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Topic: Midlife crisis. I think I should...
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FaithFool
♀ 20150
Member # 20150 |  Posted: 2:42 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 |     |
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Posts: 20631 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: Canada |
Sad in AZ
♀ 24239
Member # 24239 | | Posted: 3:04 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 | |
I thought I was having a MLC 'cause I'm thinking about a tattoo for my 60th b-day... 
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-62
Him: WXH-62
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
Posts: 25300 | Registered: Jun 2009 | From: Arizona |
TrustedHer
♂ 23328
Member # 23328 | | Posted: 3:57 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 | |
My bike (which is for sale) is an ancestor of that one.
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation has a great class, and I highly recommend it. One of the things they teach is that everything on 4 wheels is trying to kill you.
I'd love to ride again, but I had trouble enough in small towns in Illinois.
Houston traffic? Forget it!
Take care of yourself. There's a great future out there. It won't come to you; you have to go to it.
Posts: 5687 | Registered: Mar 2009 | From: DeepInTheHeartOf, TX |
FaithFool
♀ 20150
Member # 20150 | | Posted: 9:32 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 | |
It is a pretty thing isn't it?
I wouldn't dream of taking it on until I was thoroughly trained and it would strictly be weekend backroad type cruising if I had the guts to actually get one.
No highways for me.... and after years of commuting on two wheels (the non-motorized variety) I always assume everyone else is drunk, blind or both.
I doubt if it will happen but it would be sooooooo much fun to have one.
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Posts: 20631 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: Canada |
solus sto
♀ 30989
Member # 30989 | | Posted: 9:40 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 | |
Ooh. Purty!
BS-me, 55; WX-irrelevant
Divorced after an eternity
"So much for the past and present. The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to let that scare you." Tenn
Posts: 15246 | Registered: Jan 2011 | From: midwest |
Kajem
♀ 36134
Member # 36134 | | Posted: 11:37 PM, June 14th (Saturday), 2014 | |
Sweet!!!!
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - Unknown
Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
Posts: 6708 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: Florida |
TrulyReconciled
♂ 3031
Member # 3031 | | Posted: 11:06 AM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
I'm there ... 
"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."
Posts: 22740 | Registered: Dec 2003 | From: Hell and back, way back :o) |
Newlease
♀ 7767
Member # 7767 | | Posted: 2:48 PM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
I got my motorcycle endorsement at age 50. Now I have my own cycle - a Victory Kingpin Low and I've ridden it on two long vacations (over 700 miles one way) as well as short evening and weekend rides. I LOVE IT!
I say go for it!
NL
Even if you can't control the world around you, you are still the master of your own soul.
Posts: 8232 | Registered: Aug 2005 |
FaithFool
♀ 20150
Member # 20150 | | Posted: 8:26 PM, June 16th (Monday), 2014 | |
NL, do you get bugs in yer teeth?
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Posts: 20631 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: Canada |
tushnurse
♀ 21101
Member # 21101 | | Posted: 9:22 AM, June 17th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
I think you absolutely should.
Nothing is as freeing as feeling that machine beneath you, and the wind and sun on your face.
I love to ride (without bikes right now) and will again in a few years I'm sure.
I say go for it.
Me: FBS
Him: FWS
Kids: 18 & 20
Married for 22 years now, was 16 at the time. .
D-Day Sept 26 2008
R'd in about 2 years. Old Vet now.
Posts: 13089 | Registered: Oct 2008 | From: St. Louis |
Newlease
♀ 7767
Member # 7767 | | Posted: 10:19 AM, June 17th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
FF - you learn to keep your mouth shut when riding. Plus I have a windscreen that catches the bugs and rocks that get thrown at me!
NL
Even if you can't control the world around you, you are still the master of your own soul.
Posts: 8232 | Registered: Aug 2005 |
TheRealDeal
♀ 39560
Member # 39560 | | Posted: 10:56 AM, June 17th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
I say go for it! I owned a motorcycle but sold it 20+ years ago.
we love to ride on his touring motorcycle and go every chance we can.
But last year I got the desire to ride myself again.
Bought a 150CC cherry red Vespa scooter. It is awesome. It satisfies my need to ride and is just the right size motor for me now. I've done 100+mile day-trips by myself. When doing local rides we substitute the 1300CC bike with the Vespa; we both hop on and off we go.
As tushnurse said: Nothing is as freeing as feeling that machine beneath you, and the wind and sun on your face.
Me (BS): 47 him (Xws): 55
together 18 years
DDay1, DDay2, Dday 3: March - June 2013
Dday4 + June 2015 through January 2016
Status: done I called it quits 1-6-2016
The hardest part of letting go is realizing there wasn't much left to hold on to
Posts: 481 | Registered: Jun 2013 | From: Northeast |
FaithFool
♀ 20150
Member # 20150 | | Posted: 9:25 AM, June 19th (Thursday), 2014 | |
I'm waffling on this mainly because right now the two-wheeler I ride makes me burn calories... the last thing I need is another toy that makes me lazy.
Other than that, it's looking like my MLC $$$ is going into my front teeth next year, so we'll just put this on hold for now.
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
Posts: 20631 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: Canada |
lynnm1947
♀ 15300
Member # 15300 | | Posted: 9:12 AM, June 20th (Friday), 2014 | |
Hey, if you want it, go for it. Friends of mine (including one woman my age, too!) have taken their motorcycles down through Canada/US/Mexico/Central America to tour through South America. I live vicariously through their FB updates because no way in hell am I riding through deserts and snowstorms on a bike!
Age: 64..ummmmmmm, no...............65....no...oh, hell born in 1947. You figure it out!
"I could have missed the pain, but I would have had to miss the dance." Garth Brooks
Posts: 8747 | Registered: Jul 2007 | From: Toronto, Canada |
cryingdaily
♀ 7276
Member # 7276 | | Posted: 2:50 PM, June 20th (Friday), 2014 | |
Ab-so-friggin-lutely you should! I'm going to. Hopefully within a year.  FYI, I turn 50 in August.
ETA: You guys can sooooo see me on a bike, huh? [This message edited by cryingdaily at 2:51 PM, June 20th (Friday)]
Posts: 14418 | Registered: Jun 2005 | From: Massachusetts |
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