What's Our Groupe Age

[Joe]

Someone mention on one of the post to do a age poll . I'll set it up with mostly 8 year spreads. I'll set up a poll for years of riding experience later. Any other ideas please comment below.

[roger albert]

Hey Joe,

You know it's possible your non-unique end points could confuse some of the 38 years olds (or 31 or 45 or...)


roger

[jclark]

Um, based on trips 'round ol' Sol, or how mental we may be...?

jeff
I'll take two Thorazines, and try to see me in the mourning...

[Joe]

Roger

I see what you mean, could be a young 38 or over the hill. We should get some idea of group average anyway.

[roger albert]

Oh well, I'll just enjoy the intrigue.
A boy's got to have his secrets.

roger

[Raven]

Aren't we getting just a little bit personal here?

Here is to the over 40 crowd

[Rapt]

I dunno about the rest of you, or your groupies but my groupie is 25.


On a more serious note
Interesting that we are getting such a uniform distrbution about 45. Its really not the classic bell curve thats the surprise, more just curious fact that the mean is what it is.

[ckcarr]

you probably have to be in your prime earning years to get one of these puppies new.

[716MP]

We have a wonderful friend who comes to our regular meetings of the Gutter
Gang at Lone Star in Austin on Thursday nights, 4-7 pm.....Ardys turned 69 this
birthday, and finished her fourth Iron Butt. Quite a feat for a great grandmother.....
but once you meet her, you get a sense of adventure and pleasure that can be
enjoyed simply messing around on bikes.....
She was also probably responsible for me going for the S over the RT' or the GS.
I kept thinking I'm getting too old to ride a radical bike like the S, or KRS....too
uncomfy.....now, after installing a Corbin Saddle, the bike's very cush, and I plan
on putting a ton of miles on it.......seems like the more you ride, the younger
you get..
Going to be rough at Lone Star after 1 December......Mike Darnell retires from
there that day.....which is going to put the whole show into a quandry........
Mike is still Mr. to most of us "elderly gents"....but we do try to get the
steam up and get some miles on out in the beautiful places......
Mandarin is so fast, it takes an awful lot of years with it.....
My mother always told me I'd end up hanging around "those bike ruffians"
way too long.....
It's always been the grandest company!!!!


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[roger albert]

Hi all,

Rapt, I'm curious. What were you thinking the average to likely be? I was thinking just over 40, maybe 42.

Niel, yeah, it will be a different game after Mike the Mechanic retires. I considered him a bit of a mentor. He was always supportive for double checking problems I had difficulty solving, or facts I wanted to verify before publishing an article.

We should think of something to get the guy.

later
roger

[Rootboy]

Personally, I thought it would be around 42 as well (my age!) Nice job on the poll....you could go wild with something like this... color of bike...add-ons...milage per year, etc.Great idea

[johnty288]

All right, I give.....how do you "vote"? First it tells me I need to log in (which I then do), then it tells me I'm having an invalid session(!). BTW I turn 49 in 8 days.

I love that last option.

[Rapt]

I didn't really think about what I expected the average age to be. Possibly a bit younger since its got to be close to BMW's youngest appeal model in spirit.

I guess I just have to resign myself to being one of the young'uns.

[jdlowery]

Wow! BMW is a geezer's bike.

[Gromit]

I'm 20 with a riding age of 36... hang on...


Oops I was always crap at biology

[Jenny]

Hey, I'm one of the youngest people here! Gotta love that!!

Jenny

[dcollins]

And I, even younger. I sometimes find it hard to touch the ground when I wear my diper

Hey does anybody know where I might find some kind of a handlebar mount for my baby bottle.

[Rattus]

I guess at 29 and 12 months (hehee) I am a bit of a whipper-snapper here too! So young yet so wise in choosing an S... hehe

Jenny is young and teensy! YAY!

[Don in Oz]

Well at 43 I thought I would be one of the old farts, but it seems that there are plenty of us old farts that ride the "S". Must be the little boy in us coming out. As for my pillion (Marion) we celebrated her 50th last weekend. Yeah... she wanted a toy boy.