Life After Bikes!

[Zed]

...Or if I'm too old, I could always mod my SV into this.

Reminds me of a modern version of the "George & Mildred" vehicle!

[Kickaha]

The day I stop riding, is the day they pry the handlebars from my cold dead fingers.

Or if I'm too old, I could always mod my SV into this.

Get me one while you're at it,what a awesome peice of kit!

[wkid_one]

Reminds me of a modern version of the "George & Mildred" vehicle!

No you mention it - Mr Roper and Ash have a freaky resemblance

[Indiana_Jones]

THAT DAY WILL NEVER COME, JUST LIKE THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA!

Buggered if I know what I'm gonna do.......maybe drink?

-Indy

[James Deuce]

I have trouble thinking what I am going to do after today, let alone after biking.

[Drew]

It's inevitable- one day you will stop riding motorcycles! Life circumstances change where sometimes the unthinkable is unavoidable. It may be financial, or God forbid that you have an accident which halts your riding experience, or maybe you'll just one day get too old to lift that leg over?

I had a spell off bikes for several years when I got married but eventually got back on them, I've got the "bike bug" you see.

When do you think you will stop riding? Maybe you have already- pray tell?


Zed

When I cant ride anymore I'm going to join Destiny Church and go for rides on the back of Pastor Brian Tamali's HD Deuce.

And then hang around internet forums and preach about how bad it is to speed'n shit

[Skyryder]

Stop. ?? Still keep riding in the next life.

Skyryder

[Zed]

Stop. ?? Still keep riding in the next life.

Skyryder

That must be some far out biker cult you're involved in!

[DEATH_INC.]

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

[Motu]

I would have to be physicaly unable to ride - at my age now (50) I can feel my body doing things,old injuries(hips,knees) my hands get pains and I can feel pains in what feel like ligaments in my arms,after my ride this weekend my elbows are very sore.I don't feel old,don't feel slow,my vision and reactions on the road are still ok,but I need Wharehouse glasses to read.I feel I should be ok for at least another 10,20 yrs,I kinda feel mortal,never felt that way before.

[SPman]

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

[scumdog]

I would have to be physicaly unable to ride - at my age now (50) I can feel my body doing things,old injuries(hips,knees) my hands get pains and I can feel pains in what feel like ligaments in my arms,after my ride this weekend my elbows are very sore.I don't feel old,don't feel slow,my vision and reactions on the road are still ok,but I need Wharehouse glasses to read.I feel I should be ok for at least another 10,20 yrs,I kinda feel mortal,never felt that way before.

Hey Motu, I can relate to that!! I am 50+ and know what the "ouch" factor is but if it has tits or wheels I love it!!
Me and Chrissy-Bimbo just love bikes, no matter what they are, we ride a H-D but ain't got attitude that some non H-D riders have, when we can't ride then we'll use the (hot) rod, when we can't use that, well I guess we'll be dead!!!

Me & C.B. just love to party, you got one going? just give us a call, we'll be there - even if ya don't want us!!!

[vifferman]

I've thought about giving up. Especially when I was lying on my back on the road last year after pranging my VFR, and thinking, "Fark! This hurts!!" I very nearly gave up then, and even had a car (Alfa Romeo) lined up to buy with the insurance money. I still sometimes think about it, but now it's more because I commute every day on the bike, and it's getting to be a drag, especially given that I almost never go for rides just for fun. Like in the weekend. Instead of working on the house.

The interesting thing now is that a couple of times since buying the VTR, I've talked about selling it, and my wife won't let me! She's only been on it twice, but she actually enjoyed it both times, and has now got her own gear. Weird thing that, especially since it's much less comfy than the VFR or VF were, but she actually likes being perched up on the pillion looking over my noggin!

I can sympathise with the "give it up coz it hurts" brigade, as I find it a bit painful sometimes, with arthritis (and no, I'm not ancient yet). I think I'm more likely to give up the VTR and go to a less ergonomically challenged bike now, than give up bikes altogether.

[Holy Roller]

Old injuries certainly have that nusience factor, But I'm determined to ride until I no longer can. Then I'll TRIKE it and ride 3 wheels no problem with geting a leg over then or with balance.

[Big Dog]

Life circumstances change where sometimes the unthinkable is unavoidable.

I imagine the next time I give up biking will be because my curcumstances have changed ie
I will be in financial trouble due to being to old to work, and without a govt super.

It will go something like this....

Being to old to swing a leg will result in an an accident, thus terminating my riding experience rather suddenly.
It doesn't have to mind, but it does when I get turned away from a user pays Hospital because, although I pay really high ACC levies they no longer recognise us as a comunity (due to elevated risk eg .000004% more likely die as a result of a motor accident), and I can't afford private care.
I was only suffering from treatable injuries (especially as this is 2074), but I was sent home ... to the grafton bridge..... that being the only rent I could afford (given property prices in Auckland now) and still have covered parking AND afford gas (given that ACC levies, Road user Levies (pre paid speeding tickets) registration, and wof's are now automatic before you even get paid or the bloody thing won't start) on the pitiful annual $F120 ($120,000,000 in todays currency) superanuation I bought in 2007 for half my paycheck for the next 67 years (Mandatory retirement is now 100) thinking that was a lot of money.
Having been refused treatmant and sent back to my bridge with minor grazes I quickly sucomb to pneumonia and a myriad of infections.
And so it was that on the 18/01/2074 after 76/82 years of riding I gave it up after 4 days of retirement, My only regrets being that I crashed on the first day of my retirement and died on the fourth, oh and that hell on earth 6 years when I was stupid enough to sell the bike as a way of raining funds.

Epilogue: Acc used my death by pnuemonia as a crash related death so that they could elevate the ACC levy by a further $F6 every six months.
This Money is used to ensure that no motorcyclist is allowed into an ER under false pretenses ie pretending they were just sleeping ( the only thing acc still covers)
The govt uses the statistic that I died four days after retirement to convince the public that there is not enough health spending and puts up taxes by 12%. They also decide that because I smoked for 12 years the pneumonia must be cigarette related and puts cigarette taxes up a further 5%.
They also decide it may have been due the trauma of having to give up work after only 90 years of paying taxes, and raise madatory to 105.

The obituiary reads
Here lies Big Dog
14/01/1974-18/01/2074
And his beloved motorbike
2070-2074
Buried here with him because we could not pry it from his cold dead hands!