Doom and Gloom

[jenros]

i bought mine in june, 08 plate, full touring kit, remus carbon exhaust, power commander, top box, larger screen, garmin sat nav mount, tank guard, optimiser fittings, got the original exhaust, screen,lots of spares,,,,,,,,the best bit,,,,,,,,489 miles from new!!!!!.
he bought it to go touring with his wife,,,,,,,,they split up!!!!!!!!!,bike was stood in the garage!!!!!!!!!.
          under £.8.5k!!!!.
call it my mcdonalds bike,,,,,,,,, coz im lovvvvvvvin it! lol :) :)

[2kwacks]

At this time of the season there does seem to be a lot of touring bikes about for sale.

I was chatting to a dealer last weekend and that very subject came up.
his opinion on it was that a lot of blokes 'of a certain age' rock in around April time with dreams of doing 'The Alps/italy/spain etc'  spend a HOOOOGE wad on bikes, kit, luggage yadda yadda, and then either don't get the time or the wife's not to happy or they just bottle it, and then sell the whole lot on Ebay.
The following spring another midlife hobby then turns up.

I'm not saying that is the case for everyone but there are a lot of peeps who's motorcycling ethos is
'Live to Ride. Ride to the Bike dealers every weekend (when its warm) have a coffee and ride home'

QUOTE! Ride to the Bike dealers every weekend (when its warm) have a coffee and ride home' or like me" to the ponderosa, but it is good 50 miles away from my abode ;)