Retired and back to motorcycling

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Zabel51

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So I picked myself up a retirement gift that I've been eyeing for a while now, a 2015 Honda VRF 800. Bike comes with matching hard saddlebags, very pretty. I haven't done a lot of motorcycling for a number of years (been cycling instead) and looking forward to doing some touring and local rides. Planning on taking a refresher course to update my skills and doing some track days at Grand Bend learning how to ride 125 and 250s. I live in Mississauga and hope to go east see the roads north of Kingston this summer.


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The great thing about being retired is you get to ride cottage country during the week when the crazies are at work.
The area North of Kingston is my stomping grounds and have lots of routes.
Feel free to contact me for info.
Welcome aboard and nice bike.
 
guzzirider said:
The great thing about being retired is you get to ride cottage country during the week when the crazies are at work.
The area North of Kingston is my stomping grounds and have lots of routes.
Feel free to contact me for info.
Welcome aboard and nice bike.
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I retire at the end of 2026. We should talk!
 
I had a retirement countdown app on my phone for the last 2 years of employment.
Gave years/months/days/hours/minutes/seconds
The owner of the company I worked for asked me one day when I was going to retire.
I pulled out my phone and showed him my countdown.
 
Welcome to the forum.

Nice bike.
 
Not sure how to respond to various messages. I need to get up to speed with the forum. (are there worked examples to show how to quote posts and insert them into my response?) I tell the people i work with that for the first two years of university, all of our calculations were solved with sliderule and pencil and paper.
This is a clue to my work; I'm a mechanical engineer with 20 years in manufacturing and 25 years in consulting. I retired a year ago and i was the last remaining industrial process engineer in the company. Then a new automotive job came up and I worked another year part-time to support the poor bastard that was hired in my place. Turns out automotive jobs are difficult. Who knew? :p
 
Gaoler said:
My resignation letter is sitting on my desk
Just waiting for me to date/sign it...

If its not a national security secrete Zabel, what did you retire from?
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40 years in the high end cabinet business. My take away is the more money they have, the crazier they are. :rolleyes:
 
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