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| We are both working on our 7th decade on this fair globe and Janice and I got talking about how our riding has changed with the passing years. I thought some may be interested. We still enjoy our R1s immensely but there have been some changes...We used to put our sunglasses on when we left the restaurant. Now we put on our reading glasses when we enter the restaurant. We used to plan the route for the most curves, the highest speeds, and the fewest cops. Now we go for the most mild weather, the best scenery, and the nicest amenities. We used to put the earplugs in when we got on the bike. Now the the hearing aid goes in when we get off. But the joy, the freedom, and the thrill are alive and well. How has your ride changed?
Wife,R1,Kendon,Mountaineer,Alpinestars,Levis,Bose
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So much of that sounds familiar. We get to the restaurant and we pass around the reading glasses. Next thing you will be trading the R-1s for GoldWing. Does it really get "finer with age" or is that just something cute to say to minimize the effects of aging? Don't you wish you could be younger with the wisdom you have today? Guess its just not supposed to work that way.
OzarkWingGuy
GoldWing '08
H-D WideGlide '07
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| Don't you wish you could be younger with the wisdom you have today? (quote) Sure do!!!! Will be 71 in a few days.
"Life's journey is not arriving at the gate safely in a well perserved body, but rather to skid-in-sideways, totally worn out, shouting...holy *...what a ride!"
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Well I just copied my stuff over from my biography page...
5 years old, got a go-kart and developed a need for speed and a love of gasoline engines.
11 years old got first Li'l Indian Mini-Bike.
14 years old got 1964 Honda 90.
16 years old got 1969 Kawasaki KX 100, Raced MotoX for two years.
17 years old got a 1957 Triumph
20 years old got 1971 Honda CB 350.
22 years old got 1977 KZ 1000. Got divorced had to sell it.
23 years old got 1974 KZ 400
26 years old got another 1977 KZ 1000. Kept it for 21 years.
Took a 9 year break from riding to drive a race car.
54 years old got 1999 1500 Vulcan Nomad.
and a 1970 Sportster and built a replica of the "Then Came Bronson" motorcycle.
Still have both.
The Vulcan is a lot more cushy ride than the KZ, but I still drag the foot p........uhhh...,, floor boards through the corners.
I haven't taken a cross country trip on the Vulcan (yet). I used to take lot's of them on the KZ. And many a long weekend camping trip as well. Now it's mostly 200 mile day trips. And this summer I trailered both bikes to Mountainfest, which is Morgantown WV. Bike Week. I Put the Bronson Bike in the Vintage bike show (which was in the hotel we stayed in) and Jan and I rode around on the Vulcan for the weekend. That's a big change from my coast to coast and back, camping trip in 1978.
my shifter is on the RIGHT side....
1970 Sportster (Bronson Replica)
1972 Harley Sprint 350
1999 1500 Vulcan Nomad
Iron Head
Takin' a Trip?...Yeah....Where too?...Oh, I dunno, wherever I end up I guess......Pal I wish I was you.......Really? .....Yeah.......Well, Hang in there.
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| Not too many years ago, I made fun of the old men driving the motorhome with the bikes on a trailer. Now I are one. 
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