When is a bike 'old'?

[AllanB]

The context - parked over hill on Saturday morning and a guy compliments my bike - it's a Honda, people love them, often I have to ask the ladies to make way when I want to remount it (not to mention removing the notes containing their phone numbers off the bike - one does not want to litter you understand) ..... but I digress.

Yes - they serve excellent coffee at my favorite stop.

Thanks I say, is it new? he asks - nah purchased in 2007 I state. Wow! is the response - that's a tidy 'old' bike. I smile and restrain myself from replying.



So, when is a vehicle 'old'? Not mine in my books but parked next to the latest wizz-bang, electronic this and vibrator assisted that my Hornet is positively old school - hey it does have fuel injection and a 'puter in the tail.

[mossy1200]

Its old when nobody makes tyres that fit it.
Those girls would have most likely been the ones that want to turn gay men straight. I think its on a few ladies bucket lists.

[Oakie]

Those girls would have most likely been the ones that want to turn gay men straight. I think its on a few ladies bucket lists. I had to read that twice but now I see what you did there!
And a bike is old when old guys come up and say "gee I haven't seen one of those for a while"

[FJRider]

So, when is a vehicle 'old'?

When it leaves the showroom floor under your ownership ... :msn-wink:

[nzspokes]

My bike is so old its new again. :laugh:

[Maha]

In the past ...two years, time for a change.

[Grumph]

It's "old" when the resale value flatlines....then a couple of years later when the resale value climbs, it's "collectible"

[nzspokes]

The context - parked over hill on Saturday morning and a guy compliments my bike - it's a Honda, people love them, often I have to ask the ladies to make way when I want to remount it (not to mention removing the notes containing their phone numbers off the bike - one does not want to litter you understand) ..... but I digress.

Yes - they serve excellent coffee at my favorite stop.

Thanks I say, is it new? he asks - nah purchased in 2007 I state. Wow! is the response - that's a tidy 'old' bike. I smile and restrain myself from replying.



So, when is a vehicle 'old'? Not mine in my books but parked next to the latest wizz-bang, electronic this and vibrator assisted that my Hornet is positively old school - hey it does have fuel injection and a 'puter in the tail.

To be fair the Hornet was designed to look old. The motor is a stonker.

[Akzle]

3 decades after they stop supplying parts.

[skippa1]

The context - parked over hill on Saturday morning and a guy compliments my bike - it's a Honda, people love them, often I have to ask the ladies to make way when I want to remount it (not to mention removing the notes containing their phone numbers off the bike - one does not want to litter you understand) ..... but I digress.
They are not ladies, theyre lady boys

if you take their pants off, they have a winkie..

(helpful hint)

[AllanB]

It's "old" when the resale value flatlines....then a couple of years later when the resale value climbs, it's "collectible"

There is truth in this - noticed it over the years.

[AllanB]

They are not ladies, theyre lady boys

if you take their pants off, they have a winkie..

(helpful hint)

No - they told me it was just a over developed clitoris :facepalm:

[caspernz]

Meh, I wouldn't worry about it. To someone who is used to a new work vehicle every two or three years...that becomes the yard stick.

Can't help you with the Honda ownership problem mind you...:devil2:

[neels]

Probably about the same time I can afford to buy it....

[Flip]

I once had a old duck come up and say that there are laws against loud bikes. I asked her if she remembers what big bikes sounded like in 1938. She got the message and fucked off.

[RDJ]

So, when is a vehicle 'old'?

When I owned a second-hand example of it when I was young.

[ellipsis]

...it's a sliding scale type of aging system...when my 70 year old racer is up against 50 year old machines it seems very old...on the other hand when I'm scooting past 85 or 90 year old bikes, or trying to, I feel it's youth and stamina throbbing away guiltily underneath me...

[Grumph]

I feel it's youth and stamina throbbing away guiltily underneath me...

Careful, you're in danger of being quoted on the sidecar thread......

[Voltaire]

When you have to work on it yourself and get your parts on the internet.

[AllanB]

When you have to work on it yourself and get your parts on the internet.

Haha - been there before :niceone:

[Grumph]

When you have to work on it yourself and get your parts on the internet.

That describes everything pre 1990...Really old is when you bring it to me and i have to make the bits.....

[Oscar]

Anyone who thinks a Hornet is worth commenting on obviously knows nowt about motorcycles, old or new.
He should stick to making coffee..

[vifferman]

For the first time ever, yesterday I thought, "Oh crap! My bike's old now!" :eek:
It is too - 14 years old, done 66000 (miles!) and so I think it's probably just about run in now.

Mind you, some of it's not so old; tyres, bearings, chain and sprockets, all the brake disks, the suspension and a whole bunch of other shit are all much newerer. Much of the dirt, goop and grunge are still original. Ish.

Ida bought a newerer and more exciting beast, but I'm too lazy. Plus I'm used to replacing them when they inexplicably and inevitably have a case of catastrophic percussive interference with another object, like a car, or cyclist, or pedestrian, or gravity. Yes gravity​. It's harder than you might think (or expect), which is why landing on your head is so hurtful and the opposite of fun.

[AllanB]

Anyone who thinks a Hornet is worth commenting on obviously knows nowt about motorcycles, old or new.
He should stick to making coffee..

:bleh::bleh::bleh::bleh::bleh::bleh:

Mmmmmm coffee