[Closed] Your Silliest Mid-life Crisis*

Easy one this.

It's deciding that I needed an all-mountain gnar machine which weighed the same as the HMS Endurance, was far too short in the top tube and had the forgiving handling of an early seventies Porsche 911.

The replacement for my previous XC bike has 150/140mm of travel, weighs 28lb, climbs extremely well and is far better downhill than my old AM monster.

Blonde, curvy and 22 yrs younger than me. (And still well legal.)

My husband and I both just quit our jobs 😆

Kids.

Who the f thought starting a family (3 kids) at 38 was a good idea! 😉

spending a long weekend in Amsterdam in 1995 , fuelled by Amstel, white widow, and coke.
ended up in hospital for a few days on a drip......... 😳

Same as Woody .... 45 years old and second one due June next year 🙂

43 years old and am now on my AFF Level 6 jump. I'm amazed that it took me so long to discover skydiving. It's frickign awesome.

I take all sorts of issues with the op.

I recently bought some formal and expensive lounge wear.

@willard. I've wanted to do my AFF since I did a tandem dive years ago. Unfortunately never quite got round to it.

Not there yet but already planning it. It'l be quitting full time work so i can enjoy my life while health is on my side. Just cant afford to yet. Hate working and I'm just always tired, too tired to do anything else.

Bought my first DH bike last year aged 46

I just bought a trials bike this year, and a new electric guitar. I already own 2 nice guitars, neither of which I've played for years, so obviously a new one made perfect sense.

Oh and I'm restoring a motorbike, because I am a walking cliche

Danny, just do it.

I did a tandem at Saarlouis in August and laughed all the way down from 15k to 6k and decided that I wanted to learn then. It's taken me this long to book it and jump. Now I have started, I just need two more to get past the AFF part, then another 12 or so and some exams before I can get my A license.

Yes, hooked. it is such good fun.

Northwind - Member
I just bought a trials bike this year, and a new electric guitar. I already own 2 nice guitars, neither of which I've played for years, so obviously a new one made perfect sense.

Oh and I'm restoring a motorbike.

It may not be the most costly, but the ukulele has to be mentioned too!

Kids here too. 3 year old and a 5 year old. I'm 46.

Which of course leads onto me 'needing' a Transition PBJ in chrome to visit the skate parks and pump tracks with my 5 year old boy.

Believing that the credit crunch in 2007/8 was something that I could work through and keeping a full complement of staff for a year too long ..virtually brought the business to its knees and only a very large loan which has taken 7 years to pay off has kept me ticking over ..in hindsight maybe I should just have gone bust but I have always believed in ' doing the right thing ' ..more fool me 😕
Couldn't have done it without my woman to keep me sane ..

ChrisL - Member

It may not be the most costly, but the ukulele has to be mentioned too!

I'll accept that if only because it suggests I can get in and out of these things in an afternoon, for minimum spend. Anyway MC's going to buy it off me.

Not quite mid life yet.. but when I hit 40 I'm buying a set of bagpipes 😀

Began training as a Paramedic. At 54.

Me at 50

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Didn't last long! 😆

Not quite mid life yet.. but when I hit 40 I'm buying a set of bagpipes

A colleague plays the bagpipes and practices here at the end of the working day. I had a few days of thinking I was losing my mind before I realised.

In a similar style to Dezzy Baby, I recently bought these...

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and have started that skating lark again. My knees aren't what they used to be

I took up the oboe aged 54 and mountain biking after that.

Yes, hooked. it is such good fun.

I got bored of skydiving - there's really only so many ways you can fall out of a plane. Also the cost and the sitting around at airfields waiting for the cloud to clear / wind to drop got tiresome.

Not sure I've had a mid-life crisis yet but I'm 40 now so there must be one round the corner!

unicycle

and running perhaps

Binners..Jack Bauer boots ..are you a government agent too..?

I've started learning the guitar at 53 - loving it, thanks to my 9 year old daughter for teaching me!

Mid life crisis or impulse buy.

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Don't know but it's losing oil..
They only work if you haven't got kids to tidy up after everytime you move on ..

I'd LOVE a mid-life crisis! For me it would be paragliding, did a tandem a few years back and fell hopelessly in love with it. Unfortunately shifts that are all over the shop and the vagaries of the UK weather put paid to it being anything more than a dream.

*edit* Actually, I'm trying to persuade the Mrs to let me chop my yaris in for a Nissan Cube, does that count?

I feel slightly inadequate about the Airdrop Edit I bought. 😆

Dunno if 38 is classed as midlife these days but I'm sat here waiting for my n+1 to turn up on friday so I can embarrass myself on sunday

Bought an MX-5. What's silly about that you hear? Nothing. The silly part was selling it to cycle to work every day (he says watching a Biffa bin make its way past the office window propelled only by the wind).

Karate and Airfix, but not at the same time.

Tracey - love the vanity plate on that 😆

Learning to ride a motorbike 30 years too late. The very definition of all the gear, no idea.

Tracey - that’s not Kev! 😆

Ducati 900SS - big loud red italian motorbike - how much of a cliche is that?

It was some guy who was trying to show us how it all worked 🙁 Still dont know after two years and 24000 miles

Marrying the woman who says I need to live to 2098*

* I'll be 134 😯

I wanted a midlife crisis when I turned forty this year. Can’t afford one though. Really wanted to get a Cotic Flare. Living on the edge, that’s me.

Does having a second child count?

