What do you do with your helmet?

That will have gone in a van i reckon .I would never park in there if there's no room in main bike parking id just leave & go somewhere else pal .

yeah but three level car park & the rest of the village lol you couldn't move back then .i don't think bike theft was like it is now .yes it was something else back then .

well how i see it pal is you run & wear what you can afford & ive never had new bikes & im the only one left who still rides out of the lads ,but when i do have some spare cash (WHEN) im getting a new helmet as its well past it .

that's true pal ,its not as much fun as it was 15/20 years ago neither with all the police & cameras every where .a lot of roads by me have 20 mph limit now its a joke .i think that's why bikers are stopping road riding & doing trackdays instead

it comes to us all pal getting old & grumpy lol.like you said pal people just don't have time for each other these days but at least we still try to

i think the weathers going to be good pal .which will bring everyone out of the woodwork .i bet its busy .may even venture over myself if im allowed out on good behavior lol.

you wont have to look you will hear me cumming lol .

very nice .& loud .you can't beat a rsv with loud pipes on , anyway pal getting me head down now catch some zzzzzzzz

I think you are right to a degree, my first love was cars but I have been riding now for twenty years (Did start on a 600 as a weekend toy though - GSX600F - not the fastest 600 but great to learn some skills on just the same). Listening to everyones nostalga stories makes me a little jealous but we had much the same experiences with cheap cars when we were young that we kept going with home-made bodges. I'm an engineer by profession and love anything mechanical, I've had my fun driving and racing cars but love riding as well although bikes only on the road up till now. Actually I had one bike track experience day at Cadwell (Great track) on a Yamaha 600 many years ago that I won in a competition.

I think at the end of the day it depends upon the individual and their attitude. If the the only people a new rider knows are other new riders who started on superbikes then I guess they might have a different approach to if they started riding with some long time riders (I did).

The real issue though is that kids go straight to cars now and most don't think about bikes. People in the industry have been trying to tackle this for years (Longer than I've been riding) and don't seem to have had much success. I don't know the answer to that one!

Yeah I can remember been 18, inherited some money and blew it all on a two year old nc30!! Six months into owning it I had to sell my fiesta 1.1 to buy some tyres!!! Rose tinted glasses but the weather was better, the music was better, the roads were better, no police about and fun fun fun!! In reality it was all as sh*t as is now but you just forget them bits with age. It's a genuine concern that kids don't want bikes now but I don't know what could be done to alter that

43 for me

34 for me and yes the roads weren't full of holes and music was definately better ( typed defo first then realised what it would sound like!).

What a load of old gits we are!

I think as mentioned above, its all down to the individuals attitude. I started out on 125s, then an sv after test at 21 now have the ape. I have always held the utmost respect for all fellow riders, and have often stopped when a bikes parked up thinking they had broken down only to be reassured, thanked for the thought and sent on my way. A while back a few of us stopped for a brew and there was a bunch of proper old gits [:^:] on steeds from wartime era. Had a bloody good laugh with em, remember one saying his tiny single cyl on his bike made about 12bhp and seeing the shock on his face when we told him our bhp/top speeds!! These dudes must have been about 80 and despite them and us being from two different ends of the spectrum, we all had a laugh sharing something we all had in common, a love for biking of any description.

Hope I'm still riding when I'm 80 as well, just depends if the wife still wants someone that old on top of her :-)

Oh to be under 30 again!!! Like I'd said in the 'old days' it wasn't any better it's just that we old, senial gits think it was!!!