Mid-life crisisses

BigMonka

After reading Emp's latest rage about mid-life-crisis bikers it got me thinking that a mid-life crisis is probably quite expensive so maybe I should start saving up for one!

So inspire me with what you guys have done - bought a motorbike? bought the ridiculous car you wanted as a kid? started cycling and bought a titanium bike? left your wife for a 20year old? started a mad prog originals band? quit your decent job for something random? gone back to college/uni?

slacker

Bought loads of guitars, amps and pedals and gone on mental holidays.

underdog

I bought a motorbike about 5 years ago, then again I was riding at 5 years old, and then took 7 years of nagging for the wife to agree as she hates them. Even after all that I was allowed a 125, so by my mid 40s I'm hoping to go full crisis and get a big bike

Guitar_Slinger

I've done it arse-about-face. Riding motorbikes since I was 12 (legally since 17) led to hanging out at the local rock pub in my early 20s, which led to playing guitar in a band.

BigMonka said:

So inspire me with what you guys have done - bought a motorbike? bought the ridiculous car you wanted as a kid? 

I almost bought Street Hawk when I was a teenager.  It was for sale in Motor Cycle News, by a Welsh stuntman who worked on the programme.  I had an interview with the bank manager, who was about to lend me 10 months wages, as the classic car market was a great investment at the time. 

It all went tits-up when he asked if I was going to transport it in a van or on a trailer and I told him it would be my everyday ride.  For some reason, my reassurance that "I won't be doing stunts on the public highway" wasn't enough.

Lewy

Guitar_Slinger said:

I almost bought Street Hawk when I was a teenager.

I think it's fair to say that the internet isn't going to produce a better sentence than that today....

Ravenous

Join a gliding club for a few seasons!

(Apologies for that being German. Nice Astir though!)

fields5069

I used to think mid-life crises were odd and sad, as it mainly seemed to be fat blokes showing off and trying to act "young".

Now that I'm mid-life, I see that it really has nothing to do with preening and strutting about. It's more about wanting a bit more freedom and fun in life.

I don't have any money to buy a Harley or keep a mistress, so I'm a bit stuck on what to do. I have been invited to join a folk circle at someone's house, but I'm scared there'll be a bowl for car keys in the hall.

EricTheWeary

I've probably had one I just don't recognise what it was. Might have been the attempt at a hipster beard ( which made me look like a tramp), not much of one but budget friendly. 

Jez6345789

The whole fast bike or Harley idea leaves me cold.
could not stay on them when I had them. Now a bike that can do 180mph and 0-60 in the time it takes to blink is more of a suicide pack than an affirmation of life for me.

mistresses are costly and high maintenance in the modern world there are infinite need a shag apps.

giving up the steady job and having a crack on my own in my 40's was the best thing and I love the way I make money these days it's not work.

having only mildly gone off the rails in my 40's compared to the ex Mrs who turned in to a crack snorting hag who moved in with her dealer and a cast of others.

i am planning bigger things for my final decade. I feel at this point my life has been a constant compromise to please every  wife girlfriend child, step child,  business partners etc etc.

my last decade 60-70 will be a quick goodbye to all and most of my possessions and I intend to fill it with only doing the things I want and what makes me happy. It may sound lonely or boring but I spend 18 hours a day pleasing all of the above mostly to the detriment of the things I want to do. Selfish yes but if you get 3 score and 10 having the ten for yourself is logical and liberating in my mind.

richardhomer

I've endeavoured to lose weight and pursue younger women.

I've been very successful with the former....

Dominic

Had the bike since early 20s and the guitar, done the sports car many,many years ago and there is no fun in them with a camera every 200 meters .....having a mistress is even more expensive than a wife .......had a spell of buying clothes that really were 25 years too young for me so that only leaves a yacht or a sex change .
P.S. I can't afford a yacht .
  

rlw

richardhomer said:

I've endeavoured to lose weight and pursue younger women.

I've been very successful with the former....

Upgrade your budget for the latter....

Fretwired

A friend of mine has adventures ... he's walked up all the big hills in England/Wales and is now doing Scotland - he sometimes goes alone or with a few friends and he gets up to all sorts of things while away. Been on a fishing trawler, up a wind turbine, down a disused mine ... and best of all its cheap. Made lots of friends along the way and stayed in loads of pubs ... on done on public transport and walking.

Sounds boring but he has lots of stories to tell upon his return.

Philly_Q

I've bought loads and loads of guitars, to the point where there's no space to keep any more.

But I've been doing that since my 20s, so maybe the mid-life crisis will be getting rid of them.

Guitar_Slinger

Lewy said:

Guitar_Slinger said:

I almost bought Street Hawk when I was a teenager.

I think it's fair to say that the internet isn't going to produce a better sentence than that today....

Here's the bike, but it wouldn't look anything like that if I'd have bought it.  Continuing the crisis thing, I was 41 when my (only) son was born.  Hopefully I'll have retired by the time he's 35 and moves out.  

Rocker

Does wearing jeans at 61 reveal anything about me?

Don't recall having a mid life crisis!

boogieman

Guitar_Slinger said:

Lewy said:

Guitar_Slinger said:

I almost bought Street Hawk when I was a teenager.

I think it's fair to say that the internet isn't going to produce a better sentence than that today....

Here's the bike, but it wouldn't look anything like that if I'd have bought it.  Continuing the crisis thing, I was 41 when my (only) son was born.  Hopefully I'll have retired by the time he's 35 and moves out.  

Jeez, you dodged a bullet not buying that. 

cruxiform

Like @Guitar_Slinger I've been riding motorbikes since I was 13 so been there, still doing that. Played the guitar too since that age so that's out. Losing weight and dating is my latest mission at 48. Not a mid life crisis as such but there's only so much filth you can watch on the internet.

BigMonka

I've always wanted to build a kit car or restore a classic car (although no previous experience), so I could imagine getting something like a Westfield or a classic mini cooper.

Or maybe signing up for an ironman triathlon someday.

Jalapeno

Definitely need to shed some weight - not for dating purposes, the rest of me is falling to bits coping with it !

More money and single minded enjoyment has meant a lot of GAS/NGD/NAD in recent times - call it middle aged crisis - - but not only am I way over "quota" I really have run out of all usable space - sadly a cull is needed

ThePrettyDamned

Our neighbour has fully embraced his mid life crisis. 

He regularly travels to assist in aid missions. Spends half the time volunteering, half the time exploring. 

He also has a pretty sweet line up of bicycles - a very nice road bike, a fixed fork mountain bike and a tourer. 

He did get a couple of nice cars, second hand to minimise losses when he sold them on, but he found it left him wanting - he reckons that experiences are worth a lot more than the "usual" stuff (although I'd argue that, if you've never driven a sports car before, owning a lotus elise is probably as much of an experience as anything). 

He's lucky. His missus does everything with him provided he does he mid life crisis stuff too - typically posh wines, bird watching and seeing more of the UK.