Riding and Dating...

I've been dating my girl for ~ 6 years now.
She started riding in '05, after picking up a brand new Ninja 250, and joining the Ninja 250 forum where I'm an admin.

Oddly enough, she joined the forum because her bike was having issues caused by all the local dealers in the Loveland/Forth Collins area of Colorado while I still lived in NYC.

After I moved out to Denver on a surprise job/life change event, she brought her bike over to my place to have someone who actually knows about the bike work on it, and get it running right.
Needless to say, the bike never ran better after I was done with it, and things eventually started up between us a while later.

We've gone on group rides, track days, and solo sessions just the two of us blasting around together countless times over the past 6 years.
Nothing more fun than that.

There is a negative side.

On Aug 26th, 2007, some idiot on a motard was going the opposite direction on a local twisty mountain road (Squaw Pass, for all you locals), and he blew his corner, nearly hit me, stopped in our lane right after I passed by, and caused her to go down hard to avoid t-boning him. He then buggered off up the road never to be seen again before I was even able to come to a full stop, and turn around. Her Ninja was banged up (eventually declared a total loss by the insurance), but her left knee took the brunt of the damage.

Her recovery period was long and hard for her, as she has a huge pride, and she never truly recovered her desire to ride after the accident.
We picked her up a '97 M750 first, and then several months later her '09 696, but her desire to ride waned pretty bad between '07 and now.
She has since sold both bikes.

Its great having a riding partner that you love, but its just as hard seeing them get hurt, and losing that love that they had, due to no fault of their own.

She's since picked up a sports car addiction, so it isn't all bad, to be perfectly honest, but I miss those days of riding with her on her 696 up in the hills pretty bad.

BC.