The moment you realize you're old...

[MC Rider]

That would fit in with my old 1960's Bultaco Matador. My best friend had an Ossa back then.

Pics if you got em!

 

[Joseph]

Couple of things with respect to this:

• My wife always asks after we run in to some of my friends from HS or College - "Do we look like that?"
• A person at work came in to my office and looked at a pic of my wife and I from not very long ago and said "Look at young Jim in that picture"
• I get asked about Sr discounts.

Now, my Dad, who just passed away less than a year ago at 86 told me he looks in the mirror and sees some old guy, but in his mind still thinks of himself as 20... That's how I hope to stay!

 

[Joseph]

My dad used to say the same thing. A little less eloquently, like who TF is that guy in the mirror

 

[aja8888]

Pics if you got em!

I don't have any pics of the Bultaco. I seem to have pics of my old VW van and ex wife in front of it. And a bunch of other old stuff. I have a slide of my old 65' Vette and 250 Suzuki X6 Hustler motorcycle.

 

[aja8888]

She got the van, I got the dog.

 

[MC Rider]

Cool.

Looks similar vintage to the VW Bus I had that broke on the QEW going north into Toronto back in the day. 82 or so ish? My roommate at the time called it my hippie F*** truck.

 

[aja8888]

Cool.

Looks similar vintage to the VW Bus I had that broke on the QEW going north into Toronto back in the day. 82 or so ish? My roommate at the time called it my hippie F*** truck.

That picture was taken in 1975 and the bus was a few years older, maybe a '72.

 

[1242Vintage]

I’ve been racing bikes my whole life. As I get older the field of racers in my age group gets smaller and smaller. Just turned 60 and going to be interesting to see how many guys I’m the 60-65 year old class line up with me this Fall.

If it’s two or less 60 year old racers at the start line with me, that’s when I know I’m officially old.

 

[aja8888]

I’ve been racing bikes my whole life. As I get older the field of racers in my age group gets smaller and smaller. Just turned 60 and going to be interesting to see how many guys I’m the 60-65 year old class line up with me this Fall.

If it’s two or less 60 year old racers at the start line with me, that’s when I know I’m officially old.

1242...60 is the new 40!

 

[Koolau]

That would fit in with my old 1960's Bultaco Matador. My best friend had an Ossa back then.

All I ever had was a Honda 50. A cool little scooter. DW (GF at the time) and I rode all over town on that thing. Crazy when I think back on it. One errant Chevy (or Ford) and I wouldn't be here on the Forum.

 

[Koolau]

She got the van, I got the dog.

Nice van. Probably worth $75K now. (What was that old song about "She Got the Goldmine and I got the Shaft?"

 

[Diogenes]

I’ve been racing bikes my whole life. As I get older the field of racers in my age group gets smaller and smaller. Just turned 60 and going to be interesting to see how many guys I’m the 60-65 year old class line up with me this Fall.

If it’s two or less 60 year old racers at the start line with me, that’s when I know I’m officially old.

Opposite experience here. Last year, I visited the local race track, for amateur-day. There were some youngins, but most of the participants and crews, were 60+. This is generally the case with all things involving vehicles, be it shows or races or outings of whatever sort. My gray hair, makes me look like the snot-nosed callow kid, because nearly everyone else, has white hair.

 

[yhoomajor]

When people (strangers) started calling me Sir- places like shopping malls, Gym, during outdoor activities.

 

[Gumby]

When people (strangers) started calling me Sir- places like shopping malls, Gym, during outdoor activities.

People called me "sir" starting when I was 19 years old. I suppose some do that today in my decrepitude, but I don't even notice.

 

[audreyh1]

In the southeast everyone calls an adult sir or ma’am.

 

[Gumby]

In the southeast everyone calls an adult sir or ma’am.

I'm not sure it's limited to the southeast. I live in Connecticut, but I regularly call people sir or ma'am. I did it today, in fact, when I went to the butcher counter at the grocery store and had him give me some tenderloin for dinner. When he handed it to me, I said "thank you, sir." I didn't think about it; that's just what I say in that situation. And I will note that he was a youngish fellow.

 

[Ronstar]

^^ I see it a lot coming from military folks. Our friends son is a Navy officer and he addresses people by Sir and Ma'am. And he's from the same town as me in northern Illinois. Politeness can come from any locale.

 

[FlaGator]

That would fit in with my old 1960's Bultaco Matador. My best friend had an Ossa back then.

Fits with the Hodaka Combat Wombat, Honda Elsinore with the silver tank, and the early Yamaha YZ400 "monoshock" I launched from above into the Agua Fria river bed before it was channelized. Remember when Husky's were the schnitz and home "laydown" shock mods were cool? All in the 70's for me.

Keeping those 2-stokes "on the pipe" is a sorely missed lost art, and makes being able to drive a manual tranny look like a modern skill. Except for the "three on the tree" which is definitely Cro-Magnan.

My kids didn't have a manual to even learn on, and when I bought a moto after 30 years off a bike, I sought an automatic/DCT.

So there's one for the "you know your old list"

 

[Koolau]

^^ I see it a lot coming from military folks. Our friends son is a Navy officer and he addresses people by Sir and Ma'am. And he's from the same town as me in northern Illinois. Politeness can come from any locale.

Yes and most of us still appreciate politeness - even if we don't always expect it anymore.

 

[EarlyandLate]

Mine was a few years back, pre-covid. I had lunch at a taco place. When I looked at the receipt, I saw that the young lady had given me a senior discount!

 

[mountainsoft]

Mine was a few years back, pre-covid. I had lunch at a taco place. When I looked at the receipt, I saw that the young lady had given me a senior discount!

I got my first senior discount at a Burgerville about ten years ago when I was only 50! I turned to my wife and said "how old does she think I am"?

 

[djsander]

I got my first senior discount at a Burgerville about ten years ago when I was only 50! I turned to my wife and said "how old does she think I am"?

Similar thing happened to us at our favorite catfish place in Shreveport. We ordered and the young girl said for a dollar less you can get the same thing off the senior menu. The senior menu were for 55+ and we were early 50s and I had silver hair already. So we just accepted it and started asking for the senior discount. I always ask as my wife looks and sounds much younger and is three years older. Now it doesn’t matter as no matter where we go they don’t even question it.

 

[Lorenzo]

When people (strangers) started calling me Sir- places like shopping malls, Gym, during outdoor activities.

When I first heard someone call me Mr. (my surname), I looked around to see if my dad was here.

 

[FlaGator]

When I first heard someone call me Mr. (my surname), I looked around to see if my dad was here.

And when the reply from a kindergarten classmate of my youngest after asking "do you know who I am?" was "yeah, you're DS's grandpa" I knew I had crossed the Rubicon into my dotage, and I was only 50

 

[Plantman]

The first time I felt old was when I was in Australia this past May. Everyone was so much younger!