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@Mr_Bungle
I'm going to be Frank. (you can be Mary if you like)
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You're a shop-a-holic!**
It's hard not to be these days - but buying that bike is just ridiculous - damn near obscene
(in my opinion) unless you're going to use it. And i mean really USE it. I think you'd get more
pleasure out of planning to buy it and planning the modifications and stroking it than you'd have
time to use it!
You don't want to hear my opinion on blokes who buy shiny £80k cars to pop down the high street...
I wouldn't wan't to deprive anyone of the right to own a bling bike - and i suppose £2.5k is the amount you'd
spend on a little 2nd hand car - so i guess it's not that obscene if you look at it in a uk-wide perspective.
However, with that money you could take a month holiday off work to go riding anywhere
in the world - on your existing, and already very blinging bikes! (Or pay off half those debts! You do
know interest rates are going up, up, up from here right!?)
I hope i don't come across as nasty. It's just my view and i admit i don't know enough
about you/ your situation to fully comment. For all I know, having bought that bike you'll
not want another for a decade and you'll be really happy and ride it every day for hours and hours.
In which case i'd've been wrong to say: DONT BUY IT!