Keets, thank you for your thoughtful comment. Even if we're millionaires, money would still be tight.
As it is, money is tight, but it's not that we cannot afford a bike, because we really can; it's just that my wife has other things in mind with the money, like saving or investing. I often tell her that the money would go to invest in my mental health, and possibly the health of my spirit, but her replies have always been that these kinds of investment don't make the bank account or the retirement fund bigger.
Anyway, you all have been great in your input, opinions, stories and so forth. I continue to "saturate the environment with Triumph stimuli," as ATriumphGoddess put it. This weekend I will try to find some literature on the history of Triumph (and BSA) -- books, magazines or otherwise -- to spread on the coffee table. If you all have any good sources to attain info on Triumph (in the forms of books, magazines or videos), please let me know.
Thank you kindly,
John
