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 ...

[nzspokes]

My bike is so old its new again.

[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

[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...

[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.