My new bike

I'm buying a new motorbike. I've been riding a scooter for about 6 years now, and it's fun (and waaaay better than driving a car), but I'm looking to move up the foodchain a bit. Only problem is, my licence only covers bikes up to 125cc, so unless I want to get a new licence (which I don't!) I have to stick to a 125 or less. And most 125s are pretty ugly.

Enter the Kymco Hipster. The absolute coolest 125 you've ever seen. It's a cruiser style bike, looks a bit like a Harley, lots of chrome. Yeah, it's not to everyone's taste, but I love it.



It's got lots of cool features, too - a digital fuel gauge, for one, along with a digital clock. And yes, it's going to take a lot of work to keep it looking good (again: lots of chrome!). But it's a bike I can be proud of, so I don't mind polishing it up every weekend :-) The one I'm getting is 2nd hand, but only has 1000km on the clock, and it's in excellent condition. I'm just waiting for the papers, and for it to have a service, and then it's mine!

Well, not quite. You see, I currently own a car (Toyota Corolla, 1985, white), a scooter (Kazuma Silver Fox, 2000-ish, gold) and now a Kymco Hipster (2003, silver and black). And I only have one teeny garage to put them in. I plan to get rid of the scooter, but because it's an automatic, which is what I'm used to riding, I need to get used to riding the Hipster, a manual, first. Which shouldn't be too difficult, hopefully. But right now, I can't keep all them because I just don't have the space. So the Hipster is going to be staying at my parents' place, which is only about 10 minutes away. What I should have done is waited until I got my car licence (no, I don't have that yet either), and then I could have sold the scooter, used the car until I got used to the hipster, and kept both of them in my garage. but it's going to take me a while to get my car licence (aargh! K53!), and I really wanted the bike now. Plus, I didn't know even there'd be any good 2nd hand ones going when I wanted one, and this one is a really good deal. Did I mention it's winter? And that winter here is cold, and rainy? Not a good time to be travelling by bike, never mind learning to ride a new one ...

Ah well, I'm sure it'll be fun nonetheless.