show us your bike then!!!!

[selectedgrub]

Thanks for all the kind words.

 

[mechman]

Sadly I have decided to sell my mount as over the last couple of years I haven't done it any justice at all. The interest in motorcycles is still there its just the interest in riding them seems to have faded somewhat. I'm in my 70th year, am I turning into a sad basket or what? Here's a pic of my mount (hopefully)

 

[ronan]

Mechman, i know a few older lads who love to have a bike in the shed to tinker with, but rarely if ever sally-forth onto the roads.

 

[mechman]

Cant help but tinker it's in the blood, Sadly this bike didn't need tinkering even though I tried to no avail, all the rest were full on tinkerers, mebbe that's what I'm missing

 

[Rannsachair]

My dad is 77 and spends every day in his shed working on old bikes - mainly 1950's. He stopped riding a few years ago when he got a fright on my KTM 950 adventure but just likes to be at work every day in his shed.

 

[norlander]

Sadly I have decided to sell my mount as over the last couple of years I haven't done it any justice at all. The interest in motorcycles is still there its just the interest in riding them seems to have faded somewhat. I'm in my 70th year, am I turning into a sad basket or what? Here's a pic of my mount (hopefully)

I've been riding for 50 years now, I have had the occasional "lazy" year, at our age you get to the point where you have been there and done that, and very little "new ground " is left. My younger mates are pestering me about what rallies and events am I doing this year, but I'm not interested, I'd already decided I'm not going far afield this year.
Not ready to sell my bike yet at this point though.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

One of my mates is 80 this year and debating whether to change his BMW R1150RT for a 400-500cc scooter. He also has a Honda Deville that he bought new and had converted into a trike. Last weekend I had his dog stay with me whilst he went off to a rally ! This is the first year in ages he isn't going on a continental tour.
Basically whilst you are fit and healthy then age is irrelevant.

 

[arther dailey]

thats a belter, and remember it dont eat anything sitting in the garage..

 

[tones61]

My 2016 bmw s1000r

 

[tones61]

Ready for a ride out in sunny Plymouth :-)

 

[ronan]

Hmmmm, the problem with having nice things, like motorcycles, is some swine's like to nick them.

 

[ronan]

My dad is 77 and spends every day in his shed working on old bikes - mainly 1950's. He stopped riding a few years ago when he got a fright on my KTM 950 adventure but just likes to be at work every day in his shed.

The pukka motorcyclist is often quite as happy in his garage on a wet December evening with a motorcyle which won't go, as he is on the open road in August with a beauteous flapper on the carrier' - Ixion 1920

 

[blenkie1]

Must of spent more time pushing a motorcycle than riding it when I was younger! All part of the fun!

 

[norlander]

he is on the open road in August with a beauteous flapper on the carrier' - Ixion 1920

good for him, norlander version is "on a speed camera/traffic infested road in August with a hideous slapper on the carrier"

 

[norlander]

View attachment 85749 My 2016 bmw s1000r

Stunning bikes those beemers, along with Ducati and Triumph, BMW have given the rising sun bikes a real run for their money.

 

[norlander]

One of my mates is 80 this year and debating whether to change his BMW R1150RT for a 400-500cc scooter. He also has a Honda Deville that he bought new and had converted into a trike. Last weekend I had his dog stay with me whilst he went off to a rally ! This is the first year in ages he isn't going on a continental tour.
Basically whilst you are fit and healthy then age is irrelevant.

The Harley crowd over here has some great veteran riders, my favourite is a couple whose combined age is 162. They have a full on Electra Glide, they need team work to hoik it up from the prop stand, but its a well practised smooth operation.
Quite a few riders in their 70s, and they ride in all weathers, we came back from the Basque country on a pitch black night in torrential rain, nobody jacked, there were young blades on superbikes cowering in the service areas, we fuelled up, cafe'd up and rode off into the storm.

 

[mechman]

Must of spent more time pushing a motorcycle than riding it when I was younger! All part of the fun!

Aye me as well, Once got towed back to Newcastle from the far side of Hartside on a seized Tiger 100. The worst was taking the side car off a knacked speed twin so I could get them both home (Newcastle)on a train from the north of Scotland(Golspie) changing trains a few times and dumped on the middle (then) platform of the central station reconnect sidecar to bike and towed home(again) by a taxi. Oh some kind soul had decided that the bike would be the perfect place to stack a load of full fish boxes on top of. It did make me quite cross. But you just got on with it, Happy days.

 

[Robotstar5]

Must of spent more time pushing a motorcycle than riding it when I was younger! All part of the fun!

British iron was popular when I started riding, spent many hours roadside fixing them a memorable one was pulling the liner out of a crash hat to use the shell as a makeshift oil container so we could get an engine side case off to sort a blocked oil pump. Between us we usually carried enough tools/spares to get everyone home.

 

[norlander]

British iron was popular when I started riding, spent many hours roadside fixing them a memorable one was pulling the liner out of a crash hat to use the shell as a makeshift oil container so we could get an engine side case off to sort a blocked oil pump. Between us we usually carried enough tools/spares to get everyone home.

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I see one of you only takes one sugar in his tea.

 

[mechman]

British iron was popular when I started riding, spent many hours roadside fixing them a memorable one was pulling the liner out of a crash hat to use the shell as a makeshift oil container so we could get an engine side case off to sort a blocked oil pump. Between us we usually carried enough tools/spares to get everyone home.

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Didn't that make your hair a bit on the greasy side.