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Post by: weaselnoze on November 19, 2004, 09:26:32 PM
is everyone?? and how long have u been riding??

19 here. riding about 2 months and  ~2k miles. any other young bucks around?
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Post by: dgyver on November 19, 2004, 09:42:05 PM
I am old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway.


as for riding....since '76
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Post by: CAN_Porn*Star on November 19, 2004, 09:46:23 PM
june till now 8k
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Post by: Roadstergal on November 19, 2004, 09:59:34 PM
Quote from: dgyveras for riding....since '76

Ah, '76... a good year... so many things came into being in that year.  Like me.  :)
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Post by: Kerry on November 19, 2004, 10:42:36 PM
Age: 42

If you don't count the several dozen miles I put on my older brothers' Kawi 100 on/offroad bikes around '74-'76, I've been riding about 5 years.
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Post by: pixelmonkey on November 19, 2004, 10:45:49 PM
20 years behind the bars this year WOOT!!!

25 years on my odometer for life
chris<pixelmonkey>:D
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Post by: TR on November 19, 2004, 11:57:02 PM
I 'm 39, and have ridden 2 years on a small 125cc 20 years ago and now 3 1/2 on the GS, that makes 5 1/2 years...
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Post by: CasiUSA on November 20, 2004, 01:31:04 AM
22 Ridden for 4 years now. +/- 20K Miles
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Post by: davipu on November 20, 2004, 01:33:28 AM
dead horse
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Post by: danci1973 on November 20, 2004, 01:43:03 AM
Born in 1973, riding since March 2003.

Done ~60000km since getting a bike (but not all on my bike)....

  D.
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Post by: Lars on November 20, 2004, 04:28:52 AM
23 years old, I've been riding for 3 years, approx. 30000 km on the GS
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Post by: 96gs on November 20, 2004, 08:23:44 AM
15 (16 in Feb) been riding for 2 years and probably 10,000miles.
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Post by: gsJack on November 20, 2004, 08:32:42 AM
I'm 72 and have ridden 320k+ miles since I started riding 20 years ago at age 52.
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Post by: Dragonfly on November 20, 2004, 09:17:59 AM
I am 22, and have been riding since August of 03.
Have around 15-20k since. Ridden daily, and in every condition but sonw and ice.... except for that one time.


Micah
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Post by: Triton on November 20, 2004, 09:37:14 AM
23
Riding for 5 months now and 2000 miles
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Post by: dyran on November 20, 2004, 10:28:05 AM
20 riding since the end of the summer, put my bike away for winter but where the hell did winter go??
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Post by: V8Pinto on November 20, 2004, 11:16:10 AM
33.  Been riding since I was 6 (the nation was 200 that year).  

That was the same year I learned to drive.  Up in the woods in a Ford F600 with a 20 foot dump bed stacked full of firewood and my best friend working the pedals.  

Good times..goodtimes.   :cheers:
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Post by: Rema1000 on November 20, 2004, 11:32:54 AM
Not too old.  I've been riding 2 years, but still learning how  :roll:
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Post by: FFDougK on November 20, 2004, 11:33:06 AM
23 years young here...riding since July of this year, 300+ miles.  Sadly the carbs have been sick and time is not my friend, so I had to end the season early.  Here's to a short winter.
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Post by: ashman on November 20, 2004, 11:45:59 AM
PHYSICAL AGE: 22 MENTAL AGE:  11   I've been riding around a year and a half with  somewhere over 10k saddle time. It would be more if the damn rain would stop down here in the  South.  :x  

-ash
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Post by: EvilScooby on November 20, 2004, 12:04:12 PM
Finally reached the drinking age of 40.   USed to ride when I was 16-20, jsut started riding again This year
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Post by: Frost on November 20, 2004, 12:04:55 PM
just turned 20...been riding for 10 months...logged 25K 8)
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Post by: GRU on November 20, 2004, 01:51:12 PM
i'm 21 next saturday

riding for almost a year....and about 6500 miles
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Post by: john on November 20, 2004, 02:19:24 PM
30.....ish.

This seeme more like an Odds & Ends thread :?  But we'll leave it here for now :mrgreen:
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Post by: davipu on November 20, 2004, 03:18:29 PM
30.....ish,   ok, old man :bs:  :bs:  :mrgreen:
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Post by: John Bates on November 20, 2004, 03:24:33 PM
Got my little GS in May,  my Basic Rider Card on June 20 and license June 21.

Been in the saddle ever since.  

First bike ever.

Age 67 in Jan.

1K miles.

I'm hooked. :cheers:
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Post by: Flash on November 20, 2004, 03:48:44 PM
I'm 29 years old and have been riding for just over a year now. Talk about a late bloomer.

From the time I was little I knew I would buy my own bike someday (dirt, street, it didn't matter). My Dad's been riding motorcycles for just about all of his life (50+ years), so riding (and racing?) was in my blood. I've yet to do any kind of racing, but as soon as I get a few TrackDays (http://www.lonestartrackdays.com/html/index2.html) under my belt I would like to try my hand at CMRA racing (http://www.cmraracing.com/index.htm).  

