15 Coolest Motorcycles For Older Riders 2023
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
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Welcome to another Motor News video, I'm Thomas as always, and today I'll show you the 15 best motorcycles for older riders. I don't want to sound rude and offend anyone, so I'll add a little explanation in the preface. For riders over 50, stability and moderate acceleration are much more important and of course safety. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that people of that age can't ride a superbike, and John McGuinness is a good example of that, but there is one thing. We have a professional of the highest caliber before McGuinness and we have to take that into account. Experienced riders will hardly need my advice, I know, but this video is more for those who decide to buy a motorcycle and after some time, when they master the art of riding a bike, I recommend these models. Personally, I am a middle-aged man and I would stop at these models. Rejoice friends.
See the prices and technical characteristics of these motorcycles in the video
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0:00 Presentation
1:13 Triumph Bonneville Bobber Chrome Edition
2:00 Triumph Speed Twin 900 Chrome Edition
2:47 Indian Springfield
3:47 Indian Scout
4:53 Indian Chief Bobber Dark Horse
6:09 Honda CMX500 Rebel
6:55 Honda GL1800 Gold Wing DCT
8:23 Royal Enfield Himalayan
9:25 Suzuki Katana
10:36 Kawasaki W800
11:42 Kawasaki Z650RS
12:45 Yamaha Tenere 700 Rally
13:56 BMW R 18 First Edition
15:21 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Special
16:30 Harley-Davidson Road King Special
BONUS
18:01 Yamaha Tracer 7 GT
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At the age of 86 I ride a Yamaha MT-03 which is cheap to buy, cheap to run, light, fast, frugal, and handles superb through the twisties. I'm done with the heavy expensive bikes, my little Yam is the best thing since sliced bread👍
I’m glad you included some smaller and lighter bikes in this video. Most of us as we get older, we don’t have the strength or balance as when we were younger. I found out that I can’t handle bikes much of 500. I finally go a maxi scooter, a Suzuki Burgman 400. It can hand interstate speeds, has tons of storage, no shifting and only weighs around 435 pounds wet.
I read some of the comments BOF riders older than by a decade or more. I’m 66 but have health problems. There are lots of options now days for all types of riders. It’s about the freedom of getting out there to ride and adjust what you ride as needed.
I'm 67 and still riding but there are very few on your list that I would ride....never mind buy !!
68 this month...... Triumph Thruxton, Triumph Scrambler, Suzuki DL1000, And Royal Enfield 500 Classic in the barn 10k on the road last year. Not bragging, just realized tryin to turn a 900 lb. Lump around in a gravel parking lot might not be the best plan for an old man.
Not riding was NEVER an option.
I am 82, and ride a 99 Harley Softail Custom. It is the most comfortable bike for me. The pillow soft stock seat is comfy with the forward controls and pull back buckhorn bars. I have a bad back but can ride this bike for an hour or so without pain. I love the simplicity of the EVO motor, and easy maintenance.
Jim: When I was in Florida I bought a Fat Boy for my 75th birthday. I bought it sight unseen from a dealer here in NH. It's my 3rd Harley over 55 years of riding. Lots of bikes in between. I have 5 herniated discs and the pain that comes with those. I will pull back on the throttle to get away from the "texting herd." As you know, people are doing everything but driving these days. On Thursday, I was trying to merge in traffic after the Hooksett tolls southbound. I came up from the tunnel ramp. An old woman who was speeding in the left lane decided she wanted to get off 93 to take the loop around Manchester. She didn't look. She didn't signal. She just pulled across in front of me. It was a near miss, and I understand road rage. It would have been nice to see her being pulled over. But I just try to count and thank Mother Mary for letting me be safe.
I hear ya. Fortunately I live in a fairly low populated area in the middle of Kansa. But I still have to look out for the idiots that do not know how to drive or have any compassion at all for us. There are a lot of motorcycles in the area, so most people are mindful of us, and will wait till we get by before they pull out. I do ride in town some, but the town is only about 7500 population. I ride the back roads around here much of the time.
