Motorbikes? Anyone ride, what have you got.

[ratewhore]

Anyome find you start getting more fearful on a bike when you've become older and have a family?

Not fearful no. You just get more mature and your appetite for risk changes...

[DaveB]

Anyome find you start getting more fearful on a bike when you've become older and have a family?
Did some stupid things in my 20s.
Not a bad thing I guess.

Yep, when your in your twenties you think you are immortal. I think of some of the crap I pulled on a bike back then and it makes me wince. ( Racing other bikes through traffic in the west end, cutting up cars and lorries on the north circular, taking liberties on the hanger lane gyratory etc etc. )

[Scrag Meister]

Anyome find you start getting more fearful on a bike when you've become older and have a family?
Did some stupid things in my 20s.
Not a bad thing I guess.

I think I had a sensible lull when my kids were growing up, (1990 - 1998) oh yeah thats called being married and not having a bike at all!! Divorce..... XT600, TDM 850, Fazer 1000, FJR.

Filtering at 110mph on the M4, gets the blood flowing.
Doing 160 on an old airstrip, actually it may have been the M5.
and 140 2-up touring

Having said that it isn't all about the speed, acceleration is just as important. And I.T. doesn't get my heart racing on a regular basis.

And compared to some of my biking aquaintances I am the sensible one.

[TimberWolf]

I haven't got a motorbike any more, but I am still licensed to ride one. I assume you don't forget how, like riding a bike.

[threaded]

I haven't got a motorbike any more, but I am still licensed to ride one. I assume you don't forget how, like riding a bike.

Don't forget to check each time you renew your license they don't accidentally forget to put A on it, or accidentally swap it to A1...

Happened to several guys I know, and some still got done for driving without a license, even though it was Swansea's 'mistake'.

IIRC the best advice is to take photos of your old license before you send it back in, and if it does happen and they give you arseholes, then a 'subject access request' is the way to go.

[TimberWolf]

Don't forget to check each time you renew your license they don't accidentally forget to put A on it, or accidentally swap it to A1...

Happened to several guys I know, and some still got done for driving without a license, even though it was Swansea's 'mistake'.

IIRC the best advice is to take photos of your old license before you send it back in, and if it does happen and they give you arseholes, then a 'subject access request' is the way to go.

It's still there, phew.

[Durbs]

GSX-R 750 K9 which is my baby. Currently looking around for a dedicated track bike, fancy an old 600RR or R6 to thrash.

[darmstadt]

I wouldn't mind getting back on but my license was revoked by the DVLC some years back when the bottom half of my right leg was buried in Southend I did try to get it back or at least the money but they made me do the test again but by that time they'd introduced the 2 part test. I only had to do the second part, the bit with cones etc. which I failed a bit. At the time I was riding a z650 but had to borrow a mate's 125 which I couldn't hack. The last bikes I had (always had more than 1 on the go) was a z650 but with a GPz1100 race engine fitted (a rather too loud Harris race exhaust) and z900 tank and panels; a Triumph 750 fitted with a BSA RRt2 gearbox in a very long and low frame; a GPX750R and a Honda 750-4F2. During the years I did ride I did have a few nice bikes, A Yoshimura 460-4, a Rickman Honda 900-4, Triton 750, a lot of Jawa CZs, a few Kawasaki z650s and Honda 750-4s, Suzuki GT750 (yep the 2 stroke 3 cylinder beast) and an MZ...Just stick with fast cars now (went to look at a Gemballa a few days ago but Mrs. D was having none of it: Gebrauchtwagen : Porsche 911 / 997 Gemballa GTR 650 Evo Bit AutoScout24 Detailseite)

[blacksheep]

1988 BMW K100RS which gets used for commuting/wet weather riding
2001 Honda Fireblade - for sunnier days and fun.

Took the day off yesterday and took the blade to a trackday at Cadwell. Still have the grin plastered across my face

[Scary]

Don't forget to check each time you renew your license they don't accidentally forget to put A on it, or accidentally swap it to A1...

Happened to several guys I know, and some still got done for driving without a license, even though it was Swansea's 'mistake'.

IIRC the best advice is to take photos of your old license before you send it back in, and if it does happen and they give you arseholes, then a 'subject access request' is the way to go.

I heard about that so when I renewed mine I marked it as 'Lost' so I'd still have the old one with a record of my entitlements. When I got the new one everything was still there though.

Got my full bike licence a few years ago, but unfortunately haven't been in a good position to own a motorbike since then