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  • eric_draven
    eric_draven Posts: 1,192
    secretsam said:

    I have mixed feelings about (motor)bikes.
    On one hand, silly, impractical and dangerous.
    On the other...fun! (Although I confess I have never really ridden one).
    So what's your take? How hard/risky is riding? Costs??

    PS: Mid-life crisis? Probably.

    If you really feel the need to get one then do I know a few people who have taken up riding in their 40's and are loving it, I have been riding one for 30 years now and had a lot of great times on one, have toured through Europe quite a few times and have gone to see a Moto GP race on some trips, buy yourself some decent riding gear it may cost more but it is worth it, most mid-sized bikes now are enough now for a lot of riders
    may be a mid-life crisis but we are only here once
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    I'm sure the multitudes of fat germans we see at the top of alpine cols never rider their GS1200s above 40 mph.

    I used to take them in a old van pulling a bike trailer...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    ddraver said:

    I'm sure the multitudes of fat germans we see at the top of alpine cols never rider their GS1200s above 40 mph.

    I used to take them in a old van pulling a bike trailer...

    Reminds me of cresting Galibier just as some bikers were high 5'ing themselves.
    The accomplishment! 👏👏👏 🤬
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108

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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,711
    DeVlaeminck said:


    Great achievement! Your daughter?

    Next up… a challenge! 🙂




    I’ve friends who have toured on motorbikes through that area and they all had altitude sickness to some extent. Can’t fathom how riding a bike is possible up there.
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  • eric_draven
    eric_draven Posts: 1,192
    edited December 2021
    One was quicker one a lot more rewarding





    DeVlaeminck If that is your young one Chapeau from either direction
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108
    edited December 2021
    Yes nearly 10 years ago - he's not interested in bikes now.

    Ps - it's my son! He was about 11 at the time.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,711
    DeVlaeminck said:

    Yes nearly 10 years ago - he's not interested in bikes now.

    Ps - it's my son! He was about 11 at the time.

    Argh, my apologies to your son! 🙏🤦‍♂️

    Still a hell of an achievement.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    DeVlaeminck said:

    Yes nearly 10 years ago - he's not interested in bikes now.

    Ps - it's my son! He was about 11 at the time.

    Same tour we were constantly passing a family of 4 who were obviously doing longer days. Kudos went to the 8-9 year old girl who was always smiling but I felt sorry for the father who was carrying all the camping gear.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    edited December 2021
    Wheelspinner said:

    DeVlaeminck said:


    Great achievement! Your daughter?

    Next up… a challenge! 🙂




    I’ve friends who have toured on motorbikes through that area and they all had altitude sickness to some extent. Can’t fathom how riding a bike is possible up there.
    we did that trek years ago as a warm to some proper stuff.

    its a nice walk, nothing more. din't believe the hype about it being mad difficult.

    on a bike the problem you would have is having to carry on some parts as its tracks.

    tbh, that piccie is just a bit of trendy instagram "oooh, look how great i am" rather than an actual achievement.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    monkimark said:

    Supermoto is what you need for thrills at road legal speeds, if i were in the market for a summer fun bike, it would be a supermoto.

    this, totes.

    i really, really an utterly mad impractical two stroke 250 MX bike with supermoto wheels and wets.

    Panigale, 'Blade, etc are just far too serious unless you've got some decent track time.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    secretsam said:


    On one hand, silly, impractical and dangerous.

    Yes, this and expensive.

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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    edited December 2021
    davidof said:

    secretsam said:


    On one hand, silly, impractical and dangerous.

    Yes, this and expensive.

    but ridiculously good fun.

    remember - a life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    MattFalle said:

    davidof said:

    secretsam said:


    On one hand, silly, impractical and dangerous.

    Yes, this and expensive.

    but ridiculously good fun.

    remember - a life lived in fear is a life half lived.
    Even when the fear is when on the bike? 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Yup. Fear keeps you young.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    MattFalle said:

    Yup. Fear keeps you young.

    Course it does. I'd have died young. 🤣
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    I'm too pretty to die young.

    in fact gents, i'm fuckingbulletproof.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    edited December 2021
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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,950
    The 5 hour service intervals put me off a road going 2 stroke MX bike but this has intrigued me. Light, quiet, enough torque to stop the earth from spinning. I could have some serious fun on this bike...
    https://www.visordown.com/news/new-bikes/80hp-stark-varg-motocross-bike-looks-revolutionise-sector
    MattFalle said:

    monkimark said:

    Supermoto is what you need for thrills at road legal speeds, if i were in the market for a summer fun bike, it would be a supermoto.

    this, totes.

    i really, really an utterly mad impractical two stroke 250 MX bike with supermoto wheels and wets.

    Panigale, 'Blade, etc are just far too serious unless you've got some decent track time.
  • vincesummerskRoxcBTr
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr Posts: 1,191
    Closest I had too a motorbike was on old moped I found in my Grandad's house , when I was a teenager, that I got running and did circuits round our (luckily large!) garden.
    Never had a real urge to try a proper one, fortunately.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    monkimark said:

    The 5 hour service intervals put me off a road going 2 stroke MX bike but this has intrigued me. Light, quiet, enough torque to stop the earth from spinning. I could have some serious fun on this bike...
    https://www.visordown.com/news/new-bikes/80hp-stark-varg-motocross-bike-looks-revolutionise-sector

    MattFalle said:

    monkimark said:

    Supermoto is what you need for thrills at road legal speeds, if i were in the market for a summer fun bike, it would be a supermoto.

    this, totes.

    i really, really an utterly mad impractical two stroke 250 MX bike with supermoto wheels and wets.

    Panigale, 'Blade, etc are just far too serious unless you've got some decent track time.
    that has the potential to be utterly amazing - complete pointless laugh.
    v v v v cool.

    would be sad not to have the 2 stroke smell kicking around but i suppose you have to make some cut backs to be able to silently wheelie past police stations.....
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    That thing, road wheels, brakes, Maxton suspension set up, Pinno's reg on your number plate.

    its almost too tempting ....
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.

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