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My husband had a bike when I met him. I did enjoy riding with him too. After 20+ years of marriage he had a certain look, not a pout, but a longing that would manifest itself after a few years without a bike in the garage. When he saw one he really wanted (I saw pics of it everywhere) I knew it was inevitable, a bike was in our future. He was always happier with one in the garage too. Three years ago he bought me mine, just made the last payment this month. If she truly loves you and wants you happy, she will let you get one, just include her in the process. AmyLee 
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My husband had a bike when I met him. I did enjoy riding with him too. After 20+ years of marriage he had a certain look, not a pout, but a longing that would manifest itself after a few years without a bike in the garage. When he saw one he really wanted (I saw pics of it everywhere) I knew it was inevitable, a bike was in our future. He was always happier with one in the garage too. Three years ago he bought me mine, just made the last payment this month. If she truly loves you and wants you happy, she will let you get one, just include her in the process.
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Yes they do!! 
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We bought our first bike (a Zundapp) together in Germany in 1965. Forty some  years, Three Triumphs and Three BMW's later, here is what happened in 2006: we traded our 'O4 BA in on a BMWR1150RT, because the BA was so uncomfortable on long trips for my sweetheart. That trade hurt-and she knew it. A few weeks ago we went on a 12 day Med Cruise. She went right home (I returned to Afghanistan) and ordered an 07 BA to snuggle up in the garage with the Beemer. I am a happy camper, and the luckiest guy in the world.
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Its taken me a few years, but in her defense, it hasn't really been viable until now. I took a 2 step approach which consisted of : a) Telling her i was buying something extortionately expensive and then haggling down. b) Having the good fortune to point out all the nice looking bikes in the showrrom window a few yards from my house. So firstly I told her I was buying a Lamborghini, we've talked about it at length, and this was then negotiated down (by her - but its all part of my plan...;) )to a smaller car, and then a smaller one until it ended up with me just getting a newer version of the family hatch I already had, which I couldn't see the point as its fine as it is.  But thats ok.... I was playing the long game...and she at least now has it in her head that there is going to be £xxxx spent on a vehicle at some point... Now stage 2, our local Triumph dealer who also has a selection of other bikes taken in part ex has a midnight blue Suzuki intruder in the window, that really stood out. Now, knowing my wife so well, I know she can't resist anything blue.... so I kept pointing it out.... Then the killer shot, on lazy saturday afternoon, "lets have a stroll down and have a look in the showroom - We'll stop into the pub on the way back and have a drink." So we get in the showroom and I said to her - "which one do you like then?" - "how lucky for me that we both agreed that the America was the bike for me - especially when I sat on it! - The saleswoman had the banter going with my wife and we ended walking out with all the price lists and brochures.... So, then we walk 10 yards to the pub and sit outside enjoying a drink.... everything in life, at that momment is perfect....I'm flicking through the clothing brochure picking out some nice new Truimpuh clothing for her etc and then.... "Can I get one then".... "Of course you can, in fact I want you to have it..."  See its dead easy....  That was a few weeks ago, I'm just waiting on my finance to come through and I'll be ordering one. Delivery time is expected to be one week, so I'm hoping in the next few weeks to have it. I'll post up pics when I do. Cheers, JC
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Also prove that you have researched completely before you make a leap. Your right it is a lot of money to most people.
The year before we got my bike we bought a new woodstove. I spent months pouring over catalogs and internet info before buying. The wife had reached a point were she didn't want to know any more about it, just buy the one you want. It didn't take her long to figure out that I would do the same thing while shopping for a bike. So once we got a rough idea how much I could spend I was on my own.
Also take her to a HD dealer even if you have no desire for 1. Those crazy prices and 8 year financing will make triumph look like the more fiscally responsible choice that it is.
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Yes that also helped, I went to a second hand HD dealer and showed her some which were twice the price, 2 years old, and a little rough around the edges - she now thinks I'm getting a bargain!:) It's all about perception..... 
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A friend of mine runs a second hand Harley dealer.
No money down, no payments for the summer, than just 8 years of 233 a month. Give me a break. Its sickening when you figure out just how much he is making on these bikes. 4-8 for trade (if its a harely less if its not) clean em up, slap on some new paint and shiny bits and put them up for sale for 10-19k, do all in house financing so that your making interest on these 8 year loans. And he even has a repo man contracted so he can resell the bike again, after the owner stops paying.
What a scam, and he wonders why I didn't buy from him.
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The Triumph payments used to be very low. $99 a month for either of ours.We paid them off right away but the $99 is managable.
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Who's taking the beat down?
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Money concerns are most often the reason for divorce.
Not to mention the Triple A factor:
Alcoholism
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Hey Powerband,
Have discussed any of these suggestions with your wife yet or our you just pulling our chain ??
Where do you stand any closer to getting the bike in your garage ?
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Hey Powerband,
Have discussed any of these suggestions with your wife yet or our you just pulling our chain ??
Where do you stand any closer to getting the bike in your garage ?
Big Poppy,
The only chain I'm pulling is the one attached to a ball.
