Fastest, oldest cyclists?

[vickster]

Indeed. Feel free to use the ignore button yourself. I like the entertainment to brighten up a slow workday

 

[Citius]

The mod has said back on topic.

There you go again. All I've ever been asking for is a link to some kind of proof for your claims to awesomeness. I'll do you a deal - provide a link and I'll leave you alone.

 

[Markymark]

I'm not going to limit my knowledge to one specific club, once my online coaching program is launched anyone with an internet connection will be within reach.

If I rode with a club I know I would get frustrated. My strava segment times in comparison to apparent strong local clubs are superior.

This post is utter nonsense. I believe it is entirely fabricated. I will not believe a word of this post unless some data is supplied to back it up.

There. Not personal. A genuine response to a post.

 

[mjr]

If you're going to do them regularly or want to enter open TT's yes you'll need to join an affiliated club.

CTC is an affiliated club IIRC, so could you join the Fridays and then pay the sub£20 CTC affiliate membership and enter TTs with it?

 

[Dirk]

Quote:
"The older I get - the faster I was"

PS. I've beasted Alex Dowsett on several Strava segments round 'ere and I'm 62 this year.......bet he's smarting about that!

Or maybe he wasn't trying............

 

[mjr]

For racers without the speed there is nothing. Once the speed is gone, you don't continue driving an f1 car, just 'to be out there', it's the same cycling.

Not an F1 car but a lot of retired F1 drivers turn up in touring cars, electrics, endurance events (Le Mans and road) and I expect many more still enjoy motoring non competitively.

 

[derrick]

If you have a mate @blazed you could do this one, http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/event/20698 I will be doing it with a few mates.

I will be 64 years old when i do this one.

 

[HLaB]

One of my friends is touching 60 and was third in a Cat 3/4 race on Saturday. Another is mid 60's (at least 25years older than me) and over distance a lot more consistent. Another beat me in circa 14 out of 15 TTs last year and he's in the pre 1945 category (I'm pre 1975). Gives me hope for the future :-)

 

[outlash]

I've been on this forum around 7 years. I signed up when i started cycling, left for a couple years when I stopped, and returned when i started again. I'm no troll.

The whole he's a troll thing reminds me of the old days when people were burnt for being witches. Just because people could not understand them, they feared them.

The difference is that you can provide proof of your apparent 'skills' with your sportive results and/or a link to your strava profile, accused witches didn't get such an opportunity. Until you can back up your claims of your awesomeness you'll be called a troll. Simple.

 

[blazed]

The difference is that you can provide proof of your apparent 'skills' with your sportive results and/or a link to your strava profile, accused witches didn't get such an opportunity. Until you can back up your claims of your awesomeness you'll be called a troll. Simple.

I believe witches were at least given the privilege of a sink or swim test. I'm just presumed to sink.

 

[outlash]

I believe witches were at least given the privilege of a sink or swim test. I'm just presumed to sink.

Once again, provide a Strava link or your sportive results and you won't have to feel victimised. In other words, put up or shut up.

 

[Ajax Bay]

If I rode with a club I know I would get frustrated.

@blazed I think you would really benefit from riding with a club on a number of levels (ie not just for the benefit of your cycling performance), and I so recommend. It may be that in the club you join (and go for rides with) there are some good aging or aged role models - that was the thrust of this thread, remember (everyone) - which would allay your worry and stress about the effect of inevitable aging on your cycling prowess and maintain your motivation through the decades. These will be real men and women as opposed to the ephemera of Strava and the impersonality of random sportives. You can take pride in wearing the club top and your fellow members will be able to take pride in your competitive achievements. You've said you're built with power in mind. Cycling clubs need role models for all shapes, sizes and sexes and you could, having served a short, restrained apprenticeship, be one such. Otherwise larger people can turn up and see all these low BMI people and get put off. Give it a go - swim with the tide - it's better than sinking, like so many of the posts on this thread.

 

[Dec66]

Well, I'm 50 this year, and I'm dead, dead fast.**

So there.






**some, or all, of this may be untrue.

 

[Dec66]

I believe witches were at least given the privilege of a sink or swim test. I'm just presumed to sink.

That'll be down to the muscle mass that creates the wattage.

Think of it as a curse as well as a blessing.

 

[Justinslow]

@blazed, just a quick look back through a few pages of this thread, I can't see any posts that you have "liked" (I could be wrong and I stand corrected if I am), that's a bit of poor form really. A lot of people have tried to give you some good advice including myself, some maybe haven't, you could at least acknowledge the ones you feel that have IMO.