How old?

fireman1251 · Jun 30, 2015

52 here.

Started on a Can-Am MX6, owned countless KX's, CR's, eventually made the Pro's in MX and had a single-digit national plate for 4 years in ice-racing.

Nowadays I'm having fun passing the tattooed and piped up young kids at local trackdays.

Even if mine blew up a few weeks ago, the Panigale is the all time favourite bike to me, just ahead of the mighty CR500.

Buliwyf · Jun 30, 2015

georgehitch18 said:
@Buliwyf Damn small world! have you been visiting mid ohio?

I'm only 25 definitely on the younger end of the spectrum. I don't think is so much the price as the bike as it is the insurance!! Holy crap is it crazy

The insurance get's better eventually, but it's still pretty stiff. I hope to get to the raceway next year. I have to get better gear, and I'm moving to Lucas/Mifflin/Perrysville soon, so there's a down payment and title fee's to save up for.

We do like to ride to Mohican and crash the go carts. No idea why they never kick us out.

lamb00j · Jun 30, 2015

georgehitch18 said:
I don't think is so much the price as the bike as it is the insurance!! Holy crap is it crazy

Gotta pay to play

But yes, I have full coverage stacked with 100/300 and its cheaper then my R1 was... so I think age plays a role in this.

RD16RR · Jun 30, 2015

Grayson said:
I owned my first Ducati at 23, a Hypermotard.
At 24 a 1098
At 26 a 848
At 29 a 1299s

you can tell you're 29....you still play with Hot Wheels !!

NateBob · Jun 30, 2015

I'm 30. I bought my first Ducati at 27, an 848. I now have a monster 1200s and 1299s (and s1000rr for the track).

I'm a fellow resident of Columbus, OH as well! Shoot me a PM sometime you want to ride!

cbr900 · Jun 30, 2015

54 riding bikes for more then 25 yrs. owned Hondas CBR and Suzuki GSXR 1000.

shocksoket · Jun 30, 2015

34 here, 1299 is my first Ducati and I have a HD night rod special for cruising around

JonT · Jun 30, 2015

47 here, didn't own a car till I was 42, always promised myself I wouldn't buy a car till I could get a good one so the Porsche Cayman S was the first car I owned, sold it last year and got the 1199, missed the bikes too much......the Porsche was good but doesn't give the same fizz as the Ducati.

Desmophile · Jun 30, 2015

HST Forever

speedy14 said:
Yep.. Desmophile You and I have it right!

Here is my motto..

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a huge cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up. totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Damn what a ride" Hunter S Thompson

Speedy

Hey Speedy, big thumbs up on the HST quote, words to live by! Whenever I get in an uncertain situation, I often ask myself "what would HST do?"

Did you ever read his story in Cycle World, "Song of the Sausage Creature"?
Song of the sausage creature

Godspeed fellow old coot!

Paul

Torquesp · Jun 30, 2015

48 here i just got my 2015 Panigale R Which I got after trading my 2012 1199s tricolore which i also got after trading my 2011 1198SP. started on ducati 2011 haven't look for anything else. started on 2006 with a GSXR 1000K6 and now its Ducati. love it and hope to continue.

jjsC6 · Jun 30, 2015

I'm 62. I started riding in 1971 and did some road racing in the early 1980s. I have three bikes but still ride the Ducati about 4,000 miles a year. The guy I ride with every week is 66 years old and also has three bikes. One is an 1198S.

b9009b · Jun 30, 2015

First Ducati at 34 then my 1199 at 35 now.

kismetcapitan · Jun 30, 2015

Desmophile said:
Hey Speedy, big thumbs up on the HST quote, words to live by! Whenever I get in an uncertain situation, I often ask myself "what would HST do?"

Did you ever read his story in Cycle World, "Song of the Sausage Creature"?
Song of the sausage creature

Godspeed fellow old coot!

Paul

Whenever I reread Song of the Sausage Creature, I just have to wonder - how would he have felt on an 1198SP? Or the 1299 for that matter??

Desmophile · Jun 30, 2015

Hst

kismetcapitan said:
Whenever I reread Song of the Sausage Creature, I just have to wonder - how would he have felt on an 1198SP? Or the 1299 for that matter??

Probably about the same as the rest of us. But he would have been able to describe it in ways that I can't begin to. Paul

Sprinkles · Jun 30, 2015

25 years old: Monster 620
26 years old: S2R 800
28 years old: 848
36 years old: 1299

zaster · Jun 30, 2015

Another one from the young crowd.
I'm 62 and I learned how to ride superbikes by taking 1200 Laverda Germany to Italy for a friend of mine in my early 20's.
Still having fun on my Pani.

Chefmark · Jun 30, 2015

999S in 2003
1098
1199
1199S
Monster 1200
1299S, current at 56 years old

Cracing · Jun 30, 2015

27 here!

26: first Ducati 1199s
27: 1299s

Been riding street bikes since 18 zx6, gsx750, 1199, 1299!

Been riding dirt since 12

DEDuc1299S · Jul 1, 2015

16 2001 R6
18 1999 F4
21 2007 Drz400
24 1996 916
26 2010 848
27 2010 1098
28 2012 1198
29 2015 1299s

chris420r · Jul 1, 2015

everyone here is too embarrassed to say they rode a gigster in the past! Haha jk

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