Family photo

acadian said:

Finally got the commando out for its first run of the season, took the morning to clean up the shop and snapped a family pic while the bikes were out

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ashman said:

It's a pity not more family photos have been put up, my life since leaving school at 15 has been my children (bikes lol) and my Norton since new when I brought it at 17 years old and is still my prize procession, I grew up with my wife but didn't date her till I was 30 years old and married 6 months later in 1990, but she knew the children (bikes) were the most important thing in my life and she excepted that as well our own kids, well the kids have all grown up and left home and the wife is still with me, we have had our bad times and up and downs with life, but we stuck together and she also knows when I need to get away on the bike/bikes with the mates, she reads me like a book and sometime she tells me to get away, maybe that is good for her as well we all need that short break sometimes.
I am not the easiest person to live with and the wife can be like that with me as well, we both have that understanding, but we both care for each other no matter what, she has the house and I have my shed/workshop and the bikes, I am a hands on person and the house (the house is 67 years old my dad built) I grew up in and lived in all my life has gone through a major renovation that I did all the work except installing the new kitchen, all done for my wife to enjoy myself as well.
The bikes I have now will do me for the rest of my life, but it be great to hear everyone else family life with their bikes and life in general with their wives and kids and how the bikes kept them together or not, as I say my wife drives me crazy sometimes but hey what I do to her as I am set in my ways, but she knows I love her in my own ways, but my motorcycles are number one and she knows that, she would never say "the bikes or me" as she knows her bags be packed and at the front door real quick lol.
So more family photos and stories please as I think it's a very good subject, our lives with our bikes.

Ashley

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acadian said:

Ex wife once told me to get rid of the bikes. I have an ex wife.

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ashman said:

In a way I am pretty lucky as most of my mates are ruled by their wives and don't get away with anything, not this little black duck lol, I rule the roost but the wife only thinks she does lol.

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ashman said:

My wife would never say things like that, she realized she is on a good thing when she shacked up with me, a father-in-law who treated her as his own daughter (only had 3 sons), a roof over her head, she lived in a flat and wasn't working at the time, and too this day she has never worked while with me, she has done well in my eyes, I looked after her, she is set in her own ways and she puts up a lot from me, but then I put up with her faults as well, I am retired now and being together all the time can get too both of us, but the bikes keep me sane and getting away every so often works a treat for both our sanity.
Sometimes I feel like trading her in but who else would put up with me, be too hard to train a new one lol.
When I tell her its time for a trade in or parole for me she just laughs and says I am a lifer without parole, bugger.
But we both have our own space and she loves to sleep in so I have quiet times in the mornings, she is a late owl and stays up to the wee hours of the mornings and sometimes she coming to bed when I am getting up, what a life she has, wasted sometimes, as I write this she only just got up at 10:30am (only because I woke her) and she already got the phone glued to her hand.
In away I am pretty lucky as most of my mates are ruled by their wives and don't get away with anything, not this little black duck lol, I rule the roost but the wife only thinks she does lol.

Ashley

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cliffa said:

Iike they say, marriage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence

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