Early 50s 1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I have several road bikes, one old road bike I converted to flat bar, an MTB I hardly use any more, a 24" BMX cruiser (yes I still ride this every so often and love it), and a TT/tri bike I don't use much any more but now has drop bars. For road bikes, my 'go to' bike for the last ten years has been a Trek Domane 6.9. For shorter recreational rides or climbs etc, I have several other bikes. Just starting a 'dream build' of a Colnago EPS, which I'll do a post on at some point. 2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? Fresh air.
3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? I was at my absolute peak fitness in my early 40s, while I was still serving in the military. I've slowed down considerably since then, but probably still on par with when I was in my mid 30s. The type of exercise has changed too. I hardly run at all now because of achilles soreness if I run any decent distance, but low impact sports such as cycling and swimming are great for when you get older.
4. How long have you been biking? I've been riding for as long as I can remember, probably since I was around five years old. Had my first 650c road bike when I was about 11 or 12. I've never done road bike racing competitively but did do triathlons and still do sportives. As a teenager I did competitive BMX racing at a high level. 5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. These days shorter rec/fitness rides 2-3 days a week. A longer ride most weekends and occasional sportive or century rides.
6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? Around 2-3000 km.

Hello from 55 YO Vermonter!


1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?

Main bike is a Specialized Sequoia Elite (2009). Just picked up a Douglas Motive(roughly 2005?)

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?
Less Beer... more whiskey


3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?
On the bike not much, off the bike a lot.


4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?
Started biking at 40 YO(not counting childhood) so 15 years


5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
Only Road rides, anywhere from 15 to 75 miles depending on weather and mood.


6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
I bike April to Nov, average about 2500 miles a summer.

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54

A Raleigh Retroglide iE (no battery).

I take a Liposomal multivitamin.

Do to brain cancer, and a permanent groin injury, to a standstill currently.

Most of my life.

Casual urban riding.

I am in the process of training to ride again.

Some questions:


Please tell us your age.


75 years old


1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?


Rode a 1997 Trek 1220 until July 1st of this year when I picked up my new Trek Domane AL5


2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?


Just a multi vitamin. The only medication I am on is Nexium and a daily nasal spray.


3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?


Years ago I had an average speed of between 14.5 and 15.5. Now I am down to averaging 13


4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?


I've biked all my life. In my teens my brother, friend and I rode from central NJ to Maryland. In 1999 I did bike tour from Ottawa, Canada to Washington DC. Numerous centuries over the years but none in the past fifteen years.


5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.


With my new bike my rides have increased to between 20 and 25 from between 12 and 15. I had planned on doing a metric century this year but never increased the mileage enough in my mind.


6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?


I ride two or three times. week. Annual mileage in the past couple years has been 1500-1600. Best year was 1999 when my annual mileage was 4035 but 800 of that was the aforementioned tour. Because of some physical issues my mileage between 2011 and 2015 were well under 1000 per year.

Welcome, we share a few things, I’m not quite 72 but I bought the same bike a couple of years ago during the pandemic. I love the bike and it has treated me well. I ride 25 or so 2-3 times a week with an average speed of around 12.5-13 mph. Biking is fairly new to me, really picked it up during COVID. Great forum, lots of wisdom and a good dose of not taking ourselves too seriously. I’m sure you’ll find it a good place to hang out.

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Some folks come to the 50+ forum with the perspective that most 50+ bicycling is 5 mile rides on a comfort bike. Others believe that 50+ bicycling is a $7,000 carbon frame bike with Dura Ace components ridden by someone in a $200 helmet and $500 of lycra/polyester jersey and shorts and $300 shoes with $200 clips.

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Why WRONG or RIGHT, it’s just a matter of choice and individual’s circumstances. A more useful insight may have come from the information about individual’s justification as to why they opted for their choices.

Some questions: State the purpose! For the time being, I’m assuming that the purpose is to just note what old people like to use. “Why” would have been more useful but that may be exploited by marketing folks, which is hard to avoid these days. 😉

Please tell us your age. Very close to 70

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I have not conducted any surveys so I have no idea what “folks” ride.
I personally ride too many different bicycles to list here; they range from very inexpensive (but well-maintained) to fairly expensive (titanium and carbon with all DurAce etc). They all have their advantages based on the weather conditions and where I plan to go. I never use fancy latex outfits, $300 helmets or use clips.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? This question should be clearer; given the context of bicycling, if I assume it to mean that when I go bicycling, do I bring such things with me, the answer to that would be no, I do not.
But as general supplementations, I do take Calcium and vitamin D3 (4,000 IUD per day). In our area, winters are long, days are short and sun often doesn’t shine and even when it does, not enough skin is exposed to sunlight long enough to meet the daily needs of vitamin D production.
I encourage even younger people to take vitamin D3. It’s a cheap and excellent supplement to keep the immune system working well. [The only reason I think, it is not strongly recommended by the medical industry, is because they do not stand to make huge amount of $ from pushing it - no patents!]

