Concerned About Growing Old?

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Evidently most bikers today are old. No youngsters are stepping in to replace the old timers. So said the news reporter covering the annual rally in Laconia NH this past summer, and for sure it was a sea of grey-haired riders behind and around him. How can that even be? So your cartoon is not so far fetched.
 

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Evidently most bikers today are old. No youngsters are stepping in to replace the old timers. So said the news reporter covering the annual rally in Laconia NH this past summer, and for sure it was a sea of grey-haired riders behind and around him. How can that even be? So your cartoon is not so far fetched.

one of my nephews tried to step in but ended up wiping out a few weeks ago by hitting a stick. now he will be months in recovering and will probably have lifelong issues (like one of his uncles (me), but also all four of us siblings have had motorcycle wipe outs or injuries). i really hope his brother rethinks getting one (he was considering it last time we saw him) because i don't really think he's got the head for it any more than his brother did.

even with me taking a motorcycle safety course and trying to be careful i still messed up and there's very little room for errors on a motorcycle. :( gravity can be a harsh mistress...
 

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one of my nephews tried to step in but ended up wiping out a few weeks ago by hitting a stick. now he will be months in recovering and will probably have lifelong issues (like one of his uncles (me), but also all four of us siblings have had motorcycle wipe outs or injuries). i really hope his brother rethinks getting one (he was considering it last time we saw him) because i don't really think he's got the head for it any more than his brother did.

even with me taking a motorcycle safety course and trying to be careful i still messed up and there's very little room for errors on a motorcycle. :( gravity can be a harsh mistress...

Same here I put more trust my horses…than deal with another motorcycle crash..it’s the other auto drivers that are the problem.
 

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Grandpa’s SNL was better than the SNL now.

Mom was watching some DVD last night and it was so bad even here in the other room that i got up and told her to turn it off. some kind of practical jokers stuff, just can't stand laugh tracks and idiots - which is just as bad as commercial radio or tv stuff... she said she watches it for hours a day where she is staying to help out someone and i said you couldn't pay me enough to watch that. the thing is the whole time she was watching it she didn't laugh once... not once did i hear a peep from her, and i also know she wasn't sleeping because i can usually hear her snore. :) so... i did give it a half hour. that's about my limit. if she really does want to watch stuff like that i can put on ear muffs and so i will not hear it, but she didn't object at all to me turning it off.

we put in a movie _Shall We Dance_ which she's not watched in a while and she enjoyed that a lot more (and me too :) even if i'm just listening to it).
 

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