I started riding on a friends Whizzer Motor Bike when I was 8 years old. Bought my first Harley, a 1942 "45" flat head when I was 14. Been a lot of different bikes since then. Rode and 84 Iron head Sportster for 23 years. I have three herniated disc. Every time we have a close call we learn something. Not had to many, but one is enough.
I got the triumph bobber and it is a Great bike because the weight is so low down it is easy to handle, at the ripe age of 70 the bobber is a good bike.
Me too, it is easy to ride slow enjoying cruising along but also offers brisk acceleration when required. I hope to be still riding this for many years to come. Mind you I did install the footboards to ease the arthritis in my knees.
At 78, I’ve been riding for 60 yrs. I’ve got a Honda 2015 Goldwing 40th Anniversary edition that just turned 80,000 miles. It’s balanced, quick with a great lean angle for the twisties here in Arkansas.
I am on a Kawasaki Z900RS Cafe. I love it. Added some risers to the bars and a nice Corbin. Can ride hundreds of miles. Had a young guy ask me today what it bike it was. He sad it was SICK and looked like a wheelie monster. I have had more compliments on this bike than my Haleys. It is also light enough to easily move around but heavy enough to feel stable at speed.
67, Recently started riding again. Have a VTX 1300, because I've always been partial to cruisers. Never thought about trying off road, but recently I've been thinking about adventure bikes. So I think my next purchase will be a small duel sport, to get used to it. Then a midsized adventure. Before I I move up to an African twin or a Pan American.
As you can tell I'm not as reckless as I was before I stopped riding decades ago.
Super great video thanks highly enjoyed it 👍🏽
Thanks 👍
I'm 76 and ride a new Street triple RS, a friend is 86 and rides a Aprilia 1100 V4. While filming you missed the young guy with a backpack getting on the Kawa W800. No motorcycle I know is for any other than every age group but great hand held camera work.
Hey. I think ome watermark is enough. Two just take off some attention from the actual bikes...
I agree, but there are so many people stealing my videos that I have to do this 🙏
@@MotorNews007 no you actually don't. Nobody else does this.
64 been riding since 16. Main transportation for me.
We are older, not boring
Very true 😂
Im 73 , rides a 750 Honda Shadow, before I ride a 1800 Honda VTX but now little to heavy . Dont forget that Honda is the most trusted brand on the market
I'm 55 and I can't see my self ever parting with my Vtx1800c, she cruises so good.
Tks for putting it together. Great options. Easy on the watermarks it takes away from what you are trying to convey.
I'm 64, and took up riding again last November. Bike of choice, for me, here in Southern California for a retired rider not looking to tour on a bike? Used 2018 Sport Glide. Had all the goodies I wanted already on it. Set back risers, mustache bars, cruise control factory, Saddlemen seat that's comfortable, Gustafsson windscreen, Harley Davidson Topbox. About $3000 in upgrades. Most important to me, a stock 107 motor and stock exhaust. More HP and torque than I know what to do with.
cool n love it
I am 70 and still ride i am from England i have got a kawsaki vn 900 custom a honda Shadow 750 a fat boy still love riding happy days 😂
What applies to older drivers also applies to younger ones: OEM seating position and suspension tuning are only average measurements. Only a lot of younger people are more likely to fall for marketing and think it's cool to sit on a motorcycle like a frog.
Ergonomic adjustment is more or less always necessary.
If you're stupid enough to buy a race bike for road use that you can't properly customize, you're in trouble no matter what your age.
Have a Harley road king Kawasaki concours 1400 and a triumph thruxton. The thruxton is the fountain of youth fun, for this 68 year old. It gets more attention than the rest.😊
Honda, we love you but PLEASE reengineer the fuel tanks on the Rebel line. They look like inverted bed pans.
Now that's taking the piss!