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? Never had a speedometer long enough on my bicycles and still don’t. But my guess is that my bicycling pace is reduced by about 20-30%. [I estimate my overall pace by making a mental note of time and the distance I cover. A few times I have compared my estimates by what Google map came up with and the difference was inconsequential so I stopped using the phone, to prevent draining the phone battery.]

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? Ever since I can remember, which would make it about 65 years.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. Most of them, including daily commuting but not multiple day touring; this is something I am contemplating for the next spring.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? Usually daily. I don’t keep track of yearly miles but I think that it has varied between 1,500 and about 4,000 per year. [For about 8 years, my commuting distance on bicycle was 17 miles one way and I used to go to work 6 days a week - that would exceed 4,000 miles/year.]

Please tell us your age. 72

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I ride a 1995 Cannondale hybrid with fenders, a front rack, panniers, and aero bars for both shopping and training. Also ride a fixed-gear Specialized Langster (aluminum frame, aluminum fork, bullhorn bars with aero bars clamped to it). Those two for about 80% of my riding; I also ride an aluminum 10-speed Ultegra aluminum Motobecane road bike with aero bars and an aluminum Felt time trial bike, very occasionally.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? No. Every once in a great while, if I've breathed in a lot of dust or have been around cats, I might have to take a fit from an asthma inhaler, but that's it.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? (FYI, as a retired editor, I'll point out that the quotation marks used in this question are superfluous.) I'm sure I have, but I'm still using the same ratio on my current fixed gear bike (48/18) as on my first track bike, in 1963 (51/19). Still pretty fast, but I don't monitor my speed.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? The bike mentioned above was preceded by a Raleigh Blue Streak 10-speed bike. Before that, a Western Auto paperboy-style bike, at age 8 or so.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. No touring. Mostly 3-to-4-hour training rides, 5 or 6 or 7 days a week. So usually around 16 to 24 or so hours per week. (Retired.)

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? See above. Mileage? Don't keep track of it, since the bikes I ride differ so greatly. I like to know how many hours I've done each day (see above), but I don't bother keeping track of cumulative data.

Please tell us your age. 55

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? Road, mountain, and gravel My primary bikes are new-ish, but I have a few that are 20+ years old. The older ones don't get ridden very often.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? No. I don't think blood pressure meds count in any of those categories.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? Depends what time frame I compare to. I'm not as fast as I was at 35, by a good step, but I was more than 10 years into being an active racer, and racing Cat 2. However, I took almost 15 years off the bike, starting in 2005. Since I started riding again 4 years ago, I am continuing to set new PRs and build fitness.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? I did a little BMX racing as a kid. Rode and raced MTB, road, and CX from '90-'05. Back at it again since '19.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. Currently, I ride my road bike, MTB, and gravel bike, on rides that range from 1 hour to 5+ hours. Sometimes I ride solo. Sometimes I ride with others. The variety of options keeps cycling fresh, interesting, and motivating. In this post-racer phase, I'm enjoying riding for the pure joy of riding a bike, rather than the constant pressure and suffering of training to be faster/stronger. Sometimes I enjoy fast, competitive group road rides. Sometimes I enjoy stopping to take pics of the places my bike takes me.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? I'm typically on the bike 3-4 days per week, and my rough target is 100 miles per week. Mostly due to family obligation interruptions (my kid's travel softball), my years have been in the 3k mile range. This year, I expect to end up over 4k.

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?

I have a 2004 Giant OCR 2 road bike. Originally a 3x9 speed triple but I've upgraded it to a Tiagra 4700 2x10 group set, carbon wheels with latex tubes and carbon seat post. The difference is like day and night. The frame is excellent that just begs for upgrades



2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?

Just Metamucil.... lol. For reference I'm 54yrs old, 5'11" @ 162lbs and I'm somewhat strict with my diet. A lot of vegetables and lean chicken. I've noticed that as I've gotten older, what I've eaten has a more effect on my mood & especially my energy levels.



3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?

I think i feel the same as long as I stay active and eat healthy. Although mid afternoon naps are becoming more frequent



4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?
I've been road cycling for 37 years


5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
long rides,



6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
I ride 28 miles daily, then take one day off, then once a week a 60+ mile ride. So far this year according to my strava I've logged 2952 miles.

[QUOTE=RGVbiker;23079197]1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?

I have a 2004 Giant OCR 2 road bike. Originally a 3x9 speed triple but I've upgraded it to a Tiagra 4700 2x10 group set, carbon wheels with latex tubes and carbon seat post. The difference is like day and night. The frame is excellent that just begs for upgrades

We own a bike shop that specializes in gravel, and frankly 2/3 of our customer base is 50+ people that are active riders trading in their road bikes for a gravel bike. Why?
- More upright position is more comfortable yet still very efficient
- More vertical compliance in the frame is easier on the back and joints on longer rides yet still very efficient
- Bigger tires are more sure-footed and support greater weight, have better traction and are way more comfortable to ride on a longer ride.
- Disc brakes stop better for safety and take a lot less hand pressure to control speed on long descents
- Relaxed geometry (longer wheelbase, more fork rake) is less twitchy and more stable for a longer ride.
- LOTS of great bike choices and they still look cool, especially compared to a hybrid.
- Great options to carry all sorts of stuff you may need on a ride.
- Reasonably prices options like the Salsa Journeyer are available for less than $1,000 to make an easy transition that is affordable.
- Gravel bikes open up a lot of riding options on rural roads that have far fewer cars with testing drivers to dodge.

Reliance Model with wooden rims - help with info on it
 

We have an old steel bike with wooden rims. Would anyone care to share any knowledge and possible rate it on desirability? It has been hanging in an old lumber mill for over 50 years - hence the oddly attached chains.
Thanks so much in advance.
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In my haste to post this, I misread it to be a topic on 50 year old bikes!:lol:. At any rate I do qualify based on my age as well.

I will soon be 63, and am returning to biking because mallet finger followed by 2 strained tendons in the rotator cuff have forced a hiatus in golf, which I took up 12 years ago. I moved from San Diego to the Pacific Northwest in 1993, and in the interim, probably haven't logged more than 100 miles cycling. After joining my grandson on a local 10 mile ride in the summer (Tour de Whidbey), I decided the old bike had its best days long behind it, and especially wanted the performance of hydraulic brakes given my finger limitations.
I only test drove 2 bikes, but the FX 3 felt really good. The LBS has 3 locations, and I went to one further away to test ride this one. They were going to finish prep/tuning it before sending it to the shop closest to me. I should have it in 1 or 2 days. I expect my first few rides will not be more than a mile or 2. I don't think I will get back to the level of riding the San Diego canyons for several hours like I did in my 30's, but hopefully will get to a 10 mile ride a couple of times a week, and maybe have a reason for taking the bike with us on our A-Frame pop-up camping trips.

I just turned 58 years old. I survived an aortic aneurysm in 2019. In fact that gave me a kick and I enjoy suffering on a bike now more than ever.

1. I ride 2 bikes mainly; A Canyon Endurace 7 Road Bike and a Trek FX-2 Hybrid. For many years I rode a Cannondale H400 Hybrid.

2. I don’t take any special supplements, but I changed my diet a lot in 2022-23. I am nearly 100% plant based and cut out most processed foods and pop (soda). I went from nearly 260 lbs in 2014 to 190 now.

3. I am in my best condition since my high school soccer days, but I am mindful that I cant perform at that level. I ride with my college aged sons now and then and they keep up with me pretty easily and I ride more than them.

4. Like a lot of kids who grew up in the 70’s I first biked to ride around my hometown. Fell out of it in college and after for a while, then really got into it again after my divorce in 2013. I have had steady improvement year by year. I got the two bikes I use now within the last year.

5. I ride a lot of solo rides in Iowa cornfields on chip seal roads. I do go to the urban areas and do long trail rides on weekends. I have been trying to do more group rides

6. I am on course to bike around 2,000 miles this year if I include the stationary rides I am forced to in the Iowa winters.

Welcome!

I suppose I answered these questions a decade ago, but time for an update?

Please tell us your age. 61

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?
2023 Trek Checkpoint SL 5
2009 Schwinn Cutter fixed gear
1994 Nishiki Sport XRS
1983 Raleigh Super Course
1983 Raleigh Marathon (converted to a 2-speed pub crawler)
1966 Raleigh DL-1 Tourist 3-speed

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? One A Day 50+, Fish Oil, Glucosamine/Chondroitin

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? Plenty. Doesn't really bother me, I'm just not as motivated as I used to be.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? I rode a lot when I was younger; didn't own a car until I was 21, and continued to bicycle commute when I was newly married as we only had one car. Then I took about two decades off before starting up again in.... 2008? I think.

