My wife decided to quit work and go back to school, this was April of 04 at the time I had a vstar 1100, I managed to hang onto it until about mid summer 04 until $ just got to tight to justify keeping the vstar, so, it sold. Please take into consideration I did not want to sell my bike, but needed to sell it. That was the longest 12-14 bikeless months. There was not hardly a day that went by that I didn't think about motorcycles, reading bike mag's made it worse, seeing them on the road was just a killer. Nothing worse than having to get rid of a bike when you aren't ready, the days go by slow. For those up north still wintered in, life is still much easier for you because you have the security of knowing you own a bike and can at any time go look at it, work on it, just the security of having it makes all the difference, Lynus' blankee. So, until you are ready for what ever reason, don't sell if you can avoid it, it's torture. The day will come for all of us at some point where we are ready to give em up, when that day comes it will be much easier to watch it ride off.