Your wife is entitled to her opinion BUT I think she's wrong...period.
My wife and I are BOTH older than you and ride sportbikes....and love it !!
With gear on no one can tell how old you are anyways.
Having said this...ok...most sportbike riders are in their 20's it seems so no I don't "hang out" with them when not riding but when on the bike and on the throttle...WGAF...you know ?
If I'm counting correctly (old you know
) I've owned 8 sportbikes and 1 cruiser and am already looking forward to the 2009 R1 and what changes Yamaha may have made.
Yep...two "geezers" heading out...
Oh yea...I didn't vote because none of the options were good...you're not too old.
One day...when we can swing it we plan to maybe buy two cruisers and KEEP the sportbikes so we can "cruise" with the Harley crowd and "run" with the sportbike crowd.