kzgb
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Ride_Slow2004 wrote:kzgb wrote:damn bunch of old guys in here!! LOL!! maybe i should of asked how many of us belong to the AARP?? 
Hey, I resemble that!! And I refuse to join AARP until I absolutely don't have a choice.
arthurn wrote:Well I've only been riding 3 yrs. 1st and only bike so far is 05 sportster. Got about 27,000 miles on it. Oh and I am a member of aarp :-)
Living in MD, and 27,000 miles in 3 years, you make us dudes look bad!
i hear ya. i wish they'd quit send ing all that stuff in the mail
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Payloader
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OK, I'm here to bring the average age of this thread down. I started out as a kid, born in 1968, riding mini bikes, a nd dirt bikes. My first was a Honda 50. The next was a Honda 100. I was plenty into snowmobiles at that time, lived in Montana. My first street bike wasn't for another bunch of years, around 1995 I bought a Suzuki GS 650R. I moved back to Denver, where I was born, sold the GS in 1999, bought a 1994 Sportster 883 Hugger with sportbob tank, forward controls, Mustang seat with flames. The tank was painted to match the seat, very cool. Had ape hangars put on, and thus began my love for tall bars. Sold that in 2003 to buy my first brand new vehicle, a 2004 Road King Custom. I have maybe 60k miles under my young a$$. Been in one wreck, not counting dropping the bike in my driveway with the girlfriend on the back, or the time I was backing it off my pick-up and having the board fall away, and the bike dumping me on the yard and falling over on the tailgate while running. Also not counting the countless almost wrecks. I ride pretty much everyday, not here lately though, put about 10,000 miles a year on the RKC. Unless I go on trips, them I get about 15,000 miles. I am 39, and have been riding for a combined total of about 14-15 years. The 10 continuously.
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RockyMtnRoads
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I've been licensed since 2000.(I'm 34)
2000 Ducati Monster 600 dark > 2003 1200 Sporty Custom > 2004 Road King Custom > 2007 Night Rod Special.
I put on about 5-6k per year and I can't seem to stop wanting a new bike every couple years. I have an issue. My next bike (HA!) will be a Road Glide but my wife says it's an old mans bike so I plan on keeping what I have until I'm 40 (when I am officially an old man).
Well they say time loves a hero
but only time will tell....
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1Big'n
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I've been riding since I was 9 years old, but I had a long break from riding after I got married and had kids. My first bike was of course a Honda 50, then a Yamaha 60, Yamaha 100, and my first street bike was a Kawasaki 650 and I didn't have a car, I rode this thing to death all winter and summer for a couple of years in Maryland. Then came married life and I quit riding at age 25 and didn't ride again for 21 years, in January 05 I bought a Road King Classic and immediately started taking long trips and it didn't take long (October 2006) before I wanted something more comfortable for these trip so I now ride an 07 Road Glide and hope to keep on riding right into the sunset. I met a guy at the Myrtle Beach spring rally that rode until he was 79 and said his reflex was too slow and he had to quit but he still comes to the rallies in his car and loves it.
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rr1985
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Oh my God it has been 40 years. How I feel old this morning. Started out on a 65 Honda Super 90, also tryed the kal 2 stroke 750 was to stuped to be afread of the bike. My father rode it one time and it was gone. Told me he saved my life, I gess he did. Been on Harleys sinch 90, 2 sportsters, 03 Road King and now my 07 Heritage softail. New bike only 18,000 on it so far. Riding to Ringold Ga today, I hope a 450 mile round trip ride will help me not feel so old.
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Hawg Man
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rr1985 wrote:Oh my God it has been 40 years. How I feel old this morning. Started out on a 65 Honda Super 90, also tryed the kal 2 stroke 750 was to stuped to be afread of the bike. My father rode it one time and it was gone. Told me he saved my life, I gess he did. Been on Harleys sinch 90, 2 sportsters, 03 Road King and now my 07 Heritage softail. New bike only 18,000 on it so far. Riding to Ringold Ga today, I hope a 450 mile round trip ride will help me not feel so old.
rr, you are a true example of what I've always said about how motorcycle riders evolve:
Boys buy Jap bikes................
When you hit puberty, you buy a Sportster..........
And when you finally become a man - you buy a Hog.
The 3 stages of human development:
Infancy
Puberty
Adultery
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kzgb
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Hawg Man wrote:rr1985 wrote:Oh my God it has been 40 years. How I feel old this morning. Started out on a 65 Honda Super 90, also tryed the kal 2 stroke 750 was to stuped to be afread of the bike. My father rode it one time and it was gone. Told me he saved my life, I gess he did. Been on Harleys sinch 90, 2 sportsters, 03 Road King and now my 07 Heritage softail. New bike only 18,000 on it so far. Riding to Ringold Ga today, I hope a 450 mile round trip ride will help me not feel so old.
rr, you are a true example of what I've always said about how motorcycle riders evolve:
Boys buy Jap bikes................
When you hit puberty, you buy a Sportster..........
And when you finally become a man - you buy a Hog.
The 3 stages of human development:
Infancy
Puberty
Adultery
now, now, don't get me started on that hog stuff, you know how i get!!
adultery??? LOL!!
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kzgb
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rr1985 wrote:Oh my God it has been 40 years. How I feel old this morning. Started out on a 65 Honda Super 90, also tryed the kal 2 stroke 750 was to stuped to be afread of the bike. My father rode it one time and it was gone. Told me he saved my life, I gess he did. Been on Harleys sinch 90, 2 sportsters, 03 Road King and now my 07 Heritage softail. New bike only 18,000 on it so far. Riding to Ringold Ga today, I hope a 450 mile round trip ride will help me not feel so old.
your dad did save you, those 2 stroke kaw 500 and 750's were rockets!!
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10ecjazzman
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Short answer would be 34 years but I'm not good at short answers. My first real bike after the Briggs and Stratton mini-bike was a Honda Trail 70. An ugly gold one with folding handlebars. Number two was a Honda SL175. The rest were XL500, KZ650,Yamaha Seca 750,Nighthawk 700s,V45 Magna, V65 Magna, GPz750. I had a long break from 1991 until last October. I had quit because I had a near death experience with a deer in Panama City on that GPz. Shortly after that my new wife,now ex-wife thank God, sucked the life right outta me including my love for motorcycles. What a wuss I was! Got a good wife now! She encouraged me to ride again. My Electra Glide is my first Harley. My dad had a 61 Duo-Glide. I had always wanted a Harley, so here I am. I love it!..Oh yeah...The wife rides her own! So I guess thats 19 years actually.
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Ride_Slow2004
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Payloader wrote:not counting dropping the bike in my driveway with the girlfriend on the back, or the time I was backing it off my pick-up and having the board fall away, and the bike dumping me on the yard and falling over on the tailgate while running. Also not counting the countless almost wrecks.
It is truly a sick feeling as the world turns topsy, and you are going backwards, and your feet don't touch the ground.....
Thanks for sharing those, I had sort of forgotten about those disasters.
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