When is a bike 'old'?

**RDJ** · 28th January 2015, 04:46

Originally Posted by AllanB

So, when is a vehicle 'old'?

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

**ellipsis** · 28th January 2015, 08:14

...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** · 28th January 2015, 19:00

Originally Posted by ellipsis

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** · 28th January 2015, 19:36

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

**AllanB** · 28th January 2015, 19:48

Originally Posted by Voltaire

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

Haha - been there before

**Grumph** · 29th January 2015, 05:57

Originally Posted by Voltaire

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** · 29th January 2015, 10:00

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

**vifferman** · 29th January 2015, 20:06

For the first time ever, yesterday I thought, "Oh crap! My bike's old now!"

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** · 29th January 2015, 20:10

Originally Posted by Oscar

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

Mmmmmm coffee

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