I don't remember having any friends.

Most of my so-called friends were rivals. We just understood one another.

The worst things about getting old are grief and having regrets. There are so many things I could have done better, if I hadn't had other priorities. When you are old, you gain more perspective about what is important.

acotrel said:

The worst things about getting old are grief and having regrets. There are so many things I could have done better, if I hadn't had other priorities. When you are old, you gain more perspective about what is important.

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So what advice would you give to your younger self?

All of my old riding buddies, the ones I really cared about are gone from the earth. I miss the hell out of them every day. It's the curse of being the kid in the group.

I been lucky all of my friends I grew up with and riding motorcycles are still alive a few no longer riding but still here, lost a few school mates who got into bikes and got killed on them not long after, young inexperience, let see how fast it can go deaths, but have lost a few mate's over the years but not from motorcycles, cancer or bad habits of heavy drinking and one motorcycle mate die at home from heart attack and he was a wards man at the our major heart hospital, he didn't take notice of the signs of a heart attack and died alone, and this year have lost two great mates I have worked with, working at the same place for 31 years although we all took a redundancy 9 years ago, Barry only die 2 weeks ago, he was our maintenance electrician and I will always remember him every time I turn on the lights at home as he rewired my old house and wired up my new shed back in 91, we all worked in maintenance at a TAFE college and we were a close group of friends, it's always sad when we lose a close friend but it's all part of life, I never think about death, but we are here for a short time and when our number is up we have no say in it, but I wouldn't change a thing in how I lived my life and motorcycles have been my life.

Ashley