Mid-life crisis and motorcycles

acotrel · Friday at 10:09 AM

I suggest people should not have a mid-life crisis and decide to ride a motorcycle. I know 3 racing car drivers who thought riding motorcycles would be good. They all had serious crashes almost immediately. The best racing car drivers began their careers by racing motorcycles, but doing the reverse is not good. It is completely different. I told a car club member this, and it became a pissing competition. He said downhill racers have the best reflexes - that shows what he knows. Michael Schumacher smashed his head on a rock. Motorcycle road racing is not much about reflexes - it is a learned technique.
John Surtees was world champion on two wheels and four. Some racing car drivers are delusional. Surtees was world champion on motorcycles first, cars came later.

acotrel · Friday at 10:15 AM

I was on a bus on Victoria's Great Ocean Road talking to the driver. He mentioned the number of middle-aged guys who buy Harleys and bounce off the guard rails on that road.

concours · Friday at 11:01 AM

And don't use drum brakes.

ashman · Friday at 3:20 PM

What midlife crisis, as I don't have a midlife crisis as I ride my bikes all the time from my youth to now, dirt bikes and on road only, gets rid of any stress or tension that you may have in life, has worked for me for over 50 years on two wheels.

gpzkat · Friday at 3:40 PM

Gary Busey says hi!

baz · Friday at 3:47 PM

ashman said:
What midlife crisis, as I don't have a midlife crisis as I ride my bikes all the time from my youth to now, dirt bikes and on road only, gets rid of any stress or tension that you may have in life, has worked for me for over 50 years on two wheels.

Same here
I'm 64
Been riding (legally

) since I was 16
I'm not actually sure what a mid life crisis is ????

ashman · Friday at 4:56 PM

Maybe Al is having a midlife crisis as it's been so long since he has been on 2 wheels or racing, that will never happen to me, ride or die, never going to stop, 66 next month and hopefully have a lot more years in me, prefer riding than thinking about it, overthinking about it makes things worst I say, on your bike and enjoy it.

Fast Eddie · 2024-10-21T00:51:09-0600

My missus reckons she’ll tell when my mid life crisis hits as I’ll STOP doing stupid shit and start being sensible !!

baz · 2024-10-21T01:01:16-0600

I've often wondered exactly what a mid life crisis is
Maybe I've skipped it or never reached it
My old foreman used to tell me on a regular basis I wouldn't make 25 !!!

Chris · 2024-10-21T06:06:38-0600

Never had mid life crisis but definately a mid life tiredness.

concours · 2024-10-21T17:49:34-0600

baz said:
I've often wondered exactly what a mid life crisis is
Maybe I've skipped it or never reached it
My old foreman used to tell me on a regular basis I wouldn't make 25 !!!

When I was 18 with an XS1100, the old guys at the shop wanted my SSN to buy a life insurance policy on me.
They figured it was gonna pay better than the retirement plan.

nortonmargie · 2024-10-21T21:16:15-0600

I have a friend who recently retired from the Dept of Motor Vehicles. Middle aged guys would show up on a heavily dressed Harley and want to take the motorcycle license test - the sort of thing best done on a 175 cc Honda. Of course they would fail and be upset in the direction of my friend, who took no guff. Then they would storm off.

Richard Tool · 2024-10-22T04:20:52-0600

nortonmargie said:
I have a friend who recently retired from the Dept of Motor Vehicles. Middle aged guys would show up on a heavily dressed Harley and want to take the motorcycle license test - the sort of thing best done on a 175 cc Honda. Of course they would fail and be upset in the direction of my friend, who took no guff. Then they would storm off.

And on the other side of the coin we had a woman DMV examiner in our area who would look to fail anyone who showed up for the test on a step through clutchless machine .

robs ss · 2024-10-22T05:07:33-0600

Fast Eddie said:
My missus reckons she’ll tell when my mid life crisis hits as I’ll STOP doing stupid shit and start being sensible !!

and that'd be ,,, NEVER!!!

Actually I think I have not had mid-life crisis because I have never matured - still like fart jokes.
Maturity is a vastly overrated state IMHO!
Cheers

Schwany · 2024-10-22T11:14:25-0600

I had a mid-wife crisis, but it didn't stop me from riding motorcycles.

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