| Author | Message | ||
     Gusmyster |
Almost 42, way underpaid also, 1 S3 buell, 1 "geezer" glide, 1 wide glide, 1 yammer trials bike (my first bike). Been ridding since 1974. Been riding a Buell since Oct. of this year... g u s | ||
| Ccryder |
Only 50  A 00' X-3 (for sale, hint, hint) and a gorgous purple Passion S2T. Speaking of wives, I've got two under my belt and I agree that the interviewing process gets better with age. I even found one that calls me up and asks to go for a M/C ride (I need to take a REAL close look at this one)! BTW: Today I got to ride a 114 rwhp S1 and then about 100 miles on Passion  Tomorrow s'upposed to be almost 60! Time2Roll Neil S. | ||
| Sandblast |
23 and on my second Buell- first was a blast then I just got my M2. I love the tubers, and cant afford the XB insurance. Viros I work those 60 hour weeks also, feel 44 alot of the time also, but have a perfect wife and 2 daughters to keep me company. Life is good. | ||
| Firemanjim |
Victor,only 60 hours--my normal schedule calls for 56.4 per week,but since the summer I have been hitting the overtime real hard and usaully work 96 in a row,go home for 48 and the do it again.Had 94 hours of ot on last check(paid every 2 weeks) | ||
| Doitindark |
24 and on my first buell and bike the XB. I work way to much but I do like my job with the military. Only way it could be better is roadracing with the bolt! Amazing wife and baby due anytime now. Life is great!!! | ||
| Whatever |
Started riding motorcycles in 1995 at age 27... got my first buell in 2001 at 34... but I get yournger every year I ride so plan to live to be 101  ... that leaves me 65 more years of riding. | ||
| Snowdave |
I am currently 29...I think. I have owned two Buells and bought my first one when I was 24. Dave | ||
| Metalstorm |
I probably shouldn't be posting this as I am not yet a Buell owner (grrrr) but I am currently enjoying my last month of being 33. When I get my Buell I will be in the middle of 34. I started riding in '85 when I was 15 on a Honda 450 NightHawk, stepped up to a Kawi EX500 in 87 then a Kawi Zephyr 750 in '92. Then in '99 I became the somewhat puzzled owner of a Sportster. Now that I'm older & wiser (though maybe not smarter) and I know what I want..it's Buell all the way! Buell sorta has that "Live in the world, don't simply exist in it" kinda vibe to it. At least that's what it feels like when I ride my buddy's M2. The XBR felt the same way but to the power of 10. | ||
| Mikej |
"the somewhat puzzled owner of a Sportster" Just curious, but can you expand on this? It sounds like there might be a story in there somewhere. Thanks. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
Metalstorm... Post away bud... I will give you an early welcome to the Buellaholic Support Group... The XBs are awesome! | ||
| Metalstorm |
There's not much of a story there. My Zephyr died in '98 so I was bikeless for a year. Durring that year a couple buddies were riding on Sportsters and kept trying to sell me on the idea of getting one. I always liked Harleys (well looking at them anyway) but they just don't don't suit my riding style. Anyway... in '99 one of the guys got pretty buddy buddy with a salesman at Dudley Perkins in SF and got me a good deal on an 883. The price was right and I was so jonesing for two wheel activity again that I caved into peer pressure. (I in the past have never been one to crumble to peer pressure) Though I do remember drooling over an X1 and wishing that I could afford that. I got the Sporty and it was all right for what it was. I got use to scraping peg (and pipe on the right handers)I did the 1200 upgrade and hot rodded her out but she never felt "just right" like the 9R does. The straight up, legs out "sitting on a chair" position just doesn't do it for me. (makes the right hip ache after 100 miles or so) Then in 2000 the guys figured out that Sportsters are too limiting on our roads (lots & lots of twisty roads in West Marin and Sonoma county)so they abandoned them and got a couple M2 Cyclones. Again they tried to talk me into selling mine but I put the old foot down and told them to !@#$ off! She was barely a year old and I was still paying for her. So I grinned and bared it. Next thing I know I'm spending my Saturdays riding with two (or three) guys on M2s, one (or two) guy(s) on X1s and sometimes a guy on an S1. The cool thing was that with the exception of the S1 guy and one of the M2 guys I could keep up and often overtake them. Someone offered to buy her 3 years ago but I declined the offer which to this day still makes me kick myself in the butt. I'm a stubborn critter I guess. I never melded with the Sporty, never became one with her but she was mine. I am nothing if not loyal. I all ways assumed she'd grow on me. But now it's been 5 years (will be in April) and I am still emotionally detatched from her. The XB on the other hand did something to me. Can a bike touch one's soul? I can't really explain it but when I saw it for the first time it sent a shudder down my spine (the good kind) Then I rode it and the feeling was confirmed. Back in '99 I didn't know what I wanted. I just wanted to be riding again. Now I know what I want and I'll wait as long as I have to to get it. It's worth the wait. | ||
