Originally Posted by
genejockey
"I was doing a Zone 1 recovery ride, and some old guy on an ancient Schwinn passed me, wearing a T-shirt and gym shorts. He wasn't wearing a helmet and looked unvaccinated. Poor bastard was all bunched up, like he was riding a kids bike. It seemed awfully important to him to pass me. But you gotta give it to him for being out there still riding. I hope I'm still riding at his age. But, you know, on a bike that actually fits."
On a hot day I was finishing a century with friends who were riding their tandem. We were whipped and just crawling the last couple miles when a guy on some old beater bike roars up alongside us on the sidewalk. He snarled at us and hammered ahead with his driveside crank banging against his chainguard. We tried to ignore him but he wouldn't go away. He hung around taunting us until he got bored, I guess, and turned off.