the stable

In honor of the newest addition to the stable, I'm posting about our bikes. The weather has been random so far this spring, so we haven't started consistently riding yet. One day it is 80 degrees and sunny, the next it's snowing, then it rains, then fog--it's all been very unpredictable. But we look forward to a nice season of riding around. Hopefully we can set up some rides with those of you that are willing!

We got the Ducati Monster 750Sie first, in December 2004. It's Brett's and it's cool.


Next, I got my Yamaha FZ6 for my birthday in September 2006. I love it.


And so we had two motorcycles.


Stupid effers at school would bug Brett's Ducati when he parked it there. He would walk up to some random idiot sitting on his bike showing it off to his lame-o friends. At one point, someone tried to steal the bike by sticking a screwdriver or something into the ignition. So, we decided to get an inexpensive little bike that Brett can ride to school on. We bought the 1969 Honda CB160.

Initially we thought we'd get something crappy that he wouldn't care about if someone messed with it, but we love the Honda now. He's had people approach him to ask to buy it. A couple times, someone left a card stuck on the bike with offers to buy and call-back numbers.


Last Friday, we brought our fourth bike home, the 1963 Yamaha YG-1. This one's for me to ride around the neighborhood on. This is our summer project, cleaning it up and such. It doesn't run, but we think it only needs to be cleaned out and get new gas, then it will run just fine.


Here are the two little ones:


So now we're a four bike family! Who knows what we'll add next! (Just kidding, I know. I'm getting the BMW R1200C!)