One of my wife's childhood friends retired last year at age 61. He's got an old BMW R65 that he's had for years. I think it's a late 70's model.
He rode it from Toronto to the Arctic Circle last summer. Some where up there his transmission took a dump and left him stranded in a little village. He rented a room somewhere and sent off for parts that took a week to get there. Some local guy let him use a garage and some tools to fix it and he got it back home.
He's an unassuming looking guy,...spent his life working as a mechanical engineer. But he's got nerve to take off for the Arctic Circle on a 35 year old motorcycle at age 61.
My wife said that everytime her family would go visit them, him and his dad would be up under the hood of an old car with grease up to their elbows.
