Spanish Bob
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Carbohydrate_unsatr8 said:
I am 37 - and if you are worried try one. If you try one and are still worried about your image after trying one, then you dont want a GS anyway.
bob
I am 37 - and if you are worried try one. If you try one and are still worried about your image after trying one, then you dont want a GS anyway.
bob
A therapist would have a field day with this lot.
I'm joining in to argue for the 40+'s. Now what some of you young whippersnappery types don't fully appreciate is that us, more mature types, have had a few more years experience and so we know a good thing when we find it. The GS is fantastic !!, you simply can not even hope to understand how good it is until you've ridden one for a few hours. I am still staggered by how much fun it is, despite much expense and hassle (unusual for a GS as far as I can see.). Handling is incredible, particularly when carrying luggage, unbelieveable!, with little or no effects on the handling. Motorway cruising is pukka. Comfortable enough to be enjoyable and engaged enough to keep you interested, and the engine shows you what horse-power should feel like ! (and I don't mean numerically, it just pulls and pulls and pulls and pulls.)
We've also learnt that exoctic normally means painfully and regulalry expensive, uncomfortable and dissapointingly unreliable. Sports bike means more points on your license than Bruce Forsythe could give you prizes for, more complaining from your girlfriend about the seating arrangements than Dot Cotton on her husband, and an insurance premium larger than Elton John would spend on flowers.
As for worrying about what other people think, cut loose-Have some fun !! These are grown-up legitimate Tonka-toys for adults !
Leave your preconceptions behind. I've owned a monocoque chassied gas flowed 1200 Laverda, a FZR 1000 Genesis and all sorts-none of them, but none of them get close to this for fun! As for all the posing, it's hoo-hah.
Now you may be wondering how all this relates to being over 40, .........I'm still excited when I go for a ride. Last Friday night I was out in Kent, and for a moment or two I was 18 again with a grin on my face that defied gravity !
We've also learnt that exoctic normally means painfully and regulalry expensive, uncomfortable and dissapointingly unreliable. Sports bike means more points on your license than Bruce Forsythe could give you prizes for, more complaining from your girlfriend about the seating arrangements than Dot Cotton on her husband, and an insurance premium larger than Elton John would spend on flowers.
As for worrying about what other people think, cut loose-Have some fun !! These are grown-up legitimate Tonka-toys for adults !
Leave your preconceptions behind. I've owned a monocoque chassied gas flowed 1200 Laverda, a FZR 1000 Genesis and all sorts-none of them, but none of them get close to this for fun! As for all the posing, it's hoo-hah.
Now you may be wondering how all this relates to being over 40, .........I'm still excited when I go for a ride. Last Friday night I was out in Kent, and for a moment or two I was 18 again with a grin on my face that defied gravity !
oldfart
Guest
actually I've not hit 40 yet, but was thinking that when I do I'll buy a race-rep and matching leathers so I can park up at race meets with all the other oldfarts trying to relive their youth.
must say I'm not really into the image thing much - it aint that important out on the road. of course in the car park or outside mcdonalds might be a different story......
must say I'm not really into the image thing much - it aint that important out on the road. of course in the car park or outside mcdonalds might be a different story......
...The seat is disgraceful....
Strange how things are different for different people. I've done any number of several hundred mile days on my GS and always found the seat very comfortable. Mind you maybe its my personal built in padding helping.
Paul
Strange how things are different for different people. I've done any number of several hundred mile days on my GS and always found the seat very comfortable. Mind you maybe its my personal built in padding helping.
Paul
Carbo
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Hello gazza, luke scott, judge, timolgra, retroman, Mike O, gauloises, BAKERMAN, JohnnyBoxer, Rushy, BawdyMonk, John Armstrong, bakerlonglegs, Richard34, Animal, Shaunie, Zwerver, Simon Eassom, scurrell, Squidbrain, Jim-650, notadrop, THE PICT, Dennis, mrTickle, Gecko, goose, Sgt_ BILKO, kamae, pint6x, Spanish Bob, chiefkeefe, Mick_rw, timmy, gutsi, PW Cymru, RTGLOBE, oldfart, and Paul Wakefield, thanks guys for your imput with this thread.
Yeah I said: I am thinking about buying a new bike for my cross Europe / Africa or Far East trip I have been planning & dreaming for years and it is just that: a **dream**. By the time I can afford to buy a GS I'll probably be 49.2 years old anyway!