All seriousness, though, as part of my "Green Light for Bike" campaign, I have been researching the Triumph on the internet in her present. I have been reading pages after pages of this forum next to her while she's reading her book. I have turned a picture of a Triumph into my desktop, so when she fires up the computer the Bonneville greets her. I brought brochures and a few motorcycle magazines home and strategically placed them at the bedside where she can see them. I have resurected an old copy of my tattered hardcover book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle" by Robert M. Pirsig, and begun reading it while she flips through her Cosmopolitan.
Trust me, I am not pulling your chain. Short of "shock and awe," I have bombarded her consciousness with motorcycle. But, of course, she is no dummy; she knows what I'm trying to do. However, she is has not chastised me for my effort. I would consider this being slightly closer to having a Triumph in my garage.
Keeping my fingers crossed and my effort up.
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By the way, two days ago, while my wife and I were driving down the 101 freeway, we saw a cyclist on a Bonneville Thruxton, bent into the wind with (literally) goggles, a half-shell helmet, a tight leather jacket and a scarf... straight out of the 50s. I thought I'd make a big scene in front of her by yearning, moaning and aching like a child, but amazingly, this act came way too natural. It was so freaking convincing that I scared even myself.
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I gotta ask who to buy what now? oh well, I guess I can always go an hug my bike
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The only chain I'm pulling is the one attached to a ball.
All seriousness, though, as part of my "Green Light for Bike" campaign, I have been researching the Triumph on the internet in her present. I have been reading pages after pages of this forum next to her while she's reading her book. I have turned a picture of a Triumph into my desktop, so when she fires up the computer the Bonneville greets her. I brought brochures and a few motorcycle magazines home and strategically placed them at the bedside where she can see them. I have resurected an old copy of my tattered hardcover book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle" by Robert M. Pirsig, and begun reading it while she flips through her Cosmopolitan.
Trust me, I am not pulling your chain. Short of "shock and awe," I have bombarded her consciousness with motorcycle. But, of course, she is no dummy; she knows what I'm trying to do. However, she is has not chastised me for my effort. I would consider this being slightly closer to having a Triumph in my garage.
Keeping my fingers crossed and my effort up.
John
I've always said the reason for a premarital physical is so that you guys can get measured for proper ball and chain fitment. 
Saturating the environment with Triumph stimuli.... Next you can move up on the desensitization scale by driving by Triumph dealerships.....do you know anyone with a Speedie or an America who can do the occasional drive by?
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Our mutual friends, a husband and wife couple, both own Triumphs. They even just openned a motorcycle suspension-tuning shop in Redwood City, Ca. (he's been doing this on race bikes for 20 years). However, they have the good sense not to be the middleman between my wife and I... but it doesn't mean they can't visit us by arriving loud and happy on their motorbikes!
Good idea, ATriumphGoddess!
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Powerband,
I am going to discharge my opinion about this, - but before I do I want make it clear that I am fully aware of anecdotal exceptions to what I am about to say.
Women usually look at their man as "a diamond-in-the-rough." So, after marriage they go about "polishing" their "diamond-in-the-rough." Then, after this man has been totally emasculated and is now "fully in-touch with his feminine side," this same woman will then say, "where is that guy I fell in love with that was sooo spontaneous & wild?"
Answer = you've emasculated him, - mam."
So, my answer to you is this, GET THE MOTORCYCLE YOU WANT, AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY!
If you don't assert your independence (in certain areas), you are not you. You'd be pretending to be someone you are not (a feminized freak-of-nature).
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How did you do it?
Mine was easy. My wife bought me mine for my 40th birthday.
Total surprise, had no idea. 
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I am going to discharge my opinion about this...
...If you don't assert your independence (in certain areas), you are not you. You'd be pretending to be someone you are not (a feminized freak-of-nature).
-BT
Thanks for your opinion, BikerThug. Asserting my independence in the area of marital finance to the tune of nearly 10 grand has nothing to do with who I am or who I'm not. I'm the same person I have always been -- except that I might have matured.
Perhaps you feel comfortble spending that amount of money without the blessing of your mate, and perhaps this action would prevent you from feeling like a "feminized freak-of-nature," but to me (and probably to many) an "impermissible" purchase of such magnitude doesn't define who I am and who I'm not.
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Both Bikerthug and Powerband make excellent points. Everyone has a different relationship and the truly evolved partnership requires discussion of purchases at this magnitude. However, I've found the "diamond in the rough" metahpore to be true more than once. If money is that tight that you shouldnt really be buying a bike you should'nt be really considering it. If you have the money or can manage the repayments, screw it! be the diamond, chicks dig it 
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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
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I don't know how old you are but the way I see it you can't use the money when you are dead so have fun now.Together. I don't understand my friends wanting to leave the OL home I always want to include Wendy.
