Mrs. Chumly

I miss my VFR. I'll miss it more when I go on 400 mile rides. I'll miss it less in the twisties and at the track. Emotion ruled over logic, and I went for the prettier machine vs. another viffer.

Sorry to keep your thread off-track.

No probs.......I've got an ugly cold that's wiped me out, so I thought it might be fun to try and characterize the 'ol ball 'n chain.

Mrs. Chumly has no interest in computers and other high-tech trappings beyond the absolute minimum needed, but she is a really good PC keyboardist, and picks up the gist of an application with little trouble.

Mrs. Chumly is really particular about her underthings, they must be the snazzy-type butt-floss lacy-things from upscale stores.

Mumpad said what about a ducati monster. She cant decide between red and black.

BIL had a Ninja 650 I think. He used to race it a bit in England. Then bought a Ducatti 999R amongst others.

Mumpads early M/cycle experience was as pillion on my bike (VT 250) when we lived in the city. My daughter used to kick me in the back before she was born. We joked that she was saying GO FASTER DADDY!!

Another BIL rides a Ducati and his wife has a monster.

Small, cheap, and lightweight is a good bet for learning proper riding habits.

Regardless of your bike-of-choice, proper riding lessons are a better bet than fancy machinery.

A properly trained rider on a 10 year old Japanese 600 can destroy virtually all comers on whatever the larger-newer machinery of choice might be.

I wanna hang with Mrs. Chumly.

Mrs. Chumly is a helluva woman.

Mrs. Chumly will listen to someone complaining about health, work, life etc only a few times………then she'll likely interrupt you, look you straight in the face, and say "do something about it or stop complaining!"

Mrs. Chumly often runs more than one topic at a time, will change topics on a dime, and talk while others talk. She does not really like slow deliberate one topic conversations with one person talking at a time. She prefers animated multitask talking.

Ducati Monster with the smaller engine(620 model I think?) doesn't have a ton of power and should be suitable as a first bike.

Just keep in mind that maintenance intervals on ducs come a lot sooner than Japanese bikes & are more expensive to service.

Like Chumly said, training is key. Don't take it upon yourself, have her take the MSF course.

I wanna hang with Mrs. Chumly and Squinney.

but i won't drive no motorcycle. last time i tried, i drove into a pile of wood and somehow a nail perforated the gas tank. haven't tried since.
i'll drive a bulldozer instead. always wanted to.

What mumpad wants and what she is in reality allowed to have are completly different.
I think newly licenced M/cycle riders are limited to 250 cc or less here.

Mrs chum and mumpad are similar people I think. Mumpad does the three topics at once. She often suddenly continues a conversation from two days ago, expecting me to know what she is talking about.

Her mother does it as well.

For better or worse, here in British Columbia, there is no graduated licensing or mandatory schooling in order to obtain a motorcycle license.

Mrs. Chumly did not fart or burp (at least to my knowledge) until after we got married. Now she has few qualms about letting forth. I once asked her about this, and she said she held it in to make a good impression.

Mrs. Chumly almost never gets sick. I've been decimated by super-bug colds twice in 6 months, she did not catch it.

Mrs. Chumly is an uber woman and I want to hang with her, Squinney and Dasha.

What about an all woman commune with congugal visits from the men of our choice?

She's sounding like a barrell of laughs!

Mrs. Chumly collects every variant of plastic container known to mankind; they are stored in various places throughout the kitchen, and many areas beyond. If by chance you throw one out........be prepared for a lecture on reuse / recycle.

Mrs. Chumly is a very good seamstress; she gave up a well paying secure job to try it on a full time basis.

Mrs. Chumly introduced me to roller blading; to this day she can still best me and many others. She rarely wears helmet and pads. She's had some high speed bang-ups with bruises aplenty.

Mrs. Chumly does not spend time researching what to buy, not even for big ticket items. She simply goes out, finds what she likes, and buys it if it's within budget.

Mrs. Chumly will however negotiate on price. For example in 2002 I bought a sports car, and found what I thought was my best price. She bet me she could do better, and that if she did, she would get to keep the difference. She bettered my price by $500.

well, i like her.

and this is a very lovely thread.

So tell me, Chumly, are you bragging, complaining or having a midlife crisis? Or maybe you're just plain impressed. Wouldn't blame you.

Mrs. Chumly and I have been through some exceedingly difficult times over the last decade, and I found myself in a very critical mode, whether justifiable or not.

It seemed to me that listing some of her qualities would be nice.

Plus I've got a brutally-killer-cold and am pretty much stuck in bed with lots of time. Everything I've posted is factual and I have purposely left out any excessive negativity.

it must be beneficial. it sounds like there's an awful lot that you appreciate and awful lot to look back to.

I am married to your wifes twin.

Does Mrs Chumly like cane baskets? I once counted 17 cane baskets of variouse shapes and sizes in our house. I stopped counting at 17 as mumpad was getting quite agitated.

Mrs. Chumly is not a cane basket-aholic, her "passion" lies with various sizes, shapes and styles of garbage cans, and of course, garbage in general.

Mrs. Chumly will dig through any of our numerous garbage cans if she suspects I have not properly sorted the refuse into the proper categories. I have (on occasion) purposely put a tuna can in the kitchen garbage, only to find that it has been removed, carefully cleaned and sorted.

Mrs. Chumly's family was not well off by many modern standards. Her family raised chickens and grew vegetables in the backyard. This was not due to trendiness or a sense of ecological concern, but more out of necessity and Eastern European tradition.

You are a wise man, Chumly. Especially so when you are having to live with a killer cold--that's just when most of us tend to be very negative.