New, Blue, and Shiny!
It wasn't quite how I anticipated spending my late afternoon, but after wearing out the visiting uber_red_fraggle by running up and down the tracks to the 2nd falls at Morialta, we dropped into Kessner Suzuki on the way back to town.. And then another Suzuki dealership in town, since after all it was kind of on the way back to the train station.
And then somehow, perhaps because I wasn't bothered if I didn't get it, I haggled a good deal out of a salesman at PS Motorcycles, and now have a deposit own on a shiny new midnight-blue Suzuki SV650S. I blame the gorgeous weather! (It's been really sunny lately and quite warm). It had better stay this way for next weekend, or I'll cry.
It should look something like this, only darker blue, and without all the luggage and helmet draped all over it.
I'll get some pictures up next weekend.. it'll arrive in Adelaide late next week some time. (Nowhere in SA had the right model in stock.)
I should probably have waited until my first paycheque arrived, but ah well.. I did have the money from the sale of my UK bike set aside for something like this, even if it did cost twice as much as I sold the (2001) Hornet for, which isn't bad since it's a new bike.
And then somehow, perhaps because I wasn't bothered if I didn't get it, I haggled a good deal out of a salesman at PS Motorcycles, and now have a deposit own on a shiny new midnight-blue Suzuki SV650S. I blame the gorgeous weather! (It's been really sunny lately and quite warm). It had better stay this way for next weekend, or I'll cry.
It should look something like this, only darker blue, and without all the luggage and helmet draped all over it.
I'll get some pictures up next weekend.. it'll arrive in Adelaide late next week some time. (Nowhere in SA had the right model in stock.)
I should probably have waited until my first paycheque arrived, but ah well.. I did have the money from the sale of my UK bike set aside for something like this, even if it did cost twice as much as I sold the (2001) Hornet for, which isn't bad since it's a new bike.