Any type of surgery to do with eyes scares the pants off me, with my luck (if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't get any luck at all) I'd end up with a marble and a conker for eyes, think I'll stick to being double glazed ;-)
We're the same age. It's being yellow-centric keeps you young! Mellow. I've noticeably deteriorated riding angry red.
I played football and rugby throughout school years, never warmed up once. Used to go for a kickaround for years after. Then after a break of a decade or so went to my sisters and her hubby had a football in the garden; I went out to do some keepie-uppie - without warming up - and almost immediately sprained a muscle in my foot, and it still bugs me 20 years later.
Well done keep going just visited sammy miller museum and he is still riding at 90 I remember talking to him at Mallory park classic bike race meet 20 years ago
It certainly keeps you focused, no? Hyper-aware. Can imagine good processes going on counteracting, say, fatigue poisons. And as I've said before: on the bike I feel indistinguishable from the 'me' of 30 years ago riding. More than anything else it's the thing I do I believe will stave off dementia. But I wonder if bikers who do start losing it, die, which skews the statistics? Still, better to go that way than to linger and lose yourself.
With advancing age, one's self- confidence gradually goes. For those who were overly confident before, that's an improvement.
Well, I had my nice little Monster, and it was newer, much less mileage, and in better condition that the 748. And I told myself, this is the bike I could ride into old age. But then I decided I couldn't justify the expense of keeping two bikes on the road, when I wasn't using either of them much. So one had to go. And of course it was a no-brainer: the Monster had to go. Cos it's not a 748, is it? And the 748, it can sit under its cover for a couple of months, and when I fire it up, it always starts first time and idles so smoothly. Hoping to get a break from this April rain soon!
Good to hear the latest comments about old age riding. I will be 77 in a month's time and still ride my Monster 1200S and still love it. I rode it to WDW last year in all that heat, had a great time but said I probably wouldn't do it again, but never say never, may be life in the old dog yet!
Hi there, yes I'm with you and hundreds of others still riding. Survived the crazy early years and now feel more enjoyment than should be legal. Still a kid ,only 64 so lots to look forward to
That's me. Bifocal glasses for the car, uncorrected in the top, slightly weaker than reading prescription in the bottom. Fortunately the dash on the Multistrada is good enough that I can still see that clearly without them (or I could when I last checked).
im 69 and it pisses me off when someone says what are you doing riding a bike at your age, the day i cant lift my leg over the seat thats when i will call it a day but then i might ask my wife to lift my leg over for me lol.
I don't get that sort of comment. I'm 76 and my daughters think their old man is cool for still riding a big motorbike. I've worn glasses since I was in my 30's and varifocals suite me just fine. I have various aches and pains of course, but they all disappear when I'm riding. In fact all troubles seem to disappear then - I'm sure it keeps me young. Off to the Picos and Northern Spain for ten days riding next week with three mates who are younger than me but I keep up with them OK. Later in June I'm going to the EMM in Andorra and then on to Provence. I'm hoping to return younger than when I left
Calm down pal, my father-in-law is 92 and still throwing a leg over, only not ridden for a year or so since he was 16.
Well, it turns out that, at 65, I’m still just a young’un and so now I’m wondering what I’m doing hanging around with you old farts. Eh, I hope it’s obvious that I’m only joking.
