Topic: Growing Old

[use2b]

some inspiration

[simon#42]

it is

[demon78]

When you reach a certain point your doctor says no more, my hope between you guys and me is i'll get well enough to go home, reassemble my  650 or my c200 and go riding again and after before any one knows I can look at all the specialist's involved and say "Piss on it People" I'm going for a ride or 5 if I don't make it tough #$%* at least age and political correctness didn't slowly kill me in a #$%*ing nursing home.
Bill the demon.

[BomberMann650]

That made me cry a little.

[754]

Somebody get over there and let Bill ride..or give him a ride..

[chewbacca5000]

That is great!  Live the life you want to live people!  Not the life others pick out for you.  The road others pick for you will never be as sweet as the one you pick for yourself.

[bwaller]

Keep your friends close, some day we'll all need to get the old codger gang together again too! 

I agree with Frank, somebody get over and let Bill ride.

[Don R]

 I'm 64 this week and I got my bench press back to what I lifted 30 years ago, with 5 good reps. at 200. It was body weight back then, not now, but my bench is coming up faster then my weight is going down.
  I wish my brother would watch this video and get off his dead end. I miss riding with him.

[bill440cars]

I can identify, I am 69,'pushing 70 (4 months away) and I I am still getting up in the morning and doing all I. can. Still working on my cars and motorcycles.  Don't move as quick or as easy, but I am still . moving and don't always ask for help, though sometimes I should..  Bill, hang in there bud,  I admire your determination, but be careful, my friend.

[74cb750]

These guys are an inspiration to me. I hope to be back on my "real motorcycle" this coming spring.

[Don R]

 A couple years ago I damaged a knee getting my bicycle out of the truck, then sat around all winter doing nothing much. The next summer I was feeling the effect of not moving and in the fall we took on a funny car chassis repair in my shop. That was the best thing to happen to me, all the moving and up, down lifting and holding weight, spending the day on my feet did wonders. I finally got my knee back to where I can run again, now going to the gym I'm shocked at how well my strength came back. I don't intend to stop exercising now. Next up, cardio.

[DickL]

I sent the video to 3 of the guys I used to ride with 46 years ago. We will see...very inspirational.

Yesterday I took Ruby out my 1970 cb750ko. I just got back from a 50 mile cruise on Velma,  my 1999 Valkyrie Interstate. Be inspired.

Thank you.

DICKL

[BomberMann650]

A couple years ago I damaged a knee getting my bicycle out of the truck, then sat around all winter doing nothing much. The next summer I was feeling the effect of not moving and in the fall we took on a funny car chassis repair in my shop. That was the best thing to happen to me, all the moving and up, down lifting and holding weight, spending the day on my feet did wonders. I finally got my knee back to where I can run again, now going to the gym I'm shocked at how well my strength came back. I don't intend to stop exercising now. Next up, cardio.

I'm happy the garage-therapy helped your Knee Don - a tad jealous too.  Wish I could say the same for my hip and ankle ligament.  3 years on, trying to hold a pace and not feeling much improvement.  But taking stuff a part and cleaning it up does well for the mind despite the body.

[grcamna2]

Yeah ! 
Dream Big and then go out and Live them full-on.

[bill440cars]

       Funny thing is, I remember my Dad getting close to 70 and he was encouraged to stay active, so as to not end up slowing down and showing his age. Now, 70 is just around the corner from me and I have tried not to slow up, still doing whatever car repairs and such. Gets a little trying at times, with the occasional aches and pains, but I have been fortunate enough, not to have had any injuries and so far, have yet to have been in a hospital, except to visit someone else & when my Daughter was Born. Not on any prescription medication or made many doctor's visits (I can count, on 1 hand, how many I have made, in a lot of years) Not bragging, mind you, just extremely Thankful. My Granddad was 65 when he passed and my Dad was 88 (almost 89) and I hope to be able to function at least fairly well, For longer than that. I am sure I could do with some proper exercise myself though. 

[Desert-SOHC]

I'm pushing 60 and still do all my own work on my bikes and Scouts.  Just did a lift kit on the Scout and I do freelance work on other IH's and ACVW's 3 days a week.  I need to lose 25 pounds, thirty would be AWESOME, but I keep pretty busy for a retired guy.....

