Got to give up riding......

[Flatbadger]

Glad to hear you're still in this realm! At least you did yourself in having fun, I'm doing it with chicken tikka pasties. They're great but the stories afterwards aren't as good.
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[Azoth]

Is he the finished product, I wonder? What meaning could there possibly be left to uncover, on a fearful old woman's and a quack's vague assurance of a couple more decades of life, probably fraught with some discomfort and sickness? Unpersuaded by Sartre or Camus? What would you consider your bona mors, Polarbear?
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[Bubbs]

Can you get on the list for heart transplant? It seems we have more and more contenders for the Darwin awards, must be plenty of organs flying around.
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[MarJay]

Yamaha make more than just bikes you know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ars458hcETE
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[Polarbear]

Thanks for cheering me up chaps ans chapesses. I knew I could count on BCF

I'm 59. According to the doctor that's young if you have been to choir practice on Sundays but not if your religion was rallys, pubs, football and houses of ill repute

I will see how I feel in the summer and possibly get back in to biking someway even if it is just a 70's smoker I ride to the local meet on a sunny Sunday.

For other hobbies I still have my boat although half the fun of cruising the canals was finding canal side pubs. Diet coke is never as good as a foaming pint or two after a days cruising.

I shall become one of those 'I had one back in 1910' people just to annoy the youth of today,
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[pepperami]

[quote="Polarbear/] just annoy the youth of today, [quote]

There you go, we've found you a new hobby
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[Alpineandy]

Glad to hear you're still in the land of the living... or at least close to it Get well soon.

[recman]

Bad luck on the old ticker situation PB.

[stevo as b4]

for having a boat though! I reckon I could force myself to play with a melodic thumpy marine diesel, and I'd spend my summer evenings canal fishing, I've always loved it more than overstocked pools, or river fishing which is often hard work for fuck all reward, well if your crap like me it is!

Get yourself on the mend, and if things calm down by the summer, I reckon swapping your capable but heavy sports tourer, for a classic 70's smoker would be a pretty cool move and the scream of an RD350, or Suzuki super six would get me dribbling in no time.

If you accept bikes for just a bit of sunny summer bimbling about on, instead of actually going places on them or using them for distance touring or commuting, a small light classic is unbeatable IMO. Hell I'd even be open to a nicely restored Lambretta TS1 with a nice custom paint job, and a big chrome fat spannie for summer dicking around on.

I don't do enough miles to warrant a proper or serious or capable bike, and I probably never will again, so a laugh your cock off classic for shooting up on nostalgia with is where it's at for me anyway.

Oh and though it's not the same, real proper ice cold still traditional lemonade is a fine summer evenings drink IMO too!

[Pigeon]

Obviously health is #1, but that's a bitch!

On the plus side, think of all the money you'll save from not getting speeding fines or burning through a set of tyres every 4k miles.


As you say, options to reconsider things at a later date too.

Hope it goes well!

[Howling Terror]

It could be worse...At least you've still got your health.





















Chin up lad, you've probably done more on bikes than most of us.
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[BTTD]

Really sorry to hear that, I hope that with a bit more recovery time things look up a bit.

[Enduro Numpty]

I'm sorry to read of your health problems. I had a fairly major heart attack 13 years ago (aged 42). It completely floored me. It doesn't sound in the same league as your problem but I did come back. I chucked the fags, watched my diet, exercised and got the work/life balance a bit more tuned to life rather than work.

Diet and exercise have wained a bit but I'm still off the fags and give a lot less of a shit about work than before. Hopefully with a bit of time, rehab', lifestyle alteration and medication you'll start to feel a bit better.

Maybe postpone selling your bikes? See how you feel when the sun's shining?

Best of luck whatever you decide.

[Fizzer Thou]

I too am 59 but do not plan to be giving up bikes or biking in the foreseeable future.I already have a timetable of a few fun enduros,three hour hare and hound events and a Summer tour around France with Mrs.Fizzer.

Luckily I was able to kick smoking many years ago and have not eaten shyte food for three years (chocolate,cakes and biscuits).Not sure how I would give up having a few beers though

At least you have been given the opportunity to look back on life Polarbear.Some people have not had that and forced themselves to try and disprove advice.Just take things easy for a while and see how things pan out.
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[Sun Wukong]

What would wifey say about one of these?

https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8277/29029790601_07ba0a8308_b.jpg
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[Sun Wukong]

[andyscooter]

[BTTD]

Maybe a morgan three wheeler?
I've often thought that if I wasn't into bikes I'd quite fancy something raw like that for fun.

[Polarbear]

I've owned trikes and Goldwings....

https://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f261/WhiteFurryBear/WFBs%20Trike.jpg

For a 3 wheeler I quite fancy a Can Am but I don't think I will go down that road. As I said before, if I ride again a nostalgic light weight bike will be my weapon of choice..

Whatever happens I'm not going to do long distance touring on a bike anymore and that was my sole reason for the Trophy. FFS, I've just bought and installed the latest silly expensive TomTom Rider on it. It's never been used in anger.

So, I will sell or part ex it for something very silly. An H3 or an RD400. Even a Benelli 2C although I expect spares are of the rocking horse poo variety.

We shall see.

Stupid thing is I'm already feeling loads better and whereas 5 days ago the thought of holding up/manoeuvring my 300kg monster was a joke, I fancy getting out on it again now. Amazing what modern medicine can do nowadays.
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[Alpineandy]

The single front wheel trikes are such odd handling things.
The single rear wheel trikes do at least have the benefit of being vaguely car like... much more stable.
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