[Joshorilla]

Originally Posted by 10till3

hi all. I joined this site with my wife in mind but it seems i, her husband, will be doing most of the interaction here for her. Nevertheless, she is new to riding and coming along quite well. As you can see, she's riding an 09 special edition 250r. We bought this bike new off the showroom back in 2010 from a dealer in ms. Got a sweet deal on it, made the drive and picked it up. We got home and it pretty much stayed parked in our living room with just about 230 miles on it.....looking gorgeous as ever. The wife decided to go to the beach with her friends on june 25th. It was a beautiful saturday. I was doing yardwork and ran out of weed eater string. What do i do? I grab the lid and jump on the 250, off to home depot right? Halfway right.....amidst my 1.5 mile run to the store, i was cut-off by an old man changing from a far right lane to the far left lane, causing me to t-bone him! Stupid f*** never even looked or signaled. Did everything i could to sustain the crash.....let go of the bike, bounce off the car, tuck and roll. Next thing i know, can't feel my arm, back's killing me, and worst of all, this brand new bike and my flip flops are laying on the freakin asphault. That hurt worst of all. Luckily neither the bike or me had any really serious injuries. Chiropractor for several months and the insurance company totaled the bike. Crazy huh?!!! All cosmetic, but enough to breach the acv of the bike. Never saw the bike again. Over a year has gone by without a bike for the wife to ride and she is missing "her bike" really bad. So we start looking for 250r's again. We found one at our local kawi dealer that had all the right reasons to go scoop it up, until we go to sign papers and realize that freight was $1500 due to the tsunami in japan. Seems ridiculous so we chalk it up to bad luck or bad timing or whatever you want to call it. She didn't seem to be too upset because she really just wanted to find another 09 special edition with the same color scheme she had before. She was in love with this damn bike like nobodies business. Enduring our hunt, i kept hearing that echo almost...."i want my bike." i come home from work one day and scoped craigslist a bit. There was an 09 ninja 250 listing, so of course i inquired. At first it was depressing because the owner had about 8 people coming to look at it that evening. I simply told him to let me know what happens with it either way. He called me back about an hour later to tell me that a guy came and put a deposit on it until he could get to the bank the next day during operating hours. So what do i do? The only rational thing the 1/8th jew in me would do.....offer him a little more money to get it. He thought about it for a minute but decided against it leaning on his word to the other depositee. So we continue to talk and i told him about having a bike exactly like this one that i got hit on last summer. We shared a laugh as we almost simultaneously stated the damage to the bike. It was weird. So out of curiosity we found our old registration and asked him if he would read us the vin. Low and behold....."it was the bike that got away!" exact same bike i was hit on. The guy couldn't believe it. He went on to tell me the story of how he got it. Turns out, he bought it at the auction the insurance company sent it to and realized he had found a diamond in the rough. "what could possibly be wrong with the awesome looking bike with 230 miles on it for it to end up at an auction?" he thought. Nothing my friend, hardly nothing at all. So with instinct he immediately bought it. He even went through the trouble of getting the title to be clear again believe it or not. He fixed the front nose fairing that was broken and left the other cosmetic scars alone for character. I begged him to sell me back our baby. Reluctantly, he did. He was torn between such an awesome story and the bond of his promise to hold it for another person. The scale tipped our way and we went to pick it up immediately. Just after maxing out our limits at a bunch of atm's to get the emergency cashola! Guy turned out to be super cool and couldn't believe we were the original owners. We brought our old tag and registration to humor him. He was humored funny part about all of this....the day he bought the bike at the auction, it had over 700 miles on it!!!! Someone put 500 miles on it after the wreck and before going to auction. Bastard insurance companies. They wouldn't even let us buy it back from them but it seems we got the last laugh. Especially what we paid the second time around. Once in a lifetime it would happen that exactly a year and 4 months later, divine intervention would bring it back to us. At least thats how it seemed. Crazy story though. So anyway, now that you guys have some back story on me, let it be known that it's christmas time and i am doing a crazy facelift surgery on the bike for the wife. She isn't even gonna know what happened. So everyone get ready for some of the most awesome before and afters ever! Glad to be here

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