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in thinking a motorbike shoul stay outside

14 replies

AliceimWunderland · 22/01/2011 10:47

or is dh right to have wheeled his motorbike

into the hall to work on it

Blush

I got a tad cross

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NinkyNonker · 22/01/2011 10:50

Lol, this reminds me of my childhood.

Dinghies in the living room all winter cause the garage was too cold.

Yacht inboard engines being dismantled in the kitchen table

Heads (loos) in the kitchen sink.

My mother was a saint. Grin

Not sure whether Yabu or not based on that!

tinkertitonk · 22/01/2011 10:51

If it's some Japanese POS then you are quite right. If however it is some pinnacle of British engineering (Norton, Triumph, BSA...) then you are lucky to be allowed inside with it.

AliceimWunderland · 22/01/2011 10:53
Confused

he would have everything inside

lucky I guess he is not into boating ...

Smile

and ps

the motorbike is off the road for the winter
it does not need tinkering with ..Confused

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AliceimWunderland · 22/01/2011 10:54

tis some japanese thing

not

a beautifull bike at all ...

are bikes beautifull...Confused

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ModreB · 22/01/2011 10:58

Well, if there is petrol in it, don't you think it's a bit like having a bomb in the hallway?

YANBU, and IMO very dangerous.

diddl · 22/01/2011 11:00

How weird-imo to have a mbike indoors.

We don´t even have bicycles in to work on them.

Still, he won´t mind when you drive the car in to work on it.....

mutznutz · 22/01/2011 11:03

They guy who lives opposite me has a motorbike in his lounge Confused

No idea why he's been single for the last 5 years Grin

MadAboutQuavers · 22/01/2011 11:04

This will most likely invalidate your home insurance if you have a fire OP - something about combustible machines - I'd check it out

Might give you more ammo to get the damn thing outside where it belongs

And I love bikes, being a lapsed biker Grin

GentleOtter · 22/01/2011 11:08

An old boyfriend once rebuilt an XT 500 in his bedroom then could not get the bike downstairs. Grin

I know many a house where the bike has been taken in for the winter and the biker thinks it is perfectly reasonable but YANBU.

kampakat · 22/01/2011 11:11

YANBU!!
When I first got to know my OH (now my Hubby) all his friends wives warned me about the engines on the dining room table and random bits of 'boy stuff' strewn throughout the hallway...
So I made sure we bought a teeny tiny house, with no hallway and no space for a dining room table...That showed him!! Confused

That said...I have allowed him a shed it the back garden for tinkering on engines - especially seeing that it is the engine for my very much loved VW campervan Grin

AliceimWunderland · 22/01/2011 12:27

so no one thinks this is usual

Confused

am off to take my temper out on cleaning

thank you all

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IDontThinkSoDoYOU · 22/01/2011 13:04

My husbands bike used to be in the hallway (dodgy area where we used to live!) but mine was apparently quite safe out the back....... Now we moved and got a garage and neither will be coming inside.

I think he's being precious, get him a really nice Winter cover (for the bike but you can choose!) and tell him it has to stay outside.

I think I will always come a poor second to my husbands nike and the amount of time and money he lavishes on it, I could quite cheerfully kick it over sometimes. I sadly feel quite jealous.

YANBU, bikes out, people in.

dawntigga · 22/01/2011 13:28

I've kept my bike in the front room when I didn't have a garage and bought a sink on the basis you could fit a bike engine in it so YABVVVU Wink

BikerTiggaxx

AliceimWunderland · 22/01/2011 13:51

we have a sort of garage Confused

hard to explain and big covered archway
open to the garden, big gate to the front

gggrrrr
blinking bike

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