Well I'm 65 and I still love my '05 Road King Classic! But I just bought a 2022 C.F. MOTO CL-X 700 "what people are calling the Heritage." But nowhere does the manufacturer call it that! It's a great bike and I got it out the door for under $6,000! I am not kidding! I wish that I could post a picture of it but you know what it's like by now! Great price and value!
I am 80 and ride 3 bikes, 2014 yamaha v star 950 t, 2009 Victory 8 ball and a 2019 Indian Scout. love them all...also do a lot of bicycle riding to help with balance...no more sport bikes for me.
A couple of newish bikes but really not much change since 2014!. The R18 is new but the rest are basically are modified versions of what has been available for a long time. I am not sure what an older rider is. There is such a vast range in experience capability and potential use.
Some nice motorcycles. I still love my Springfield. Its stupid heavy but I can still chuck it around the curves when I want or ride big distances in any conditions. That R18 is good value at 14k
My 88 year old buddy has a KTM 690 Duke and a Yamaha 900 (850) triple. Both are the lightest motorcycles he could find making reasonable power and good suspension
He is tall so saddles and bars needed changes. Miles keep adding up.
Ready for another experience but light does not see a priority.
Sunday rides on back roads some highway of 200 miles or more. Some tours.
Selections here are weird. All heavy meant for sustained slow.
Yes, it's one thing riding a heavy bike, but it's a different ball game when you need to manhandle it around.....
When I think about buying a Indian MC at first it feels good. Then it makes me feel like what will I do for service parts when Indian goes out of business again and again and again. I like Indians but I'm not mechanic
Obsolescence catches up with a lot of brands & models, some moreso than others. Once in a while a great bike comes to the market, stays a few years, then it's gone (no chance of long term spare parts for those). But thinking long term dealer support, mechanical expertise, parts & accessories availability ... there's no perfect answer for everyone. It also depends on what part of the world you're in. For example, I live in a city of 2 million people, but there is only 1 experienced mechanic who knows Moto Guzzi like the back of his hand. Eventually when he retires, nobody will fill his shoes. New bikes are getting sophisticated and there's not a lot that owners can do other than oil changes, chain tensioning (if your bike has one) and cleaning. Mechanical skills aren't being acquired by the next generation. Older guys like myself are happy to pay an expert mechanic (who can be hard to find) but also prefer less maintenance to begin with. I hope Indian are in the market for the long term, but it's a 'sink or swim' situation (same goes for a lot of other brands).
@@Jonathan-L Or you can just get a Yamaha or Honda. I ride a Goldwing and they started that line in 1974, though my 2022 model has only been the same for the last 5 years.
I’m 67 been riding H D for 40 years still the best .
Am all in for the beemer
76 years, started riding at 12 had a line of bikes ended up with an HD/FXDR 114, kept overheating
gave up, sold it.
Thinking of a Honda Rebel 500 or a Z1
H2O here in the Philippines is the only way to go
I'm 77 and I will keep my MT10 thanks. Not ready for a rocking chair.
Still kinda partial to my Road Star Warrior..doesn’t have all the electronic gadgets, so what you should be looking down the road. Not at a cheap Chinese iPad.
Compra-se no Brasil?? Qual o preço?? A custon q inicia o video.
I'm old and I'm bold still jumping dirt bikes 12 ft in the air plus at 64
If had money and the roads to boot the gold wing Honda what a machine
When I was 18, people who were 30 years old with 2 children that I knew were old. Old in their attitude. Me at 70, Kawasaki Z1300 1983, nearly back on the road again, 40 year old bikes do have issues. A new Aprillia Tuono V4 would be nice with dropped foot pegs and handlebar risers or maybe the new Ducati Diavel V4. Why do people want to categorize older people with their narrow mind set? Maybe they have never ridden anything decent.
