Are we ever too old

[klingon]

Yeeeehaaawww! Go DougB! Go Unc!

When I'm in my eighties I fully intend to be riding, knitting AND gardening (all at the same time). My Grandma's 101 so I reckon I've got the genes for it

[Maha]

[QUOTE=Blind spot]I did hear the old aunty say "you come home here with any speeding tickets and i will put the axe thru the bike".
As long as Aunty has the soup on and the tea brewing when Uncle gets home i think it will be a very happy household.....

[Dooly]

Just had the old boy in earlier, 84, with the GN250.

Earlier I said he'd decided to not bother with a bike licence again.

We had another discussion about bikes, and he said that the GN is'nt that interesting.
I said, well you should of brought a big bike since you are'nt worrying about the licence deal.
He agreed and asked what he should buy.

Tongue in cheek I said..a Suzuki Hayabusa should do you a treat.
He asked...are they any good, go well?
Yep..I said go ok.
He's off to enquire about one to buy now.

I'd love to see the salesman's face.

Good on ya old fella.

[Ixion]

Oh my, I'd give a good deal to be hanging around the show room when that discussion takes place.

[magicfairy]

I'd give anything to see the look on Mr Plods face when he pulls him over on the Busa -doing 160k, and takes his helmet off.

[snuffles]

never too old, just too damn lazy

[inlinefour]

I sometimes feel a bit geriatric getting on and off my bike after a long ride, i have muttered to myself that shit am i getting to old for this on more than one occassion.
Well not any more.
last night i went to visit my uncle who is 75 this year and he has just bought himself a motorbike after many years without, I think it may have been late 60's he last had one, i can remember as a kid helping push start half ton monsters.
He started riding bikes he told me in the days when the kickstarts main objective was to try and break your ankle and safety gear was an army great coat with newspaper shoved under your jersy in winter for insulation.
safety helmet was a knitted balaclava.
got to hand it to him he's bloody keen.
So please if you see a guy going along at 90 ks on highway 16 don't get impatient if he holds you up,give him a toot and wave (bike is a black and silver suzuki GS 500),not very likely he will venture sth on Auck's motorways but you never know.
Thanks to the bike shop in Helensville who fitted him out with good riding gear and decent helmet.

I'd definitely ride behind him as a sign of respect. Hope Im going like him once I get to that age.