Not done it yet but I could so easily get back into this sort of thing again...

I turned 40 this year,

so far - no tattoo, no motorbike, no affair

I did have a bash at ironman for the last few years but **** that for a game of soldiers.

hodgynd - Member
Binners..Jack Bauer boots ..are you a government agent too..?

[b]Ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! [/b]

😀

given up your jobs Wallop?! what have you got planned?
just going into another job or something more aspirational?

Starting MX again at 57, I'm soooooo slow and have been on of injured all year. Loving it though and can't wait for next years season !!!

Backpacking in South America at 42 lol (it was amazing!! 🙂 )

Started surfing aged 39. Idiot.

(A friend questioned the notion of MLCs "I've always liked sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Still do. What's the crisis?")

Singlespeed

And another old dad here too - 50 and two 8 yr olds.

@wallop, so have you and the boy actually quit?! Have you finished yet or still working your notice?

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What the HELL was I thinking!!!

Have been mulling over skateboarding and motorbikes for a while, usually some bill puts paid to my strange impulses

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SammyC - I’m officially on sabbatical from my old place but working for my father in law in the meantime (he has his own business). Other half is on gardening leave!

Jekkyl - bit of a lifestyle change I think. Just going to see what opportunities are out there... the excitement of the unknown!

I’ve been trying to swing a motorbike for last 7 or 8 years, since I was late 20s so that doesn’t count.

I’ve been thinking of learning to surf but I live about as far from the sea as its possible to get.

I’ll probably get an MX-5 or boxster or something in the next 5-10 years. I’m 35 now so a bit til I hit peak mid life crisis

BMX racing. Never did it as a kid so 40 seems the obvious age to scare the crap out of myself on an iddy biddy bike. Love it though.

Started playing drums again with a few lads from work. Still going after four years, really enjoying it.

Went to an audition last week for a part in a play at the local theatre. Never acted before. They offered me the part 😯 😳

Looking forward to it. Off to pick up my script tonight!

Going sober/straight/sensible.

Bloody daft idea. Bring back the lost weekends.

Which crisis exactly?
I suppose mine in my 50's is the Lapiz blue VW Golf sitting outside
In my 40's it was taking up cycling again, in particular mountain biking. Best think I ever did as it has improved my life in so many ways.
In my late 30's it was taking a year off work and going round the world on my own

Single speed at 47. Still love it 10 years later.

the Menoporsche!

Registering on an MTB forum.

Bought one of these just over a year ago, at 52 :

only actually been out on it once, but seemed to be starting to get the hang of it.

44 years old. 4 kids. 2 in college. Youngest 5. Oldest 22. Super demanding job that keeps getting busier.

Just signed as a personal guarantor for a new business (so I'm on the hook if it goes tits up). Am basically funding a new personal training and MMA gym that will be run daily by someone else with my wife and I managing the back office, finances etc. I will also train people there at the weekends (as an MMA striking coach).

In my mind, this will be fun and successful gig on the side, pay for a new motorbike and lease me a nice new car next year.

In reality I will be a stressed-out, debt-ridden nervous wreck with no time for an actual life and will be beaten senseless in sparring by stronger, fitter, faster animals 20 years my junior.

WTF am I thinking?!? 🙂

Edit. Me being a cock again. 😳

I bought a petrol strimmer for the allotment, and the braap made me want another motorcycle so, I bought another motorcycle.

Not had one for about 16 years..a motorcycle that is, not a strimmer.

road riding 😳

next installment might be one of those geometron frames 🙄

hoping that my late-mid life crisis will involve quitting work and doing lots of biking and me and MrsPants travelling to moderately interesting places (mostly with my bike(s) too)

Treated myself to a brand new Hayabusa , then had it tuned and remapped , race exhaust.. scared myself stupid for a couple of years 😀

Took up wakeboarding at the age of 44, now have no ACL in my left knee.....should have bought a 2 seater sports car!

Kids too - at 46 I've got a 7 year old, 5 year old and 10 month old. That's me done on that front though.

Oh, and I just bought a PS4 and a copy of GTA 5 - does that count?

Going crazy for wild camping stuff and spending lots of £££ I dont really have. To the point of buying a new bike just to do it....

eddiebaby - Member
Blonde, curvy and 22 yrs younger than me. (And still well legal.)

This only counts of you didn't pay for it.... If you did then it's a wise investment.

penguinni - Member
Began training as a Paramedic. At 54.

Surely that's a positive!

Bought an MX-5. What's silly about that you hear?

Exactly.... The gf has one. Brilliant motor and cost less than my bike!
Cruising through the Alps with the roof down is kinda nice.

mrmonkfinger - Member
Going sober/straight/sensible

Sounds shit

Took up road racing at 45. Have now just become a second Cat at 50. I think it took my club mate four races to get the same progression!

Ripstik riding is a lot of fun, especially at the Skate Park.

And wearing the kids hand-me-down Converses because my feet are smaller and narrower than theirs.

More into long boards now though
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I just quit a well paying job with no other job to go to, because it was the most toxic place I've ever worked and was ruining my mental health. Still have a mortgage and bills and everything although thankfully not commensurate with my peers, who have been spending money on tick like it was the apocalypse. Not sure what the next step is.

I can paint and cook and have a chemistry degree. Anyone hiring?

at 42, I gained a penchant for tailor made suits, and now have 3. 2 of them made in Vietnam whilst there on business in the most outlandish colours I could find.