Hopefully by then it'll come with a better seat and I'd have grown another foot! (that's foot as in inches not toes)
Hey you guys all rock on this board and hopefully some day I'll have my woefully pathetic life enhanced by a GS with a jolly low seat (or platform shoes will come into fashion) and we'll meet! (Sorry I missed the hogroast MrTickle)
Yours no longer worried BMW's r 4 for OLD folk & not those -40
Carbohydrate_unsatr8
Yeah I said: I am thinking about buying a new bike for my cross Europe / Africa or Far East trip I have been planning & dreaming for years and it is just that: a **dream**. By the time I can afford to buy a GS I'll probably be 49.2 years old anyway!
Hopefully by then it'll come with a better seat and I'd have grown another foot! (that's foot as in inches not toes)
Hey you guys all rock on this board and hopefully some day I'll have my woefully pathetic life enhanced by a GS with a jolly low seat (or platform shoes will come into fashion) and we'll meet! (Sorry I missed the hogroast MrTickle)
Yours no longer worried BMW's r 4 for OLD folk & not those -40
Carbohydrate_unsatr8
Carbo
Guest
Hi needlongerlegs!!! me too
I do like your seat, I think it makes the GS look ever MORE cool
eeech look at the time 4.28am! Why'm I so hooked on this board?
I do like your seat, I think it makes the GS look ever MORE cool
eeech look at the time 4.28am! Why'm I so hooked on this board?
Madmountainman
Registered user
What really is a worry for me, besides from finance blah blah is that I am a short-arse. Can't change the fact I'm 5.5... is any rider of a GS short or are you all 6ft some-ink...
Speak to Wessie, he's unfeasibly short!!!
Speak to Wessie, he's unfeasibly short!!!
timmy
Guest
I'm standard:
5'10"
Now that think of it - My GS is standard.
My shoe size is standard,
My waist is standard,
My life is standard,
My GS seat is sub-standard,
My house is sub-standard.
My love life is sub-standard
Ah ha, but my kn*b is....
5'10"
Now that think of it - My GS is standard.
My shoe size is standard,
My waist is standard,
My life is standard,
My GS seat is sub-standard,
My house is sub-standard.
My love life is sub-standard
Ah ha, but my kn*b is....
Invicta Moto
Registered user
At last someone that the latest government initiatives are aimed at. Age doesn't matter.... in fact ageism will soom rank up alongside racism and gender-equality!!!
If you worry about being a 37 year old with a BMW, then take the easy way out .. buy a Jap bike and be less of an individual.
If you worry about being a 37 year old with a BMW, then take the easy way out .. buy a Jap bike and be less of an individual.
The Mechanic
Guest
There's a deal of difference my man!
Come on then what do you ride? ..Honda..Honda what?..Er Honda 600. Oh I see but what 600 exactly they make so many and there's so many about, I'm confused!
Come on then what do you ride?.. BMW 1150 GS actually. Oh I see, how long have you had her?
Now you don't have to be assumed to be a trillion years old, that just helps with the insurance, You will find people of all ages riding BMW's just as you would expect to find riding anything else.
The important thing apart from being a bloody good bike is that the GS has 'STREET CRED' and is as distinct from all other BMW's as it is from anything else on 2 wheels.
Get one and move on with your life and stop catagorising yourself with the humdrum bums.
Come on then what do you ride? ..Honda..Honda what?..Er Honda 600. Oh I see but what 600 exactly they make so many and there's so many about, I'm confused!
Come on then what do you ride?.. BMW 1150 GS actually. Oh I see, how long have you had her?
Now you don't have to be assumed to be a trillion years old, that just helps with the insurance, You will find people of all ages riding BMW's just as you would expect to find riding anything else.
The important thing apart from being a bloody good bike is that the GS has 'STREET CRED' and is as distinct from all other BMW's as it is from anything else on 2 wheels.
Get one and move on with your life and stop catagorising yourself with the humdrum bums.
Carbo
Guest
Come on then what do you ride?..
oh dear here goes all my street cred...
LOL
PIAGGIO HEXAGON 150
and to make it worse it aint even running at the mo...
only has 3000km...
LOL
BTW mine is white!
mmmmn me r thinking: Get one (GS) and move on with your life
ps to timmy! lucky u & ur big member!
oh dear here goes all my street cred...
LOL
PIAGGIO HEXAGON 150
and to make it worse it aint even running at the mo...
only has 3000km...
LOL
BTW mine is white!
mmmmn me r thinking: Get one (GS) and move on with your lifeps to timmy! lucky u & ur big member!
