09-30-2023, 03:03 AM
Interesting thread and I want to take a few minutes to highlight it with two things. First, this really good video, about 10 minutes long, discussing the best bikes for older riders and why they/we should consider downsizing:
https://youtu.be/WusDmPl2suo
(side note: for me personally, the CB1100 is a perfect size/weight and I feel immensely comfortable and confident on it. That being said, I am a careful rider and I think... not sure... the last time I laid a bike down was maybe in the 1980s?)
Part 2 is that I shared that video with a friend of mine, fellow rider in his early 70s, not in the greatest of shape. He's strictly a big, super heavy V-twin pseudo macho guy who has laid his bike over numerous times and can't pick it up. He's actually had to call AAA before to get someone to help pick his bike up.
Last summer, on a big Kaw Vulcan that he had had for ONE WEEK, he slipped out in gravel, punctured a lung, broke his collarbone and found out a few months later he broke his neck!!! He has ridden one time since then for about 5 minutes, within the past year and yet still refuses to sell this 900 lb machine and consider downsizing. He 'teases' me about being on a 'little bike' and yet I remind him.... I'm still the one riding. :-)
https://youtu.be/WusDmPl2suo
(side note: for me personally, the CB1100 is a perfect size/weight and I feel immensely comfortable and confident on it. That being said, I am a careful rider and I think... not sure... the last time I laid a bike down was maybe in the 1980s?)
Part 2 is that I shared that video with a friend of mine, fellow rider in his early 70s, not in the greatest of shape. He's strictly a big, super heavy V-twin pseudo macho guy who has laid his bike over numerous times and can't pick it up. He's actually had to call AAA before to get someone to help pick his bike up.
Last summer, on a big Kaw Vulcan that he had had for ONE WEEK, he slipped out in gravel, punctured a lung, broke his collarbone and found out a few months later he broke his neck!!! He has ridden one time since then for about 5 minutes, within the past year and yet still refuses to sell this 900 lb machine and consider downsizing. He 'teases' me about being on a 'little bike' and yet I remind him.... I'm still the one riding. :-)