How do you know when you're getting older?

Flip · 13-05-2019, 07:59 PM

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..........

Uncle Bob · 14-05-2019, 02:20 PM

I'll tell you how I know. I stopped riding sports bikes and bought a Monster. And then another Monster!

Flip · 14-05-2019, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Uncle Bob

I'll tell you how I know. I stopped riding sports bikes and bought a Monster. And then another Monster!

I can't even use that one as I've owned my Monster twenty years and although not a current 'sports bike' (it was when it was new in 1965), I decided to go classic racing when I was in my mid-Forties.

utopia · 14-05-2019, 09:08 PM

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

jerry · 15-05-2019, 02:43 PM

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

jerry · 15-05-2019, 02:44 PM

also you know when you are getting older as sex lasts longer ..........

Blah blah · 15-05-2019, 05:54 PM

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)

13-05-2019, 07:59 PM	#1
Flip Registered User Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Beachtown Bike: M900 Posts: 2,188	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.......... __________________ You're perfect, yes, it's true- But without me you're only you!

15-05-2019, 02:43 PM	#5
jerry Old Git Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cricklade Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 2,803	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 __________________ MONSTERMAN

15-05-2019, 02:44 PM	#6
jerry Old Git Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cricklade Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 2,803	also you know when you are getting older as sex lasts longer .......... __________________ MONSTERMAN

15-05-2019, 05:54 PM	#7
Blah blah Upsetting normal people.. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Portreath Bike: S2r Posts: 833	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) __________________ Power is nothing without control... I have neither !

14-05-2019, 02:20 PM	#2
Uncle Bob Registered User Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Milton Keynes Bike: M1100evo Posts: 232	I'll tell you how I know. I stopped riding sports bikes and bought a Monster. And then another Monster!

14-05-2019, 09:08 PM	#4
utopia No turn left unstoned Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: leicester Bike: M750 Posts: 4,545	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