The good thing about passing a motorcycle on to a new owner is that somebody really wants it. A car just gets sold to someone who needs an inexpensive car, and the only thing they care about is getting a good deal and hoping it lasts. Most people don't depend on their bike for transportation. Someone will learn to ride your on your baby, or commute to work, or travel, or all these and more, and do it because they WANT to. Someone will love her.
That's exactly what I'm hoping for. From what I understand, hubby is buying it for his wife. She got her license previously, and has been wanting a bike. He also said that he was looking forward to riding her. So they'll no doubt fall in love with her like we did. Better still, he said they were building near the mountains. I know the road to where they're moving, Dita will love it.
Don't worry, you still have the rest of your life to kick yourself for getting rid of your first road bike. 
I hope you gave the new owner a free lifetime membership to Bandit Alley. 
Yeah, I know. I'm sort of doing that now, but I want her to be ridden, and r_outsider is not riding as much, since Montana ruined him for our roads (and LEOs) and I can't ride 3 bikes.
I told him about the alley, and told him if he wanted to know everything that I'd gone through with Dita, and any problem I'd had with her, that it was all up here. :) He said he did take a poke around. He didn't mention joining, but hopefully he did, or will.
Well, that IS sad, isn't it? I had an attachment to all my bikes and it was difficult to watch each of them go but the B4, even with the love/hate relationship we had at times, was definitely the toughest.
Dita was definitely harder to see go than the TTR125 that I started on. I told her to behave and take care of these guys, like she did with us, then watched her leave all the way down the block til he turned the corner.
I can't bring myself to get rid of mine. I have an irrational attachment to it (it's only metal parts). One day when I have a place to store more bikes I'll get another but for now I'm stuck with the 400.
I don't think they are just metal parts. After you spend so much time with them (both fixing and riding), they seem to develop a personality. Dita sometimes has a sense of humour I don't appreciate, but she definitely has a personality. In fact, when we met this guy to show her to him, she decided that she wouldn't start, even though she'd started just fine to ride in. Better still? She started just fine after he left.
Topic: A sad day for me, but hopefully a good future for Dita (Read 3604 times)