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When suddenly he heard a crack above his head...

 

Nice graph there Archie,
I got a few more miles outa mine before the STFU stage.
You just have to treat them like the bike mate.
See when mine was new, 16years back now we met, just like A new bike I serviced her often making sure she was well lubed and ridden often. As with most bikes you have all the intent for her to be "the one" so you keep up the servicing buy her all the bits she needs and she will last well to the 7year range at which time the kids start popping out. Now like a bike she may need a rebuild as there could be a bit of piston slop due to the larger worn out bore.
After the rebuild just like your bike she'll be like new and ready to be ridden again for many many miles. Due to the exsesive riding (after all she's like new again and you can't keep off her) chances are the next sprocks errr sprogs on the way. Ok now you really need to poor the coin into her so she looks and feels like she new, after all there's all these way younger model bikes out there and she just has to compete and keep up, is my *** too low or pushed to high? Are my headlight to small, should I get aftermarket ones, are my tyres to wide and so on...
Over the next few years you'll be having family time. Days at the park, rainy weekends with the kids watching movies and on the odd weekend you mite get a sneaky ride in, or maybe a midnight blast but you always try just to keep her engine lubed and feeling good.
Now we should be approaching about the 14year stage. Kids are about 8-10 and thanks to the regular serving, money spent on grooming and so on your not quite at the shut the F$&k up stage yet... Yet.
First she needs the job. Yep the job... Now she's helping with money tho none goes on her running costs, no no no. So now you think that's it I'll keep you in the shed and ride you less and you stand that man ground but you can't help it you know ya want to ride... So you go to take her for a ride round the block n go to push the starter button to get her goin only to discover the tanks dry and that's when your at the STFU stage.

Figure that's gotta take atleast 17 years so I rekon your graph must be for one of the cheap Korean model bikes or possibly one of those Chinese mail bikes you can get off those dodgy bike sites.
Either way with plenty of riding, regular servicing, and some money invested you'll get many miles out of your bike than the graph indicates.

Quote ramblings a of a drunk man who will think WTF was I doing when morning comes round

 

Wisdom. Drunken wisdom, but wisdom all the same

 

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In honour of Woof's Quioxtic new avatar.............

And it is Picasso no less, I now present the Dutch view.................



And a more modern 20th Century interpretation





Cheers, SB

 

Aw Jeez. LOL

I'll admit to you guys that I feel like I've spent the last year tilting at windmills

Glad I saw this while the coffee was dripping. Avoided that whole nasal evacuation of the morning brew experience

Love the Moto-Quixote


...and cudos to SB for passing the impressionist-rorchach test

 

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, an Estonian, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 2 Africans----All walk into a restaurant.....
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"I'm sorry," says the maître’d. “You can't come in here without a Thai.

 

That hurt. :-)

 

very good , heh heh

 

Keeping a break from lawn mowing, enjoying a nasal Powerade fountain thank you very much woof, lucky I got a splashproof phone...