02-14-2019, 11:42 PM
(05-16-2016, 09:12 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Inspirational. My goal has always been to ride until I am 70 years old. If I get to ride beyond that it would be awesome. I have 4 years to go. So far it feels like I am going to make it. I feel pretty good and I can still ride pretty well. History and heredity in my family says 77 or 78 is about it. Maybe I will beat those odds as well. At 70 it would be 55 years of riding on the street. I have ridden in 40 US states ( lower 48), amd ridden most of the top 15 roads on anybodies list in the country, 2 provinces of Canada, and through 5 countries in Europe..most of that with my wife. I WILL get the other 8 US states I am missing. Been a heck of a life on 2 wheels.
Still on the path to my goal. Was 66 when this was first posted in 2016. Will turn 69 in 3 months, so 15 months to go. Woohoo. So far still doing pretty good riding wise, and still riding the big bikes. By my age I think my dad had moved down from Harley dressers to a 350 Honda/4 down to a 175 cc Honda twin. He would eventually go down to a Moto Guzzi 125 single before he quit.
Btw I did knock off 2 of the state I was missing, and this year plan to knock off 2 more. THat leaves 4 states on the eastern seaboard to hit when I am 70.