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The_Dog33, I tend to see it your way, too. But the OL doesn't. Also, it doesn't matter how old one is, really, because at my healthy age of 39, I can easily get hit by a truck tomorrow (on the way to the Triumph shop). "Can't Take it With You" would be inscribed on my headstone. (Which reminds me of a recent cartoon in the New Yorker, showing some newly dead guy crossing through the Pearly Gate with his BBQ grill and his golf bag. If only the Triumph doesn't weigh so much...) John
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Also, it doesn't matter how old one is, really, because at my healthy age of 39, I can easily get hit by a truck tomorrow (on the way to the Triumph shop).
Some background to my very flippant attitude....
In my late teens I was seeing a bloke a year younger than me (you may say a boy...but I'm not commenting.) He was involved in a car crash. He and a mate were wearing seatbelts in the back. The two in the front were not. He and the other in the back survived. The front two didn't.
I work on trains. I may have mentioned it once or twice... The company I work for has had some serious crashes in the last 12 years. The last one was at a place called Ufton Nervet in Berkshire. I worked the train that crashed the week before. I was doing the company a favour and could have been on it that night. It's by the grace of something that I wasn't. If you wanna see how lucky I was click here.
Else... 
And then I crashed the 03. I really got fed up of people telling me how lucky I was to walk away......at the time. I now see that my friends in here were worried about me. I could have had it far worse. I'm lucky not just because I walked away, but I found out I was respected in here, and that I got enough money in compo to a) keep the 03, b) repair her (though that's taken a little longer than I was expecting) and c) get my 06. I went to hospital on the back of a bike and was bike riding myself 3 days later; at a rally 4 days later. OK it hurt like he|| but Guinness made it feel better.
You really can't take it with you. And I realised that at a really young age.
At the start of this thread I noticed it was all the blokes replying (except me asking what a husband was...) and mainly has been since. Im gonna say that the "forgiveness is easier" thing may be the way to go... You obviously want a bike. That is clear. Whether you get "permission" or not is up to you....
I'm going off to find the bottom of this bottle of wine.... (hence the complete and total frankness...and the crap spelling!)
Oh all this and I'm 31.....
Gina
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06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel...
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John,
You sure she is not in a motherly way, when they do they will let nothing between you and their security. Anything that could threaten you goes
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GinaS,
I will remember what you say. If my campaign "Green Light for Bike" goes down in flame and all else fails to change the mind of the wife, I will then resort to asking for forgiveness. But, as my old man has always pointed out my curse, I am as stubborn as a weed. Therefore I will try, for a while longer, to earn her blessing.
What kind of wine are you drinking. I'm starting to like those from the Rhône part of France. Big reds that empty too fast!
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You sure she is not in a motherly way, when they do they will let nothing between you and their security. Anything that could threaten you goes
Big_Poppy,
You are very kind to suggest that.
John
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Powerband,
Well, thank you for bolstering that which I already thought.
You should listen to your wife, - motorcycles are very, VERY dangerous. In fact, they don't even come with side or front impact airbags.
All the best,
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Well, thank you for bolstering that which I already thought.
You should listen to your wife, - motorcycles are very, VERY dangerous. In fact, they don't even come with side or front impact airbags.
All the best,
-BT
I'm not sure how this logically follows what has been discussed.
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Here buddy, take a ride with me here. Once you view that a few times you'll have you fix, thus save yourself 10K. Yeah, yeah, - do that. -BT
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Thanks, BikerThug. I see where you're coming from now.
John
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I was 37years old when I first got on a bike and I am now thoroughly hooked. When I grew up it was don't even think about! Man not even a dirt bike. When I moved out on my own I was either was broke or did not have the time. When I got married being newly wed occupied my time. Then I thought of trying the bike thing after 8 years of marriage but the wife was not down at all. It took about 3-4 years of working on her, a little hint or nudge there, and she told me one day "honey I will not fight you any more on this". There was how ever two conditions. (1) You ride with a helmit and (2) take the motorcycle course. yes I got a good guys.
She's a Lady and the Lady is 100% mine !
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Sounds good, khatt. Except for having been a rider for about a dozen years a long time ago, it seems my situation is currently similar to what yours was. I hope it will take fewer years to "wear" my wife down than the 3 to 4 years it did yours. LOL.
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Hey Powerband...maybe the solution is two bikes
...yes, that is a single seat...no, I will not put the other seat on...yes, I am selfish...yes, you should buy your own bike
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Like a similar post I waited till I was 40 till I got my first bike. Was a bit reckless in my earlier years. When I mentioned that I wanted a bike I got a big NO from the wife and ALL family members. The way I look at life is that it is too short to not enjoy it. I mentioned Harleys first as they are double the price and the answer was they are too expensive. I then brought up the Triumph case that it was half the price ($16000 on road). Without approval I went and bought the bike anyway. All family members including the wife absolutely love the bike. Sadly I have lost friends and family over the years before their time and some of them didnt get to do all they wanted to do in life. I am me and I am making sure that I do what I can before my time is up. As a side note I have not excluded my wife from my new passion. I have asked her to join me and even learn to ride herself. Would you beleive I am not allowed to sell the virago 250 because she says that is her new bike.
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I am not allowed to sell the virago 250 because she says that is her new bike.
I love a happy ending
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