Originally Posted by Biker395

I say if you want to ride your age, then by all means do it. Until recently, I used to ride insanely long distances and thought nothing of it. Riding "my age" was no challenge because I rode 2/3 of my age virtually every day. I had ridden 48 doubles and thought it to be only a matter of where and when I would do my 50th.

Then a nasty crash. Then a chronic condition. Then COVID. Then something else. Later, rinse, repeat.

And on my most recent birthday, I found myself with a nasty intestinal bug (nothing like raw hamburger in a foreign country to make you feel alive) that meant I couldn't ride at all, let alone my age. Yea, I'm better and could certainly do it now, and I soon hope to be back on the double century circuit again. But the point is do it if you can while you can.

PS: For all the worry about riding in the COVID age, I still haven't even heard of a single person who became infected that way.