Always fun watching a fellow 50+ take up this great sport.
07-16-16 | 06:24 PM
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Always fun watching a fellow 50+ take up this great sport.
My story starts with my old running partner from 7th and 8th grades. I found him on facebook two years ago and we decided meet up and go out to breakfast a few times during that first year. Well we had a killer winter of snow and I was posting photos of my driveway after every storm with not a flake of snow on it. I kept begging for more snow. So Dave said that if I stop challenging Mother Nature he would go on a ride with me. I took him up on it, and this was the route we did. Now 8 rides later no walking up the hills our losing breakfast. Great job Dave it's been a blast sharing this great sport with you.
07-16-16 | 07:12 PM
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Fantastic! Seems to me we 50+ers own this sport. We raced and toured back in the bike boom heydey and many of us are still going. Good to see you hook up with an old friend.
07-16-16 | 09:23 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
More than 40 years ago it was a 50-year-old guy (an ex-Marine with a PhD in physics) who convinced me I could do a 12-hour double century. We finished in 12:18, which remains my one big athletic achievement to date.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
07-17-16 | 04:51 AM
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)'She said he's not not into Lycra, and I replied, "But he will be."
07-17-16 | 05:48 AM
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She said he's not not into Lycra, and I replied, "But he will be."
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I had nothing to do with it but he shaved his leg's two weeks ago. He said his wife and kid's thinks he's losing it because he now wears lycra and shaves his legs. It's always great to see another one come over the dark side.
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I had nothing to do with it but he shaved his leg's two weeks ago. He said his wife and kid's thinks he's losing it because he now wears lycra and shaves his legs. It's always great to see another one come over the dark side.
07-17-16 | 06:45 AM
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07-17-16 | 02:58 PM
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09-10-16 | 05:42 AM
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...Yesterday a colleague was telling me that her husband was taking up cycling,and I told her about MAMILS (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra); though I think cycling keeps us at least "middle-aged" .
She said he's not not into Lycra, and I replied, "But he will be."
.She said he's not not into Lycra, and I replied, "But he will be."
09-10-16 | 06:06 AM
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09-10-16 | 03:33 PM
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09-13-16 | 06:21 AM
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