Advice on convincing wife to let me buy a bike

[Popeye the Sailor]

Just lay it out honestly.

Explain that you don't really want a motorcycle, but your girlfriend hates them, and it seems the easiest way to get rid of her. Promise to sell it as soon as the g/f breaks it off.


Let us know how it works. 

[duccarlos]

Track bike.... scratches the itch... and the track is the safest place in the world to ride.... you have a crew ready to grab you if you do wreck... the bikes are all going the same direction... no gravel in the corners... no side roads or mailboxes... and no tickets if you are speeding.

Plus a fully prepped track bike is pretty cheap if you don't mind branded titles or older bikes.   

Oh... and you most insurances don't cover track bikes... so you don't need to worry about that cost.   

+1

My wife was also apprehensive at first. I had to promise to only use it for riding in the mountains and my very short commute to work. That worked fine until I moved back down to Florida, the land of freeways. She's worried about me riding around with the nuts, so I've been using the Monster more as a track bike. She feels much better about it now.

[cyrus buelton]

Track bike.... scratches the itch... and the track is the safest place in the world to ride.... you have a crew ready to grab you if you do wreck... the bikes are all going the same direction... no gravel in the corners... no side roads or mailboxes... and no tickets if you are speeding.

Not sure that is a good selling point..........

A guy in Desmohio got a brain aneurysm which he sustained from a crash at Mid Ohio. (he survived btw)

But I agree.......it is slightly safer than the street as you don't have 4,000lbs hunks of plastic and steel trying to kill you.

Cyrus... clone your wife and have her talk with Last Canadian Exit's wife!!!

We don't have or want kids, so not sure the clone would work out too well.........

[Speedbag]

But I agree.......it is slightly safer than the street as you don't have 4,000lbs hunks of plastic and steel trying to kill you.

Or deer.

I'm not having any luck convincing the wife unit that I need a third bike at all. I think the deer incident last year pretty much killed all possibility. Probably lucky to keep the ones I have.



To the OP, good luck.

[rgramjet]

"Baby, I'm just storing it for a friend......just for a little while."

[Last Canadian Exit]

Thanks to everyone for the great advice.  I don't have a commute to work as I work from home or drive my car to the airport, so it is literally for a just going out for a pleasure cruise.  I have not need to be doing steady freeway driving either, which is good.

Unfortunately I had one friend killed riding his bike, completely freak accident, but nonetheless it is a big point.

I think I have a small in as her best friend's husband just bought a bike, so I am trying to exploit that.  The cost of the bike plus insurance, plus a million dollar + life policy is a much cheaper than most hobbies too.  That would be a few rounds of golf a month!

[Popeye the Sailor]

Unfortunately I had one friend killed riding his bike, completely freak accident, but nonetheless it is a big point.

To be blunt, if I stopped doing anything that a friend had died while doing, I wouldn't have much left I could do.

Try it for a week, then go buy a bike.

[cyrus buelton]

Or deer.

I'm not having any luck convincing the wife unit that I need a third bike at all. I think the deer incident last year pretty much killed all possibility. Probably lucky to keep the ones I have.



To the OP, good luck.

Good call on the deer. There is a section about a mile from my house that I refuse to ride in during dusk hours. You can look out in this field and see no less than 30 deer. No joke. It also happens to be someone's backyard. Tons of deer in my community. Hell, they walk by my back window all the time.


My wife wants a third bike.............guess I hit the golden ticket or got lucky (Carlos will make some comment about how she is better than me, I shouldn't have gotten her, etc etc).

Most would probably agree, though.

[Speedbag]

Deer are to me as squirrels are to Howie.

They all must die.

[Last Canadian Exit]

To be blunt, if I stopped doing anything that a friend had died while doing, I wouldn't have much left I could do.

Try it for a week, then go buy a bike.

I absolutely agree.  I also know that my father and his brother and friends have ridden bikes for years.  It is not to say it is not dangerous, but the fact that I know that and admit that up front is a big step.  I want to take the safet program and ride within my skills, etc.  I am 31 yrs old with a family, the last thing I want to do is be stupid, but it is convincing her of that!  HAHA!

[triangleforge]

... the last thing I want to do is be stupid, but it is convincing her of that!  HAHA!

See there's your problem right there -- she already knows you...

[Last Canadian Exit]

See there's your problem right there -- she already knows you...

All too well...

[fastwin]

Screw it, we all could die from falling space debris tomorrow while mowing the lawn. I've got a $100 bet that I'm gonna die in my truck driving to Home Depot for a light bulb because some dumb ass teenager ran a red light while texting! Not that I am not concerned about injury or accident while riding it's just that I don't dwell on it. I'm just real damn alert every time I go to Home Depot!! My wife doesn't get the whole "I'm pre-disastered" thing after surviving the murderous turkey attack. Then again sometimes I think she lacks the humor gene.

[WhiteStripe]

I got lucky.  My wifes Dad really wanted to give me his sportster, which i didn't want.  One day he just parked it in the garage and i told her it was mine now.

She took one look at it and said, can't you get that Monster instead its so much better looking.

Turns out she is ok with ridiing and has good taste in bikes.

I laid out the options for mid-life (38) crisis: (i) affair; (ii) Ferrari; (iii) Ducati.  Couldn't afford the Ferrari...

[rockaduc]

My wife's biggest complaint was $$$$.  So, I worked overtime for a couple of months.  Issue gone.