Greetings from a middle aged noob

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Greetings from a middle aged noob

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Hi all. I've ridden off and on (mostly off) for 20 years, but bought a 2004 FJR this summer and rode it every chance I got. Love it. I'm in MN, so had the winter away from riding and am pining for clear roads. Enjoying the atmosphere here already, and am hoping to learn and contribute.

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Welcome Wilco! Perhaps put your location in your profile.
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Welcome!
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Welcome and SKOL my Mid-West Nordic friend!
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Welcome Wilco. What part of MN are you from?
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Welcome!
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Welcome. You come to the right place for middle age noobs.
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fontanaman wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:00 am Welcome. You come to the right place for middle age noobs.
By the looks of everybody at the gatherings...people must be expecting to live to 140!
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wheatonFJR wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:24 am
fontanaman wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:00 am Welcome. You come to the right place for middle age noobs.
By the looks of everybody at the gatherings...people must be expecting to live to 140!

Hey we are the boomer generation thusly entitled to have it our way even if it means stretching the truth. :D
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Welcome aboard!
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Welcome! Best year and color!! Awesome!
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Welcome, I had a lot of good miles on my 04 before Bambi. Just to make you feel at home...

A few days pass. Now Ole only has a few hours left to live. Lying in bed, he smells something. Cake. Chocolate cake, his favorite! He crawls out of bed and drags himself to the kitchen.
When Lena walks in, there is Ole, sitting at the kitchen table, eating cake. She hollers at him, “Ole! What are you doing in here? You’re sick! You should be in bed! You shouldn’t be out here eating cake! That’s for the funeral!”
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Welcome, Wilco423. To us, "middle-aged" includes years well above 55 .....
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Welcome, I had a lot of good miles on my 04 before Bambi.

Just to make you feel at home...

A few days pass. Now Ole only has a few hours left to live. Lying in bed, he smells something. Cake. Chocolate cake, his favorite! He crawls out of bed and drags himself to the kitchen.
When Lena walks in, there is Ole, sitting at the kitchen table, eating cake. She hollers at him, “Ole! What are you doing in here? You’re sick! You should be in bed! You shouldn’t be out here eating cake! That’s for the funeral!”
Uncle Hud loved this
It's too deep, this is a bike not a canoe.
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I see Bug's got out of the old person's home...and someone lent him a computer. He sometimes forgets that he's posted something and just keeps on posting it over and over...he's a pretty good rider too...if he can remember which bike is his.
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Roger Wilco, over and out.
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Welcome from Tacoma-ish.
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wheatonFJR wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:08 pm I see Bug's got out of the old person's home...and someone lent him a computer. He sometimes forgets that he's posted something and just keeps on posting it over and over...he's a pretty good rider too...if he can remember which bike is his.
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Bugnatr wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:42 pm
wheatonFJR wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:08 pm I see Bug's got out of the old person's home...and someone lent him a computer. He sometimes forgets that he's posted something and just keeps on posting it over and over...he's a pretty good rider too...if he can remember which bike is his.
I'm not out and the internet here SUCKS!
It's good to hear they gotcha corralled back in the home. Time to take your meds now...
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