old stuff

how many older guys /gals out there riding and fixing xjs?

 

How old is older? I'm 36. My XJ is my first bike.

 

I'm well past 50 and not alone here... but then again I've been riding for 46 years...

 

ya, how old is old? im older than elementry kids, but im 17...... nah i know what you mean... I consider 50 ish to be "old" well not really, i guess if you've retired you're "old"

 

I'm getting older. This is my last year in my thirties. Learning to ride and fix xj's. Can be expensive keeping these on the road, but well worth the satisfaction!

 

I'm a moldy 54. When I was Schooter's age, I thought 54 was past old.

 

Been a member of the over 50 club going on 3 years!
Riding for over 40 of them.
Only been working on XJ's for the past couple years.

 

Will be 60 2 weeks ftom today. 1st xj/street bike, only other experience was racing motocross in the early 70's.

 

Watch it Schooter you young whippersnapper! I was 17 once myself! Admittedly it was in 1974. Occaisionally a random thought from those days still kind of flits through the fog. I was riding a Hodaka 125 Wombat at the time. Look it up on the web. Note: it was a regular Wombat and not a Combat Wombat. There goes another one of those random thoughts from the 70's again!

 

I am a Southern Belle I will not reveal my age.....

 

Passed the 40 mark last year. Been riding and wrenching 22 of them.

 

I'm 29 my wife is 25 and tells me I'm old all the time!!

 

Just turned 56 and still refuse to grow up. I'm building a 40' tour bus with my friend to go across Canada with his son-in-laws band, the Brandon Paris Band. It's going to be a blast!

 

I'll be 26 in April, so not that old.
Young enough to still look good on a sport bike,
Old enough to be responsible on the Maxim. LOL

 

I don't wish to reveal my actual age,but I can say that I am between 46 and 48 years old...

 

I'm one year older than sesame street and 6 months younger than the super bowl.

 

Old is 15 years older than you are now.

I am over 50 - been riding for over 30 years with a 20+ years gap in riding..

 

I was a freshman in HS when my bike came out.. about 41 now physically.. Mentally my GF and my son think I am still a teenager

 

You young wet-behind-the-ears whippersnappers! I'm 63 and haven't been without a bike for 46 years.
Had a scare last year when gout in the knees made it very hard to ride, but four little pills a day and I'm back in the saddle full time. Haven't driven the car since Dec 18th last year.

 

I'm 56 this year and been riding since I was 15.
Had a Harley Hummer when I was 15.
Can't stand the sound of a V-Twin compared to an inline 4

Been working on bikes since I was 15 but only on XJ's for several years now.
That brings me to this site,
What a great site!!!
With enough of us putting our info together..... we ought to be able to fix just about any XJ problem!

Thanks to Sno keep up the good work!

 

AWWW, man! NOT a "Combat?" Boy THAT brought back memories.

I love their rationale for trying to pass off a ten-year old design as a positive aspect... no "forced obsolescence" here...



AND WTF IS A "PLEASINGLY CORRECT FEELING???"

 

Schooter, you, my boy, are still pooping yellow!!!!! :twisted: :lol:

I just turned 43 and started riding when I was 18 on my Dad's Maxim, which I now have.

Went from 86 until 08 without a ride of my own, thanks to an ex!! :evil: At least I had friends around that let me on their bikes occasionally. Damn, 22 years w/o a bike and I kept my MC endorsement. I don't know if that's optimistic or senile. :roll:

 

I am, let's see, um, well, I know its here somewhere.
Just a sec, I'll go ask my 50 yr old wife.
Be back in a jiffy but not a skippy.

 

Well as for "older" - at nearly 52, older I ain't. I am younger than:
-my 84-year old parents
-40% of the population
-TV
-Yamaha
-my office house
-my sisters
-Bill Gates
-Elvis
And don't any of you young whipper-snappers start on the list of Things That Didn't Exist Before 1957!

 

1. computers that fit in 2 or fewer rooms
2. the wheel
3. The internal compustian engine
4. Democracy
5. Personal Hygene
6. The printing press
7. Gravity

I'm just jerkin your gerkin/ yankin your chain

 

I know where my old Wombat is. My older sis bought it from me before I left for college. Her POS drunk ex-husband has it in his shop. Next to his Bultaco, Benelli who knows what other classic m/c's, and enough empties to glass a skyscraper! The Wombat needs bored and a piston. I ought to slip in some day when he's hammered and get him to sign the pink slip.


BigFitz wrote:
AND WTF IS A "PLEASINGLY CORRECT FEELING???". I think I have an idea. There is also a 100 B gas tank hanging on a wall with the impression of his testicles dented into it! The bike stopped suddenly and he didn't stop til a moment or so later!! No wonder the idiot drinks like a fish. His nuts are still hurtin' after all these years. For those who don't know the Hodaka tanks were industrial chromed and hard as Hades.

Man! Another trip down....... Huh! Where were we headed?

 

You forgot canned beer and Playboy magazine. Also jet airliners, color TV and car stereos. (Canned beer is a joke, the rest are true.)

 

let's just say i remember black and white tv, cars with manual chokes, phone numbers that started with a word and seven transistor radios

 

Holy crap Polock. You mean phone numbers like "Klondike-275"? that's old school.

 

To sum it up Schoot, I think what they are trying to say is that when they were your age they took driver tests on dinosaurs and the dead sea was just sick!! :twisted: :lol: "sorry guys I couldn't resist, but really your only as old as you feel and act, and you guys are the best bunch of guys and gals I've never acually met!
Shaun

 

To schooter anything prior to Barney is old.

