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Offline backoutonthehighway

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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #60 on: February 09, 2012, 01:12:19 AM »
Quote from: KawiG on February 08, 2012, 04:24:12 PM
I'm 40 and don't have my Connie yet "wife wont let me" but I do run around the yard with my arms extended out in front of me making noises like VROOOOOOOM....screeeech...and every now and then a BooooWaHHHHH.....bubbbmmmm pop pop... I think I'm wearing her down. May have pushed C14 arrival up from may to march! Cant wait ....Ride what makes ya feel good!
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #61 on: February 09, 2012, 04:43:47 AM »
Quote from: KawiG on February 08, 2012, 04:24:12 PM
I'm 40 and don't have my Connie yet "wife wont let me" but I do run around the yard with my arms extended out in front of me making noises like VROOOOOOOM....screeeech...and every now and then a BooooWaHHHHH.....bubbbmmmm pop pop... I think I'm wearing her down. May have pushed C14 arrival up from may to march! Cant wait ....Ride what makes ya feel good!

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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #62 on: February 09, 2012, 04:59:10 AM »
Quote from: KawiG on February 08, 2012, 04:24:12 PM
I'm 40 and don't have my Connie yet "wife wont let me" but I do run around the yard with my arms extended out in front of me making noises like VROOOOOOOM....screeeech...and every now and then a BooooWaHHHHH.....bubbbmmmm pop pop... I think I'm wearing her down. May have pushed C14 arrival up from may to march! Cant wait ....Ride what makes ya feel good!

I was about that same age when I bought my first bike, a GL500.  I told my wife that I needed a change.  It was either a mistress or a MC.  She went with the bike.  Neither of us has regretted that decision.  Little did she know, however, that the bike has become my mistress.  After buying it I would take very long rides enjoying the experience.  Come to find out in later years she thought I was having an affair.....I was, of course, with the bike.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #63 on: February 09, 2012, 07:10:25 AM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on February 09, 2012, 04:59:10 AM
I was about that same age when I bought my first bike, a GL500.  I told my wife that I needed a change.  It was either a mistress or a MC.  She went with the bike.  Neither of us has regretted that decision.  Little did she know, however, that the bike has become my mistress.  After buying it I would take very long rides enjoying the experience.  Come to find out in later years she thought I was having an affair.....I was, of course, with the bike.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #64 on: February 09, 2012, 08:17:45 AM »
A little over the top....midlife, for here... 
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #65 on: February 09, 2012, 08:50:49 AM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on February 09, 2012, 08:17:45 AM
A little over the top....midlife, for here...

Since I had to use my imagination on the link that was posted by MidLifeCrisis, I assumed the worst and laughed pretty "hard".   ;D
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #66 on: February 09, 2012, 01:54:45 PM »
Oops, my bad.  I just assumed that what was kosher for broadcast TV was okay here too.  Then again, SNL does push the limits.  That "car commercial" spoof was one of the funniest I can remember.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #67 on: February 09, 2012, 02:01:12 PM »
Quote from: Jeremy Mitchell on February 09, 2012, 08:50:49 AM
Since I had to use my imagination on the link that was posted by MidLifeCrisis, I assumed the worst and laughed pretty "hard".   ;D

I had to use my imagination too and saw something totally different...   :P
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #68 on: February 09, 2012, 02:06:46 PM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on February 09, 2012, 08:17:45 AM
A little over the top....midlife, for here...

 ???  I missed it!  :banghead:
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #69 on: February 09, 2012, 02:11:03 PM »
Yes, you did...   ;)
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #70 on: February 09, 2012, 02:14:49 PM »
 :-X   :grouphug:   ;)
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #71 on: February 09, 2012, 02:44:47 PM »
Anyhoo, since I was guilty of taking this thread too far astray, I will try to redeem myself and steer it back on topic...

A little more than a week of owning my C14, I've already met up with 3 other C14s on my commuter route.  One of them was exactly the same Candy Red '09 as mine.  One I had a pleasant chat with at the local CycleGear store parking lot, and the gentlemen was older than I am.  The other two I rode together only briefly but "appear" to be older than I am.  So all in all, it's nice to feel youngish amongs my fellow C14 riders.

Definitely better than feeling like an old man on the ZX10R all leathered up and barely cracking the speed limit, when these twenty-sumthin's wail by at 90mph on their 600 supersports with jeans, sneakers and T-shirt flapping in the wind.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #72 on: February 09, 2012, 02:57:45 PM »
Quote from: MidlifeCrisis on February 09, 2012, 02:44:47 PM
Anyhoo, since I was guilty of taking this thread too far astray, I will try to redeem myself and steer it back on topic...

Don't worry about that, it happens all the time.  In fact, we encourage it.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #73 on: February 09, 2012, 04:28:41 PM »
it IS  a good 2 up bike .
 I never thought it was very sporty though.
Although it does have good power, just not suitable for twisties .For me anyway. Just to damn heavy.
Lighter is just so much more fun.I realize many love this bike I just could not bond.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #74 on: February 10, 2012, 04:59:28 PM »
I agree on with the bike not being light,  but in most cases there is no real disadvantage to it being heavy.  Obviously it wont snap around like a supersport, but wind coming off of an 18 wheeler has very little effect on the bike.  The handling is amazing...just more effort needed than my sv650.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #75 on: March 13, 2012, 01:19:49 PM »
I'm 27, and was the youngest Concours rider at the 2011 national. I ride a 2000 C10, and I'd argue that that's more of an old man's bike than yours! (Still love it though!)
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #76 on: March 13, 2012, 01:24:02 PM »
No.
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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #77 on: March 13, 2012, 06:47:57 PM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on March 13, 2012, 01:24:02 PM
No.

No? Non? Pourquoi "no?"

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Re: Am I to young for a concours???
« Reply #78 on: March 13, 2012, 06:54:30 PM »
Sorry about that chief.  I was responding to the OP.   Had a brane freeze.   27 is a fine age.  I was 27 once and that was over 27 years ago.
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