How many years riding experiance?

[chickenstrip]

All road (and the odd inadvertent off-road excursion ) for me. Never ridden any kind of off-roader in my life, no desire to. Never ragged a C90 around a field, and none of my mates were into that either. I'm a tarmac junkie!
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[Derek1943]

Hi

Years since I started riding just 57. Have Triumph Tiger 800 XCx at present.

Just three accidents during that time. One my fault taking a bend to fast some 55 years ago. One hit by a car turning in front of me across my path, his fault that was about 54 years years ago and then more recently in Morocco a dog ran out under the front wheel and took me clean off onto tarmac, I was going about 50mph and luckily never broke a bone but boy was I bruised and needed six stitches. The bike was protected by the engine crash bars and amazingly very little damage. Now sold on and replaced by the Triumph.

Derek

[-Matt-]

2 years on CBT - Speedfight & R125
8 years on license - ZX6R

[M.C]

[-Matt-]

Still waiting to see how much I can kill this one off first .

Probably won't take much longer.

I've put about 55k on it so far but to be honest could happily keep it longer if it remained reliable - can't really fault it.

[Ste]

[Reminiscing] I should never have sold my ZX6R.

[talkToTheHat]

Fooled around with a PW and DT on private land as a teen in the 90s. 14 months of CBT in my late 20s, followed by 2 years of 33bhp and nearly another 3 now of an unrestricted license. About 10k a year, only interrupted for about 3 weeks when I killed an engine.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Passed my test in '91, so 26 years.
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[kevin_cambs_uk]

Just gone over 4 years, it still makes me smile when I look at the pass certificates, cause passing the MOD1 and 2 was an achievement I think. It certainly worth the effort.

[arry]

[Tracer1234]

Out of interest, how many of you all didn't "pass" their CBT first time?
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[qarka]

1 year CBT
7 years full licence (2 restricted to 33bhp)
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[arry]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I think miles can often be more important than years.
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[Copycat73]

[winz]

Straight in for DAS in the winter of 2015, so 2.5 years.
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[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

[dodsi]

I passed my test on a 125 in November 2004 which is coming up 13 years I suppose.

CBT for about a year before that.

Although I still own an immaculate and low mileage '99 ZX9R it's 300 miles away from me and I have not ridden it for probably 4/5 years. My old man makes use of it occasionally.

Unsure I would even go back on it to be fair. When I did ride, I rode every day nearly no matter the time of year so have clocked up a lot of miles - probably approaching 80K.

[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[DrSnoosnoo]

0 - hero with 2 attempts at Mod1.

ZZR600 for 5 years and about 33k miles on that.
Had a CG125 for a short time too.
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[stevo as b4]

While I do generally agree with that, and also about mileage being a totally pointless misnomer, I'd say bikes for me (on the road at least) is more about the fun I had, the places, mates, events and rides that are in the memory bank.

Im a bit of a nostalgia Queen admittedly these days about alot of stuff. Its the same for things like music/night clubbing. IMO the late Rave- electronic dance- trance scene will never be beaten. It was a great time to be going out, and teenagers and 20 somethings today will never have a period as good or music that was so seminal or outstanding. They only have disappointment and crap to look forward to today>.

I like what we used to ride in the 80's&90's, and until it gets too hard or expensive or rare, I just want to surround myself with this era machinery and hopefully spend more time working on them than riding them.

I know I'm a negative fucker, and don't get me wrong put me on a sunny mountainous warm Mediterranean island on a nice small modern supermoto or trail bike, and I'll come home raving about how good bikes are. But polluted cities full of stationary objects on wheels, wankers, and overused under maintained grid locked roads, and I only see misery, stress and resentment and the best superbike in the world won't change that!