5. What type of biking do you do? Social rides, rambles around town, trail rides on Fort Worth's Trinity Trails.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? Currently on a pace for about 1,200 miles this year but that's trending up since I bought my new bike. As recently as 2020 I've ridden 2,600 miles; in 2016 I rode 5,200 which is probably my max for a year. I help lead a weekly breakfast ride, so typically at least one ride a week, but lately I'm riding more with the new bike.


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Please tell us your age.
58...59 in two months
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1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?
26" MTBs - 27" Steel Road bike. I have a stable of 8 bikes
Main rides
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The rare ride..more of a collectible

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2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?
Daily vitamin, Various meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, type 2 diabetes medication, etc

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?
I have slowed in intensity and speed quite a bit..Health conditions brought most if it about. Family genetics brought about my first heary attack at 40 yrs old (2006). The cardiologist said I had a 100% blockage in the worst possible spot. The one they call "The Widowmaker". The second a handful of years later was another largely blocked atrery.
Grand total of 3 stents in my heart with some damage to the heart muscle from the first episode. Two stents from the first. One to open the artery and the second to fix where my artery started to tear because my heart was trying to force blood through the blockage. Doc said my good heath is probably why it didn't turn out for the worse.This set me back for close to a year but I was still riding. This when I had to learn to stop when tired and not push "just a little more"

I was having pain/numbness in my shoulder/arm sometime between 2018-19. Spent 2 years with 2 different neurologists to determine it wasn't neurological. Saw a spine surgeon in November 2022.
December 2022 I underwent cervical spinal fusion (C4-C7). Titanium plate and 8 screws. This really set me back years.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?
I got my first bike when I was 6 yrs old. I've been riding ever since.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
I always enjoyed long SoCal coastal rides and challanging MTB trails. Now I am back to short recreational rides to build back legs and stamina. Basically starting over again.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
Working 8-5 M-F, I try to ride at least every other weekend when the weather is more conducive. Summer in the desert, maybe once a month as hot weather allows.
Currently, Annual mileage is nothing to talk about.

Don't think I've responded to this thread (the memory ain't like it used to be!):

Please tell us your age: I turned 64 in April.

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I have about 20 or so bikes right now, almost all of which are rideable. They range in age from a 1938 Maclean Featherweight to a 1961 Hetchins Experto Crede to a 1971 Raleigh International 650B conversion to a brand new Vaast R/1. I try to ride as many of them as possible, but quite a few of the old ones seem to mostly sit in the museum (i.e., basement).

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? Other than slow Mg to ward off cramps and daily Naproxen to deal with a chronic pinched nerve in my neck, I'm fairly vitamin/drug free (I do drink a lot of coffee, however).

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? Oh, I've definitely slowed based on average speed on a ride. I don't think I was ever that fast, however.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? Yeah, since I was a kid, but more seriously once I graduated high school, and then even more seriously and regularly once I graduated college and moved to the SF Bay area (where I lived for 9 years).

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. Pretty much all of the above. I've done two week-long tours this summer. Ride every weekend with a friend. Commute year round (still working; short commute), ride solo as much as I can. The longest continuous ride I've done is 360k/232 miles over 24 hours a couple of times (an organized fleche with one of the east coast rando groups). I did a 115-mile ride last week, and was really, really tired by the end of it! My neck issues really limit me to 100k at most if I want to not be in a lot of pain by the end of the ride.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? My goal is 5K miles per year, and I've been right around there the last couple of years. I tend to think of monthly goals during the main riding season, which, here in Boston, is around mid March to early Nov. I ride through the winter, depending on how much snow is on the roads, but can't tolerate the cold for more than a couple of hours. So if I'm riding 600 miles in a month, I'm really killing it, but more likely is 400-500 miles per month.

