But if I wanted to carry on racing, I simply had to get rid. I was desperate for the space and I needed the money; if I wasn?t, I would have kept it. I know six years doesn?t sound like a long time to own a bike, but when you have done so much with it, and shared so many memories, it feels like a lifetime. During that six years, I?d spent more time riding and working on that bike than I?d spent with any other person, which is probably why I felt so close to it. I was close to it.
I genuinely felt like I could have written a book about my time with that bike. I?m glad I didn?t because it probably would have been the most boring book in the world to most people. But it wouldn?t have been to me.

Because when you?ve had a bike for a while, it?s more than just a bike. It becomes part of your lif...
source: 44teeth
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