I was going to say ' both' to the original question.
But as I'm not actually the oldest so far (only 56) and a mental age of about 16 according to the missus :devious perhaps 2nd oldest?
Ride purely for pleasure these days,if it's cold and wet there's no pleasure....so I take the car.
Recently discovered the fun of trackdays,pity I got made redundant shortly afterwards and can't afford it now.
Still got so much to learn tho' especially about riding,although I've had bikes on and off since I was 13.
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Exeter, Devon
Hey thats cheating, what with having an upright riding position
only kidding, fair shout to you matey hope im still riding any bike at 60, let alone a full fat sportsbike. It seems ANDY MAC and ozz are the oldest to ride with the painful-at-times clip ons. Kevin- what a bike to have at 23 Thank you TT. The thing is it just creeps up on you. There I was, riding a bike for years and years and then someone asks me if I don't think I'm too old for it. :jack I'd never even considered it up to then. :dunno Now I'm got paranoid, or maybe just sensitive about the whole issue.
My view is, as long as I'm enjoying it, I'll keep riding. :thumbup
Exactly,
I came across an old boy the other day (he made B.O.B seem young :biggrin)riding a Matchless sidecar , his missus was the passenger.
She was 79 and he was 84 !!!!!!, they wernt about to stop riding any time soon and I reckon his attitude was spot on.
"I've been riding motorbicycles (how quaint) since 1941, 'itler could'nt kill me, the japs couldn't kill me , I buried my 1st wife in 69 , Elenor is my 2nd wife and doesn't let me drink or smoke......................this is my only fun thesedays and by god no buggers taking it away from me"
I came across an old boy the other day (he made B.O.B seem young :biggrin)riding a Matchless sidecar , his missus was the passenger.
She was 79 and he was 84 !!!!!!, they wernt about to stop riding any time soon and I reckon his attitude was spot on.
"I've been riding motorbicycles (how quaint) since 1941, 'itler could'nt kill me, the japs couldn't kill me , I buried my 1st wife in 69 , Elenor is my 2nd wife and doesn't let me drink or smoke......................this is my only fun thesedays and by god no buggers taking it away from me"
Excellent story! Good on the old guy.:thumbup I just hope I'm still alive at 84 never lone still be riding a bike!
Currently I'm 34 years and 8 months (looks like slightly below the average so far!:thumbup) Had bikes from 7-17 then a 10 year gap (which I now regret!), then 27 till now. Had the Ape a couple of months now and I'm loving it:inlove. Most I've done is 250 miles in a day but no aches or pains.
thirtyeighteen on Monday. Even with the dead hands I used to have could the RSV all day, which is more than can be said for the 'blade i used to have......
I'm 49 yrs young and went to Italy on my ape at end of May, 2,300 miles loved every minute of it, would do it again on the ape
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rowlands gill
its funny in it when we were young, everyone who had a bike was about 16 to 25, i go a local meet and the average age is at least 40yrs, more grey hair and beer bellies than owt else, im 42 and i think most are right, we are more nuts now than we were then, the mille is the most comfortable sports bike ive ridden yet, back then it was cheaper to run a bike, its problebly cheaper to run a car now
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Plymouth
I'm a 29 year old pasty muncher. I love a nice pasty, bey. when i had the ape in the garage not long ago, they gave me a kawasaki versys. its a proper 'sit up-arms straight out' jobby. felt strange as hell, but not half as strange as gettin back on the ape a few days later! thought someone had lowered the bars and hightened the pegs. damn, they weren't built with comfort in mind, but thats not what people buy em for anywayz. 6'1" tall. ouch.
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Exeter, Devon
I know what you mean glen. I have turned up at bike meets, taken off my lid and either got a "cor youre younger than i thought" or my fave "thats a bit big n fast for you aint it?" (24 and only 5ft 8) to which i reply "lets go ride and see if you can keep me in sight then" im no rossi but have passed many a faster bike, used to ride an sv650 with a gsxr750, sp1 and r1. Might lose a bit on the straights but riding it rs250 style in the corners id always stick with em (often be at front of our pack!). Saying that, most riders i meet respect you just as you do them-regardless of age, ***, or two wheeled steed you possess. Just as it should be
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rowlands gill
wish i was 24 again, i agree experience counts, expecially if you have rode all your life growing up with the changes of bikes, but some of us old(er) bikers come back into it some years later, and a bit of shock when you jump on one of these road rockets when your last bike was an old air cooled rd250 lol , what will the bikes be like in twenty years from now, and how will you feel then if youve had a gap couple of years without a bike,
christ how much more power will bikes have then, picture this,...... your flying on the twity's you take one, two, three , four bikes, and leave em for dead,:biggrin you pull in to the cafe up the road and the four bikes pull in some 5mins later, they take there lids of and there all grey haired, you feel great,:eatcorn
but picture this, same scene, but this time its 4 young r1 riders and your the grey haired tw@t 5mins ahead:thumbup
christ how much more power will bikes have then, picture this,...... your flying on the twity's you take one, two, three , four bikes, and leave em for dead,:biggrin you pull in to the cafe up the road and the four bikes pull in some 5mins later, they take there lids of and there all grey haired, you feel great,:eatcorn
but picture this, same scene, but this time its 4 young r1 riders and your the grey haired tw@t 5mins ahead:thumbup
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London
I'm 26, my favoutrite thing is that when the mille first came out i was 16 looking at pictures of it in magazines:drool and now i have one.:doug
Most i've done on a bike was 500 miles in a day not on the mille though, but maybe beating that record when I ride up to inverness in mid november:dowhat
Most i've done on a bike was 500 miles in a day not on the mille though, but maybe beating that record when I ride up to inverness in mid november:dowhat
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Norway
I`m 44, but I`m also an *******. I train every day. As a natural consequence I don`t feel any pain whatsoever on my RSV. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_qOmuQT1sJgY/StjLsgwRzJI/AAAAAAAAA-U/pyw9X7jxTLM/tur_roldal.jpg
8 hour trip. 4 forced stop doing three boats and one stop for gas. One stop for coffee.
8 hour trip. 4 forced stop doing three boats and one stop for gas. One stop for coffee.
Chronological age 48, logical age 38, feel like I'm 28, ride like I'm 18
Seems to me we're all pretty much the same age on here just born in different years (very different) LOL
Seems to me we're all pretty much the same age on here just born in different years (very different) LOL
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