How old?
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I'm 43, but this isn't the first time I've bolted an engine onto something. Just the first time I built a "Motorized Bicycle". When I was a kid I had a hand made go cart with a lawn mower engine that I kept transferring to other things or a newer better go cart. I grew up, into my teens, putting one kind of motor into another kind of thing, or putting a motor on something that didn't originally have one, or putting a motor where it didn't belong and finding out why, or building a motor, or you name it.
72 and working on 15. Like Dan, I'm growing younger (at least in interest) each year and still having fun in retirement. Like many others, I got started in my teens when my brothers and I re-built motorscooters and motorbikes for basic transportation. The thrill of riding a powered bike or scooter that you had assembled yourself was unmatched, and still is a blast.
I ain't sayin but I can remember how excited I was when we got a telephone that you could dial instead of having to tell the operator what number you wanted.
I turned 35 last month. Built my first MaB just before I turned 30.
Some say it's all downhill after 30. I agree, sure is easy to go fast now
Some say it's all downhill after 30. I agree, sure is easy to go fast now
Thanks for the replys. Sorry Barelyawake, I could not find anything on here that had been posted about age. But I'm not good at this computer search thing. I've reworked alot of bikes when I was younger. But not with a motor. Did the motorcycle thing,go karts, cars, but wanting to do something different. Would like to build a 4 stroker board tracker to ride to work. Really seen some awesome work on here.
57, but I've wanted to build one since I was 8 yr. old and Larry Vince , the "big kid," came up the alley throwing gravel on his Whizzer .
21, built mine few months before i turned 21. hoping to keep this one for a long time. even looking into building a chopper bike (debating 2 or 4 stroke right now)
74 and still going strong. I can remember when everything was either on or off with a switch.
buzzard
buzzard
I was born the year after the most notorious unsolved murder in L.A., so it wasn't me. Besides I was born in Texas.
57 I-sure-don't-want-to fall-again- years old.
I was watching the re-run of the Giro d'Italia stage where that Belgian rider crashed and died this week- and I noticed that American peter Stetina also fell on the descent about the same time-
I think his father is Wayne Stetina- a racing friend of mine from Indianapolis who won many Road titles back in the '70's. i started getting beat by him regularly when I was 18.
Crashes are nothing to take lightly- a helmet has literally saved my own life I'm certain, when I crashed into the front of a Chevy head on while traveling about 60.
Our bikes travel at a speed cabable of sustaining really bad head or spinal injuries-
so please, where a cycling helmet at least.
I was watching the re-run of the Giro d'Italia stage where that Belgian rider crashed and died this week- and I noticed that American peter Stetina also fell on the descent about the same time-
I think his father is Wayne Stetina- a racing friend of mine from Indianapolis who won many Road titles back in the '70's. i started getting beat by him regularly when I was 18.
Crashes are nothing to take lightly- a helmet has literally saved my own life I'm certain, when I crashed into the front of a Chevy head on while traveling about 60.
Our bikes travel at a speed cabable of sustaining really bad head or spinal injuries-
so please, where a cycling helmet at least.
