How much do you love your bike?

[reddeviljp]

Last night, about 2:30am, I got up and adjusted the Oxford Aquatex on my new Fazer to ensure it was fully covered in case of rain
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Bike: 1993 CB400 SuperFour - 1999 Yamaha FZS600 - DAS passed 7/11/13 - Working my way towards a Yamaha FZ1.

[Bendy]

[reddeviljp]

[Irn-Bru]

Not much at all but since my dad gave me it I feel I should at least take half-decent care of it even if it's an old, slow, heavy, ugly thing - much like the PO It has a nice cover and I wipe the mud off the license plate some times.
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KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM

[fozzym]

You don't love it enough to get a garage you scoundrel

[reddeviljp]

[hmmmnz]

mine are extremly lucky if they get washed once a year
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the humans are dead
I kick arse for the lord
Wiring Diagrams BIDNIP it bitches

[R-Johnny]

I may have been known to hug my bike ... As in proper standing by the side lean over tank and hug
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Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R P8F

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I love them all and they all get pampered, the spoilt bastards. Usually I ride 'em with a fair degree of ye olde mechanical sympathy to the fore, but they do get a bit of exercise now again too. Short intervals on oil, rarely more than two thousand. Chains cleaned and oiled after every ride (only takes a couple of minutes cos they're always so clean), and everything else kept pretty damn tidy as well. Yeah they're always clean, but I never use water or soap. Just GT85 or diesel / paraffin etc. They get a careful titivating (matron) on a very regular basis.
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[sidewinder]

Not this much

https://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/sidewinder11/9cb6e5c3716f7ca1ff705286cab9451d_zps2228c32e.jpg

[Nexus Icon]

It's a bike.
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Greetings from Shitsville!

[whitmorereans]

how much do I love my bike?

more than my wife

but

less than my dog.

[Snorty]

More than a lot of things. Maybe I don't wash it as much as I should, but I ride it as I should. I gets every single part of the rev range used, the speedo has been as far as it's going to go, and I've pushed it as far as I'm willing to go, and I enjoy every minute of it. I stopped at the petrol station about a mile into my ride the other week and I was smiling a genuine smile that nothing else brings out, just thinking of the fun I was going to have.

Also, whenever everything else is going wrong with life, I've always had bikes to cheer me up, one way or another.
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Current: Yamaha FZ1 '07 | GSXR 750 SRAD

Past: CB125TDC | TZR125 | GPZ500 | CBR600F3 | ZX9-R | GSXR1000 K4

[Pigeon]

Waaaaayyy too much. It's not even remotely sane.

My 125, I clean it nearly every week. I change the oil twice as often as the manual says. Always let it warm up before heading out. Sometimes when I walk past it in the garage, I give the seat a couple of gentle pats/slaps like I would horse I guess.

If I've kept the throttle pinned and bike screaming at 8,500rpm for a period of time to get up a hill, I apologise to the bike when we reach the top.

When we're out late, it's pitch black, pissing rain or icy /wet leaf roads, I ask the bike to get us both home in one piece and to not come over all Chinese at the side of the road.

After 18mths of owning the £1,500 bike, I didn't notice how bald the front tyre was, entered a tight RH bend trailing the front brake a little. Hit some mud and low sided in an instant. Sliding on the ground still on the bike. When I picked the bike up, I wasn't in shock, or scared or anything like that. I was livid, absolutely fuming because I had "hurt" my bike. I had scrapped a peg, little scuff on the indicator and scrape on the brake lever. Hardly anything. But I was at the side of the road, jumping up and down screaming obscenities and beating the crap out of the air in front of me.

If I didn't have my bike, I'd be an alcoholic.

I understand that the above is clear proof I'm mentally deficiant, sad and insane. But I don't care, I love my bike(s)

[The Tot]

... not a lot! Marco is in the garage - unwashed after the last ride in early september! Despite sticking new fairings on it, it's still a 13 year old FireBlade and you can't hide that fact! Least it ain't going to be on the road this winter!
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The Tot 2019 Z1000SX - 2007 R1
Never argue with autism

[sickpup]

[suburban myth]

[jonrarit]

Came in from the garage last night to be greeted by the wife saying "I think you love that bike more than you love me"

to which I replied " ah yes dear but you're a very close second......"

another night on the couch.....

jr

[reddeviljp]

[Toccs]

Nothing quite like meeting Miss Palm and her 5 daughters while bent over the bike.

[goto10]

My bike gets what it needs, not what it wants. Same for kids and pets.
I, on the other hand, gorge my fat face on whatever I please.
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'12 NC700S & '12 CB600F Hornet [Stolen by some dickless twat] Suzuki GT500 shed

[goto10]

[Fizzer Thou]

A girlfriend once said to me "Choose between me or the bike!"

She got the bus home and I never saw her again.


https://i1054.photobucket.com/albums/s490/mantis694/292467_4064902136649_2071888156_n.jpg

Maybe this bike owner cannot get a girlfriend
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Just talk bikes.What else is there?

Always have a 'Plan B'

[MC]

[johnsmith222]

OP remember to name your bike and constantly refer to it as "she" and "her".

My bikes are replaceable lumps of metal which give me enjoyment and excitement. That way when I crash them I'm not too bothered beyond the loss of their monetary value.