There is a certain kind of goodness in the air today that wasn’t there yesterday — because according to Jake at Pro Italia, my brand new shinny 1098S has finally arrived and is in the process of being put together as I write this! Now all I’ve got to do is find some time to get away from work so I can pick it up 
I have admit that placing an order for a bike before it actually ships is quite an interesting experience. Not at all what I had expected. You start out with a wealth of brimming excitement. You can’t wait to see it and touch it and more importantly ride it. And yet because of the time involved from the initial deposit till final delivery, that enthusiasm seems to go up and down. You get busy with work, you have other things on your mind, there are a host of everyday items that attempt to occupy the same space in your mind. And so at some point as much as you don’t want to, life forces you to push the idea of the new bike out of your mind. You have to focus on what’s at hand, not what’s coming down the pike in the future.
But then you get a call and are told that this magical item that you had almost lost faith in showing up has in fact arrived. So this morning I find myself feeling extremely excited, but it’s a tempered kind of excitement. Not a full blown, out of this world, unbelievable ear to ear grinning kind of joy. But rather something much more reserved. Part of me doesn’t think the bike is real. Part of me wonders if it was worth the wait. I suspect that all of this will change when I arrive at PI and get the keys.
In a strange way I guess I miss the warp speed irrational logic and subsequent excitement that comes from spur of the moment motorcycle buying decisions. The kind of event that 24 or 48 hours later you sit back and go, ‘whoa this all came together fast. I can’t believe I did this’. There’s something wonderful about that kind of madness. I can’t be anywhere as irrational in any other part of my life – but motorcycles have and always will be an area where I don’t have to think the same way or behave the same way or live my life the same way. They are an escape from being a grown up (at least for me).
Obviously this time the process is a very different beast. On one hand I dislike it because lets face it just takes to damn long, but on the other hand it has been a fascinating thing to witness, the ups and downs, dealing with the lingering questions, reading and rereading every review that can be found online or in print, the constant curiosity, the threads of thoughts that come in the middle of the night. So while waiting for your bike to show up doesn’t hold same kind of irrational decision making, it does in a strange way offer a tremendous amount more mental foreplay. When you are thinking about the new bike it’s almost an obsession. An addiction really. Something that you simply can not shake easily nor ignore.
Come this Saturday we’ll see if all this foreplay was worth it 
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