50 years of biking

[slofox]

Seems to me I have had a bike licence for 50 years this month. After getting pinged for not having one...

If I'd known I was gunna live this long I might have taken more care...probably not though.

[Grumph]

I've had mine about the same time. Never expected to live this long either....it's a bastard.

[Blackbird]

Old farts rock :Punk: 54 years for me :devil2:

Congrats and keep on keeping on!

[Grumph]

I have been riding for 42 years. Not having a midlife crisis and stopping riding for a number of years has possibly kept me safe as well as experience and luck.

I don't believe a single word of that.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I have been riding for 42 years. Not having a midlife crisis and stopping riding for a number of years has possibly kept me safe as well as experience and luck.


I don't believe a single word of that.

Wot 'e said.

[Akzle]

I don't believe a single word of that.

well. one.
the last one.

(luck)

[Akzle]

I have been riding for 42 years. Not having a midlife crisis and stopping riding for a number of years has possibly kept me safe as well as experience and luck.

no-one asked and no-one cares.

this thread had nothing to do with MLC, or saftey. or you.

[YellowDog]

I have been riding for 42 years. Not having a midlife crisis and stopping riding for a number of years has possibly kept me safe as well as experience and luck.

WOW - and Congrats to you.

No offence and honest truly, I had you down as someone in their late teens or early 20s :lol:

[Akzle]

WOW - and Congrats to you.

No offence and honest truly, I had you down as someone in their late teens or early 20s :lol:

that's pretty age-ist of you, not ALL young people are fuckwits!

[Akzle]

I have the impression many riders on here are also in their 20s due to all the riding school discussion on here. One person though I dont think has even started school as they only have about 3 words in their vocabulary.

thread has nothing to do with riding school. you fuckwit.

[YellowDog]

that's pretty age-ist of you, not ALL young people are fuckwits!

OK - My apologies. I may have met one or two non-fukwit types :wacko:

I do try and treat all posters with respect. Occasionally I fail, but it's the thought that counts.

I will certainly be giving 'Mr Cassina' more respect, and time, in light of his advancing years :yawn:

[The Man From Uncle]

I've had mine about the same time. Never expected to live this long either....it's a bastard.

Sure as fuck beats the alternative though.

[Oakie]

Got me thinking. 40 years for me next month.

[jasonu]

Seems to me I have had a bike licence for 50 years this month. After getting pinged for not having one...

If I'd known I was gunna live this long I might have taken more care...probably not though.


I've had mine about the same time. Never expected to live this long either....it's a bastard.


Old farts rock :Punk: 54 years for me :devil2:

Congrats and keep on keeping on!

Old gits get some of this up ya!!!
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[Murray]

WOW - and Congrats to you.

No offence and honest truly, I had you down as someone in their late teens or early 20s :lol:

He/She still hasn't answered whether he/she is male/female so no surprise

[ellipsis]

Old gits get some of this up ya!!!
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...there are far more immediate and effective products than that stuff...the same product I've used for 46 years now...broke the bone that connects my leg to my hip on my first bike...a day in hospital and six weeks drinking Bavarian Bitter and Wards...never failed yet...the Wards was good but looking back I'd have to say the Bavarian was ineffectual...

[Grumph]

...there are far more immediate and effective products than that stuff...the same product I've used for 46 years now...broke the bone that connects my leg to my hip on my first bike...a day in hospital and six weeks drinking Bavarian Bitter and Wards...never failed yet...the Wards was good but looking back I'd have to say the Bavarian was ineffectual...

Yep, Wards was good for what ails ya. The OP was in ChCh and in our race crowd in the late 60's early 70's - probably drank as much of that as you or I.

[Oakie]

...there are far more immediate and effective products than that stuff...the same product I've used for 46 years now...broke the bone that connects my leg to my hip on my first bike...a day in hospital and six weeks drinking Bavarian Bitter and Wards...never failed yet...the Wards was good but looking back I'd have to say the Bavarian was ineffectual...

Wards. Now that takes me back. And I remember as a high school student, wining half a dozen Bavarian Bitter at the local football club in a raffle and having to get it home on my pushbike.

[ellipsis]

Wards. Now that takes me back. And I remember as a high school student, wining half a dozen Bavarian Bitter at the local football club in a raffle and having to get it home on my pushbike.

...I suppose this is all relevant and not too far off topic, but I reckon that you had to be there...it's all a vivid blur now...a box under each arm and a brisk walk up a big hill didn't seem to be such a feat then...

[release_the_bees]

Well done to you all. I'm coming up to my 20th anniversary of getting a bike licence. So, based on your examples, I've (hopefully) got many more miles of riding to go yet.

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[AllanB]

Thought I was doing well at 37 years of MC licence. And a bike in the garage for all of them.

[FJRider]

I have been riding for 42 years. Not having a midlife crisis and stopping riding for a number of years has possibly kept me safe as well as experience and luck.

