Everybody seems to get retired. Am I the only one below 30? :)

[Aaron D.]

First Guzzi at 18.
Nixon was president.

[romanoaf]

28, I now own 2 guzzis

[CapitalGoose]

36 here. First Guzzi. First bike, really. Well, that I've owned at any rate! Not retired yet, and a long way to go yet!

[Dean Rose]

Let's see, when was I thirty?


Dean

[Solojoe]

I was amused when some young guy commented about me, the old guy still riding. Give him a few years and he will value the experience he obtained in his youth - just like I do now.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

First Guzzi at 18.
Nixon was president.

First Guzzi (Convert) at 19.
Reagan was president.

Owned my '69 Ambassador since I was 34.

I haven't been "Bad" since I was 9, "Good" most of the time since then, "Awesome" (it never was - more like "Bearable") for a short time in the '90s. Glad I never made it "Hang On" or "WTF".

[hooah54]

I retired for the second time at 56.  That was five years ago. Sold my bike when I was a new dad in 85.  Got my next bike in 03.  Always wanted a Guzzi and got it just two years ago.  Life, career, and family can really take a toll on your hobbies.  Still have a hard time thinking of  myself as... old

[Rick4003]

I am 26 I think im the youngest member so far.

I am 27, so we're close.

I just turned 30... does that put me in the "old" group??

Looks like it! 

First Guzzi at 18.
Nixon was president.

I bought my first Guzzi last year, so pretty new to them, but have always loved them and have wanted one since I found out about them. I guess I must have been around 15 or something like that. Guzzis was way out of my price range when I started riding at 19, even the v35, so I had to keep dreaming about one.

Then last year after I graduated I was finally able to buy me a Guzzi! And I bought one I couldn't register or ride, which was a bit silly but it was way too cool to pass up. Now I am rebuilding it in the shape of a modern V7, or my idea of a modern V7 sport. I will start a build thread about when I get home on holiday in December, hope to get some time to work on it.


Good to hear that all of you are still young by heart, even if the birth certificate shows something else 

Sadly I don't really get any riding done, it is bloody difficult riding a bike that's 12000km away!    I have bought a small 160cc Honda to ride around in the weekend so I get to ride a little bit, but it really doesn't compare!

[jas67]

36 here. First Guzzi. First bike, really. Well, that I've owned at any rate! Not retired yet, and a long way to go yet!

My first street bike was a Guzzi as well, a 2009 V7 Classic when I was 43 (which was only 4 years ago).
and, like CapitalGoose, not retired yet, and a long way to go.

[Rick4003]

Now, if you want to ask the question of whether the brand and the style of these bikes attracts more riders who are buying their second, third, or nth bike, that has a pretty clear answer. After all, the average below-30 person hasn't learned the difference between Chablis and Chardonnay - let alone a GSX-R and a Griso! 

Have no clue about the difference between Chablis and Chardonnay, but would pick a Griso over any GSXR/YZF-R/CBRR/ZX-R or what ever they are called. In fact the SE Tenni must be my dream bike of all! That thing is gorgeous!

I have a FZR600 Yamaha which I have had for about four years, I like the bike, it rides really well but is totally lacking character. It is a sewing machine, but a pretty fast one( in 1989)

[mach1mustang351]

The last company I worked for I started with them when I was 18. I went to a different company (same field) for a couple years then came back. They knew me since I was a kid. It used to be, I would always hear how I was the youngest to do this or that, or I have a lot of potential being so young.... then before I knew it, I was just a guy. Doing the job. So I guess 30 is old. Okay there is my daily rant.

[Arizona Wayne]

When I was in my 30s,  50 was considered old.   Now @ 72 I consider 65 is when you are approaching old.  I meet people all the time in their 80s who don't look that old to me.  Still can't believe I'm 72 now.  Some ways I act like that but in some ways I don't, like MC riding. 

[slowmover]

60 and waiting for a non-existent future buyout.How did I get here,what am I doing,where am I going??

[Pancake]

No you're not the only one under 30! I'm under 30 too.

No wait, hold on, turns out I'm 50! All the joys and wisdom of being older without looking older.

No wait, that's not true either! Damn those reality checks!

[oldbike54]

No you're not the only one under 30! I'm under 30 too.

No wait, hold on, turns out I'm 50! All the joys and wisdom of being older without looking older.

No wait, that's not true either! Damn those reality checks!

 Failing vision is nature's way of keeping us from realizing how old we look 

  Dusty

[krglorioso]

Retired in 1984 at age 47.  Back to work at 50.  Retired again at 70.  Returned on call to same job 4 months later, as anticipated.  Now 78, no intention of retiring.  It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Ralph

[Sasquatch Jim]

I was 26 once, sometime last century.

 I was 26 in the last millenia but I don't remember it very well.

[wymple]

Retired in 1984 at age 47.  Back to work at 50.  Retired again at 70.  Returned on call to same job 4 months later, as anticipated.  Now 78, no intention of retiring.  It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Ralph

Then you are doing it all wrong.

[canuguzzi]

Not retired, just stopped working and started collecting on past hard work.

Retirement is a furnace or box in the ground.

[Unkept]

yo Joe, you still with us?

Still lurking.

-Joe (currently 26)

[HDGoose]

I started riding Guzzi's when I was 27, in 1988. I remember those old farts at the rallies. And I was single. Back in 1990 I carried three different women to three different Guzzi rallies in a month. Had the old men in trouble, and their wives furious! 

[Nic in Western NYS]

I announced to my children that beginning on my 39th birthday I would henceforth count the years backwards.  I'm 23.

[Guido Valvole]

I recently turned 21. For the third time... 
That's ok, next year I turn 40. In hexadecimal.
cr

[Nic in Western NYS]

I recently turned 21. For the third time... 
That's ok, next year I turn 40. In hexadecimal.
cr

We might all be old, but on what other motorcycle list are you going to get a base 16 reference?

[ITSec]

First Guzzi at 18.
Nixon was president.

First bike (not a Guzzi, a Suzi X6) when I was 16.
Nixon was president, Trudeau was PM, and Duff Roblin had built the ditch just a couple years before...

(bonus points for anyone who knows about the ditch)

[anthracer12]

I am 26 I think im the youngest member so far.

I'm 26 too if that makes you feel any better. 27 in February.

[56Pan]

Then you are doing it all wrong.

 :1: Amen.

[breva750]

I recently turned 21. For the third time... 
That's ok, next year I turn 40. In hexadecimal.
cr

so you're a million dollar man (64 decimal in binary, base 2 = 1000000)

[Rick4003]

What kind of suspenders do you have?

 

None at the moment I'm afraid, but am seriously considering getting the red kind so I can join the Red suspender snapping action that goes on here! 

[krglorioso]

Then you are doing it all wrong.

Not doing it wrong at all.  Retiring fully would be wrong for me and I certainly don't need the income.  I like to work and I pick jobs that I can go to with a sense of enthusiasm.  The free time Guzzi rides are all the sweeter for it.

Ralph