Evidence of getting older and squarer . . .

[martin734]

[panrider_uk]

[hellkat]

[mentalboy]

[pepperami]

Nerggh! Go on , get out of it! Go on bugger orff!


I know I’m getting old last night I had a bit of a sneezing fit, and every time I sneezed I farted
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[stinkwheel]

You're not getting old until the first thing you discuss when you meet up is your various ailments and what treatments you're on. If the state and frequency of your urination/ bowel movements comes into it, you have definitely arrived.

Also when your bike club meets up for a hoon about on their sportsbikes and you realise that more than half of the bikes are now over 25 years old but you aren't a classic bike club.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[stinkwheel]

[thx1138]

I just walked past a landscape gardener, and asked if I could have the old picket fence on top of the rubbish in his trailer, for my allotment

[Tracey Suntan-King]

I think you're properly old when you own a set of those bag clips that hold a part full bag of crisps/pasta/nuts or frozen peas/chips/prawns shut (and fresh).

Oh, and a set of cake forks
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[chickenstrip]

Do you spend more time in the "grinds my gears" thread and politics section of BCF than the bike sections and threads? You're past it
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Bhud]

I've never owned a sports bike and probably never will.
I think younger people probably have the same mentality as me, i.e. don't bother playing a game you can't win. And you really can't win. The ones who win have been trained since childhood, they win the MotoGP, and they don't ride on the road. If you can reach those heights then of course you should try. Otherwise you're competing with flakey mates to be the first to lose their licence or get their manually-propelled 4 wheeler, if you catch my drift. Plus the boys hang lower year by year, so there's that comfort problem. I do appreciate that there's another pov, and I think it's valid as well: just get what makes you happy because life is short.

[pepperami]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

I asked what your excuse was
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Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[hellkat]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[stinkwheel]

[hellkat]

I went to get milk and eggs, and I came back with a new orchid.

There were three, and I would have had all of them, but I couldn't have carried them all.

It's my mother who is the Hyacinth Bucket/Dame Edna Everage hybrid in this family, not me
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