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View Poll Results: Am I too old for a sportbike?
You're too old, get a cruiser. 2 3.39%
You're too old but get a sportbike anyway. 27 45.76%
You're too old, get a naked/streetfighter/supermoto. 9 15.25%
Yo're old but Taters whore ex-wife will ride on the back of anything. 21 35.59%
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Old 03-25-2009, 10:23 AM   #141
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Most cruiser riders are nice people. But boring. Usually middle management yes-men, dentists or salesman who like to talk about nothing but football and the weather.

Hey! I am in no way boring!!!! Nor am I middle management, or a man, or a dentist. I hate football. Wait, I do watch the weather channel on occasion even though there is a huge 9 foot sliding glass door beside my television...

That said, f*ck fitting in! Ride what you like.

Just ride!
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Old 03-25-2009, 11:14 AM   #142
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To the original Q - I battled this same thing myself, I felt (still feel it a little) too old for a sportbike. I bought a V-Star, which for a cruiser is a nice bike. It was funny enough to ride, but my heart was never into it.

I've since sold the cruiser and am back on my true love, my R6.

Maybe down the road, I'll do the cruiser thing again.

For the record, I am 40.
Yep pretty much went through the same.

I wouldn't mind having a cruiser AND a sportbike but that would mean 4 bikes since the wife also rides...maybe one day.

If I only have one bike...sportbike it is.
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Old 03-25-2009, 11:43 AM   #143
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You're just trying to get in her pant's..... A little woman on woman love.
If I swung that way, I'd be all over it. She's a looker.

But I don't swing that way, and I'm taken anyway.
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Old 03-25-2009, 12:43 PM   #144
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Noone's ever too old to ride a sport bike. I hope to be as active and still riding as much as the old man I used to watch hit the MX track a couple of years ago when I was going. The man was in his 60's, rode a 2-stroke 250 and could launch that fucking bike like it was nothing! Double/triple jumps, clearing a big as table top ...that dude is awesome! If he can ride MX that hard at that age, then I have high hopes of me riding a sport bike well past that.
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Old 03-25-2009, 05:04 PM   #145
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If I swung that way, I'd be all over it. She's a looker.

But I don't swing that way, and I'm taken anyway.
Right back at ya! LOL

BTW - thanks for thinking I was 30-ish!
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Old 03-28-2009, 10:37 PM   #146
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I wish I could remember where I read that sportbike back position was better for you than cruiser position. I'm guessing cruiser guys slouch.
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Old 03-29-2009, 01:33 AM   #147
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I wish I could remember where I read that sportbike back position was better for you than cruiser position. I'm guessing cruiser guys slouch.
that article was out many years ago. don't remember where I read it either.
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Old 03-29-2009, 11:32 PM   #148
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I wish I could remember where I read that sportbike back position was better for you than cruiser position. I'm guessing cruiser guys slouch.
+trillion. Plus the fact that when you're on a sportbike the wind props you up anyway.
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Old 03-30-2009, 10:00 AM   #149
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still too old
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Old 03-31-2009, 12:09 AM   #150
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Gregory House like a mofo.
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