I have a sob story that I need to post where people will appreciate my pain.
I moved from the Chicago suburbs to New Jersey last fall as my wife got into a PhD program out here and my job is portable. I left my 2007 America, my first and only motorcycle that I bought new, in my brother-in-law's barn about an hour outside the city. I planned to fly back in the late spring and ride it out to my house in NJ over a long weekend.
Well, my brother-in-law's barn burned down yesterday. To the ground. My bike included. Everyone's ok, my sister's house is ok, so it could have been a lot worse. Mostly just 20 years of my brother-in-law's accumulated.
I'm not sure what's going to happen next. I'm not sure what the insurance situations are going to be...still trying to figure out the logistics of that.
Not trying to figure things out yet. Just sad at this point and taking a moment to wallow in it.
I'll remember each of the 30k miles fondly and all of the maintenance and upgrade tasks I learned on that bike (a lot of it from lurking on these forums for years).
Trigger warning:
Motorcycle Carnage ahead.
