Life After Bikes!

[What?]

I don't believe in life after bikes, but if I did I would be a Buddhist so as to be reincarnated as a motorcyclist.

[FROSTY:Me]

Ill give up bikes the day I'm buried.
If my back gives out then Ill get a trike built

[tassle]

this "bike bug" you talk of, my wife would like to know if there is a cure, she didnt think my cure of another bike was the answer.Any help on this condition would be appreciated.(getting over three years without bike)

[Zed]

this "bike bug" you talk of, my wife would like to know if there is a cure, she didnt think my cure of another bike was the answer.Any help on this condition would be appreciated.(getting over three years without bike)

IMHO, if you have ever caught the "bike bug" and then found yourself unable to ride for one reason or another, you will suffer the symptoms of misery & envy for the rest of your life!

The only real "cure" is to ride in one capacity or another, whether it be road riding, track riding/racing, off roading - whatever will give you that two-wheeled fix!


Zed

[loosebruce]

There is no life after riding......

Short n sweet, my thoughts exactly, when the day cames that i can no longer ride a sports bike i'll be on a super charged v-rod, when i can no longer hold on i'll die peacefully (maybe)

[Bob]

Our focal range of our eyes is definitely diminishing and so many of us are having to buy glasses either to allow us to read or to see distance. Its a bugger really and wearing glasses isn't like having naked eyes and it results in peripheral vision being cut down etc (I sympathise with those that have had glasses from a young age). I guess we will slow down as we get older and from what I'm finding it will be due to the eyesight problem because you just can't focus between far away and close up quickly which limits the ability to read the road and take corners quite so quickly as when we were young.

Wear Contact lenses rather than glasses. They're right on the eye, so it is exactly the same as having 'normal' eyesight (except for the small jelly-like things on your eyes of course). Peripheral vision remains unaffected.

I've been short-sighted since I was 17. Back then I wore glasses... and found my eyes deteriorated a little every few years. Then I tried contact lenses. Since then the prescription has never changed (though one eye is so borderline that they went through a spell of not being sure which strength lens I should have).

I've never ridden a bike wearing glasses (I didn't start riding until well after I switched to lenses), but I do know people that have always worn glasses (one of whom is a damned fast rider and once got within 10 seconds of the lap record at Castle Combe circuit) and it doesn't seem to give them any problems.

Back on the subject though... don't think I'll give up until I'm not strong enough to ride. I might cut back and maybe drop down to a smaller capacity machine (currently on an SV650S, but I might look at a baby cruiser or something once I don't need the performance to survive rush hour traffic!), but I'd like to think I'll carry on riding while I still can.

[Blakamin]

Wear Contact lenses rather than glasses. They're right on the eye, so it is exactly the same as having 'normal' eyesight (except for the small jelly-like things on your eyes of course). Peripheral vision remains unaffected.

I've been short-sighted since I was 17. Back then I wore glasses... and found my eyes deteriorated a little every few years. Then I tried contact lenses. Since then the prescription has never changed (though one eye is so borderline that they went through a spell of not being sure which strength lens I should have).

I've never ridden a bike wearing glasses (I didn't start riding until well after I switched to lenses), but I do know people that have always worn glasses (one of whom is a damned fast rider and once got within 10 seconds of the lap record at Castle Combe circuit) and it doesn't seem to give them any problems.

Glasses on a bike suck! been doing it for so long... until last monday when i got my first set of contacts!!! absolutely amazing!


I'm going to ride until I cant. by then i wont be able to see, hear or move so i'll get someone to "work" my wheelchair.
then i'll die

[James Deuce]

Can't wear contacts. I'm allergic to the protein build up that comes from covering your corneas.

[Hooks]

I gave up riding 15 years ago to be a responsible parent :cool2: ....then when that was turned on it's head I thought WTF !! and now I ride every day ... even on a reduced income I can still get out and enjoy it ... and real soon when I have a bit more money to spend I'm getting on the track for some serious irresponsibilty !!!
I don't think I'll stop from here on ..... I've told the kids they can bury the bike with me .... but knowing my son he'll drop a dunga in and keep whatever I've got when I go ..... unless of course I've managed to go out on it !!

[NC]

I don't think I will, I love em' too much

[riffer]

Can't wear contacts. I'm allergic to the protein build up that comes from covering your corneas.

I have some of the new types which allow for Oxygen to pass through them a lot easier, as I have the same problem. They work well for me. I'll show you them tomorrow Jim.

I'd like to wear them more often but as I suffer from Photophobia (apparently a diabetes complication but I've had it since I crashed my bike when I was 18) I have to wear sunglasses anyway so I might as well wear my glasses.

[Cajun]

mmm life after bikes, well bikes are my life, so once i don't have that i won't have a life to live for then aye.

[Hitcher]

Can't wear contacts. I'm allergic to the protein build up that comes from covering your corneas.

There's always the laser...

[Blakamin]

I have some of the new types which allow for Oxygen to pass through them a lot easier, as I have the same problem. They work well for me. I'll show you them tomorrow Jim.

I'd like to wear them more often but as I suffer from Photophobia (apparently a diabetes complication but I've had it since I crashed my bike when I was 18) I have to wear sunglasses anyway so I might as well wear my glasses.

I havent got prescription sunnies... at least no tho i can wear some!

[James Deuce]

I have some of the new types which allow for Oxygen to pass through them a lot easier, as I have the same problem. They work well for me. I'll show you them tomorrow Jim.

I'd like to wear them more often but as I suffer from Photophobia (apparently a diabetes complication but I've had it since I crashed my bike when I was 18) I have to wear sunglasses anyway so I might as well wear my glasses.

Tried them, doesn't help. Tried daily, weekly, and monthly disposables too. No go.