I've been riding 44 years ... planning on having a mid-life crisis in about 15-20 years ... :cool:

Until then ... I'll just keep on riding ... :motu:

[YellowDog]

I passed my bike licence test almost 40 years ago, but failed to send in my paperwork (didn't know I had to and thought the examiner did all that). I have ridden regularly since that time and in 2004, when I bought another bike, the garage asked to see my licence. I showed it to them and they told me I am not licensed to ride a motorcycle over 50cc. That was a bit of a surprise :wacko:

Amazingly, I managed to find the original paperwork, from the 1970s, showing I had passed and called to see if they could correct the error. They said 'No-Way', so I had to sit a full theory & practical test again. Called for a cancellation and had my licence back within 2 weeks. So it's just 14 years for me :(

[pritch]

Congratulations Slofox. It does seem though that your thread is another that has sadly fallen prey to the resident hijacker.

Anyhoo, next year it will be sixty years since my first inelegant attempts on a sprung hub Triumph Speed Twin. So bad that it greatly amused a bus driver waiting to make his return run along Rosebank Road.
In those days Rosebank Rd was all market gardens, I guess that has changed but I haven't been back since, I've avoided Auckland for decades. I'm still grateful to the trusting soul that let me use his bike.

Had to wait until '61 for a licence.

[old slider]

My mid to late 60s after school job at a Wanganui coach builders (John Brown) saw me learning to drive a Bradford bread van and probably one of the earliest Suzuki step-throughs, got stopped driving both on two different occasions by a uniformed man on a motorcycle and was told I was far too young at 13 to be doing such things, I felt quite small pushing the bike back to its owner.

On the day of my 15th birthday I successfully sat my license and eagerly waited till Colemans Suzuki ( my mom worked there, and I had an after school job) opened their shop so I could buy my brand new AC50, I managed to ride it for two days before losing my license for 3 months.

A bit of motoX and owning various brands and sizes of motorcycles, marriage and kids came and then when in my late 20s dabbled for a few years in speedway. A decade or 2 shooting deer and catching fish for a living saw me abandon Bikes until my midlife crisis, or was it some spare money and time that allowed me to re-enter the two wheeled brigade.

[Conquiztador]

After 46 years with a bike license I have no idea what I will do when I grow up. Apart from keeping on riding!

[roogazza]

I don't believe it at all but next month on 10th April I turn 69 !!!!! jeeeze!
That means 54 yrs at the bars !
Off for a fang today as soon as its light enough.
I said to a mate recently that I still feel the same when the hat goes on early in the morn.It could easily be 1972 with my Kawa H2 when I fire my GSXR up first thing.
(no smoke tho, I miss the smell !)..:confused::yes:

[pete376403]

All you oldies, keep the comments coming. I've just turned 65 ( so, bike licenced 50 years) and you're giving me hope for a few more turns on the merry-go-round

[nzspokes]

Seems to me I have had a bike licence for 50 years this month. After getting pinged for not having one...

If I'd known I was gunna live this long I might have taken more care...probably not though.

Wow, you got your licence the year I was born. :laugh:

Good on ya. :niceone:

[Berries]

Wow, you got your licence the year I was born. :laugh:
Me too. Hope you are planning a big knees up to celebrate making it this far.

[ellipsis]

Me too. Hope you are planning a big knees up to celebrate making it this far.


...if he has knees like mine, getting them up can be a problem...I'd say all the older knees on here would be feeling their age by now too...

[Blackbird]

...if he has knees like mine, getting them up can be a problem...I'd say all the older knees on here would be feeling their age by now too...

And you'd be dead right! I fitted 20mm lower pegs to my GSX-S to take the stress off my knees. If you look at the attached photo taken at the Taupo trackday a week last Friday, that's why the balls of my feet aren't on the pegs - too uncomfortable!

[pritch]

...if he has knees like mine, getting them up can be a problem...I'd say all the older knees on here would be feeling their age by now too...

Ahh but some of us have got a new bionic knee. A vast improvement over a badly worn one.

[rustys]

Shit.... 56 years continuous Bike licence for me, no way would i be without two wheels, planing already and thinking about the geriatric times ahead, bought a 125 scooter the other day, next stage after that i want a good fast mobility scoot and a few mates for racing down in the car park in the weekends, Closed circuit racing is getting to expensive these days for us retired old farts....who's into this?

[roogazza]

And you'd be dead right! I fitted 20mm lower pegs to my GSX-S to take the stress of my knees. If you look at the attached photo taken at the Taupo trackday a week last Friday, that's why the balls of my feet aren't on the pegs - too uncomfortable!