Đep quá thôi . Ươc dì ho cho minh môt chiếc
Indian needs to hire that Japanese designer who did the job on the bobber (I think). It was a very lovely scooter, friends
Guzzi V7 Special
'68 and I ride a 2016 Indian Roadmaster 116 Trike and a 2019 116 Indian Challenger, this year. Have my eye on the 30 other bikes I have but I'm just a girl, lol. This year it's Durango Rendezvous, Colorado. See ya.....
Older rider? Try adventure bikes for a more relaxed riding position that won't give you backache. It's a shame the Tracer 9GT is so scrunched up. Yamaha don't seem to know what they're trying to build. My Yamahas were my most reliable bikes, but I have a 1290SAS at the moment which has a good riding position for me (now 75) and so far has been reliable.
Too tall☹
A katana for elders ?
Must be a joke, this is a good choice for a shorter and more intense life
I am an older rider and the seat height on a lot of these bikes is so high I wouldn't be able to get on them.
I'm 62 and just got my M/C license. I bought a Ducati Diavel 1260S 1 week after getting my license.
I had my permit for 2 months prior and bought a Ducati SCRAMBLER Desert Sled during that period.
I'm not ready for the LazyBoy recliners on wheels, aka Harley cruisers. I doubt I'll ever get one of those, they are BORING and SLOW.
Bullshit
Di jakarta bila .. ada yg ber-minat di mana bisa
hubungi dealernya .. mo
tor ber-kelas . sangat bagus
👍👍👍
No Harley Davidson Trikes? I would have thought that would be the most obvious one. You can't drop it. Many of us lose our sense of balance to a degree. Some of the spring style seats look very flat and uncomfortable.?
The point is that it is already obvious and we all know about three-wheeled bikes. I tried to focus on the two-wheelers. 🙏
@@MotorNews007 There are a lot of people who may not know about these things.
Agree🙏
I have Airhawk pads on both my motorcycles. Makes a huge difference. The same type of pad is used for people who are stuck in a wheelchair all day.
I am 61 and I ride a 2016 street glide this bikes here are kids .
suffering from the after sixty testicle droop .... I need a bike with straight up sitting so I dont crush the boys on the tank!
You forget the Moto Guzzi...
Back in the 80s and 90s here in upstate NY I remember there were motorcycles everywhere. Ever time a walked into a motorcycle shop back then it had crowds of people it seemed and now had to go on a see just one other person and hardly even see them on the streets here. I would like to buy another one but I'm worried I won't be able to sell it with all the EVs coming online or even get parts with all these companies need room to totally retool. Suzuki exited the MotoGP, I mean what does that mean? Ev motorcycles will be boring, no interest in getting one of those.
I think the gen z's are into video games and computers.dangers of people not seeing you cause of Texting probably dampened motorcycle usage.the cost of cars are so high no money left for a motorcycle and now strick emissions being upped every year. Then wondering if you can even sell it.
There are Bold riders and old riders but no Bold and Old riders .We should teach young riders to ride sensibly and own sensible mid sized motorcycles instead of dangerously large ,powerful and heavy death machines
Nice bikes but not for older riders
I'm 64 & I don't see one Motorcycle that I would buy during this video !! .. I am however interested in Adventure Bike Like KTM 690 / 890 / 1290 .. I don't see one KTM here in this video .. The Tenere isn't a real monster when it comes to Enduro's .. I don't even see the Ducati Desert X or other Adventure bikes worth having ..
Yes, we old guys would do well with these bikes, I am 64, but younger guys would do well as well. Because of my very healthy lifestyle I have regained some of the youth of my early 30s that I lost as the physical body begins the decline very slowly f
or men in our mid 30s as a result of declining hormone levels then accelerating in 50s and beyond.
Biking is for all age groups, there is no discrimination for being young or old.
Even youngsters love these Retro Modern Cruisers.
You must not segregate, rather correct the title of your video to:
"15 Coolest Motorcycles For- (The Coolest) Experienced Riders"
Sorry, O didn't like any of them. Most seniors are either full blown baggers or weekend down the street and back. How about Triumph T120?
