How many older guys ride VFR?

I'm 49 and have had my 94 VFR a little over a month and after it's makeover it's a great bike. I don't feel old at all, just experienced.

Tom H

 

I'm 53 I just bought a VFR 750 95mod from an 83 year old uncle of a mate of mine. He had not ridden it for three years, but was always reluctant to let it go as he thought he may take it for one last blast. He finally made the decision to sell.

I also ride a CRF 450x with the same guys (about 6 regulars) who are also around my age, we try to getaway for either a trail ride or a road trip as often as possible, normally one of each per month.

When I recently bought the VFR I took my youngest daughter (21 y/o) for a spin on the bike, when we got home she said it was like being on a fast theme park ride, she loved it.

She talked my wife into getting on the back (hasn't been on a bike for 25 - 30 years) scared the crap out of her. Wasn't my plan, but suits me, now I'm in the market for a rear seat cowl. The wife has no intentions of coming away with me on the road trips (no one else has their wives come anyway)

When I'm in my car and she is the passenger, it's always slow down, you drive too fast
When I'm driving her car, same thing, slow down you drive too fast,
When she got on the back of the bike, we took off, she had a death grip on my waist and was screaming something, couldn't hear it, so I kept the gas on till we got back, she got off the bike and could stand up, her legs had the wobbles.

I REALLY like the look with the seat cowl. I'll take that as a Win.


tumbleweed

 

I am 50 as well. Keep going.

 

I just bought a 1999 VFR800 and I am 55.

 

I am 62, Own a 2007 Vfr, and a 1985 VF 500 Interceptor, used to have a couple Harleys, and a wife who bitched about them. No more Harleys no more wife, but very pleased with what I am riding these days. Give me Honda VFour sound any day! Bayreno

 

I turned 40 this year, and have been bikeless for about 7 years. I just picked up my 03 VFR800 last week and today was really only my 2nd day riding it (was in the shop for a check out).

 

54 and ride a 2002 vfr better then most of the kids....

 

I am 23 and bought my RWB '07 this spring. I've managed only a sorry 3000 miles since then (dang weather!), but I absolutely love the bike. Co-workers have called it "warm beer" and "weak sauce" and tell me that its an "old man's bike". I just tell them that it is a Gentleman's Sportbike. Being tall, the bike is great. Peg lowerinng blocks give me all the leg room in the world, a Zero Gravity DB makes it comfortable at highway speeds, and the Staintune exhaust makes it sound oh-so nice.

Sometimes I wish it were a little bit lighter, and that I could manage a full-lock turn without having to put my foot down like an idiot. But unlike with all the other bikes i've owned, my only thought with this bike is, "What am I going to replace it with when I get to 100,000 miles?"....good thing I have 86,000 miles to ponder that question!

 

The panhandle of Nebraska sucks for winter weather in general. Air falling after a trip over the rockies lands here.
Freeze your ass off? Someone froze to death near Alliance this last winter during a blizzard when her car stalled on the way home and she tried to walk the last mile.

I had a lot more riding days when I lived in Denver.

 

'98 VFR and I'm 48.

 

97 VFR750, and I'm 33. Not old but not young either, at least that's what my knees are telling me.

 

I am 48, and would love to know where I am in relation to the "average age" of a VFR owner. I would guess that I am somewhere close?

Some guys are just not cut out for golf........

 

^ knees suck oot loud, wait another decade and tell me what it feels like when you have to get up from the floor, "not-pleasant." ova-and-o0T...same age as above poster btw...minus one year...Live to Ride, Ride to Live...

 

I just ticked over my first half century

 

57 and still ride every day. Therepy with a twist of the wrist....can I hear a amen brotha.?

 

Just hit 50 this year. Dropped 40 pounds in last 12 months and hit my college weight of 170. Feel 25. Love to ride. I have a 2003 VFR800A. Previous bike was. 1994 VFR750. CB750 before that.

 

Does anyone know who is the oldest around here? Stuka you are fired :target:
There should be a scale

 

Happy to see that I'm not the oldest person here riding a VFR. Purchased new an '07 VFR anniversary model in 2009 as a retirement gift to myself. I turn 65 next month.

 

Hey ridervfr, just add another 10 to that and tell me how ya feel---- never to old to ride, just like sex even if ya do need alittle help--- but not me fer now :funky:

 

I will be 51 this month and I feel young as 25, my VFR 98 is part of that, since three years ago, I started with an RC36, and now the RC46.
Not only the VFR, but riding a sport bike (or sport touring) makes you by default, active, focused in driving, alert, and keeps you with that "little" spicy that's impossible to have riding a HD, GW or similar sofa-bike.
For me buying a HD or GW is like to apply for the "retired" license.

Anyhow, wife will never accept many things, my wife opposed hardly when I brought the RC36, I accepted "NOT TALKING" anything about the bike in front of her... but now.. three years after, I noticed that she likes to have an active husband and seeing me wearing the jacket and gloves, and also she feels proud of me when we socialize with another couples and in conversations, the others question "Miguel rides a sport bike? wow..." and I notice some slight smile inside her eyes, even though she refuses to ride or touch the bike.

I don't know what makes me more happy: My feeling of youth that the VFR gives to me, or to make the others feeling older than they really are.