Poor Steve

Yesterday was the first day this year that Steve got his motorcycle out on the road. It's been stored in our basement for the last 6 months. He's been babying it, cleaning it, put new steel brake lines on it, etc. He just couldn't wait until it was nice enough out to bust it out and go for a spin.

He called two of his buddies over to help bring this bike upstairs. I'm sure you're all wondering how the hell did he get it inside the house and down the basement stairs??? Well folks, to keep this short, he built a ramp, complete with traction with little bumps along the way to be nailed to our basement steps. He then got someone to come over and help him slowly get the bike down the steps. Luckily for us, our basement stairs are almost directly across from our garage door that leads into the house. It was very simple actually!

So last night he goes for a quick spin and since today is so nice out, he decided to take it to work. He parks the bike where he normally parks his car, in a "lot" out back, near the back door of the shop. He goes out to smoke a cigarette, enjoys how nice his bike looks, goes back inside to work. His friend runs in about 5 minutes later and tells him that the bike is laying out the ground. On the right side. The RIGHT side? How the hell did it fall on the right side? For those of you who don't know how you park a bike, the kickstand is on the left and you turn the handlebars to the left as well, to lock it in place. Wind couldn't have made this thing fall. It wouldn't just topple over on it's own. Steve thinks someone wanted to sit on it or something and it fell over when that person didn't know how to get off it. Or someone just pushed it over. Either way, with no collision on the bike, it's likely going to cost us $2,000 to get all the parts to fix it. Great. Fucking AWESOME.

So tonight, we're heading to Cycle Stop to buy the parts we need to fix it. Luckily, it's only cosmetic. Luckily, he wasn't on the bike when it fell over. Luckily no one is hurt and it's only money. I know, sounds weird to say "it's only money" but in reality, if something can be fixed with money, I'm not that worried about it. We have our health, we have our jobs, money is just that. Money. We'd rather buy parts from the actual dealer, so that if something were to happen to those parts, we'd be backed up. If we were to buy them off an Ebay seller for instance, once we pay, it's our deal. No guarantees.

Poor guy. First day out on the bike and this is what happens. And he wasn't even around when it happened!