"I'm 66, but I bike 55 kilometers every day"

[AndyWilliams]

"I'm 66, but I bike 55 kilometers every day. I don't get much from my pension, so I ride along this road and pick up metal scraps to bring to the collection center. I ride my bike everywhere. A few months ago, I rode 170 kilometers to visit my daughter. I left at noon and got there before dark. I wasn't even rushing!"

(Bila Tserkva, Ukraine)



I follow a page on facebook called Humans of New York. (he is travelling at the mo)

 

[Accy cyclist]

Easy peasy doing 34 miles in a day,it looks flatter than Holland! Having said that how much will the bike weigh at the end of the day?!

 

[slowmotion]

Are those hand grenades in his basket??????????

 

[Accy cyclist]

Are those hand grenades in his basket??????????

Not sure but that could be an AK47 in the white bag!!

 

[snorri]

I think his secret may be not having to waste time maintaining one of those high maintenance derailleur systems

 

[slowmotion]

Not sure but that could be an AK47 in the white bag!!

I think it's a leg of a road-kill deer actually.

 

[PeteXXX]

That's not scrap metal.... that's the crash barrier!!

 

[slowmotion]

That's not scrap metal.... that's the crash barrier!!

Very good!

 

[DiddlyDodds]

That's not scrap metal.... that's the crash barrier!!

The Gypos around our way would beg to differ

 

[Beebo]

Being from Ukraine, he probably has half of that Malaysian plane and some blown up tanks in his pannier.

 

[BSRU]

I met a cyclist a while ago who did the LEJOG in ten days in some atrocious weather and he was 80.