I'm 57, but there are some days when I feel like I'm 67 and far fewer days when I feel like I'm 27 again. For you young fellows out here under 50, enjoy all the abuse while you can, it does catch up with you though later on. A good hard run on the Marienville bike trail pretty much does me in anymore. Some of us have not slowed up over the years, but we find that recovery(survival) is a lot longer these days. I think it's a mindset of wanting to keep doing the same thing, but not smart enough to realize that we really should slow up a bit. Unfortunately I'm not that smart and have not been able to slow much at all. My wife thinks I need serious psychological help . . . she's probably right, butI don't listen that well anymore either.

Keep on keep'in on.

Trader Jack
www.godigital-design.com/schultzmotrsports

 

hey expeditioneer, i hear ya buddy, lol. What ever happened to the good ol' 8 track, lol. i am still trying to figure out when a 250 got SMALL? learning to ride without the ol' undies, do to the hole riding up thing, heehee. I got a 660, and everyone keeps asking me when i am going to add a muffler and jet it??? why??? it can kill me just fine the way it is!My bone breakage limit was 10, and i reached it last year, so i have got to slow down, lol.
i am stil trying to figure out how to use this damn contraption so i havent figured out how to find anything on it.
zz top is way into retirement, so eliminator is all that will remain.
a gps is my new bible, couse i DONT want to get lost in the wild when it gets dark, lmao!
And finally, one of mine own!!! Why does everyone try to find easy fixes for there machines? It just seems so much easier to buy new things that will work just fine, aint it? Then again, a 72 chevy used to get me around just fine, and now i'm looking at the 2001 and wondering if i should of got leather, lmao!

 

I just can't believe how many old farts there are around here!
I think that the moderaters need to start a geriatric thread.
As long as I can grab the the bars and hold on, this old guy will be out there SOMEWHERE, in the woods!!!!!

 

Just think guys-Arnold Schwarzenegger is 54 years young.

 

TRX450 --

I don't consider myself an "old fart" as your description goes. I think you may fit that description yourself, but many of us that are over 50-60 have more respect for each other than you do for yourself. If the shoe fits . . .

You are a really old man.

Trader Jack
www.godigital-design.com/schultzmotorsports

 

Hey Jack--- Cut me some slack..... I was pokin' some fun at myself and a few others here. No harm intended. That's too bad you missed my point. Lighten up a little, O.K.??????

 

I'm 62 and love my Raptor and speed. It would be very hard to go back to something tamer.
As far as being "old", I'd like to remind the younger ones of a little quote I saw a long time ago on a gravestone in Co. "Where you are now I once was, where I am now you will soon to be"

 

Hey Jack LIGHTEN UP YOU OLD FART
Bearman

 

Mark here,

Turned 52 this year. My 16 year-old daughter is an MXer, so I decided to try quadding so I could race at her events (20 years of sports car racing wasn't enough). Dirt and air are not my elements, so it's been very hard to get acclimated, still, I'm looking forward to next season on a new Z400 Suzuki. But, the most fun I've had was a day trip riding on jeep trails in the Cascade mountains, here in Washington.

Whenever I start wondering if I should be doing this, I just remind myself that Mario Andretti was 54 when he retired from CART. Besides, is there such a thing as enough throttle steer?

 

49.5 here. Just got my first sport 4wheeler Nov 2000 and my second in feb 2001, both are Raptors. I have always tried to have some kind of toys for fun, dirt bikes, Jet boats, Odyseys and now 4wheelers. I have a 350 honda 4X4 that is left over from a small farm that my son used as his transportation when he was 12 (19now) and then I bought him a 1997 300ex. Last year I wanted to go riding with him and his friends at the dunes and he said it would be ok but I would not be able to keep up with them so I could stay back and ride with the old people. The next day I went and bought my first Raptor, a set of sand tires and roosted him all weekend at the dunes. I was at first going to let him have the Raptor and sell his 300 after the dune trip but I had so much fun I decided to keep it. He got a Raptor a week after we got back and I bought another Raptor 3 months later. I do the inviting now for dune and other riding trips. We now ride every week and have built a mx track at a friends property with trails and a drag area. We get into the whose bike is fastest everytime we ride and have a blast. I also like a good putt on a nice 4X4, fast or slow it is all good. We make Dune trip about every 6 weeks with a growing group of friends. I do not ride as fast as some but not as slow as most. LOL. The faster ones are not that far ahead either and a lot of the time they would think they were far enough ahead to pull over and rest and before they got their helments of I was up with them asking why they were resting again. Raptorrider2001 is always right with me. We do at times wonder how they ride so fast in some places or are we just riding smarter, LOL. Love the rush of power and speed. There is another friend that rides (Raptor) with us that is 66 and he seems like he was born on the dunes. Did somebody say this was only a young persons sport? Most of us had parents that could not or would not buy this kind of stuff when I was young so I have to do it all that I can do now.