Whats the age of a Valkyrie rider?

Gerard irl · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 01:07:13

56 in August Married 35 in October on my second valk 7 years in total

Gary · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 01:50:02

Fitty Five now, got my first valk in 97, I had just turned 41.

Got a 2000 Tourer in 03 and a 2000 IS in 2010.

Still got my first, the 97, and the last one, the 2000 IS.

alph · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 01:57:03

i'm 44. bought my valkyrie from a 73 year old guy that bought it brand new when he was 65.

when i was 12 a teacher told me to "act my age". i still don't know what that really means 'cause everyone tells me you're only as old as feel!!

fordmano · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 01:59:51

Just rolled up on 46 end of May, got my FatLady when I was 40.

Got the other special lady in my life when I was a still wet behind the ears 19y/o punk and I am holding onto both of my beautiful Ladies as long as I am physically able to hang on and ride them hard or until they buck me off and wont play with me any more.

For those that are slower than me in the math department been married 27 years come this September.

YoungPUP · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 04:42:12

Happy Birthday Marty! Hope finals went well for ya!

Mosa · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 05:18:37

Well thats hard to say... I was 37 when I bought the 97 new..... kept it for many years ( supercharged it, mario gears, all sorts o other goodies along the way)... sold it at 80K miles or something... then had about 5 other bikes since ( boss hoss, FJR among them..still got the FJR)... and now bought another 97 a month ago and am now 51... so can I vote 2x? lol... valks never get outta yer head...even after ya sell em and get other bikes... this has always been the 'reference bike' i compared my others to... hadda get another one eventually...lol

Mosa

MacDragon · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 05:53:50

Quote from: X Ring on Tue 14, Jun 2011, 23:38:42
Turned 47 today. Bought Sandman as my bday present to myself 4 years ago.

Marty

Happy 47th X-Ring.

dubsider · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:10:53

57.. been riding for 4 years, and most every day.

Stars and Stripes · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:11:18

I'll be 55 in August. Just got the IS this spring. Allready got 2000 miles more than when I started.
Married for 32 years in August to a beautiful lady. I really bought the "Fat Lady" for the wife

rmrc51 · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:11:46

Gonna roll to 60 next month. Where the hell did time go????

X Ring · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:31:27

Quote from: YoungPUP on Wed 15, Jun 2011, 04:42:12
Happy Birthday Marty! Hope finals went well for ya!

They did. Made 3 As and a B. I've got 3.73 overall GPA so far. Celebrated my Bday by taking the first exam in a summer term night class.

Marty

DarkMeister · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:55:21

Happy (belated) Birthday, Marty!

As far as mine, I was going to say that I just turned 56 a few weeks ago. Having said that, I now suspect that my birth certificate is an elaborate forgery.

Has to be! I have to run it past some experts and Snopes et al, because I sure don't feel that old. Wouldn't put it past the Feds, either, to have installed trick mirrors in my house - the old fart in the mirror looks nothing like me. Bastards...

solo1 · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:21:26

I was 81 when I sold the Valk, don't qualify anymore except I'm still in the wind at 83 on my VStrom.
Started riding in 1948 on a 1946 Matchless thumper. I didn't vote, evidently over 60 is considered too old to include.

John, I'm gonna miiss sitting on the balcony drinking a little scotch and kickin' tires with you.

RJ, I wish that you could make Inzane .

DarkMeister · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:24:06

Forgot to vote. Done.

A thought, YoungPup, Sir (I call you Sir since you're 6 years older than my internal age): you should add a category, like the one you have (...made out of stone...) - "my birth certificate is a forgery".

Judging by some other threads herein, that would be an ice-breaker...

Titan · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:38:00

Darn! Looks like I'm older than most folks around here at 68!

Bought my '98 Standard fresh out of the crate in August, 2000.

Been married to my current wife, Cyndy, who just turned 48 last Sunday, for 23 years.

I don't get a chance to ride much due to working all the darn time but it's my favorite toy.

Titan · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:43:06

Oh, and by the way... what's up with the age discrimination in the poll questions?

Looks like the young (pup)whippersnapper who made up the questions figured there must not be any life after 60!

Black Dog · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:43:39

Just turned 55... Have owned the Valk 12 years.

Black Dog

POPS 57 · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 07:44:11

I will be 56 in july married 34 years. I always tell people in front of my wife that around five of them were good

I figure that makes me old enought to know better but young enought to to do it anyway

BIG--T · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 08:22:34

Happy belated Birthday Marty and hope you ride another 47! Congrats on the finals!

Reb, Blackcat and a few others just proved the fat lady ain't just for us older folks like some say. BTW, I forgot I am 57...58 next month- going by so fast I can't keep up with it! lol

Congrats Solo1, I think I just found your secret...I'm gonna buy me a V Strom!!

Gryphon · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 08:50:07

Will be 54 in August. Married 35 years in October. Have been riding since I got my license at 16 and had the Valk for 4 yrs.

Hef · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 08:50:40

62 years old here. Hef

boss hoss bill · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 08:51:21

Well

Let's just say that I'll be signing up for Medicare in a few months, birth certificate cast in stone!

