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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.
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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 03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel... 06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 09 America - It's very blue....