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Originally Posted by Colorado Kid
(Post 18660786)
My friends tried to convince me that I should think about a early retirement (I'm 55.) and live near them at the old folks home. (Give me a break!) My doc says I have a body of a 30 year old so why stop now? How old is too old to keep riding often?
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Originally Posted by Papa Tom
(Post 18662739)
Lots of people are going to try to convince you to retire. Many have their own agendas, like justifying their own inactivity at an early age or just wanting to hang out with you more. Don't let anyone else tell you when to get off the bike. You will know when it's time.
Originally Posted by JoeyBike
(Post 18663461)
Since I started retiring at age 30 (work a year - take a year off), most of my good friends were very active retired people from age 55 to 75 (because I could not find any 30 year olds to hang out with). The honest truth as I gathered it by speaking to these people is that most felt a major decline in physical capability around age 70. This is the average. One of those people still races cyclocross and his DAD still races road and cyclocross in his 90s. Is he blazing fast? No, but he is still doing it and enjoying it. I have another friend in her mid 90s who is not a cyclist, but could certainly do it. She just fast-walks for exercise and travels all over the world regularly.
So my take, given my experience, is that if you take care of yourself and NEVER stop doing athletic things, you will likely have "game" into your early 70s. After that, expect to slow down and smell the roses a little more. You should be able to enjoy cycling until very near the day you drop dead, assuming you don't get some other injury or condition that trips you up. I knew somebody who retired every few years. ;) Personally I enjoy my work but there's so much more I would do if I had the extra time, and yeah an older co-worker of mine was told to "appreciate his 60's" because things got harder at 70. He was on the fence about retiring and that was one of the things that convinced him. I've don't see retiring until my kids have gotten a foothold into their adult lives. Once that happens and our nest egg is where it needs to be, I'm done. I imagine that may be a tough right of passage emotionally so maybe I'd stick around a little longer but I hope not. |
I plan on retiring at 62 but will never become inactive. I'm 56 now and the key is, as my 86 year old Dad says: use it or lose it. There's an 80 year old guy on my hockey team that has become and inspiration to the team. Not that I'm going to play ice hockey forever but I will keep moving forever in one mode or another.
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Originally Posted by tjspiel
(Post 18663505)
I've don't see retiring until my kids have gotten a foothold into their adult lives.
If I ever retire I will immediately sell the house, buy an RV, and put at least 5 states between myself and my relatives. I might even get a 900 phone number so every minute spent yakking on the phone costs the other party money that goes into my bank account. |
I'm a month from 52, and I'm in better shape than when I was 20. I better stop getting more fit or I'll have to go through puberty again, but this time backwards.
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
(Post 18660791)
how long is a waterline?
Originally Posted by Darth Lefty
(Post 18661434)
Long enough to go all the way around
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Originally Posted by JoeyBike
(Post 18665573)
CAUTION!!: Several of my friends retired and IMMEDIATELY got a daughter complete with grandchildren BACK IN THE HOUSE! Sometimes just the grandchildren. Seldom just the daughter/son. But in the USA with the economy the way it is, this is becoming very common.
If I ever retire I will immediately sell the house, buy an RV, and put at least 5 states between myself and my relatives. I might even get a 900 phone number so every minute spent yakking on the phone costs the other party money that goes into my bank account. For different reasons my wife and I have seriously considered downsizing to a condo or small townhouse after the kids move out. That's what we lived in before we had kids and I'll be more than happy to get away from home maintenance. It wouldn't prevent a kid from moving back in but bringing along their family just wouldn't work. My wife has some friends who have their kids sign contracts saying they won't move back in after they've finished school. Of course none of that means that our kids won't ask for financial help or that we won't feel the desire to offer it. |
When I was 22 I remember guys at 65 crushing me on hills.
Good friend of mine is still riding at 83? |
My plan is as soon as the kids move out, their rooms become secondary workshops. I'm already building a separate building for a shop, I don't think I could survive in a condo. Where would I put the bridgeport and the CNC mill?
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I live part time in The Netherlands. Sometimes it seems like a giant old folks home with all of the old folks riding bikes all over. They ride to meet each other for coffee, to go grocery shopping, to enjoy a ride along a dike on a nice day, and to go to and from work. BTW, I don't consider anyone old folks until they're at least 70.
And, about 70% of bicycle rider fatalities in The Netherlands are people over 65 (and I think something like 50% are over 80). Many of these are heart attacks or strokes so not really a bicycle fatality but it just happens to happen while they happen to be riding. Oh, Dutch live about 3-4 years longer than we do in the U.S. |
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