Fredo76
Über Member
- Location
- Española, NM
Hello from Española, New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment (and goatheads)! 
I started riding again at age 62 during our first pandemic summer, after realizing that I may not get another summer. I bought a Jamis Citizen 1 with a step-through frame to exercise after my hip replacements, but was advised not to ride it until after the second was completed. (I dislocated my left hip replacement while mounting my Triumph to ride to physical therapy, and then three more times before they re-did it, and the doctor was worried about me crashing...)
Most of my riding experience is from about 45 years ago, when I raced as a teenager in Tucson, Arizona. Our favorite ride was the 9-mile loop drive at Saguaro National Park, hence my avatar, and my only 'bucket list' goal really, to ride around it again, hopefully this spring on a visit. I sure can't ride like I used to, but this year I did manage to get my old racing bike going again.
I built the frame myself in 1976 during my senior in high school, as an apprentice to Colin Laing, a British framebuilder who had just emigrated to Tucson, because of the 3-day work week policy back home, he said. He told me right up front that I could build one, saying that building his first one on the sly in his old boss's shop had ended badly. I could barely endure a few miles in the racing position I used to have, so began modifying the bike until it got fairly Franken...
Then my brother gave me a powdercoat job as a birthday present, and now it's back to the classic look. I even bought new toe-straps.
Who says you can't go back?
Thanks for looking!
I started riding again at age 62 during our first pandemic summer, after realizing that I may not get another summer. I bought a Jamis Citizen 1 with a step-through frame to exercise after my hip replacements, but was advised not to ride it until after the second was completed. (I dislocated my left hip replacement while mounting my Triumph to ride to physical therapy, and then three more times before they re-did it, and the doctor was worried about me crashing...)
Most of my riding experience is from about 45 years ago, when I raced as a teenager in Tucson, Arizona. Our favorite ride was the 9-mile loop drive at Saguaro National Park, hence my avatar, and my only 'bucket list' goal really, to ride around it again, hopefully this spring on a visit. I sure can't ride like I used to, but this year I did manage to get my old racing bike going again.
I built the frame myself in 1976 during my senior in high school, as an apprentice to Colin Laing, a British framebuilder who had just emigrated to Tucson, because of the 3-day work week policy back home, he said. He told me right up front that I could build one, saying that building his first one on the sly in his old boss's shop had ended badly. I could barely endure a few miles in the racing position I used to have, so began modifying the bike until it got fairly Franken...
Then my brother gave me a powdercoat job as a birthday present, and now it's back to the classic look. I even bought new toe-straps.
Who says you can't go back?
Thanks for looking!
