On the subject of being attached to bikes, when my first big bike (the Kawasaki GT750) was killed by a wonker in a car who ran me off the road, I had a right go at the bloke who came from the scrappy to pick it up cos he strapped it down so hard it bottomed out the suspension.
The bike was dead and going to be broken up but it was still my baby and I was almost in tears (almost) when he drove away with it on the back of his lorry.
I have been the same with all my bikes, keeping them until they either died or got killed. The only one I didn't get that attached to was the GPZ600.