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.
ZRX1200R, KLR650 (both 08s), 1983 BMW R80ST.
"I'll help you down the trail and proud to!" Rooster Cogburn.
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...
Black Magic wrote:Hey everyone.
I am officially entering my last two weeks of being '30-something' , 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.
sorry to hear about that mate - bit of a shock really.....aah well one door shuts another opens.....
, 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.