Hey kid, how does that song go again?

 

I'm 48. Tried to play hockey like I was 28 today and have been rewarded by a pulled or torn hamstring muscle. I can't remember the last time, if ever, that I've been in this much pain! :cry:

 

Ours was Village-8-0266, in Oak Park IL in the late 50s. We also had a two-tone Plymouth station wagon with a rear-facing far back seat, fake wood on the sides and TAIL FINS.

When I first moved out into the boonies around here in the LATE 80's no less you could still dial a local phone number (DIAL as in click-click-click no touchtone) with only the last 5 digits (of a 7-digit number.)

 

What's a Plymouth?

 

I remember beer in a can with a pop top that actually came off. Don't remember the klondike-555 stuff but do remember having a "party line" and pick up the phone on if it rang two quicks (ring=ring)... Speaking of... around for the invention of the touch tone... and all phones were black.

 

BUNCH OF OL GEEZERS!!!

Yesterday you was complaining that you were too old now here you are bragging about how old you are???!!

Yep, me too!

 

I shall be 67 in May and I've been riding since I was 16 with a couple of breaks due to wife kids and doctors. Owned Velocette Viper clubmans and old Venom BSA's AJS's Matchless. In the mid sixties I briefly had a 75 cc Yamaha for getting to work on, I've also had a Virago and now the xj. I still dream of owning a Goldie with clip on's rear sets and an oil leak, if it don't leak oil it ain't English. The Ace cafe the Busy Bee and the 59' club, mods on Vespa's with silly pork pie hats on asking for a wallop. Happy day's and I'm 18 again, well I am till I look in the mirror.

Mick Faighaigh.

 

Well I hit 44 last Aug but I have a saying I like to live by;

Age is inevitable but maturity is optional.

Thame can be said about pain, another thing I know much about;

Pain is inevitable, misery is optional.

My kids say I'll never grow but they wouldn't want it any other way My wife says she has 3 kids, the two boys and me.

The Buff

 

I was 17 once too...but it was in 1978. Had a 125 Hodaka too!!! But mine was the Combat Wombat . One of those bikes that when you tell people " I had an old Hodaka" they look at you like "A what? 8O " Then when you say..."Yeah, a Combat Wombat" their look changes to a -oh I see now,you forgot to take your little blue pill - :roll: look....LOL
It's nice to meet someone who actually KNOWS I'm not making the names up!!!

 

Mad B, I often wish I still had my Hodaka. Remember the smell of burning two stroke mix with "Krotch" (Klotz). and Torco oil? I remember the smell fondly. Like the smell of coal smoke from the octupus type furnace in my folks home in the early 60's.


Polock wrote: let's just say i remember black and white tv, cars with manual chokes, phone numbers that started with a word and seven transistor radios

Cars with manual chokes? How about cars (54 Merc) with manual overdrive? Press in the clutch, pull the handle, let the clutch out and away you went!

Those were the days!

 

You're kidding, right?

 

OK wamax, since you brought up 54 Mercs.
When I was 16, I used to have the cherryest 1953 Mercury Monterey Convertible, It had a flathead V8 engine, automatic with manual overdrive, power seats, power windows and a power top.
This car was super cherry when I got it in 1968 for 150.00
Haven't seen one since!!
It looked like this (except it was white w/white interior) the thing I hated the most was the front and rear seats had a band of green vinyl across the top of the seat backs.
The charging system was 8volt, Positive + ground
I sold it for 150.00 to buy a 1957 for crown vic.


BTW a good used car back then went for usually 150.00
Can't get a ride in one for that now.


That's my memory lane moment, sure do miss that car!

 

I'm only 36, but I do remember the party lines and rotary telephones the size of a small microwave oven bolted to the wall, that were the property of the telco. I remember the transition to touch-tone.

And I remember Plymouths. lol

 

>.< you guys make me feel like i haven't been born yet

19 here(well pretty much)


5 cent cokes? (a symbol that the dollar is worth nothing now, there is no cent mark on your keyboard)

 

I just turned 54 in December and refuse to grow up. Like the saying goes, "Your not too old to ride, you'll get old if you stop riding!"

 

When I was in high school, we would hit the local Oak Gas station in my '63 Corvair for $1 worth; at 29 cents a gallon you could cruise around all night.

 

My bike was born the same year I graduated high School.
We usd to have a party line at camp, three rings was us.
Our house number was RD2 Sacandaga Rd.
For the younger ones RD2=Rurual Delivery route #2.
Rmember pull tops on Pepsi products.
They had a little nitch in the ring part, you could break off the tab, stick it in the nitch, pull back and sail the ring across the room.
Alot of detention there.
I rode a CB750 four then.
Economy sucked then too, somethings don't change.

 

Most of the youngsters out there probably wonder why there's a pointy end on a bottle cap opener. Many years ago, just after BigFitz, Wizard, TheHound, and myself stopped wearing knickers, beer cans didn't have pop tops or even pull tabs. The top of a beer can looked like the top on a can of corn does today. You punctured a large triangular hole to drink out of and a smaller vent hole so the suds would go down smoooth. The bottle cap end wasn't for $15.00 a six pack bottled beer either. It was for opening soda bottles. Which is how Coke and Pepsi came in those days. The canned stuff doesn't taste the same either.