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I think first roadie was @1980-82 can't member xactly........ so that makes it 23 years

6 months this september

fab

Been crashing them since 1980, didnt really start to get the concept of riding them (well commuting anyway) till after i bought a chook chaser & learnt how to "crash with class".
9 road bikes in & still working on the whole Staying Upright concept. Tiggr first Kwika & I've still got the bike it replaced after 12 years punching it too work, the old fzzr's gunna be a good trackie yet.
Licenced & holding onto handlebars pretty well solid for nearly 25 years.
Some comfort for we older guys, Ya Gotta love the old farts insurance rates
Cheers Brett

First started riding in 92 in 93 was collected by a car that put me in hospital for nearly a year, followed by a 9 year break and been back on for about 8 months

Pontikat wrote:....
Some comfort for we older guys, Ya Gotta love the old farts insurance rates
Cheers Brett

amen to that...... gotta be some value for us blokes in being
...aaah, more experienced

Smitty wrote:

Pontikat wrote:....
Some comfort for we older guys, Ya Gotta love the old farts insurance rates
Cheers Brett

amen to that...... gotta be some value for us blokes in being
...aaah, more experienced

Mmmmm..... insurance for the more mature rider I like to call it, although I don't know that mature is the right word. Still it was one of the good bits about hitting 40

I've been riding on road for about 5-6 years now and off road on old ag bikes (I grew up on a farm) since about '93.

onto my third road bike .... only just bought my first car last year (realised I needed to grow up and do more than two days food-shopping at a time!!! I can actually get the whole carton of eggs home unbroken!!).

Glen wrote:amen to that...... gotta be some value for us blokes in being
...aaah, more experienced ..
Mmmmm..... insurance for the more mature rider I like to call it, although I don't know that mature is the right word. Still it was one of the good bits about hitting 40

mature? old? I prefer..more experienced

wow! i hope to be like a lot of you guys/gals one day....
atm i am on my 5th year (easy, i started in 2000!!! like my bike!)
my 1st CBR6 saw more garage than anything thanks to my job (for about 2 years)
my 2nd CBR6 (aussie version) was great
and my current ride, obviously the BEST!! go team green, in a red sorta way!!!

Glen wrote:

Smitty wrote:

Pontikat wrote:....
Some comfort for we older guys, Ya Gotta love the old farts insurance rates
Cheers Brett

amen to that...... gotta be some value for us blokes in being
...aaah, more experienced

Mmmmm..... insurance for the more mature rider I like to call it, although I don't know that mature is the right word. Still it was one of the good bits about hitting 40

The Wise Council of Jedi Old-Farts actually the insurance rate was a surprise when I bought the 12, good old QBE.

At the risk of my avatar going back to "newbie " I had my mid-life crisis last year , got my Ls in November and full license in January 05. That means (um...) 9 months in total, and about 9,000km.
Never ridden a bike before that, and it was 30 years since I had ridden a bicycle.

2 years on the road and another few years in the dirt

First road a bike when i was about ten i think and had a few trail bikes until i was 18,then got a gpx250 and road that for about a year or so then had a break and started riding full time on the road again at the start of this year.


Flash

just on 5months now.
always wanted one.
never allowed. i'm now taller than my mum so i can tell her to nick off.
she still scares me though

Putted around on my mates bikes from time to time in my late teens and early twenties. After a couple of half arsed starts at getting my liscence, missus asked me not too, she back-flipped when she wanted to go back to work and needed the car. So I knocked it on the head at a weekend Q-ride corse two years ago.