Retail therapy Nannette style!!

Saturday started out disgustingly wet, so I was very dissapointed as we were headed to our favorite motorcycle shop out of town to test ride a bike or two....

When we got there we worked out my options as I am still a provisional rider and have a bike size restriction. i.e I am not allowed legally to ride a 1000cc bike... The biggest is a 650cc bike and it depends on the make as to what I can ride size wise also.... I had realised that it just wasnt practical for me to buy the SV650 that I fell in love with on my last post.... so went with the legal option....


Ok... First bike off the ranks was this Honda VTR 250cc:

Verdict... Yeah looked ok, but horrid to ride... it was all over the place with dodgy suspension.. I know it was second hand but only had about 23,000 on the clock... A little dissapointed in this one... Ok whats next...... Kawasaki gpx.... Hmmmm







OK.. as soon as they sarted it I didnt like it.... It sounded like a frikkin lawnmower... But I took it for a run anyway.... Handled well (weather was rooly shit it was showering and windy as all hell) but the throttle kept sticking on... not good when trying to ride and not get knocked about by gale force winds... No way could I stand listening to that noise either... ikkkk


Nope strike 2.... what else do you have.....


I wanted to test ride this Hyosung 650r but they didnt have one...pftttttttt well that stuffed that idea...



So by this stage I was talking to the owner of the shop and I said is there anything else here that I can ride????
He asked if I had looked at the Kawasaki Ninjas.... I said no..are the LAM's Approved??? And he said yes... Lead the way.....
Omg... Oh My God.....
I think I like.....
Can I take one out.... hmmm they are all brand spanka... only 2km on the clock..... no demo's... damn... oh I suppose so as long as you dont go too far... yippeeeeee
Well I dont like the colour...
Hmmmm ok... I think I like this.... only a 250cc.... but feels good..I can touch the ground... Got lots of power... very twitchy.... loves cornering....(almost as much as I do...) hmmm damn.... makes it hard....
Went back and talked with Mark... He says... do what you want.... Yeah he likes the ninja... but liked the blue one better... I definitely dont like the green... But I think I like the red....
Oh I dont know....
Talked to owner about trading my Trude in....
Bye bye Trude....

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo NINJA.......

Here it is how it looked tonight when they wheeled her in to my bbq area....

Oh I couldnt have a new bike and not have a new matching helmet now could I....(my old one was a cheapy and was too loose now....Dangerous if I had an accident.. So did the right thing and bought a good one...


So deal done and tonight they delivered my new ninja and took my Trude away to a good home...
Funny thing is that when I was test riding the Ninja Mark was talking to a couple that were in the hunt for a second hand intruder.... Mark got thier number and and said we would contact them depending on what we ended up doing...( still wasnt sure about trading or keeping Trude or buying Ninja and selling Trude ourselves etc....)
We ended up trading Trude in and we rang them to let the couple know that the bike would be back at the shop for sale through the week.... (long story short :we said they could come to the house to look at my bike as we only had the car at the bike shop, so they came and looked yesterday and then rang the bike shop this morning and have bought it before the bike hit the shop!) No skin off my nose as I got back what I paid for it through the trade in...

So now I have to wait for the frikkin rain to stop so I can get it out!!! Woooooooohoooooo I am quite excited... Just the sort of retail shopping I like....
Now I am broke.... And I have a 4 day holiday coming up soon too... *sniff* Will be a budget trip I am thinking... Just as well I have paid flights and accomodation already or it would have been park benches for us.. hahaha
Well you deserve a medal if you got this far....
A day in the life of Nannette.... ;o)

Midlife crisis...

Yes thats what this blog is about... Our midlife crisis...

We have both gotten of our arses and bought bikes and enjoy every spare minute travelling Tasmania.
We have made some awesome friends and will be posting pics of different bikes and places that we have visited on our journeys.

Mark is on his second bike after starting out with an RG250... 2 stroke... ikk but after much nagging from me sold it and bought a Suzuki 250 Across.. much more user friendly... and nowhere near as bloody noisy...(much to our neighbours delight!)

So at the moment I am uploading a youtube moviefile to show you what I test rode yesterday....

We also have an abundance of photos that I have to work out how to resize to post here as I am on the laptop now after retiring the dinosaur that died a tragic death a few weeks ago...

I am about to go out to the other side of town to meet up with my ex husband to run him through the provisional testing site. I passed this last June and have helped others by being able to show them through the course and put thier mind at ease come the big day they have to do thier assesment..

I am currently riding a suzuki intruder 250 and altho I loved it at first and my dream was to always ride a cruiser but I have now decided the 'dyke bike' will be going as soon as I am off my provisional status.. I was a bee's dick away from buying the bike in the you tube file yesterday as I fell in love with it instantly and was even worse after being allowed to test ride it even though it wasnt lam's approved... But sadly due to the fact insurance wouldnt cover me incase of an accident I have admitted defeat and will wait til June next year to buy the bike I would really like..
Mind you I have changed my mind about 10 times as to what I would like to ride.... So probably by then I would have found numerous other bikes I would like to own...

So here's to a lifetime of scotch and dry and a powerful throbbing engine between my legs.. hehe

Cheers and welcome....

This is me coming back from a test ride on a 2003 suzuki Sv650s unfortunately not Lam's approved...

Hello!!

Just a quick post to set this thing up...