Peter Egan is a popular moto-journalist who writes for Cycle World Magazine.  For many of us, he is one of those writers that simply gets it.  In the April 2010 edition of Cycle World, he writes:

There are a few select things, I believe, that every individual is intended to have in this life, almost as a matter of course.  Objects that seem to have been designed for someone with your exact genetic wiring, and you know it when you see them.

Ah ha!  That explains it.

Crass materialism?  Perhaps, but to quote Egan, “I like to think of it in more spiritual terms, as a classic  example of Predestination.  But with more chrome and no funeral”.