Looks like this will be my last winter biking....
I will retire a year from this January, and wife wants the bike gone.
I will heed her asking, as it causes her concern.
Our winter really doesn't get bitter cold, if ever, until January and February, where ice is more than an nuance.
I ride in the car tire tracks, and that works pretty good for traction.

This coming summer, I will relish the little savage, as I put back on my fly screen, and enjoy the summer rush through the trees and sunshine.

Yes, I'll miss that, but I will focus on having had the chance to dance, and not the fact the dance is over.
Sorta like life itself.
Enjoy the good, accept the hardship and disappointments, and stay in the moment with thankfulness that you are still experiencing it.    

While I still have a good 13 years until retirement, I see it as an opportunity to ride more, not less. But until I'm actually looking 67 in the face, I wont know for sure.

Since the day I left college I've been on a very intense exercise routine that includes weight training, running and participation in contact sports. I've run marathons and raced motocross...I don't see this ending anytime soon. So when I retire I expect to have (or continue to have) an active life.

I guess there is a day in my future when my wife will say "hey, time to slow down" but I hope I'm well into my 80's or 90's when that day comes.

'dawg, I hope it's not a medical condition that's knocking you off the saddle. If it is I wish you all the best.

WTG Papa Bear....
I have only 14 years of sobriety, but what a wonderful 14 years they are!

No Gary, I believe riding keeps me in the game, as you MUST use all your senses to succeed in it, or DIE  

But it worries my wife.
We can justify it all we want, but we can't deny it is a assumed risk.

Like i told Papa Bear, maybe since I am sober now, after being a selfish SOB for all the years prior, maybe I should look at this request to validation that she wants to KEEP ME!
Instead of kicking my sorry arse out like she shoulda done years ago  

The Thumper concerns my wife also. But she also feels that it is a relaxing form of recreation for me... (Also, it's the only "bad habit" I have.)

ray, up to you what you do.
But let me put a few pro's to weight the decision with.

As you get older, anything you do is a benefit to you, give it up and it's soon gone.
Riding develops the core muscles.
Riding develops mental abilities.

If you give up the m/c, pick up a scooter.
If that's still too fast for her, get a bike.

badwolf wrote on 11/04/16 at 12:07:49:


Rebels are easy to label, if you ain't like us, you must be F'd up  

You don't have to defend, to those that are deaf.....
If you get my drift.
Spend that energy on yourself instead !

Congrats on 14 yrs !!

Papa Bear wrote on 11/04/16 at 14:54:18:



Thank you