Originally Posted by cyclintom

Lifting half or more of your bodyweight is considered heavy lifting and this alone can result in torn aortas. I'm 185 lbs and never had any trouble lifting half of that and would when I was in the military. What the medical literature says is that these were undiagnosed aneurisms.

Well, one might theorize that those of us that are considered senior citizens no longer have to worry about these sorts of things but we have about the same numbers of heart failures as young healthy weight lifters. I suppose I could look around and try to find that study in Cardiology but if you're interested you could look it up yourself.

And who says red bikes aren't faster?