Norton Versus Wife

hobot said:

My career lead me to various acupuncture masters who told me that only thing a man should make decisions on is what type living he'll do and where they will live and what motor craft to acquire but the rest is under control of the nest maker. Good girls go to heaven but bad girls go everywhere and so do my Commandos, when able.

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Sounds good in theory.
I have to hide on the roof for a cigarette.
Get whipped daily for no good reason.
And am constantly being thrown out of bed,
along with my Norton.

That's just weekends!
When she is not here for the rest of the week,
she gives me a long long list of chores.
Failure to achieve? - another severe whipping!

I told her once I love her more than the front wheel of my Norton.
Another severe whipping!!

phil yates said:

I was just beginning to like you Pete, until you told me your wife had one of those )
I had one of the earlier ones for a while and it was a real fun town bike.

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It's not mine, I swear.
Title is in her name. I just work on it, rarely I might add.

phil yates said:

I was just beginning to like you Pete, until you told me your wife had one of those )
I had one of the earlier ones for a while and it was a real fun town bike.

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It's not Mine. I swear! It's in her name. I just work on it when needed, vary rarely I might add.

pete.v said:

phil yates said:

I was just beginning to like you Pete, until you told me your wife had one of those )
I had one of the earlier ones for a while and it was a real fun town bike.

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It's not Mine. I swear! It's in her name. I just work on it when needed, vary rarely I might add.

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Make her work on it. She has you by the short and curly's son!

I tell Jenny there will be no sex until the Norton is polished!
The Norton isn't polished.
And there is no sex.

I think I must have misread the "How To Deal With Women" book I borrowed from a mate.

mike996 said:

But occasionally the guys we ride with announce a ride and include a "Nortons not welcome," ...

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Maybe you need new guys to ride with, not a new bike.

My wife has three horses (down from five) and some sheep. She is the one who has pestered me to get the Nort-nipper back on the road after a ten year hiatus. Didn't blink when I rolled a new lift into the garage instead of her new car. :mrgreen:

boy, there seems to be a few of us forum members who have strange relationships with their wives

just for the record, and I hope to assume there are more like me, but my owning a Norton has nothing to
do with my wife and I

I have no desire to bring it into our home, have not been "told" what to do with it, and don't have to
bargain my ownership for any favors or anything, guess we like having that kind of different relationship

I suppose when I was 20 or so I might have felt differently about a girlfriend, but only for an hour or so....

pierodn said:

The horse, the solution is the horse.
I play with the bike, my wife goes on horseback, cleans, shines, "debugs".
Horse and motorcycle are complementary, so each has its own space!
Ciao.
Piero

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Horse is a smelly hay burner with no kill button. Best used for glue.

"But occasionally the guys we ride with announce a ride and include a "Nortons not welcome," because they believe a particular ride will be too rough for the bike. So I DO think about a new bike once in a while - probably a Triumph Tiger 800..."

Nortons can be very reliable, but you can't forget your maintenance. In Starting in 1995 I rode my 75 to INOA rallys in upstate New York, Grape Country Rally, Mid Ohio Rally, Ontario Rally, Pennsylvania Rally, New Hampshire Rally, New York Empire State Rally, Vermont Rally, Michigan Rally where after we rode to the U-P, into Canada and around the Great Lakes. Many rides to the White Mts. in NH, the Green Mts. in Vermont, and 5 0r 6 rides to Mt Desert Island Maine. Rode it home every time.
I know the bike will make it to Asheville next year, I just hope I don't break down!
"Nortons not welcome"?, see ya later I'll ride by myself.

Mick

Horses and motorcycles are two of the all time most dangerous and wasteful people pastimes, only exception being using them to cheat on wives and deal dope in gang competition. Not all of me nor accomplices survived those but I like what did to this point. I do not believe any No Norton Notices, as even picky arrogant HD gangs or gatherings accept bad woman and Nortons, though may not lift a hand repairing them.

B+Bogus said:

olChris said:

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Big hands? Hmmm... :roll:

I've been all set for nearly 27 years - when we met, my wife had a H****a 400/4, so she got a share in my 900SS, I got a share in her 400/4.
She never rode the Ducati, but quite liked a '68 TR6 I had at one time - she was just scared in case she stalled it and couldn't get it going again.

I've recently suggested that I could put a Commando 'S' together with the Alton electric start for her, but she hasn't ridden a bike in nigh on 20 years now.

She didn't mind too much when I rebuilt a T150 engine on the kitchen table, but no motorcycles or major components in the bedroom. Ever.

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About Ducati?
In the August 1996, during a ride in France, with the my girl friend at one time (now she is my wife!) we come back from Paris to Gaeta (my village close to Rome) in one shot, riding for 1680 km.
We start from Paris on 14 August (it rained a lot!) at 2 p.m. and arrived at home at 3 a.m. (we had a deep moon).
The Bike?
A 1985 Ducati 1000 MHR: i still have.
But, we was young.
Piero

No Nortons welcome ride, well if that was put on me I would turn up on my Norton as they are overious not happy with a 40 year old bike showing them up.

