I'm not sure because I'm not 50 but sometimes It's cool to recognize all the hard work that has gone into it in such a short amount of time. I've been riding for a year and I am just as fast if not faster than someone who, even though is 25 years older, has been riding for 30 years longer. While I don't really mind it when they say stuff like that, I could see where he is coming from. Another thing, while in most of the cases I am faster they suffer from less pains than I do after a long ride. My body is not used to all this activity while theirs (I believe) has gotten acclimatized through the years.