....I'm not, of course, suggesting that you do anything.....subversive, but you
could sort of...buy it and then...you know, kind of....add it to
someone else's stable / garage / garden shed....until your dear wife has stopped noticing your other two purchases...or perhaps she asks you what you like for your birthday / Christmas / wedding anniversary....
At that point, you could say "well sweetie, as it happens, I know of just the perfect thing and I can get at a remarkably low price of....$22.00 - how about I nip over and get it right now!"
OK - bad idea.
Bad Pete - very bad Pete.
It just be a shame if that nice old bike were to fall into the hands of some vandal.....(as FredinToon would say...)
....although, my guess is that more than one of the other dingaling's on this forum have done
JUST ABOUT exactly the same thing.
Not ME, of course....but some others....might have, you know, sort of done something like that.