I'm new to the 50+ forum, but have been hanging out on the C&V forum for maybe ten years, as all my bikes are of a certain age. I'm 68, retired, ride 4-5 days a week, both for recreation and transportation. When I was still commuting (just now Google wanted to autocorrect "commuting" to "vomiting" - trying to tell me something? ;-)) I arbitrarily decided a "ride" had to be at least ten miles and have stuck with that definition. I'm expecting to hit somewhere close to 5000 miles this year. I've got a half dozen bikes ready to roll, one that just needs tires, and the other frames in various states of partial build.

I'm currently taking Doug Fattic's framebuilding class, so I will soon(-ish) have a new bike, but it will still be steel with a level top tube. I'm slowly graduating to indexed shifting. I have one bike with 7sp SIS (in the form of the rather unusual Regina America '92 group). The new bike will have eight (count 'em!) speeds (mostly DA 7400).

From a ride the other day, early 60s Frejus Tour de France in front of the Uncle Buck house: