Well last night in the early hours i started stripping the bike as the forks are being picked up today
I've worked on and had the bike stripped down countless times
but last night it suddenly dawned on me that this would be the very last time and it wouldn't be going back together
so many happy memories with the bike and the things i've learned working with it and rides i've had, the weather i've rode it through, the rebuild
sourcing all the parts, it took me over four years to finally get a 19ltr tank too! driving all over England to get parts, wheels, exhausts
the countless hours i've spent in the garage just me the bike the radio and a beer
So i found my self patting the bike apologising for tearing it apart
It never bothered me selling my other bikes but the storm had something about it such a character i felt, i knew it was always a constant in my life i could spend time with when the chips was down
As gay as it sounds i found my self uncontrollably crying my eyes out.
i knew that no matter what if i ever got a storm again i knew it would never be quite like this one and that i would never get some of the parts again, i had spent hundreds of hours flicking eBay over the 5 years or so
i then started to doubt that the gixxer or blade would have the soul or character of the bike i was gutting as although the RR3 i've used so many times is like a missile and a rush when your on the power it never feels like its communicating with you like the storm,
you feel every throb and notice any little change in it on the storm, every night when i put it in the garage i would pat it on the cowl and thank it
perhaps if i had smashed the storm to bits or sold it complete i might have felt different it just seemed such an evil act to pull it to bits
i was looking at the space it occupied and thinking wow this has been in this garage sleeping in this spot for 11 years now (bought the bike off my dad in 08 he got it new in 02)
The next bike has a lot to live upto
better get some sleep now as i gotta get back on the tear down soon.