Click here & scroll 1/2 way down (http://www.gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7143&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20) to find my complete list of bikes I've ridden. Ive straddled an occasional dirt bike when I was 15 and got my first taste of street riding on my Dad's Yamaha Virago 750 while in college (w/o driver's license :mrgreen: ), but it wasn't until August '03 that I purchased my first bike, a '96 GS500. I've been commuting on it every chance I get, that is whenever its not being repaired on :x

Other than some recreational roadracing
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/Flash_gm/CMRAracing.bmp)
I would luv to try some

Supermoto (motorcycle version of Rally racing),
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/Flash_gm/Supermoto.bmp)
some desert racing out in Nevada or California,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/Flash_gm/BajaDesertRacing.bmp)
or the ultimate Paris-Dakar Rally.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/Flash_gm/Paris-DakarRally.bmp)
Well, I can always dream, right?
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Post by: Daniely on November 20, 2004, 05:11:37 PM
nineteen, riding off and on with dirtbikes most of my life. On the GS goin on 2 months :).
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Post by: treybrad on November 20, 2004, 05:53:17 PM
21, been riding dirt bikes for maybe 10 years. Got my first street bike when I was 16 (which I totaled within 6 months). Got a few more years on me now, hopefully some common sense too.. Got the GS a couple months ago and here we are..

trey
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Post by: Dom on November 20, 2004, 08:25:41 PM
28, Been riding riding since I could barely touch on an xr80.  I just sold my xl600r to buy the GS, which technically I have owned since yesterday, but have been in posession of for just over a month.
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Post by: The Buddha on November 20, 2004, 08:42:52 PM
35 ... 36 in 2 months ... riding since 1985, owned a bike since 1987 ... owned a GS since 1995, and never done anything other than street.
Cool.
Srinath.
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Post by: scratch on November 21, 2004, 08:47:23 PM
Been riding 18 years...half my life.
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Post by: Dima26 on November 21, 2004, 09:27:36 PM
26 here and been riding since Oct 9th :thumb:
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Post by: cujosocal on November 21, 2004, 09:38:46 PM
41 year old (in my 2nd childhood)
Been riding for 7 mos.
Just about 2,000 miles under my 44" belt and climbing! (mileage not the belt size! :thumb: )
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Post by: Stephen072774 on November 22, 2004, 07:38:15 AM
I'm 30 and have been riding about 2 years.
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Post by: spotswood_suzuki on November 22, 2004, 07:31:17 PM
45 for another week :roll: .  This is my first bike and have been riding for 2 1/2 years.

Wayne
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Post by: Cal Price on November 23, 2004, 09:49:12 AM
I'm a begginer by GSJack's standards, 59 in Feb, first bike in summer of '63 rode a few short years then a loooooooong break until suddenly inSeptember 2001 I fancied a bike and started over again with a new Honda GS125, changed to the GS in June 03 after getting full license back in December 02.
To this day I have no idea what triggered the impulse to get a bike again but I'm real glad I did, that had a trigger affect on co-workers and a couple of them have come back, born-again bikers plus one forty-something started afresh.
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Post by: se7enty7 on November 23, 2004, 12:21:59 PM
im 20... rode dirtbikes from 12 until about 17..  had my gs... a month? two maybe?  300 miles from me lol....  darn rain... darn goats syndrome.... while I was fixing it we had BEAUTIFUL weather, and now that its fixed it rains like hell... figures...
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Post by: sanjay on November 23, 2004, 01:57:31 PM
20, got my GS two months ago and been riding ever since, but school keeps getting in the way of me putting on miles - only 700 for now.
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Post by: sprint_9 on November 23, 2004, 03:05:50 PM
20, been riding for 2 years and have gotten around 5,000 miles on the clock.  Right now Im goin through my first full GS rebuild.
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Post by: pizzleboy on November 23, 2004, 06:54:01 PM
Born in 77, do the math
riding 4 seasons.
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Post by: neonyello on November 24, 2004, 12:27:29 AM
29years old, going on 40.  Riding for a year.  5k miles logged.  Almost all on my buddy Gus.
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Post by: Michael on November 24, 2004, 05:59:27 AM
44yo, riding since 1975.  Have owned 20 motorcycles in that time, have only been without one for one year (1988).  Have lost count of the miles but probably in excess of 500,000.
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Post by: ghettorigged on November 24, 2004, 04:45:22 PM
yes, '76 was a great year.... :mrgreen:

28

started in the dirt way back when, took some time off, got back in the dirt, and now have been on the street since fall '03. MSF'd in early April '04. Got my GS on July 2nd and have put 4k miles on her. Total of about 8k street miles between both bikes... and the 'season' isn't over for me yet! :thumb:
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Post by: fettcols on November 25, 2004, 06:08:03 PM
Just turned 31... Rode a Kawasaki 750 LTD for a few years back in/after high school and sold it after joining the Army... Ended up with an "antibike" wife and quit riding for many years. I bought the new 500f the week after my divorce and love it!
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Post by: Hysyde636 on November 25, 2004, 11:48:29 PM
23...Been riding since 18, 'bout 60-70,000 miles.  Thats what happens when ya got a garage full of bikes and NO F*&^ING CAR!!! But I can't seem to sell one, there just so pretty......