dminor 

I just did my once-a-month pop over to the 50+ forum to see what was shakin' . . . see if there was anything new/different/interesting going on.

If I EVER start yammering on about Brooks B-17 saddles or talk about putting one on a mountain bike - - please euthanize me.

kenhill3

Agreed.

And if you catch me on the recumbent you have my permission to kick my 56 yo ass.

lofnsjoke

your just begging for someone to put this in their sig

yellowjeep

^^^Haha, I was just thinking about that but including the b17 part as well

surreal

yo, if i ever make it to recumbent age, i think i'd feel thankful, being blessed with good health and longlife.

-rob

yellowjeep

I don't know. There is a guy that used to roll though the shop who is way past recumbent age. He still rides an S-works Tarmac.

DirtPedalerB

if you got a brooks saddles sponsorship would you run one then??

i'd photoshop your signature pic, but I'm too lazy

Pocko

Yet another classic one-liner!! It's just keeps rolling out the tongue doesn't it!! Ever think of getting a job in the movie industry, Dm?

OK... electricution, lethal injection, suffocation with Maxxis Tire Catalogs, or a death flogging with said brooks saddle??






.

Zephyr11

Or Whistler on a comfort bike?

Pocko

Allow me... kind sir...

varminter

Iffin ya do and I see ya on the mountain,I'll do ya one better, I'll just simply run ya over

Billy Bones

As a 50+ refugee I commend your active anticipation of sucessfully achieving the 50+ status intact with the will and ability to maintain an active life. Well done! You will have sucessfully achieved a formidable goal. . .many there are who succomb to fat and lethargy. . .and the false assumption that fitness is for the young.

But you miss the fundamental point, poor thing. Brooks saddles are merely indicative of a profound willingness to maintain an active life well beyond our ability to win races [or impress young cyclists] or even care about what saddles are appropriate. It's about staying in the saddle and feeling the joy of of "muscle engaged in forward movement". . .a universal joy regardless of age. We can agree on that, maybe?

May you look in to BF50+ with some anticipation of what is surely to come. May you look to BF50+ forum as a model as to how you will face the advance of years.

As far as euthanization goes, I leave that to all who face incipient death to decide. This I'll suggest: Brooks saddles are a far cry from the need for suicide.

Finally, do not discount the possibility that a 50+ refugee like [say] myself will seduce your mother and spend your inheritance in Reno. . .with just enough left over to make a nice cycling tour together in Tuscany. Maybe we can stay a few months in Gaiole-in-Chianti. . .on your dime!

The great thing about being 50+ is that we have the time and ready cash to endulge in good cycling with good company.

dminor 

^^ See folks? THIS is why I run screaming from the 50+ forum more often than not. They all sound like that

kenhill3

Don't worry, Doug, the eloquence will come in time...........

dminor 

That "eloquence" strikes me more like Major Hoople-esque pontificating (if you happen to remember Our Boarding House )


Haaarrrumph.

rbrsddn

I went in there once a couple of years ago, at 51, but couldn't relate. I'm not conceding anything...

born2bahick

Welcome back to the dark side Doug, Walk away from the light walk away from the light.

Hawkeye1864

I have a tin of Brooks Proofide sitting next to my computer right now. I bought it today from the Old Spokes Home in Burlington, Vermont. That's a great shop and well worth a pilgrimmage. When I get finished catching up with BF I'm going downstairs to start stroking & fondling my new green Brooks B-17 Special with the copper rails and large hammered rivets that is soon going to grace my all-Campy Austro-Daimler Superleicht. I think the British Racing Car Green color will complement that bike's Grey Poupon mustard color to maximum pimp factor. I was going to start breaking in the B-17 on my '08 Stumpy Comp tomorrow (the A-D is in my mother's heated garage and I won't be reclaiming it until this Sunday) but you guys have talked me right out of it. Age 55, but not over the hill yet.

Siu Blue Wind

I have a Brooks Imperial........

*eyeballs Kona Dawg*

CCrew

You know why they invented recumbents?



























So Jabba the Hut can ride bikes too...

joetronic

What about cardiff saddles doug? lol... Its leather, comfy, without all that "i have a brooks" crap.

Now, does it make me old that I have a brooks? Or just a 27yr old trendy ass....