How Many Oldies Here?

[RichardB]

62 last week. First bike at age 8, cycled a lot until age 30, daily commuter, then kids, time pressure, got more into motorbikes, but always had a bike in the shed. Started cycling again properly last year and can't get enough of it. As @midlife says, trying to roll back the years a bit.

 

[postman]

62 started in junior school have raced ,toured ,and commuted non stop since

You must be a long way from home now then.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Me to I'm a mere youngster at 52, really a baby in cycling years as I only started at 48.
Don't call my cycling a sport, though, I'm the least sporty person ever, cycling is for going places!

 

[ayceejay]

This is the magic: I used to be younger. I had to learn to ride a bike which was not easy on the available hardware.
I got THE BIKE when I was 15 with my mums help, and this is the age I feel now with the wind in my face and the
$4000 worth of carbon bicycle between my legs.

 

[ColinJ]

I will be 60 early in the New Year but I can still ride as slowly as I did when I was 35!

(The current avatar picture was taken when I was 50 and will be replaced by a greying, balding, knackered-looking version in January! )

 

[FrankCrank]

....54 here. Took the stabilizers off last week - no stopping me now.........

 

[bancrobba]

50. Still can't resist racing the bus on the ride home.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm 55. There's lots more oldies on CC than i imagined!

 

[G-Zero]

53 and although I'm less than a year and a half from being a retiree, I feel far from old.... Sometimes !

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A relative youngster at 51. Have been cycling all my life.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

64 next month and still a youngster.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'm 55. There's lots more oldies on CC than i imagined!

Yes - I am on one hand heartened to hear that so many 'oldies' are still out and about yet on the other hand I am dismayed...

... I thought all the amazing long rides and super quick speeds, that make my rides look pitiful, were being posted on here by young whippersnappers.

 

[arch684]

Growing old and growing up are not the same thing

 

[swee'pea99]

"Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now."

 

[Old jon]

Ooops, old I must be. The Byrds, 'My Back Pages'