Does it really matter how old you are?

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....Mrs Crank is 16 years my junior, hopefully this will keep me young.

I like to go for a ride twice most days (on my bikes that is)......
 
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twentysix by twentyfive

Clinging on tightly
Location
Over the Hill
....heh heh, she doesn't live far then.....
.........might even be able to cycle round there too. Probably not back again after tho'..........
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
Actually, the way I walk, in boots with a pack, is similar to the way I ride. It's just that the boots get full of mud and I go up steeper hills. I go places on the bike I wouldn't walk, cover greater distances. I could have bought a reasonable bike with what my boots cost, but the bike will be next.
 

Ian H

Ancient randonneur
I've lost a bit of speed, but gained some experience, endurance, knowledge, and sundry aches and pains.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
A few months ago i was out on the bike and stopped at a cafe to buy coffee.An old man spoke to me,it was obvious he knew me but i did'nt recognise him.This guy was in my class at school.Did'nt know if i should laugh or cry
A man came up to me at my dad's funeral and spoke to me for 5 minutes as if he were an old friend of mine. It turned out that he was!

He had aged a bit since I had last seen him 25 years prior to that, but he was still very recognisable.

At least I had an excuse ... I had a brush with death from carbon monoxide poisoning a couple of years before that and it left me with a degree of brain damage, which included a poor memory.
 
I sometimes ask myself that question. I took up cycling properly when I was 61 and I am now 65. Many a time, when I see younger cyclists passing me at a speed I can't do, going up a hill at a speed I can't do and doing many more miles that I can't do, I sigh and wish I was much younger. My head is willing to do it but my legs just don't have the stamina. So I settle down and just keep going, and wonder why I waited so long to take up cycling again, wishing I was young again. Then I start to think: how long have I got left, how long before my body refuses to ride a bike? In the last 4 years, I have covered 7500miles and I am proud of that.
This is not a rant, this is reminiscing, this is just showing how much I love my cycling.
This is just saying that age doesn't matter, that how fast you can ride doesn't matter, that how good you are at going up hills doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you can't ride as often as you would like to. What really matters is being able to ride, being able to enjoy the fresh air under your own power, being able to still feel young enough to postpone ageing years.
This is a also being able to spend your money on something useful and beautiful rather than cigarettes, excess alcohol , drugs etc....
Cycling is a way of life and may it last for many more years.
Yes and No really. Yes because I too would like to be able to keep up with younger riders being 65 oh and also to be a lot slimmer body wise. But no when it comes to getting out on my bike and having a go. I have discovered though over the last year that age is nothing as long as you have good health and now having got acid reflux from a hiatus hernia that is more restricting than my age. But hey many people have worse than that so its a case of getting on with it.
On a different front I still ride a motorbike but certainly not like I did at 16.
 
A few months ago i was out on the bike and stopped at a cafe to buy coffee.An old man spoke to me,it was obvious he knew me but i did'nt recognise him.This guy was in my class at school.Did'nt know if i should laugh or cry

When he said he was in your class at school, were you tempted to respond with, "I don`t remember anyone in my class with a bald head and no teeth”.
 
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