SuzukiSavage.com - Print Page

SuzukiSavage.com
/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl
General Category >> The Cafe >> 2015 group trips may be your last chance to meet
/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1424101858

Message started by Oldfeller on 02/16/15 at 07:50:58

Title: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to meet
Post by Oldfeller on 02/16/15 at 07:50:58

.... some of the people you have been talking to for years and years.

Some of us are getting old and creaky (finally) so don't expect the 2016 trips to have all the folks these 2015 trips will have.

Plus, once you retire the necessary funds to float a major trip like this tend to get more scarce.

=======================================

I was encouraging Justin to go to visit with the guys on the Texas part of the trip since that was within reach of him.

I also encourage any of the rest of you to reach out and make the nearest touch point on Verslagen and Lancer's cross the country journey.

You may never get the chance to physically meet so many of us at the same time ever again.

:)

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/16/15 at 09:20:57

well, I don't travel. Much as I'd like to meet some of you guys, I don't go across town without a good reason. Shoulders won't allow me to ride, some days driving a car hurts,, such are the costs of lifting more than the connective tissue will support.

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by LANCER on 02/16/15 at 16:01:47

332C2A2D30370636063E2C206B590 wrote:

I speak the "connective tissue" language, though with not quite as much difficulty as you do from your description, so you have my sympathy's on that brother. Be as well as possible.

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/16/15 at 17:30:45

Well, I'm only 60 and, best I can tell, I'm looking at being around another 20, I hope it gets better.. I sure did hurt my body... I'm seriously careful about what and how I DO, but, if the barometric pressure swings Quickly, it doesn't matter how gentle I've been with myself, I'll be in a chair with both heating pads,,
Thanks for the concern..

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by MMRanch on 02/16/15 at 17:32:26

So what really happens to "Old Bikers" ? ::)

besides:

There Beards get longer ! ;D
They get softer / wider seats . ;)
They get Lighter Weight Bikes or Mopeds . :P
Something else ? :-?

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by verslagen1 on 02/16/15 at 19:35:48

041604161B08070A01490 wrote:

So what really happens to "Old Bikers" ? ::)

they get miata's and run the dragon with their girl friend to hold them up.

8-)

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by old_rider on 02/16/15 at 21:06:18

I used to joke with the wife when we were younger that I would trade her in on two "21's".....
I told her a few weeks back.. "well honey, it won't be long before I can turn you in for two "30's"....
When I get to the point where I can joke with her about turning her in for two "50's"..... well, then i'll be a happy man. But I doubt I will be able to keep up with the "50's" :D

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by Paladin. on 02/16/15 at 21:14:38

1E0C1E0C01121D101B530 wrote:

So what really happens to "Old Bikers" ? ::)
...
They get Lighter Weight Bikes or Mopeds . :P....

Riding the Savage is not the problem -- it is the mounting/dismounting. My choice was either the scoot or a sidecar; and I prefer two wheels.

I am 68. My dad died of his 5th heart attack at 43. They didn't do coronary artery bypasses yet. I'm doing Just Fine!

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by MMRanch on 02/16/15 at 21:19:29

Versey wrote :

they get miata's and run the dragon with their girl friend to hold them up.

...............

I know of one that did that with a Geo version of a miata . Great guy but, it just hurt him too much to ride a bike.

Title: Re: 2015 group trips may be your last chance to me
Post by LANCER on 02/17/15 at 18:46:59

7C6E7C6E63707F7279310 wrote:

Ya, for having to drive around on 4 wheels with the top down and a much younger and quite attractive female sitting next to him, he seemed to be pretty much all smiles on that day. Of course, she may have been "shifting" that thing for him for all we know too. ::)