A couple days before you take delivery give her a few $100 bills and tell her to go shopping. It works better than the plastic, for some reason.
I can see now why I'm going to fit right in here. There’s a common denominator among us; we apparently have the same disease! The fact that a relativity small number of us are willing to spend big for a limited edition motorcycle lumps us together. We see nothing wrong with owning more than one bike and very likely will buy or trade up for a new one every couple of years. My guess is that most of us here have lost track of how many motorcycles we’ve had in a lifetime. When I had an R-1 I wasn’t satisfied until I had a MV Agusta. So it’s no surprise to me now, that I lust over Harley CVO’s.
What’s humoring me is the similarity in tactics many of us share in order to have what we desire. If it were possible I’d park my baby next to my bed, hug my wife in the morning and jump on my bike. My wife doesn’t have a particular dislike for motorcycles, she feels like she’s competing with them. The truth and reality is that she’s right! Though she’s possibly unaware of it, if push came to shove she would ultimately win; but not without a courageous standoff. Not unlike many of you, I have used every angle I could think of for justifying a new bike; safety aspects, creature comfort, resale value and one of the latest ones, “I’m not getting any younger”. I no longer try to convince myself that “This will be the last bike I buy for a long time”. On the other hand, I don’t see any other bike I would rather own now or in the foreseeable future; but I guess I measure the future in months and not years. What separates us apart from the rest isn’t a matter of who wouldn’t want a CVO Harley, but to what extent are we willing to go to own one.