Fishfiles 17,154 Posted January 18, 2020 I just heard this saying : You don't quit riding cause you get old , you get old cause you quit riding -------- Who's the oldest rider we have : I am 62 this year , my wife is 64 and she is Girls Gone Wild when she sits on the seat --------- Most of my buddies that ride with us are around 60 give or take , some I have ridden motorcycles with since we were 14 years old 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Melatv 763 Posted January 18, 2020 I am 76 -- still out there on my ATV 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
01RUBY500 1,184 Posted January 18, 2020 (edited) I will be 63 this summer and I think about riding all the time just like when I was kid at age 11 and got my first mini bike, a Yamaha 60cc Mini-Enduro. I was on that thing all day during the summers. Only got off it to eat or add gas. Edited January 18, 2020 by 01RUBY500 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bcsman 1,311 Posted January 18, 2020 67 here, only riding I do is in my woods on my trails and around our neighborhood 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toodeep 1,716 Posted January 18, 2020 I'm just still a punk kid at 42 but was dusting off machines in the showroom since I was in diapers. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 17,154 Posted January 18, 2020 Wow , you go Mel !!!! don't think anyone is going to top that , I guess you would be Senior Advisor .... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riverc 547 Posted January 18, 2020 I am 59 and enjoy riding in the woods and family property with no plans on quitting soon.Looking at getting another bike for wife to ride she's 57. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SlammedRanger 1,437 Posted January 18, 2020 I feel like a child.......lol. And in all honesty comparitively i am. Gunna be 30 in april. Gosh i could be the youngest member here lol. 5 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TBRider 1,389 Posted January 18, 2020 I just turned 43 on Wednesday, don't feel that old..... 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derf40 124 Posted January 18, 2020 YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY WAY.....I' m still going up and down these Colorado mountains and enjoying ever minute of it......I'm 80 years young. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wheeler 2,278 Posted January 18, 2020 I’ll be 42 in March. Been riding since I was around 12. Rode ALOT when I lived back east average of 3000kms a year for a while. Now that I live out west in the city, only get out Spring thru fall for camping & hunting. Maybe if I’m lucky 500kms or so a year now. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riverc 547 Posted January 18, 2020 11 minutes ago, Derf40 said: YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY WAY.....I' m still going up and down these Colorado mountains and enjoying ever minute of it......I'm 80 years young. 11 minutes ago, Derf40 said: YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY WAY.....I' m still going up and down these Colorado mountains and enjoying ever minute of it......I'm 80 years young. When I lived in Gunnison,knew a guy named Frank from Montrose he was late 80's was a retired park ranger.He was still riding mountain trails. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 3,760 Posted January 18, 2020 Coming up up 63 now. I got my first motorcycle (a Sears 106) a few days/week before my 12th birthday. I remember my dad and his friend bringing it home on a trailer and unloading it in the front yard. He said son do you think you can learn to shift this...? Here are the brakes son. I said, I know dad and I jumped on the bike and ripped it through the gears down the blacktop road to see how fast it would go and turned around and brought it back so my dad could take it for a spin. I wore that bike slap out in just a year or so. Biggest issue I had was keeping gas in it, cause I had a 56 Nash Metropolitan ragtop that I drove in the woods competing for my gas money in those times. 🙂 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shrade 196 Posted January 19, 2020 67, only been riding for a little over 2 years, sounds like I have a lot of catching up to do! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bcsman 1,311 Posted January 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, shrade said: 67, only been riding for a little over 2 years, sounds like I have a lot of catching up to do! wow crazy, same age and had my first ATV almost 2 years.... 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LedFTed 1,033 Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, TBRider said: I just turned 43 on Wednesday, don't feel that old..... Last time i got seriously carded for buying beer, i was 48. i think i have peaked seen then. after 2010, the age process is getting faster, an faster. in the last 4 or 5 years, what hair i got left, is getting grayer, and disappearing.. the hair has been disappearing, for a long time. the lady that give me a perm, was the 80s, was ! of at her husband. because i traded money he owed me, for a perm. she had to do it. my scalp was burning for a while.. Way more than a couple of hours. 🙂 Edited January 19, 2020 by LedFTed 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scotticus 776 Posted January 19, 2020 I'm 50. I got my first motorcycle when I was 8. Rode dirt bikes up until around my 40th birthday. Then I switched to an ATV. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bighanded 1,127 Posted January 19, 2020 ok....you boys give me encouragement....63 here, and no...not planning to park my hondas for a long long time yet...my oldest bike is the same age as my oldest son who just turned 40 this past year...and I still ride that 79 CT90 all the time as well. it'll be in the high 40s today..and there are several piles of brush I cut recently that are going to the burn pile...which means a 1993 Fourtrax 300 will have a 5x10 trailer hanging off the back hitch as my faithful partner workhorse today...when we are done hauling, I'll unbridle that old stallion and we'll go churn up those flooded muddy trails way out back...too much rain...but not too much ridin fun! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freedomflyer 1,585 Posted January 31, 2020 Will be.....Gulp.....57 this year! I just can't believe how fast time goes, I remember hearing folks talk about how fast time goes the older you get. I wish they'd been lying. Wife will be 58. Learned to ride a little Honda SL70 when I was in the 3rd grade, wasn't mine but had access to it on occasion. Folks bought me a Honda CL100 when I turned 12. It wasn't exactly the bike I wanted but beggars can't be choosers. I rode the snot out of that thing it was more of a scrambler than a dirt bike but put knobby's on it and took it every place I shouldn't have. That little sucker would do 85 miles an hour (small rear sprocket) and I rode it as fast as I could when ever I could. I wore that thing out. Graduated high school and bought myself a Yamaha 750 Maxim Road bike in 1982. Still have it although I haven't ridden it in the last 15 years, would like to take it in and have someone go totally through the thing, has sentimental value. Hadn't ridden much of anything until 4 years ago when we bought our 1st Rancher. Wish we would have made some concessions somewhere and got into 4 wheeling when the kids were young but we were putting them in private school and the money that always came first. My wife and I thoroughly enjoy it and have no plans of stopping anytime soon. We are finding out a a few of our friends have machines of one kind or another and it's been great to get out with them as well. Lot's of places to explore in the Big Sky Country and we've just scratched the surface. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derf40 124 Posted January 31, 2020 great write-up free.....we all have similar stories...many thanks..derf 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derf40 124 Posted January 31, 2020 we have hiked up to the big B there.....nice place... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freedomflyer 1,585 Posted January 31, 2020 Cool! it is and I feel very fortunate to live here, But is getting pretty expensive To live Glad we got into our house and we did call me if we were to try now we'd be up the Creek. Average cost of an entry level home is about 380000 . We got into our house 22 years ago and It has quadrupled in value . Have a great day had knocked to work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TRX Student 145 Posted January 31, 2020 30 this year, love working on my projects and riding/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bighanded 1,127 Posted February 17, 2020 thought about this post the other evening... the wife recently had knee surgery ..so long walks on our trails, etc have been hybernated for a while..but she still wants to get back on the property, enjoying areas along the creek, checking her trail cams, etc...so having the offroad golf cart has been an enabler, and I'm guilty of hopping on a honda many times instead of taking a walk...and lord knows the days of me carrying chain saw or brush cutter etc..nope..just strap all the tools on the fourtrax and head out...so I guess my point is... I'm not stopping riding as I get older, I'm riding "more" as the machines become more important work helpers. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