Please tell us your age: I turn 64 in November

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I have an older PlanetX Pro Carbon I bought off a friend

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? Fish Oil, B12, D and Magnesium; just started adding Creatine (10g) to my morning shakes (want to aid my muscle recovery)

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? Definite slow down in the past couple of years. mostly due to surgery (hence my screen name FrankNStein); 3 steel plates in my body now

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? Outside of childhood I really just started during Covid - had to keep moving. Averaging 150km/week (about 100m); gunning for a 100km ride in two weeks; that will end the outdoor season for my; ride inside on a trainer during the winter

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. My daily rides are between 15 and 25km; weekends are around 40km but pushing 75km now as I get ready for my 100km ride

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? Pretty much daily with one day on the weekend off.my season total should be 3750km (2370 miles)

Please tell us your age.
74

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?
I rode dirt bikes into the 40s, mostly desert racing, but now only roads & trails. I have heavily modified my bikes for osteoarthritis; bars, saddles, stems, fit, adapted to stay in the saddle so unfortunately my 5 sparkly Italians are not ridden, but my 5 customs and 3 Lightspeeds are as is my recumbent trike for really bad arthritis days.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?
I have osteoarthritis in hands, arms, back, knees and especially bad in an old knee injury so I take the typical glucosamine/chondroitin and the atypical Microlactin which I take after seeing what Duralactin did for our golden retriever.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?
Seriously slowed down as best seen in the Tour Day Tucson rides over the years, from 102 mile loop distance to the 62 to the 32 and now just spectating and helping riders in need along a stretch near our place.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?
70+ years

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
To me it is all about osteoarthritis, typically 20+ miles every other day every week as we are snowbirds so weather is never an issue.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
Religiously every other day, last few years at 4,000 but look to fall short this year. That said I have found a new knee brace that I wear all waking hours and is working out superbly on my bikes.

I'm in my mid-50's.

1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride? I have Marin Presidio 2 hybrid bike. I got it used several years ago. It just sat into garage. Now I'm putting it into good use.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older? I am taking Omega 3 fish oil; Magnesium.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any? I lost 30 lbs earlier this year. And I am now the most active in past 20+ years. Unfortunately, the activity was too aggressive; and I got herniated disc. This is what lead me to cycling, as biking is easier on my back.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life? I'm complete newbie to biking. Just started 2 weeks ago. Of course I know how to ride since I was a kid. But I never got into cycling as recreation.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides. I ride from home to local city/county park. And park has both paved and unpaved

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage? I have been riding 40 miles per week. Around 15-20 miles on Saturday and Sunday. I ride from home to local park. And park has both paved and unpaved

I'm 58.
1. What type of bikes do 50+ folks ride?
Short MTB rides - Giant Trance from 2014
Long MTB rides - Orbea Rise M20 - 2021
Road/Gravel - Giant Fastroad AR1 - 2024

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?
After a long, hard ride, I am taking Magnesium. In winter time vitamin D.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?
I had cancer last year. After chemotherapy, I got a Covid pneumonia so my lungs are not as good as before. But I'm exercising twice weekly in fitness, biking, and mountain hiking over weekends.
I stopped comparing myself to other people's sports results.

4. How long have you been biking?
I started with MTB 17 years ago.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
During the week mostly short rides on a local hill, 1 hour up and half an hour down. At weekends longer riders approx. 4-6h
I do not ride in bike parks.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
From April to October, almost every week, twice per week, depending on the weather. Sometimes 6 or 7 days in the raw in some bike resort.
I don't count my miles, because I use Garmin Edge 530 only if I'm riding some new trails where navigation is needed or preloaded track.

Closing in on 58
 

Hello All

Please tell us your age.
I turned 61 back in May 2024

1.What type of bikes do 60+ folks ride?
All are vintage - So I like to mix it up during the week : 1981 Univega Specialissima, 1983 Raleigh Competition, 1983 Raleigh Prestige Grand Sport (bought new) or the 1987 Schwinn High Sierra. I have been on a bicycle acquisition/restoration blitz for the last 5 years or so - I try not to count them but variety is a good thing.

2. Do you take any special supplements/vitamins/minerals as you have grown older?
Yes, a product called OPC-3 helps inflammation, Vitamin B12, C, D & Fish Oil supplements and a few others too.

3. How much do you feel you have "slowed down" if any?
Yeah slowed down for sure especially the last 5 years due to Osteoarthritis - but in the last two months I have two new full replacement hips, the left side most recent last Monday. Looking forward to walking without pain. Cycling was never a problem for me anyway.

4. How long have you been biking? New, around a while, biked all your life?
Yes - since grade school - So some 50+ years I guess.

5. What type of biking do you do? Long rides, touring, short rec rides.
At this point most of the rides are 5-10 miles and I try to get out 4-5 times per week weather permitting. Winter in MN is not kind in that I really don’t like the cold (or snow for that matter). We have an indoor trainer but that takes a certain kind of motivation.

6. How often do you bike? Your approximate annual mileage?
I use a bike app to figure each ride, but never looked back to add it all up.