Been riding almost 50 years

, married for almost 40!

Hope to emulate Solo 1, and ride well into the sunset years.

This Valk is the best bike I ever owned, every time I ride it, it's a thrill!

Charlie McCready · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 09:01:56

Be 64 in August....bought first Valk in '03....

Momz · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 09:37:27

Born in 1953, so I'm 57.
Have been rding since I was 17 (Wow 40 years)

But after a long ride, I sometimes feel much older.
But as long as I'm riding I feel like a kid again!

da prez · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 09:46:47

I have not tried, but can you get handicap plates for a motorcycle in Illinois.
I have to make a mount for my cane. 64 years( old) young and still ride. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I will ride as long as I am able to. I have been on bikes for about 50 years or so. My ex once told me to sell my bike as we needed the money. I told her that she would be gone before the bike will.
As I said EX. got a divorce, best 250,000 I ever spent, Sold my wing after I bought a Valk.
Got remarried later and my wife loves to ride.

da prez

bigguy · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 09:53:37

55 this July. Old enough to know how to do some stuff really well that I can no longer do.
I've always been half fish. Being able to swim the length of an Olympic swimming pool three times on one breath earned me several cases of beer back in college. I just NEVER got tired in the water.
I went swimming in a little bitty hole a couple of weeks ago, and was wheezing like an old locomotive trying to get across on the surface one time. Had muscles hurting I didn't remember I had.

BWANA · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 10:05:36

I'll be 65 in Nov. Purchased my 2001 std. 3 years ago from a 73 yr. old guy and hope to be able to ride at least that long.

RainMaker · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 10:12:18

I'm 55 - bought the I/S new in 2000, when I was a lot younger! But when I ride, it doesn't seem like I've had it that long - it always feels like a new bike to me.

Been riding for 40 years (that CL70 was my first and I also bought it new - so my first and last bikes were new, the rest used).

Bama Red · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 10:23:52

Quote from: da prez on Wed 15, Jun 2011, 09:46:47
I have not tried, but can you get handicap plates for a motorcycle in Illinois.
I have to make a mount for my cane. 64 years( old) young and still ride. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I will ride as long as I am able to. I have been on bikes for about 50 years or so. My ex once told me to sell my bike as we needed the money. I told her that she would be gone before the bike will.
As I said EX. got a divorce, best 250,000 I ever spent, Sold my wing after I bought a Valk.
Got remarried later and my wife loves to ride.

da prez

I've solved the cane problem - got one that folds up into four sections at Wally World a year ago and never looked back. Fits very nicely in the Tourer hard bags just folded in half.

0leman · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 10:35:31

Turn 65 in a few weeks, been riding bikes since '69. I have a few joints that act like I am in my 80's first thing in the morning.

Got my Valk in '08, only put 30k on her since then. I will try to do better in the years to come.

You really "Old" guys on this forum is what keeps me thinking I can be riding thru my 70's maybe even into my 80's.

cutter · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:09:24

50 + a few months, 99 I/S bought new in 01 and with over 200,000 miles we both are old enough to know better butt still to young to resist!

Big IV · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:15:38

I was mid-twenties when I bought the Valk, but that was a few years ago.

Willow · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:20:43

I've never understood people bragging about their young age or pretending some superiority to their seniors. Youth is not an accomplishment. It's automatic. Growing older requires at least something.

I'm 60, and probably a high mileage 60 at that. I used to brag that there was nothing I'd do differently if I had it all to do over again. I don't say that anymore. Honestly, now and again, I would like to to it all over again.

X Ring · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:24:27

Quote from: DarkMeister on Wed 15, Jun 2011, 06:55:21
Happy (belated) Birthday, Marty!

As far as mine, I was going to say that I just turned 56 a few weeks ago. Having said that, I now suspect that my birth certificate is an elaborate forgery.

Has to be! I have to run it past some experts and Snopes et al, because I sure don't feel that old. Wouldn't put it past the Feds, either, to have installed trick mirrors in my house - the old fart in the mirror looks nothing like me. Bastards...

Maybed someone put it through a scanner?

Marty

John Schmidt · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:40:25

Quote from: Willow on Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:20:43
I'm 60, and probably a high mileage 60 at that. I used to brag that there was nothing I'd do differently if I had it all to do over again. I don't say that anymore. Honestly, now and again, I would like to to it all over again.

Geez Carl, does Lori know she's married to such an old guy.

As for doing it all over again....there's a few things I'd like to leave out. But for the most part, yes...I'd like a repeat performance. If nothing else, it might explain why I look this way!

Big Rig · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:55:13

35 when i bought her new...47 now...

according to my wife, I act like I am 12...so I call her a cougar!

rmrc51 · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 12:14:44

Quote from: Big Rig DH on Wed 15, Jun 2011, 11:55:13
35 when i bought her new...47 now...

according to my wife, I act like I am 12...so I call her a cougar!

LMAO!!! Good one!!!

Davemn · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 13:05:05

What was the question?

Red Diamond · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 13:40:54

I sure have enjoyed reading this thread, its gotten more response than an "oil" or "petcock" or even a "darkside question".

doubletee · Wed 15, Jun 2011, 13:42:14

I'm 49

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