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5 years 2 months to go... I just wish to be healthy to ride forever... salute kamerads over 60 still riding hard

Are you talking about you, or the bikes engine, Nigel...?

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

The engine.
Average life of a H2 topend, maybe five years, chance of stuffing a crank, maybe one major "event" (fractured piston skirt or ring, seizure etc) in three.
That's based on my previous experience, altered to suit the part time/sporadic use my H2 gets now. Much fewer miles, but much harder than when it was my only transport.

My avatar;


I hope I have the strength and skill to be riding hard when I get old like these fine examples of prolonged youthfulness. I look to those golden years of post 60 and hope my drive to ride with anger has not dissipated.

Their enthusiasm inspires me as I am only 58.

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Using a poorly conceived idea along with bad mechanical practice is not an upgrade but rather a recipe for disaster.

Coming up on 62. It will be spring likely before the H2 is going, but I ride my ZRX1100 hard-with my wife on the back. We like to use all our tires, not just the middle, so we get our moneys worth.

You're only as old as you ride.

John

seriously?

man, you've had a hard life.

Oops sorry!

Thanks to Viagra Jay can still ride his H2 hard!

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1973 RD350, 1979 RD400F, 1984 RZ350, 2014 Suzuki Vstrom 1000
CHRIS AND JEFF ARE THE MEN

I do not have a running H2 but I ride the KH500, Triumph Trophy, H1 roadrace, A1 roadrace bikes fairly hard.

Many years ago I told my wife I would quit racing when 70 but AHRMA does not charge an entry fee after 70. More races because each one will be cheaper!!!

I am 64.

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76 KH500, 20 Ninja 400, 03 Suzuki Burgman 650, H1 roadrace, A1 roadrace, 91 KX250, 81 Ke175, etc

By the way my son and I rode today. We were looking at the fall colors in the Ozarks. You know how hard it is to look at a leaf while doing a hundred and ten? The Vapor Trail Tech on the RZ recorded 98.4 while the FJR indicated 110.

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1973 RD350, 1979 RD400F, 1984 RZ350, 2014 Suzuki Vstrom 1000
CHRIS AND JEFF ARE THE MEN