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(02-12-2014, 11:18 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: (02-12-2014, 10:56 AM)SanPete_imp Wrote: (02-12-2014, 02:18 AM)IndianRider_imp Wrote: Turning 40 later this year and have been riding for 27 years and started on 2 stroke UJM's back in India
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Oh I get it now! You are a rider from India :-) would have never guessed that. one.
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Oh I get it now! You are a rider from India :-) would have never guessed that. one.
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Funny thing about nicknames...story behind every one but we seldom learn the reason. I would have assumed he owned an Indian motorcycle. Silly me.
Oh I get it now! You are a rider from India :-) would have never guessed that. one.
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Funny thing about nicknames...story behind every one but we seldom learn the reason. I would have assumed he owned an Indian motorcycle. Silly me.
Nah, an earlier discussion with pterodactyl and me about cricket was a give away.
Should we add a column to the registry for members' ages?
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to top for new members.. poll up folks
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I'm 25, got my m1 license last summer. The CB is my second bike, my '12 Bonneville is my first- bought it the same week I walked out of DMV with my interim license
Me and my friends always wanted Ninjas and CBRs when we were fresh out of high school. Matter of fact, that's what most people assume I ride when someone sees my gear but not my bike. But once I did my homework about motorcycles, found out what I really want out of a bike, and sat on multiple bikes to feel out their ergonomics, I realized that modern classics with traditional, standard riding positions were more for me.
Not to mention, WAY more forgiving on insurance. Any 20-something here will probably agree, the CB has the most affordable insurance of any brand new liter bike.
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Just turned 57 in February, but I haven't owned a bike since 1981. (CB 900F) I love this CB!
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At Daytona this year the "aging motorcyclist demographic" the journalists have been talking about for years was painfully obvious. You could see it not just in the people themselves, but the rides as well. Trikes were everywhere, as were Can Am 3-wheelers. Fewer than 10% of the people at the demo rides were 30-something, and the majority were in their 50's and up.
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(03-16-2014, 07:46 PM)The Spaceman_imp Wrote: At Daytona this year the "aging motorcyclist demographic" the journalists have been talking about for years was painfully obvious. You could see it not just in the people themselves, but the rides as well. Trikes were everywhere, as were Can Am 3-wheelers. Fewer than 10% of the people at the demo rides were 30-something, and the majority were in their 50's and up.
Welcome to the future. It's been like this in general aviation for a long time now, and I think the trend is only going to accelerate for most non-virtual activities. Combine the demographic bulge of the "boomers" with the fact that younger people (as a group) seem to have less interest in this kind of thing, then throw in the ever-increasing pace of technological change....
The next 15-30 years could be "interesting," to say the least...
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Older riders have more income too. Motorcycles don't offer the cheap transportation that they used too either.
It would help if a TV show (or two or three) - popular ones - came out like Then Came Bronson, Happy Days etc. that had positive role models for motorcycle riders. Someone young folks could look up to and want to emulate.
Who wants to emulate an ol' fart that not only knows what a slide rule is, but can use one.
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(03-17-2014, 05:49 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: Older riders have more income too. Motorcycles don't offer the cheap transportation that they used too either.
It would help if a TV show (or two or three) - popular ones - came out like Then Came Bronson, Happy Days etc. that had positive role models for motorcycle riders. Someone young folks could look up to and want to emulate.
Who wants to emulate an ol' fart that not only knows what a slide rule is, but can use one.
Brilliant.
I just ran across my $300+ slide rule I used in college. The year after I bought it calculators started hitting the shelves and one with just basic functions (+, - , *, /, sqrt) was $700. I stayed with my slide rule.
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Hey YOU.......I'M ONE year older from the start of this poll.....eheheheheh
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