How old is old????

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Re: How old is old????

Postby Neka79 » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:21 pm

Gosling1 wrote::shock: sorry to hear about that mate - bit of a shock really.....aah well one door shuts another opens.....

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hey mate!!.. get ur hands off her.. im next in line!!


kidding guys.. its a shame to see this... im going thru a mess atm too, so i kno how u guys feel...

hope u guys can still both hang around- we need sum1 to bag abt not being on a kwaka (hahaha not me no more)...
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Re: How old is old????

Postby snowymountainsmick » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:13 pm

I'll be 60 next month, retired July before last to nurse my sick wife of 35 years and she died last June. I now have a girlfriend whose circumstances are almost identical. We are soooooo suited!! She is a young girl (50 in November). I feel pretty much the same as always, my heads in a hurry, but my feet can't keep up. I am back on bikes after a 20 odd year absence and really enjoying it. I bought a 1983 BME R80ST cheap to see if I could still handle riding, worked out ok and now have a TT600R dirst bike and a 2001 black ZRX1200R with purple/white stripes. I am getting back into it steadily and enjoying it immensily (all aches and pains though, old age is not for sissies). I will probably restore the BM and stick a chair on it, always wanted one.

I still feel the same as I ever did, still love motorbikes, etc, but now have the time and money to enjoy them. If it breaks down and I can't get mobile service, I'm up shit creek, because I couldn't push the bike these days to save my life.

The best thing that I have found that comes with maturity is the ability to control your reflexes/responses. No mad corrections, skids crashes and spin outs, just timely sensible corrections. No doubt that will fade in a few years and I will plod along on the sidecar, but at the moment, the REX is getting a work out.
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Re: How old is old????

Postby kaneg » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:55 am

snowymountainsmick wrote:I'll be 60 next month, retired July before last to nurse my sick wife of 35 years and she died last June. I now have a girlfriend whose circumstances are almost identical. We are soooooo suited!! She is a young girl (50 in November). I feel pretty much the same as always, my heads in a hurry, but my feet can't keep up. I am back on bikes after a 20 odd year absence and really enjoying it. I bought a 1983 BME R80ST cheap to see if I could still handle riding, worked out ok and now have a TT600R dirst bike and a 2001 black ZRX1200R with purple/white stripes. I am getting back into it steadily and enjoying it immensily (all aches and pains though, old age is not for sissies). I will probably restore the BM and stick a chair on it, always wanted one.

I still feel the same as I ever did, still love motorbikes, etc, but now have the time and money to enjoy them. If it breaks down and I can't get mobile service, I'm up shit creek, because I couldn't push the bike these days to save my life.

The best thing that I have found that comes with maturity is the ability to control your reflexes/responses. No mad corrections, skids crashes and spin outs, just timely sensible corrections. No doubt that will fade in a few years and I will plod along on the sidecar, but at the moment, the REX is getting a work out.


Good onya mate, and thanks for giving us all some hope...
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Re: How old is old????

Postby Stereo » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:31 am

Black Magic wrote:Hey everyone.
I am officially entering my last two weeks of being '30-something' :cry:, and even though I don't look my age and I feel about 20, it is a little depressing to be almost 40. I sort of feel like I went to sleep somewhere along the way and woke up 20 years later.


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Re: How old is old????

Postby photomike666 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:25 pm

Was recently at a BMX race, (surprise, surprise), and one of the riders was celerbrating his 57th Birthday - you're just never too old
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Re: How old is old????

Postby Possum » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:02 pm

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese...you go girl 8)
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