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  1. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ Our district is a destination for street racers throughout the metropolitan area. There was a double fatality wreck a week or so ago about a mile and a half from here. Investigators figure the vehicle was traveling in excess of 120 mph when the driver apparently lost control. Two or three...
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A nephew owns one. It’s big fun, but I can’t say I like the styling. It might be fun to put retro-style bodywork on it.
  3. tonyb

    Now Vintage

    I like to think that some younger person(s) will find something worth preserving in the stuff I’ve acquired, but I also recognize that that’s another example of the human desire to cheat mortality. Had predecessors not thought to save this stuff back when most of its type was being thrown...
  4. tonyb

    Now Vintage

    My weakness is for useful (if only in its beauty) stuff from bygone eras that has survived into the present when so few of its type have. I generally steer clear of retro (by my definition) and gravitate toward the real deal, scratches and dings and all. I can see why people baby items of high...
  5. tonyb

    Now Vintage

    Perhaps definitions are changing (which happens), but I’ve long thought that “retro” means “imitative of an earlier period” but of more recent manufacture, whereas “vintage” means “of an earlier period but not yet antique.” As often as not these days, I see the terms used interchangeably, so...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A guy I’ve known since I was 15 recently bought a Harley trike. He had a two-wheeler for several years but in his dotage he is experiencing balance problems. He was party to a recent conversation about how the adults who put together the organization that put us in one another’s company back...
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Motorcycles can be great fun. And, like fun things in general, kind of addicting.
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    That takes much more skill than I could ever attain. Just watching it had my testicles retracting.
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    That’s not a fair description of most motorcyclists, but we all see it often enough. Around here it’s the guys doing wheelies on their street-legal road racers that have me worried for their mothers, who stand waaay too great a chance of having to identify their boys down at the morgue...
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Let’s also note that young men are disproportionately well represented among motorcyclists. Having once been young, and still male, I allow myself to voice what any reasonable observer knows to be true — that young men tend toward more reckless behavior than people of other ages and genders...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I unsubscribed from at least 20 email lists this afternoon. Maybe more like 30. I’ve just had more than my fill of alarmist emails from political campaigns asking for money. I delete 15 or 20 of them and when I check my email a couple hours later I have 15 or 20 more. Were these people never...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll say it again, because it annoys me that much … Cable news reporting that such-and-such a percentage of poll respondents *believe* such-and-such a thing. You ain’t mind readers. You can’t possibly know for certain what any person other than yourself believes. You can report that...
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Call me a speciesist, I suppose. For some reason a dog riding in the bed of a pickup truck or in a milk crate fastened to a carrier on a motorcycle doesn’t disturb me, and I’m a dog lover. I knew a guy whose little dog rode atop the tank bag on his BMW motorcycle. I’ve seen other motorcyclists...
  16. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Going back maybe 30 years I had borrowed my brother’s ’62 Vespa, on the promise I would return it in at least as good a condition as I found it. Long story short: The engine seized. I had it rebuilt (no big deal on a Vespa), and while it was in the shop I had them do a brake job and replace the...
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    In the ER they call ’em “donorcycles.” As I’ve said before, I really can’t complain. I may be in need of an organ donation at some point.
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Harley riders come in varieties. I have friends who own (and have owned) Harleys, and I have motorcycling friends who look down their noses at Harleys. I’ve ridden coast-to-coast and back (on a Moto-Guzzi). For a few years motorcycles were my primary mode of transport. There’s a biker bar...
  20. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Curiosity is getting the better of me, such that I’ve been reading up on recent developments at H-D. They dropped the smaller, far less expensive Street 750 and Street 500 models earlier this year. They haven’t made V-Rods (a big bike, but very different from the “classic” big Harley V-twin...
  21. tonyb

    Who here is a millionaire?

    Not so different from thinking of a “classic” car or antique furniture or fine jewelry as investments. Even if such an item were to appreciate in value (which is far from certain, as the market for antiques over the last couple decades has made plain), the money sunk into it does not a darned...
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    And … A look at Harley’s sales figures over the past few years (glub, glub) is all the reason the company needed to aim for more, um, inclusion(?) in its product offerings and public image.
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s been something like 40 years ago when I heard Harley aficionados debating if using a Mikuni carburetor was blasphemous.

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