BluesDawg

I'll keep riding as long as I can and if I'm ever unable to ride, then I'll do something else that I can do.

reverborama

When I can't ride the bike anymore I will go to a trike. When I can't ride the trike anymore I'll probably golf. I don't golf now because a nice day for golf is a nice day for a bike ride.

gcottay

+1

oilman_15106

This subject comes up often on our group rides when the average age of the riders is near 60. The consensus is that something like a heart condition or maybe loss of eyesight would be the end of cycling for most of us.

I voiced my opinion when a teenager yelled at us one day. My reply "Ya, !@#$#@!$, you'll be paying my Social Security when I am 105". If you remember the World Cup ad where the Italian soccer fan was laid out in his casket in his national team uniform, how I want to go but in cycling garb.

BlazingPedals

65-year old Bill (The Cannon) Hannon took second in the recumbent division of the Avita Water Black Bear this year. His no-draft time for the 100 miles was 3:56. The recumbent division doesn't have age groups, so he had to compete directly with course record-holder Dave Johnson, (who I think is a 50+er himself,) who did a 3:42. In the same race, Jeff Smith took the honors in the (non-recumbent) 61+ age division, with a time of 4:36. Jeff is 70 years old, and only started bicycling two years ago, after retiring from teaching.

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Age is not an excuse.

stapfam

May seem a good idea but I would still want to get up the hills. Start training a pilot now- so they are fit enough to do most of the work when the time comes.

Hold-on I trained my pilot about 8 years ago when he turned up- 6'tall- and 180lbs of muscle.

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tcs

Here's Gustaf Hakansson arriving in Israel on his solo cycle tour from his home in Sweden to the Holy Land via Rome, 1959. He was born in 1885 and would continue to ride for another quarter century.

Jeanne Calment took up cycling during the great bicycle craze in the 1890s, and rode through the bike boom of the mid-1970s.

"Too old to ride" - interesting theory.

bobbycorno

Gawd! I hope I never get THAT old!

SP
Bend, OR

bobbycorno

Or, If you told me where and when, I'd ride there!

SP
Bend, OR

Daspydyr 

How about refurbishing the bike into a wheel chair. A blow torch, welder, duct tape and super glue.

NOS88

Damn, Denver, You've made me laugh hard enough to shoot coffee all over the keyboard.

The Weak Link

Bowel movements.

Fixate on your bowel movements.

Record them, catalog them, photograph them if possible. Keep a running count. Be precise. Include size, shape and direction of the swirl.

Your physicians will really appreciate it if you take the time to share all of this with them, too.

DnvrFox

You made my day!!

ahsposo 

Here is an Artist and his work you might appreciate

roccobike

I'm the same age as you and just had my best riding year, by far. I went further and faster than ever before, actually keeping up with a couple of "A" groups for 10 to 20 miles. I'll think about what happens when I can't ride when I start to slow down. Right now, I'm on the upside.

fat biker

I like the way tyler thinks!

Jeff, still fat

waldowales

I'll worry about that in another 30 years or so. I'm a mere child of 70, now.

xizangstan

It looks like they're going to have to bury our bikes with us. Or rather, bury us ON our bikes! I'll be ready for the Rapture Rally!

byte_speed

Can't find my way back home - rides favorite bike off into sunset while Blind Faith plays "Can't Find My Way Home" in background.

rydabent

Im 72 and riding a little over 2000 miles a year. So somewhere down the road if I get to where I think Im not safe on my bent, I will go to a tadpole trike. That may happen before really forced into it, because they look like a hoot and have several advantages over any kind of bike.

xizangstan

I'm fine for riding, even with a stent in my heart. But what's getting to me is some wrist and elbow pain from the longer rides. So far, 500 mg. tablets of Tylenol are keeping the pain and inflammation at bay. But I'm wondering how I'll cope as time progresses. I do know I want to ride up through my last day on Earth.

Retro Grouch 

Who cares? I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

If you live your life with one foot stuck in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow you're going to poop all over today.

trackhub

Too old to ride? There are several options.

-A unibomber shack in the woods somehere. Old clothes from salvation army, and long, unkempt beard.
Begin every day by going into woods and loudly talking to no one. People will leave you alone.

-Hookers. Save the blow.

-Golf. A Buick. Very loud plaid pants. White shoes.

-Hanging out at the local donut shop, smoking and talking about who has had what for surgery lately.
i.e. "Jim had his gall bladder out last week." "Sally had her kidney stones out. You should have seen them!"

Alrighty! Seriously, you've got a way to go. I'm told that in Europe, people ride well into old age.

cranky old dude

Remember Gus the Fireman on the old "Leave it to Beaver" series?

Well once my wife tells me I'm too old to ride, I'm gonna be Cranky Old Dude the Bike Guy! Kinda like Gus the Fireman, but at home and with bikes.

I'll sit out in my garage and keep all the neighborhood kids enthralled with my epic tales of cyling Hither, Thither, and Yon....all while fixing their flats and adjusting their brakes and deraileurs.

Yep, "Old Age" is gonna be a blast!

Monoborracho

You're not too old to ride until you come to room temperature.