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13-05-2019, 07:59 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Beachtown
Bike: M900
Posts: 2,188
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How do you know when you're getting older?
When you go to Box Hill because there is a Classic Japanese Motorcycle Club display there and it is filled with all those bikes you dreamed of owning (or not owning but are still classics now) when you were a kid.
All now fetching silly money, many over restored and hardly ever ridden. Ahh what we should have bought or never sold..........
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14-05-2019, 02:20 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Bike: M1100evo
Posts: 233
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I'll tell you how I know. I stopped riding sports bikes and bought a Monster. And then another Monster!
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14-05-2019, 08:27 PM | #3 | |
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14-05-2019, 09:08 PM | #4 |
No turn left unstoned
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: leicester
Bike: M750
Posts: 4,546
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Its been like that for me for quite a while now.
In fact, an awful lot of the bikes that are labeled as "old classics" these days were once bikes of the future, for me. Such is the way the clock ticks, I guess. Funny though ... the naked ducati aircooled twin has remained at the top of my tree from the beginning. But my usual answer to this question is .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nFwwjBlEc |
15-05-2019, 02:43 PM | #5 |
Old Git
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cricklade
Bike: Multiple Monsters
Posts: 2,832
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I never lusted after japanese bikes in 1973 I was into BSA, Nortons and Defeats ( Triumphs) because of the feel and noise ,, At least I learned to be a good mechanic ha ha ,, but I do like Honda CB750 and CB500-4 now
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15-05-2019, 02:44 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cricklade
Bike: Multiple Monsters
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also you know when you are getting older as sex lasts longer ..........
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15-05-2019, 05:54 PM | #7 |
Upsetting normal people..
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Portreath
Bike: S2r
Posts: 833
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You know you're getting older (as someone just has) when the bikes you remember coming out new are now being restored... some of which are on here !
Performance Bikes has an article of what you could buy for £2000 some considerable time ago, one was a M600, another was an RG500, can't remember what the others were. That article got me interested in Monsters when I should have bought the RG (or the 1000cc Katana that I was offered shortly after for £1000)
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