| Xb12r |
47 two buells 5 harleys and one triumph. still have them all, when asked why, I say cause I can, And no wives that must have something to do with it. And very HAPPY,  | ||
| Metalstorm |
Thanks Dasxb9s, I've been around awhile. I post every now & again. I registered back in July and was running my mouth about how I was getting an XB. For some reason I had this silly little notion that financing a Buell would be easy. I was wrong  I now have enough $$$ for a decent down payment on a 9R (when they start making them) but I scratched that plan. In August I get a big fat bonus check (pension plan actually) and I am going to add that to what i have now and finance a red 12R. Like I said; I finally know what I want and it's worth the wait. | ||
| Jst |
I'm actually 43, but my average age is 21.5. I thought it might be interesting to go ahead and list my bikes. In 1974 I got my first "real" bike. a 1969 Honda S90. '69 Ducati 250 '69 Montesa 250 '69 Honda one shitty '71 Yamaha DT175 '74 Honda Elsinore 125 '74 Yamaha RD350 '69 Triumph 500 '78 Yamaha XS750 '76 Yamaha DT400 '78 Yamaha XS650 '82 Yamaha Seca 650 turbo '86 Honda Interceptor 500 '87 Yamaha Virago 1100 '78 Kawasaki KZ1000 '99 Buell M2 Cyclone (Current) '04 Insanity (Under construction) JT | ||
| Fullpower |
average age 21. barely legal | ||
| Mikej |
"There's not much of a story there. " Not true, that was a good story. Thanks. | ||
| Bomber |
Metal -- I understand completely, having owned a couple of vehicles and not "bonded" or "melded" with them . . . . I have also had the love at first ride experience with a couple of other bikes (including my M2), and so understand that as well . . .. lastly, the fact that you could keep up with and pass what are nominally faster and better handling bikes shows it IS the rider, and not the bike . . . . . the XB12 is a great scoot . . . if it didn't represent a major chunk of my daughter's college payments . . .. well, you know the drill ;-} | ||
| Americanrice |
I am 23 and can see that I am just a pup around here. | ||
| Mikej |
Age is only as relative as you allow it to be (as long as it isn't too early in the morning or too late at night ) | ||
| Bomber |
also, if you sing while standing up from a squatting position, no one can hear that snap crakle pop comin from yer knees | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
I would have to sing at the top of my lungs to avoid that Bomber... | ||
| Bomber |
MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE! come one, belllow with me! | ||
| Thunderbolt_dad |
33 years young, and getting younger all the time. yz80, Kaw440LTD, 750Sabre, 1100Shadow, 1200Trophy, X1, S3.......and somewhere in there should be a 73 oil-burnin suz and a blue-printed ZX6...not mine, but I rode them more than the guys that owned them. | ||
| Josh_ |
Started riding a Sportster (92 Hugger 883) at 21, got my first Buell at 27. Just turned 31 two weeks ago and have stuck to Sporty's and Buells. Thinking about a XB9SLow for the wife (replace the Blast!) and a FJR1300 for me (replace the S3T)... So who's got a calc? Do we get count once per owner? or once per bike? | ||
| Road_thing |
I think you should divide your chronological age by the number of bikes you currently own. Using that kind of arithmetic, I'm only 7 and a half years old! Ignore that popping noise coming from my lower appendages, please... r-t edited by road_thing on December 30, 2003 | ||
| S2pengy |
Hell that would make my 50 years 6.25!!!!! | ||
| Jst |
I think you should divide your chronological age by the number of bikes you currently own. I personally think it should be "the bikes you ever owned" that would make me 2 1/2 years old. JT | ||
| Smoke |
50. started 1968, 66 nifty sport fifty, 1969, 67 trophy 250, 1972, 64 pan subsequently chopped, 1978, 74 h1, 1984, 71 r5, 1987, 66 xlch, 1998, 97s1, 2002, 00 road king classic, 2003, 81 500 pantah. i kept everything since the r5. wont sell no more. have fun and ride to stay young. tim ivanoff | ||
| Henrik |
RT - I'd be 14 then. That'd be ok - those were good years Henrik | ||
| Hoser |
48 ....... Still full of piss and vinegar ..........................................well more piss than vinegar...........I didn't have to get up during the night when I was a punk. Bikes ? A shit load of British bikes , mostly Nortons , followed by several sportsters , including an XLCR , two XLCH's , an XR 1000 I purchased new then wrecked in a crash Evil Knievel ( my hero ) would have been proud of , several Big twins , oh , and many dirt bikes , most of which were worthless trash when I was done with them. |
