Bike In a Box or Not?

So I have a borderline genius who lives in my house...or at least at times he can be...can't spell to save his live but I have heard that this is not an essential part of intelligence...I think he may have been born a few decades to late though. You see he is a trader....not a traitor, but a trader...and a tinkerer...not sure that is a real word but it fits. Neither of these are particularly bad traits to have but combined can cause people to scratch their hands frequently...including myself! So let me tell you about the most recent acquisition!

In December of last year the boyfriend decided that he didn't really think it necessary to own a snowmobile...mind you the year before he traded his dirt bike for a snowmobile for me so that we both had sleds to go! So after searching craigslist and other various ads he found a crotch rocket...my friends we are not talking about an assembled crotch rocket...oh no that would be too easy! What did he find you might ask? Well, essentially it is what I ended up terming a bike in a box...(later on to be referred to as bike in a box 1~if that paints a picture for you)...so, this leads to the tinkering part of the story...within a matter of weeks my gifted boyfriend assembled a bike with all the parts that he had! Amazing right? Wrong....the bike although great turned out to be a huge pain in the ass...no title, couldn't register it, couldn't track down the original person whom he traded a perfectly awesome sled to, the actual owner (PS who is not the man who traded it...lol) most likely potentially sitting in jail! One bike in a box worthless!

This brings us to April/May time frame...once again he is looking through the ads and he finds another crotch rocket...a year newer and more horsies...hmmm appealing! Cost...the amt of selling his car! You heard me, so he brings home...you guessed it! Bike in a box #2...not technically in a box but it had been involved a police chase and was seized only after the idiot riding it crashed it...destroying lots of the parts!

Good news...we still have bike in a box #1 which can be combined with bike in a box #2 to make bike NOT in a box #3! After weeks of tinkering and ordering misc parts that neither bike had or that were not compatible we now have a pretty sweet bike! I say we because I have to take credit somewhere along the line! I mean it is sitting in my garage! Anyway, for me this is pretty exciting! When it is super sunny nice out I think I want to ride just as much as he does...does that make me a biker biatch...hmmm???