[bill440cars]

I'm pushing 60 and still do all my own work on my bikes and Scouts.  Just did a lift kit on the Scout and I do freelance work on other IH's and ACVW's 3 days a week.  I need to lose 25 pounds, thirty would be AWESOME, but I keep pretty busy for a retired guy.....

           That is cool, about your work with the old IH Scouts. They, like the Jeeps, have a place in Automotive History and cool to see one that has been gone through and still "Out There", doing what it does best. 

[Johnie]

That's really a great video. I'm pushing 64 and blessed having no medical issues. Still do all my own work because it is fun and you get great satisfaction bringing these bikes back to life. I hope my sons never have to pull my keys as I know it would be as hard on them as it would be on me. They know the enjoyment I get in the shop and on the road.

[demon78]

If I could make a point to all you young whipper snappers don't bet on being able to being able do things when you hit 70 at some point your body wears out and David Silver may not have spares at which time you slow down look at me at 77 I've had to come to grips with I'll never be a fighter pilot and the only revolution I may possibly foment will be at a concentration camp for "senior citizens" also the !8- 30 old red head with the good body and great legs thinks of me when she does as a grandfather not as an experienced "dirty old man" and that the twit looks at me hobbling into the bike shop and says "I see what the old codger wants" ha ha I'll bs him about what ever it will be fun. My response will be, watch the idiot pull back as stump. Any how things change so "driver while ye can lads" you don't get secound chances to often.
Bill the demon.

[Desert-SOHC]

I'm pushing 60 and still do all my own work on my bikes and Scouts.  Just did a lift kit on the Scout and I do freelance work on other IH's and ACVW's 3 days a week.  I need to lose 25 pounds, thirty would be AWESOME, but I keep pretty busy for a retired guy.....

           That is cool, about your work with the old IH Scouts. They, like the Jeeps, have a place in Automotive History and cool to see one that has been gone through and still "Out There", doing what it does best. 

My 63 is a DD and a trail beater turning expedition truck, it will NEVER be pretty.  The 64 is on hold.

[DH]

 There's a line in the movie "Shawshank Redemption" near the end of the story
where Morgan Freeman's character quotes advice his friend once gave him:
"You either get busy living, or get busy dying".....It's only a movie, but that quote
fit for me.

[grcamna2]

There's a line in the movie "Shawshank Redemption" near the end of the story
where Morgan Freeman's character quotes advice his friend once gave him:
"You either get busy living, or get busy dying".....It's only a movie, but that quote
fit for me.

"That's d*%* Right"     You said it DH.We either 'grow up' or grow down'.

[DH]

There's a line in the movie "Shawshank Redemption" near the end of the story
where Morgan Freeman's character quotes advice his friend once gave him:
"You either get busy living, or get busy dying".....It's only a movie, but that quote
fit for me.

"That's d*%* Right"     You said it DH.We either 'grow up' or grow down'.

.....Amen sir...

[bill440cars]

I'm pushing 60 and still do all my own work on my bikes and Scouts.  Just did a lift kit on the Scout and I do freelance work on other IH's and ACVW's 3 days a week.  I need to lose 25 pounds, thirty would be AWESOME, but I keep pretty busy for a retired guy.....

           That is cool, about your work with the old IH Scouts. They, like the Jeeps, have a place in Automotive History and cool to see one that has been gone through and still "Out There", doing what it does best. 

My 63 is a DD and a trail beater turning expedition truck, it will NEVER be pretty.  The 64 is on hold.

           Now That Scout is pretty tough looking and brings back the memories of one I had, a few years ago. I don't remember what year it was, but similar to yours. Mine had the slant 4 and I came across a deal on most of a '75 Dodge 4wheel drive pickup (almost everything except the body and interior and had the thoughts of dropping the 318/Torqueflite/Transfer & Axles, into that Scout. Without cutting the front driveshaft, the forward spring mount, would have been out on the end of the frame. So, situation changed and I had to sell it all, to get some cash and it became yet another project that I could not follow through with. 
Bet it would have been a "Fun" Project though.     

[martin99]

I remember going to a music festival in the mid seventies and as you walked through the gate there was a banner overhead pronouncing 'You're never too old to have a happy childhood'.

BS of course, but it's stuck with me after all these years and I still quote it to my kids when they proclaim their embarrassment at the way I'm behaving. 

[754]

Better to be a happy old fool ....than just an old fool...

[bill440cars]

Better to be ahappy old fool ....than just an old fool...

          LOL, Ya got that right, Frank!