Honda should not have given you a delivery estimate. Several dealers I spoke to specifically and very clearly stated they could not promise a delivery timeline for their bikes, and that was a month ago before the latest world calamities. "We get bikes when we get bikes" was basically what they said. Whoever gave you a prospective timeline should have added a very large "estimated" stamp all over that.
To give you an idea of how difficult it is to get a bike where I am, I live in Seattle and my local dealer has been refusing to take deposits for 10 months now. He only put me on his waitlist because I physically turned up in person the day he was going to start rejecting people using a templated email. He said to my face that he wouldn't be surprised if people currently on the waitlist got their bikes in 2024 and I believe him.
I've covered this elsewhere on the forum: the distribution by Honda is uneven in continental USA, heavily favoring the Florida end of the country.
That's me. Bicycle #1 is used for transport and errands. Bicycle #2 (eCargo bike) is used for hauling up to 500 lb of cargo at a time. I don't have a car (yet?) and I use bus and bike to get around everywhere normally. I rent pickups and trucks as needed to haul stuff, and rental cars to do long distance trips (my gf's sister lives a 200 mi round trip).
Do I
need the CT125? Need is a very strong word in my world. There are necessary places that are very difficult to get to by bicycle. There are also places I regularly go that are so costly to visit by Lyft or rental car. The ROI is around 35 trips under current pricing (which have been steadily increasing), or 18 months to break even, including gear.
RE: shelter, I use a motorcycle shelter for my bike. I don't know if I'd recommend it yet, it's still too early to say. It was expensive. If it breaks, I have other options I am willing to try that I've already designed out that will probably work better but they just take time to build (based off a design by
April Wilkerson).
Also sweet keyboard
@dmonkey. I've got a Drop keyboard as my first build. Might have to build a new one if they force us back to the office, this one's too heavy to lug back and forth on a bicycle.