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  1. 05-26-2020, 11:20 AM #1
    70tangerine
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    so who bought a motorcycle later in life?

    Im a young 62...lol... I rode in the 80s...

    Im in love w/ the newer bonnies...

    05 to 2012 or so...


    sooooo affordable..


    rode an 05 on Fri eve......so vintage...I loved it...


    any insight as to y I should / should not


    do u ride???

    pics of your ride?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 70tangerine View Post
    Im a young 62...lol... I rode in the 80s...

    Im in love w/ the newer bonnies...

    05 to 2012 or so...


    sooooo affordable..


    rode an 05 on Fri eve......so vintage...I loved it...


    any insight as to y I should / should not


    do u ride???

    pics of your ride?
    i`v ridden a lot back in the 90ies way more than i drove my cars....stopped riding around the year 2000... in 2010 or so i went for a week long trip with a friends motorcycle(same type as i used to ride) and it was horrible...way more trafic on the roads..and way more care/recklessness against motorcyclists...it was not much fun....

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  3. 05-26-2020, 12:36 PM #3
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    yes...my buddys been riding 45 yrs.... he says nowadays its waaaay more dangerous

    but id only be on B and back roads.......

    buttttttt, i see your insight
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    still riding...started with 12...
    bikes are the reason for my oris trailer hook...

    but: you always! have to calculate with everything!always!
    riding a motorcycle is a Brownian motion combined with the attraction of differently charged particles.

    be aware of where you are...we are free flying in space...



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    Started at 16. Stopped at 50. Never had an accident or an off. But distracted drivers started becoming a huge issue around the time I quit (6 years ago). Riding B roads isn't even safe and you have to get there first. Had two friends hit by texting drivers in 2012 and 2014. One died. Other can barely walk with a walker. Both on rural roads. So there is no safe place. Until cell phones became viral, I used to be able to predict what drivers would do and had a really well developed situational awareness. But not any more. Too unpredictable, at least where I live.

    I was pretty hardcore too. Rode from the time the snow cleared to when the snow settled in. 8 months of the year or so. Even built my own 1087 cc Triumph Thruxton from the ground up. Here's a pic of it and my Speed Triple.

    Still miss it every spring.

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  6. 05-26-2020, 01:33 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthernThrux View Post
    Started at 16. Stopped at 50. Never had an accident or an off. But distracted drivers started becoming a huge issue around the time I quit (6 years ago). Riding B roads isn't even safe and you have to get there first. Had two friends hit by texting drivers in 2012 and 2014. One died. Other can barely walk with a walker. Both on rural roads. So there is no safe place. Until cell phones became viral, I used to be able to predict what drivers would do and had a really well developed situational awareness. But not any more. Too unpredictable, at least where I live.

    I was pretty hardcore too. Rode from the time the snow cleared to when the snow settled in. 8 months of the year or so. Even built my own 1087 cc Triumph Thruxton from the ground up. Here's a pic of it and my Speed Triple.

    Still miss it every spring.

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    that Thruxton....wow
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    Not later in life however used to ride learning as a Sophomore in college and riding thru the mid-2000s. The use of phones and all the infotainment systems in the cars now scare the heck out of me. I still love motorcycles and thankfully my wife still allows me to keep them even though I don't use them. I now only plan to ride on dirt trails and track days.

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  8. 10-07-2020, 05:59 PM #8
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    Unhappy

    Have been riding off and on for 50+ years.

    I build this flat track bike in high school, registered and rode it regularly. Traded it for a car so I could drive to community college.

    Bought the Champion frame from Doug Schwerma and the hubs and disks from Sandy Kosman.

    Sorry for the terrible pic. It think I left the film in the Kodak Instamatic for a few years too many

    I’m looking far a bike presently.

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