Old guy on a fast bike

[Trey]

I've never seen anyone riding an motorized bicycle in person.
A few minutes ago, I happened to look out the window and there was a guy flying by with his white beard blowing straight out behind him! That 2 banger was screamin, and he was gettin it.
Feel like I spotted big foot.

 

[fatdaddy]

That coulda been me,except my beard ain't quite all white yet. I look a lot like my avitar. My beard is just a little lighter lately.
Yeah, thats right. Just cause ya get older don't mean ya can't still have a little fun once in a while. I have 3 bikes right now. My main baby is hitting 35mph, And it's fully loaded, (especially with me on her.)
fatdaddy.
IT'S YOUR BIKE, BUILD IT YOUR WAY.

 

[Trey]

Your avitar reminds me of the logo on a paper product I've been in contact with (pun intended), so I probably would have smelled you goin by! LOL

I'm gonna try and track that guy on the gas-bike down. This town is like Gilroy in the 70s, not alot of people, so I should be able to.

 

[fatdaddy]

I used to know that guy, but I haven't seen him for a while. I kinda slowed my roll the last decade or so. The only thing you would smell when I go by is 2 stroke oil.
And how do you know about Gilroy in the 70's.
fatdaddy.

 

[Trey]

Seven Trees 1989. The 'old' Gilroy was a topic of discussion for the old timers having their morning coffee on Monterey Hwy.

My old job was high stress and required an aggressive attitude, and getting mentally clear of it can be challenging. That guy has been an absolute life saver for me- truly. Turns out, I'm actually a pretty pleasant person! Like everything else in my life I'm doing later, what most people do earlier. All things in moderation my friend.

 

[Toadmund]

I am avid user of different paper products myself.

Just yesterday my gf saw me on my bike on a road I wasn't on and I didn't even have my bike out using it.
Same coat apparently.

But it wasn't me, almost like a UFO sighting it is.

Walking home from uptown I approached the lower portion of my neighborhood and there was a bike with a HT motor on it propped up against a porch fence, had no muffler on it.

It's like two UFO sightings in one day! Gonna have to zip by there a few times when I go to get gas at my regular gas station, just to amaze the other user of the HTCG with a rare sighting of his own.

(Is there anyone on this forum younger than 40? (I'm 43) )

 

[tooljunkie]

i'm one of two in my town,he's older than me.
he never rides.there are two whizzer guys,both put away and never ridden.
i like the looks i get.
i try to keep it low key,the cops are young turds and dont get it.

 

[dmb]

cops are easy... just zig when they zag... or was it the other way... i cant remember...dude!

 

[Desert Rat]

just make sure that by the time they think they see you
you're gone, up in smoke, but hey Things Are Tough All Over and
as long as they know you're still smokin things will be alright
sorry couldn't help the c and c reference

 

[2door]

It couldn't have been me if your GPS coordinates are right, but your discription is right on.

White beard, screaming 2 popper, old guy on a motorbike? Yep, but I was nowhere near where you are.

And I'm the right age to know what Zig Zags are.
Tom

 

[maniac57]

I'm still trying to get it under control after adding that third sticker...

 

[Trey]

Man, how did I know you guys were alright?! This is really a cool place. On one of my jobs I'm the foreman, and my crew age average is 20. I keep telling them that who they think are old people, were most likely cooler than them at the same age. All things follow...

Tom, about 16 inches on that beard, and you're a dead ringer for the guy I saw. (not to calling you an old guy! but...LOL)

As I thought, after asking one person, I will meet that guy on the bike soon.

 

[Toadmund]

We want to meet guys on bikes.
lol

 

[5-7HEAVEN]

I've never seen anyone riding an motorized bicycle in person.
A few minutes ago, I happened to look out the window and there was a guy flying by with his white beard blowing straight out behind him! That 2 banger was screamin, and he was gettin it.
Feel like I spotted big foot.

LOL, it couldn't have been me. I used to have a dark beard. Now I'm clean-shaven. Used to have long hair. Now I'm bald-headed or a month from being baldheaded again.
And I live on a rock in the middle of the ocean.

 

[Trey]

It couldn't have been me if your GPS coordinates are right, but your discription is right on.

White beard, screaming 2 popper, old guy on a motorbike? Yep, but I was nowhere near where you are.

And I'm the right age to know what Zig Zags are.
Tom

What's GPS? Those are map coordinates! Compass, map, declination (for me and you 12* I believe), add a trail and exploration ensues! I kid. I'd bet $ you can read a map at least as well as me, so use that gadget. I am discouraged with the almost total dependence on tech of most people under 30 though. What if any one of a million things happen, and you can't use tech? No electricity = no anything from them, they'll sit in the dark until they starve to death because they can't google what to do next. Have you heard the stories of adult persons driving into rivers, off cliffs, and into buildings because the GPS told them to? Are we idiots? At my last job, I'd get young guys in who had never seen anything other than subway maps, or whatever you see in passing in daily life. Very little pleased me more than to watch them getting smaller and smaller as I leave them, map clutched in one hand, compass in the other, middle of seriously no-frickin-where, with a look of realization on their face- "Ohhhhh, this is what maps are for."
I think that was what's called a rant. Sorry. I need some therapy, so I'm gonna go be an almost old guy on a not too fast bike right now!

 

[2door]

Well since you didn't give us minutes and seconds, my best guess is you live in Gardiner, or Big Sky. Or maybe you live in Yellowstone National Park.

I was navigating when the only satellite was Sputnik and at least today if the batteries go dead in my hand-held I can still fall back on 'dead reckoning' to find my way home.
But landing an airplane in zero-viz, it's nice to have the technology of an ILS to make things a little less tense.

Tom

 

[dmb]

cereal in the morning, 45 years ago it was rice or wheat? never had the corn.

 

[Trey]

I was navigating when the only satellite was Sputnik and at least today if the batteries go dead in my hand-held I can still fall back on 'dead reckoning' to find my way home. Tom

Roger that.

To be honest I didn't verify my coordinates, really didn't think anyone would notice! It should be Belgrade Montana, Bozeman is 10 miles east, Big Sky is 50 miles south. Sputnik.lol I thought you were going to say something like since I was a snotty nosed kid!

 

[Trey]

cereal in the morning, 45 years ago it was rice or wheat? never had the corn.

"kinda tall and a bit weird" I get , but this time you lost me. Cereal?

 

[dmb]

rice was white and the wheat were yellow papers, and if you added corn you would have all the chex cereal's. but alas, i never seen corn papers. i still know people that after 45 years, are still on the moon...what a shame, even neil armstrong came back, they are still out there, such a waste of time.