As for members on this site that don't think their Norton will make it back or it is to rough to ride my Norton on them roads, I just :lol: after 38 years of ownership I have never had a break down that I couldn't get home, I have ridden my Norton on many unsealed roads, very rough roads and some very dangerous roads and survived them all, the only time I had something break while out was a coil snapped in half, I was a 100 miles from home but still made it home running on one cylinder and still sat on 70 mph.

My wife is very understanding and she knows my whole life involves my Nortons and other bikes and she is happy for me to spend most of my time with what I like in my big shed out the back, bikes, beer, music and of course my mates that have the same intrest as long as I am out of her hair, but the other good thing is she always give my drunken mates a lift home after even when its in the wee wee hours of the next morning, she has even gone to the pub to pick up my mates to come up to drink more beer with me, she is one cool wife but she also drives me crazy at times, a perfect relationship sometimes :roll:

Ashley

No Ashley
She is not cool, she is smart.
She is prepared to do anything to keep you out of her hair. Jenny read your post and she told me.

Shes not smart she just knows when to leave me alone.

When I was about 20 years old I was with a motorcyclist friend of mine looking up the results of my night school exam. I'd done 5 subjects in that year and failed 3. He said to me 'why don't you come and work with Otis Elevators, and we will transfer to London and go racing. I always thought he was a bit of a ratbag so I decided to stay home get educated and have a family. After one bad marriage, 40 years of a really stressful job, a heart op and 3 strokes I know I made the wrong choice. These days my Seeley 850 keeps me relatively sane, the technical aspects provide enough scientific based mental stimulation. If I had chosen to go racing, I probably would have come home in an urn, however there are lots of lovely ladies in Europe. I'd only say one thing - if you are conscientious, you are an idiot - 'the system runs on bullshit'.

Saber13 said:

My wife bought my Commando as a surprise Christmas present for me in 2012.
I am not complaining!

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Does she have a sister?

acotrel said:

When I was about 20 years old I was with a motorcyclist friend of mine looking up the results of my night school exam. I'd done 5 subjects in that year and failed 3. He said to me 'why don't you come and work with Otis Elevators, and we will transfer to London and go racing. I always thought he was a bit of a ratbag so I decided to stay home get educated and have a family. After one bad marriage, 40 years of a really stressful job, a heart op and 3 strokes I know I made the wrong choice. These days my Seeley 850 keeps me relatively sane, the technical aspects provide enough scientific based mental stimulation. If I had chosen to go racing, I probably would have come home in an urn, however there are lots of lovely ladies in Europe. I'd only say one thing - if you are conscientious, you are an idiot - 'the system runs on bullshit'.

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The problem is you have to eat. I think we all had those opportunities that we look back on and wonder...what if? I wanted to be a beach bum and beg for change...ha!

In the early seventies I had a chance to become a AMA race team crew member for a prior champion. I had just gotten married to a woman who had two small children from a previous marriage. The offer from the race team was pretty much an expenses only deal. Needless to say, I passed. Had I been unencumbered I would have joined the team in a flash. It was an entry into a racing world that eventually would have led to much more lucrative opportunities. Like the previous post said, "You have to eat".

pierodn said:

About Ducati?
In the August 1996, during a ride in France, with the my girl friend at one time (now she is my wife!) we come back from Paris to Gaeta (my village close to Rome) in one shot, riding for 1680 km.
We start from Paris on 14 August (it rained a lot!) at 2 p.m. and arrived at home at 3 a.m. (we had a deep moon).
The Bike?
A 1985 Ducati 1000 MHR: i still have.
But, we was young.
Piero

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Given the nature of the topic I don't care about taking it more off-topic!
My '75 900SS took us around the Highlands of Scotland on our honeymoon in 1987, around 600 miles in 5 days.
The weather broke on the way back and it just sat at 90 mph all the way home from Aviemore with one stop for fuel.

The Ducati is definitely that kind of bike - with the Commando a good second-best 8)

B+Bogus said:

pierodn said:

About Ducati?
In the August 1996, during a ride in France, with the my girl friend at one time (now she is my wife!) we come back from Paris to Gaeta (my village close to Rome) in one shot, riding for 1680 km.
We start from Paris on 14 August (it rained a lot!) at 2 p.m. and arrived at home at 3 a.m. (we had a deep moon).
The Bike?
A 1985 Ducati 1000 MHR: i still have.
But, we was young.
Piero

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Given the nature of the topic I don't care about taking it more off-topic!
My '75 900SS took us around the Highlands of Scotland on our honeymoon in 1987, around 600 miles in 5 days.
The weather broke on the way back and it just sat at 90 mph all the way home from Aviemore with one stop for fuel.

The Ducati is definitely that kind of bike - with the Commando a good second-best 8)

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I agree.
Ciao.
Piero

ashman said:

Shes not smart she just knows when to leave me alone.

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That's what she has you think!!

Here's a suggestion for you, go and tell her she's not smart.

See how much time you get alone then!