Yeah mate dropped mine 25mm as well ,made a hell of a difference.Probably saved me selling ? The feet drag sometimes but hey,thats ok.:rolleyes:

[Grumph]

Shit.... 56 years continuous Bike licence for me, no way would i be without two wheels, planing already and thinking about the geriatric times ahead, bought a 125 scooter the other day, next stage after that i want a good fast mobility scoot and a few mates for racing down in the car park in the weekends, Closed circuit racing is getting to expensive these days for us retired old farts....who's into this?

Need some regs first....Got a choice of engines here from Kawa 90 through GSX250 twin, FZR250/4, GS1000.....

[sidecar bob]

I'm only running at 36 years licensed.
I bought a 250 maxi scooter a couple of weeks back & im having a ball on it.

[Blackbird]

Yeah mate dropped mine 25mm as well ,made a hell of a difference.Probably saved me selling ? The feet drag sometimes but hey,thats ok.:rolleyes:

Bought some modified Buell pegs from a guy called Joe Satterwaite on the US Hayabusa forum. Beautifully finished and reasonably priced. Yep, they make a real difference!

[pete-blen]

Got my first bike for my 7th birthday.. now 58... so 51 years rideing
think i was 17 when I got my licence..



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[Daffyd]

Sixty one years for a car licence and sixty for a bike one. Took me a year to convince the olds that I needed a bike licence!

[Grumph]

Sixty one years for a car licence and sixty for a bike one. Took me a year to convince the olds that I needed a bike licence!

I rode everything in the shed from about 12. Biking family....the old man got a bit strict and limited me to mopeds and scooters after I rode a Vincent he had there for repair...
Finally went legal some years later....

Didn't get a car licence till I was about 22. Had no need for one.

[Hobbyhorse]

I have held my licence for 61 years .... hope to grow up soon and be sensible.

[ellipsis]

.... hope to grow up soon and be sensible.


...why?...

[FJRider]

I have held my licence for 61 years .... hope to grow up soon and be sensible.

It's overrated ... ;)

[Blackbird]

It's overrated ... ;)

My wife says it's like living with a 5 year old :facepalm:

[ellipsis]

My wife says it's like living with a 5 year old :facepalm:

...mine bought her own bike a long time ago when she finally realised I was a forlorn hope...now she knows why...

[Banditbandit]

Seems to me I have had a bike licence for 50 years this month. After getting pinged for not having one...

If I'd known I was gunna live this long I might have taken more care...probably not though.


I've had mine about the same time. Never expected to live this long either....it's a bastard.


Old farts rock :Punk: 54 years for me :devil2:

Congrats and keep on keeping on!

You make me feel young - only 43 years with a licence (and a few without one ...)

[Banditbandit]

I have the impression many riders on here are also in their 20s due to all the riding school discussion on here. One person though I dont think has even started school as they only have about 3 words in their vocabulary.

That's either me or Akzle ...

You're a fuckwit ..

[slofox]

My wife says it's like living with a 5 year old :facepalm:

She's probably right. I seem to be eternally plagued by the inner hoon...I probably oughta been chucked off the road by now...

[Blackbird]

She's probably right. I seem to be eternally plagued by the inner hoon...I probably oughta been chucked off the road by now...

She's definitely right :niceone: Not so much on bikes any more but there are plenty of other occasions when I (apparently) fail to act like an adult :killingme

[Akzle]

That's either me or Akzle ...

You're a fuckwit ..

rbcifgip .

[crack]

My kids address me as "hey Old Man"

Adding it up, 49 years, since I first got my :cry::cry: Honda 50!

My first gravel rash:(Indestructible riding in shorts and flip flops) ( in order to become old and wise! you first have to be young and Stupid!)

My first root.( with my honda 50 in attendance)

My first car (a Morris 8) I wheeled my Honda 50 over the mud guard! , another storey:

My first Job. ( Attended on my Honda 50)

My first run away from home.(on my honda 50)

My first experience of the meanness of people! ( Hells angels chased me on my bike and thumped me) Would like to meet the fuckers now!

My first arrest. ( honda 50 taken off me by the police )

My first time drunk.(Police parked my Honda 50, took my keys and took me home, NO NO NO NO NO):weep::weep:

My first Coffee. ( the night before was enlightening) and (head ache causing, I never knew she was engaged & she did not tell me)

My first job: (Did I mention that?)
( Maurice Cleland! I am ever so grateful)

Fooking Honda 50! what a piece of shizer!

( I loaded it up with methanol and 130 Octane av gas with a bit of castrol R) and I dropped a wheelie, and smoked the back tyre of (Little smoke, but smoke it was) a mighty fookin honda 50! ( it burnt out the Tiny exhaust header pipe)

Thanks, not quite your 50 years, but without your input, it would never have bought this shizer to the fore of the Grey matter!

[SPman]

The missus and me have got about 108 bike license years between us......we'll move off the 250s soon.........

These things take time y'know....

[rok-the-boat]

I'm not qualified to post - only 40 years on the bike for me.