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Adrenaline & age does it affect you?

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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Even as a teenager I would always feel a slight surge of Adrenaline rush as I prepared to go out on my bike - it would always subside within a few yards of riding off - only returning if I rode too fast or had a rear wheel skid.

As the decades have passed with my bikes being more powerful I have detected a greater apprehension before I ride out - again I usually calmed down within a few yards of riding off.

After a fair gap between parting with my XJ900 (2009) and first riding again on my 400 (2022) I have detected a more severe raising of my anxiety levels - thankfully it does subside after riding a short distance as I ease back into the routine.

Is this me starting to loose my bottle at the age of 75 or just being more aware of the greater impact of injury not just due to more traffic, idiot drivers as well.

Athame57:
Is it a good idea to tempt adrenalin at our age (well, most of us on here are grey haired at least!) I don't myself anymore, but I'm not on German driving school BMW R65.... they put you on a big bike from the very start and you stay with a driving school car in font or passenger until you get your licence, it took me three weeks from never having ridden bar a 15mph step through moped ('Mofa') to getting a licence, and I had to do an extra week because I flunked my first test so it could have been two. I felt weak kneed and sick in the stomach for the first week, the last time I felt that way was when being made to climb rock faces as a young soldier! My first rides onto the motorway with my first Suzuki RG500 had me feeling over supplied with adrenalin too.
Nowadays my relaxed rides on Elen, my CB400F don't bring adrenalin just pleasure.

Oddjob:
Nope, don't feel much of anything when stepping over the seat, a little excitement TBH, I little curiosity I'll admit to as I ponder what sort of lean angles I can get this ride. I don't get anxious at all out riding, even when it's wet, I find it relaxing. I think I'm so concentrated on the road I tend not to feel much TBH except the thrill of getting the footrests grinding on the road, which is almost impossible on the 1300 and far too easy on the 500.

I've been riding on the road since I was 16, far too long to get worried about it. I did however feel apprehensive first ride out after getting my last 1300 written off, it had an effect for about a month and then I was ok again. 

Johnny4428:
Used to lay up all bikes for winter, but now keep the Pan on the road over winter. That few rides in the winter keeps the spring time apprehension at bay. Works for me. Must admit quite relaxed on bikes, with a little excitement thrown in.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Interesting - I'm okay once I ride off it's just the apprehension beforehand.

I've have only ever  really had one accident on a bike when I was a pillion as a teenager that cost me three months in traction with a fractured left femur. Never been a pillion since.

 

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