Dealing w/ Burnout - not the bike, the builder

God dammit. My wife deleted my entire paragraph. Fucker. Won't leave me alone........

Anyway. My problem is I have no daily rider. So I'm stuck working on mine until its fixed. Which of course money issues arise blah blah blah. So I haven't gotten solid seat time really since last summer. So I am selling everything to buy a running ready to go bike. Then I'll buy a project later to tinker on. As long as I have a daily rider, I don't care how long it takes to finish, and I don't care how much work I have to put into it as long as I'm riding as well.

But when I was steadily doing work on my Gsxr, I had to take a step back for a couple months. It got hard boring and just frustrating. Taking a step back to enjoy the life and people around you is the easiest thing to do to get through this moto depression you're in. Then one day you'll walk in there and look at it and think, "this could be a badass bike" then you'll think of new ideas and things that are cooler and even better than before and you'll want to DW again. You'll get over it. Sooner or later.

Its already passing, somewhat. I actually had an itch to do some work today, but played it cool instead, because I knew I'g give in to frustration easily if not strongly motivated. Also spent some time talking shop and just shit with the neighbor, which I need to do a LOT more of, as I have literally zero personal friends. Was walking by, he called me to come up to the garage and gave me a beer, showed me some aluminum off-cuts he had laying about (he's a machinist, is helping me find materials), good times. I should push him harder to get his old Harley back together- its a sweet looking mid '70s sportster (he's got a new 883 as well, but the old one looks a lot cooler, and he's the original owner).

Also considering buying this little scoot to ride until the project is done. I think its about as cheep as I'm likely to find a running, titled bike (offered $535). I figure I can take my license test on it and stand a good chance to pass, so save money on a MSF course. Plus I'll save money on gas over the next 3 months- looks fine for my commute. Cleaned up a bit, it should be easy to flip for at least what I paid next summer. Or I can keep it and have some fun with another project... wringing 100mph out of that bike would be a fun challenge!

I guess that's one answer to burn out- more projects!

Lol - looks like I might be buying this instead; told the wife about it and she was OK!



Its not perfect (a bit of carb trouble, no turn signals) but the price sure is right ($800), and I love those first gen Goldwings- complete with wire wheels and kickstart! Not a fighter, obviously, but hey, guy's gotta have a touring bike, right? And would be the perfect excuse to build a sidecar...