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diggermanbob wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:45 pm
chunky butt wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:41 pm Don't be getting all sensible now Alan.....it's a slippery slope buddy :D
We shouldn't worry I'm sure it's just a temporary blip he will be buying an FJ1300r next , it's the way to go :D
Sounds like you're happy with that bike, Bob?
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diggermanbob wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:45 pm
chunky butt wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:41 pm Don't be getting all sensible now Alan.....it's a slippery slope buddy :D
We shouldn't worry I'm sure it's just a temporary blip he will be buying an FJ1300r next , it's the way to go :D
He's already got the ttr :D mind you took mine down to pifs recently, brilliant little bike, loving it ;)
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daveuprite wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:04 pm
diggermanbob wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:45 pm
chunky butt wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:41 pm Don't be getting all sensible now Alan.....it's a slippery slope buddy :D
We shouldn't worry I'm sure it's just a temporary blip he will be buying an FJ1300r next , it's the way to go :D
Sounds like you're happy with that bike, Bob?
Yep it's a nice bike Dave , I haven't done a lot with it over the winter but will be having a little foray over to your neck of the woods when my finger has mended :D
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herman wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:53 pm So the exc has gone in favour of a TTr, a 47hp twin has captured my full attention and now the MX5 2l sport is going and what have we bought? a bloody Volvo and an auto at that! Is there such a thing as an inverse mid life crisis where you go all sensible , start washing the car on Sunday and wearing driving gloves?
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The 'midlife crisis' is clinging to the b0llocks that we think we need to be young ....... it sounds to me like you are coming out the other side ;) .

So how much do you want for the mx5?
At 55 am I too old?
Will I look like I'm having a midlife crisis?
Would a Porsche convertible be more acceptable?
"Oh b0llocks, I thought I'd got passed all that"
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At 50 I bought my 4.5 litre V8 TVR.
At 54 I bought my KTM 950 SM
At 55 I stupidly took up trail riding despite a complete lack of ability.
At 60, aches and pains started up so I know only have an Audi Q3 auto but it’s quick enough, even with the trailer, to have fun in busy Sussex.
Bikes are now classic and modern Triumph twins plus the Husky 450 but I might need something more sensible than that soon but finding a proper modern trail bike that suits me at 6’3 isn’t easy.
Retirement means I’m permanently knackered with gardening, DIY and some travelling but it’s great.
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lately, middle-aged people are starting to be polite to me ….. stopping their cars at zebra crossings .. letting me first on the bus .. even opening doors for me ………..



FUCK !!!!! …. am I really that old ??????





".. its ok " …….. they say with a smile ……... "...take your time .. """""""""""""


I getting really worried now :? :shock: :lol:
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Well I was doing all nicely.....fairly sedate, Rover 75 diesel automatic for transport which admittedly I have not driven in 2 years and only has 100k miles on it.....due to a few K100 and K1100 bikes being too nice to ride.

Then end of last month I picked up a 1983 K100RS, [a sports bike of any kind something I said I would never buy], partly because it spent 17 years in a boat shed very close to me, lovingly maintained serviced upgraded and little used and it came at right price with a mountain of expensive new BMW branded spares. A plus of course being that having a few others the same I have all the spares and service items I needed, even spare sets of wheels with good and in date tyres on them. I had done the deal last November but it needed some essential work done to ride it home.

Now I also have an 84 K100RT and RS and was always told early ones were 'hotter' and that my 84 ones were those ones. BMW changed the profiles but left the part numbers unchanged. The only other one I could compare them with was my 92 K100LT and on 110k miles wasn't a good comparison.

Well, a few miles on this RS tells me its got something completely different, hot as in pre emission controls cams and its like a rocket right through the entire range and a surge not felt since riding 2 strokes. The Bosch Jetronic units are the same part no across them all. I just fell in love with this 'new' one. So much so that's its being prepped to go to France in June instead of the K1100LT I had planned on using. Even better its over 40 kilos lighter than the K1100LT!

Looks like car won't be driven this summer either.......

I don't have a pipe.........yet.

Some time back getting tyres on my K1100 in the local Honda dealership a new Honda was being wheeled out of the workshop for its new owner. I was talking to a fairly elderly guy while I had been waiting and turned out he was the new owner.....a birthday present for himself....his 78th birthday.

You are never too old......
1992 K100LT June 2010 110,000 miles
1984 K100RT July 2013 36,000 miles, 90,000
1983 K100RS Nov 2018 29,000 miles, 36,400 miles
1996 K1100LT Oct 2020 37,990 miles
1984 K100 Sprint March 2023 58,000 miles
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My Mrs regularly tells me I’m too old for riding motorbikes.
She might even be right but I’ll always choose 2 wheels over 4. When I’m too frail to sling my leg over a “proper” bike, I’ll get something like a C90...with knobblies? haha 😂
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I've just recently got back into mountain biking after a lay off of around 15 years. In the last year I've bought three bikes and I'm on one or other of them two or three times a week and loving it. But I was complaining to my daughter that I do feel tired a lot, how did I get so old (57) without noticing.

"Oh you've got a few more years left in you yet haven't you?" she replied and for some reason didn't cheer me up :?
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I'm 54 and bought this last year .... I think that says it all :oops:
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