Are you OLDER than your XJ?

Funny- and now you can buy one to work on for less than $500.00

 

I am 25 years older...

 

my bikes are as old as my children

 

20 years older..

 

I was 13 when my '83 XJ750K was new.

 

I was 23 when my 1983 XJ750K was new... I've owned it (nearly) 1/2 my life.

 

I'm 21 years older than my 1985 XJ700 Maxim.

 

Nice looking bike in your profile picture. I've never seen one with the OEM Deluxe Touring package. That was about a $1000 option in 1983.

 

I'm a 79, bikes an 82. Owned a few older than me but not lately.

 

I wasn't sure of your age but was thinking you had to be a pretty young to hang on to those handlebars and do a dismount during your recent incident. My old weak hands would have put me face first in her windshield, which I suspect would have been a worse outcome. I'm a 55, 27 years older than the XJ.

 

I was reminded the next AM that I’m not as young as I once was. I recall being sore the next day in my late teens after riding dirt bikes all day, can’t imagine how I’d feel now if I did that

 

I'm 56 and still ride dirt bikes all day, KTM EXC525 the Godzilla of dirt bikes. My brother is 63 and still at it.
single track trail riding which gets pretty knarly. My cousin is 57 and represented Canada for the ISDE in Poland and France, not many 20 year olds can keep his pace.
Sore, you bet. Fun, oh ya!

 

Good for you guys, I’d love to but little time plus I’d have to trailer as my 1/8 acre just ain’t gonna cut it for riding.

 

7 years older than my 82

 

My oldest talked me into going on about an hour trail ride tonight on the KX250s......only a few small "ditch" jumps, but lots of bumps and knocks.......already feeling it in my arms and back...tomorrow might be kind rough

 

I bought it in 1987 from a (part-time) mechanic at the local Yamaha Dealer
Here is what it looked like then:

 

My '82 650 Maxim is younger than me by a couple decades...holding together better than me in some ways....

 

so your 15?

 

Lol...xj is younger than me by a few decades...I was 22 in '82...i'm 57 this month.

 

late nights and new math or the metric system , still a young man

 

Everyone is younger in metric. It's why Canadians are so hot. For a conversion, see imperial Trump vs metric Trudeau.

 

Happy Birthday!

 

I thought it would be older. Double it and add 30, right?

 

Not sure of that... I'm 40, but have the mind of a 13 year old in need of Ritalin. The formula is divide by 2.21, so 40 in America equals aboot 18. Guess I'm immature, even in metric.


Poop! Hehe...

 

Doug: "Like how many beers would that be, if you want like, a sixpack in metric?"
Bob: "Six, six is 12, 30 is 42 beers. 42 metric beers."
Doug: "That's good for me eh. Count me in on metric."

http://bobanddoug.com/sounds.html

 

Yep. By about 40 years.

 

I'm going to be 51 In December!!!

 

Yes. Older
Only by 14 years however.

 

54 in December

 

Thanks!

 

Xj: '82
Me: '68

Gary H.

 

Sadly, yes, by 14 years.

 

Yep.....by 20yrs +/- depending which bike I'm on at the moment

 

That's for if you're HOTTER than your xj.....or maybe if your COOLER than your xj....

 

my bike older than me

 

my bike is 5 years older then me

 

sexy ant she

 

Doesn't look DIRTY to me. Nice Seca!

 

Bike is an '82. I am a '60. My only boy is a '03 and he thinks my old bike obsession (I have redone 6 now) is a little crazy.

 

Kids these days.... sheesh!

 

If he thinks the bike obsession is weird, tell him you had a phone that needed to be plugged into the wall at all times, had no screen, and a dial as opposed to a keyboard. Mind = blown!

 

Tv's that required you to get up, walk across the room and rotate the knob, adjust the antenna and no programming after 23:00.

Boy things have changed.... not sure if we are better for it or not.

 

Only 12 channels! No xjbikes.com! Yes, we definitely have progressed.

On the other hand, brand new xjs.

 

black and white only. tv had to warm up before the picture came on

 

Once upon a time, I told my nephew about black n white tv. He was stunned, "What, the tv was black and white? Just the picture was black and white? Why would anyone want one of those?"

 

but UHF had something like 82 or 83more channels.. if you were lucky, you might have even gotten a couple of them! We got 3 if the weather was just right.

 

Then came Pay TV. I remember the signs and bumper stickers that said FIGHT Pay TV.
we should have listened ..................

 

Older by 10 or 12 years depending on the bike. And yes. For the tv back then I was considered the remote control.

 

We got scrambled channels on uhf from Quebec. Sometimes on Saturday night they would run a program called Bleu Nuit (Blue Night) and if a guy was lucky, he might be able to pick out a boobie in all the blur! Now with the internet, ya gotta struggle NOT to see triple x. Simpler times, but better? I dunno.

 

That's how I saw my first TV boobies!

Man, the kids these days just don't know what they are NOT missing.

Generally life has been getting progressively better in the west for the last 150 years but I do think that trading outside play for electronics is a step in the wrong direction. I think society will eventually adjust but this latest generation is going to suffer for it.