Hello everyone, new to the forums and new to bikes
!
First off, I'd like to do a bit of an introduction of myself, so you'll know what youre dealing with here. I'm a Finnish bloke closing in on my 30's (tho I like to think of it as mid/late 20's), been studying for the majority of my life and am now more than halfway through my machinery studies at the University of Oulu. I've always been into cars, and back in -02 or -03 (can't recall the exact year right now) I bought my first project, an -88 Toyota Supra. That car turned out to be a bit of a rust bucket, and I had no idea of what I was doing so the inital conditions of this project were far from ideal. The car was broken all the time so I had to learn to fix it. I also bought a second car (-88 Volvo 340
) as a winter beater, which was also broken all the time, so I had to toggle between the two, getting one to run in order to fix the other.. I did a lot of mistakes with those cars but also learned a lot!! Sadly, the end of the Supra came as a broken crank bearing just as I was about to start my university studies. As you know studying is a time of poverty, so I had to sell the baby to a fellow Supraclub member as it was, and took a real beating with the price. I've been studying for 3 years now, not really having a project vehicle (except for the overall maintenance of my current daily driver), but doing all sorts of mechanical and electrical stuff as a hobby.
On to bikes..
I've had a bike-fever every summer since I was 16, but never found a good enough excuse to actually buy one. This summer the fever was too overwhelming, and I started to gather justifications to proof myself I really need a bike:
1. I need a project for the winter, or I'll go mad.
2. Bikes are cheaper and smaller than cars
3. I really really want one!
(the text editor is going weird on me so I'll continue with a reply...)