When I went out to buy my present car (yes, I have had to do that, on occasion

), I think I went to collect it
on the bike in the rain (I had no car to trade-in). The guys in the showroom were most puzzled: ("why didn't you phone ahead, we'd have come and fetched you?" "why didn't you ask for it to be delivered?"). Needless to say, the ease with which one could whip off the front wheel and stow the bike in the boot, was an important criteria in selecting which car to get.
But at least the wife knew what I was up to - after all she
knew the previous motor was at that time languishing in a breaker's yard, an insurance write-off

. Are you telling us
you had no idea 
?