Yes, I understand you, but there is one point where we should not focus on a specific style. We can give all this a wider range
I'm 60. I'd rather get a golf cart before any of these bikes. I need something with balls
I’d suggest you get a boyfriend…
I thing the price for the BMW R18 is not 14.000€….
Give me the Indian FTR 1200 please 120 hp is fine for me.
3:43 thats halo by beyonce, sing along ang you will see
Yamaha 900
The comments are hilarious. 🤠
Why older riders ? I see young guys riding these, I’m 66 and ride a FTR, I didn’t know bikes had agesthat they were made for
Suzuki katana with 158mm stroke! Is that how you make 150hp! Obvious typo
If your riding to look cool, you aren't cool.
My five decades of experience, with motorcycles, as a mechanic, as a racer, commuter, touring bike rider When’s anyone asks me what motorcycle they should buy. I told him to buy the one you think you want, as long as it’s not a Harley..
다 살만한 합리적인 좋은 가격인데...대한민국만 들어오면 가격이 쩜오는 붙는 프리미엄...
I’m 62 and have been riding for 47 years, rode multitudes of bikes, all sorts…. Currently riding an MV Agusta 800 Turismo, Veloce Lusso, 800cc triple an excellent middle weight fast sports tourer, comfy and capable.
My last bikes before this were Husqvarna 401 vitpilen, what a laugh, light but not fast enough. Kawasaki 650 ninja, nice capable middleweight, found lacking when I took her to the IOM so sold her. Honda VFR1200F, modified, fast, heavy, to heavy.
As I’ve got older comfort, and manoeuvring the bike in car parks are now a thing but I still like to ride fast and I need a machine that can handle the twisty bits……..MV Agusta 800 triple delivers, I can vouch for that on my last visit to IOM in September last year she delivered the goods.
The ideal bike for older riders…..well it depends what you want to do…..I want ride fast and grow old disgracefully but comfortably …………😎😎😎😎👍👍👍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇮🇲🇮🇲🇮🇲🇮🇲🇮🇲
R Cairns I understand you perfecly. I'm 76 and riding theses last years a powerful Valkyrie in twisty roads and montains in Québec, Can. Excuse my bad english. long life to you.
I am 73 and I own and Ride a Superbike. The fastest production bike from 1994-1999 when the Blackbird edged it out. i do not particularly care about wheelchair bike's or "for older people". That's just anal retentive.
Moto Guzzi V7 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it is not on your list . DOH
Lol no thanks, i'll pass on the bobbers and 60's and 70's retro shit and keep my Busa. I'm 54 and i already lived through that junk. Indian has a cool looking leather bagger but the engine looks hidious.
Dunno, I think that first Triumph looks pretty slick. Wish they could have refrained from putting the word "bobber" on that side cover.
I disagree with the Indian Springfield. I’m almost 60 and just sold mine. The 16” front tire, the angle of the bars, and the rake all make it harder to handle at slow speeds. I moved up to a Chieftain and find it much easier to handle.
Lol...if you say for older riders, what bs!
im 61 and none of those bikes are cool with maybe the exception of the triumph bobber all the others are crap
These bikes are all shite. I ride a 390 Duke and its class. I am nearly 60.
I am 59 been riding bikes all my life. started on a Kawasaki GPZ750 and have riden everything from GSXR1000s to Harley Fat Bobs and currently ride a Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS so I have to say that I do not think all "older guys" only want to ride harleys or indians or other laid back cruiser bikes. many of us are out here on liter sport bikes and hyper naked bikes spanking younger riders in the twisties.
old = cool young = loser
que pena estas motos, cada ves mas feas, venderan pocas unidades a unos cuantos empresarios agrios que la van a tener guardada solo por ostentar, y las que lleguen a verdaderos motociclistas las van a modificar!! solo asi se veran mas atractivas!!
No.