Commuting to Work In Later Life

[beanzontoast]

I'm in my 50's and will stop only when I retire. I'm expecting the hills to get 'steeper' eventually, but as long as the knees hold out, I shall keep going!

 

[boydj]

I'm due my bus pass in six months or so. It gives me another option for those cold, wet and windy mornings we all love so much, but somehow I don't see that coming into play more than once or twice a year. I cycle because I enjoy it and it keeps me fit, so age does not come into it. I hope to be cycling into my eighties - though maybe not commuting by then...........

 

[binghas]

I didn't start commuting 8 miles eachway to Saltend until I was 60, will carry on cycling after I retire.

 

[AlanBG]

I started to cycle to work (Blackheath, London SE3, to Blackfriars, London EC4) in April 2008, when I was 56. I took up cycling the previous September, after a 39-year break -- since I did my A levels. And I plan to continue till I'm 65 at least, even though I get my Freedom Pass in 2011.

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[Deleted member 1258]

I am 57 and have been cycling to and from work most of my life, I will stop either when my body gives out or when I retire' which ever comes first.

 

[jay clock]

It is a source of huge amusement to me that 95% of the replies on here are from people who have not read the attached link..... the posting was humorous...

 

[hackbike 666]

Oh well.

 

[beanzontoast]

It is a source of huge amusement to me that 95% of the replies on here are from people who have not read the attached link..... the posting was humorous...

No, I think people read it, but the post morphed into a discussion of the literal meaning of the thread title. For that matter, I quite often get the feeling that people who join onto the end of a thread haven't read most of the posts that went before it!

 

[BrumJim]

I was rather hoping this thread was going to develop into either:
1) a discussion on heists that we have done using a push-bike as a getaway vehicle
2) a whinge about badly-behaved old people
3) a discussion on the institutionalisation effect of repeated short-term incarceration of habitual offenders and possible alternative retributions in such circumstances, or
4) any combination of the three above.

However, 1) could be incriminating, 2) is not about cycling, and 3) is probably a bit deep and outside the experience and/or understanding of most of us on here.

Well, its a democratic (public?) forum, so I suppose it is free to go whichever way the posters on here want it to go.

 

[Davidc]

The guy in the OP's a bit tame as cycling criminals go. I've seen reports of far worse crooks on bikes. Right up to leaders of political parties and mayors of big cities. The one in the OP was just a small time thief!

I work from home so can't commute by bike, but at 57 do nearly all of my local trips by bike, and if the body holds out will go on doing so indefinitely.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It is a source of huge amusement to me that 95% of the replies on here are from people who have not read the attached link..... the posting was humorous...

I'll hold my hand up here, guilty as charged didn't read all of it, shouldn't be on the forum when its past my bedtime.

 

[HJ]

Why stop? One of the great things about cycling is that it keeps you fit and active...

 

[MartinC]

The original post had a very specific question which didn't necessitate anyone looking at the link to answer. But you're right it's unusual for a thread to stay on topic like this!

 

[hackbike 666]

Butwhy the hell do I seem to be getting slower?

Took me an hour to get home tonight instead of 45 minutes.

 

[atbman]

Then there was the 80 year-old who, last September ('08) broke the hour to set a new national age-related record for 25 miles. It wasn't a very good one tho' as he broke his new record again - the following day