19

Calm down boy! It's a joke! You originally posted that you would be 16! cool middle name though.

33 in july

44

I've been 23 for less than a month.

38 and life's just began!

21

Red Baron out-nerded you by a mile, by posting his age and his b-day in latin numerals.


Well done, Red Baron.

35

40

21 as of two weeks ago

I am going to have to disagree with you my friend....binary is far nerdier than roman numerals....prolly just because people like my mom and people that watch the superbowl can read roman numerals...not too many can read binary...

OK, I think I'll have to accept that argument.


"Classical culture in USA, saved by Superbowl"


In Finland, almost none of the youths can read roman numerals.

Part of me feels bad that I am such an old fart on this board. But wisdom kicks in and gives me hope for our future generations that youth is so vibrant in the cycling community. I'm proud of you guys and girls.

Mark

hear that folks ^

we are doing suptin right!

You're doing lotsa stuff right, despite the culture you have grown up in. Good job, crew!

Mark

I'm turning 21 in 88 days.

48.5

im 18
the youngest messenger in dublin
heres the steel horse (again)

This July I will have lived 61 years.

Three years ago I gave away my car and made a commitment to ride a bike 24/7/365.

I have two bikes.

I have a Bianchi Pista, of which only the frame survives.
I've replaced everything else, starting with the headset.
I like to think the Bianchi decals give me a little protection from bike theft.
Probably not.
When I go to the movies, I talk the manager into letting me put my bike in his office.

I have a Geared-Studded-Tire-Ice-Bike my son calls the Millenium Falcon.
I ride my Ice Bike in snow storms that stop the cars from driving.
Sometimes the derailieurs freeze up and I figure I might as well build a fixed-gear Ice Bike.
I have some ideas about that.

I believe I have perfected the street fixed-gear bike...for my purposes (not anyone else's).
Maintaining my body in fixed-gear working-order now consumes most of my attention, energy and money.

During my 20's, 30's and 40's, I exercised hard, all the time, perhaps to excess.
Well, absolutely to excess.
My wife says I can do anything to excess and nothing in moderation.

Anyway, as I approached 50, I started suffering disabling athletic injuries.
My therapists and doctors attributed it to age and over-training.
So, I devoted some time to studying the aging process.

I learned this:

If a person at age 18 maintains his body perfectly, meaning, if he eats perfectly and exercises perfectly; avoids sunlight, recreational drugs, injury and illness; and, if he sleeps adequately, drinks enough water, and takes care of his mental health; then, a person does not really start to age until he reaches 63 years.
However, we all start aging much earlier than that because of wear and tear and imperfect management.
We call the outer and inner signs of this wear and tear, this imperfect management, aging.
Believe me, though, when I say real aging doesn't begin for men until 63 years of age.

If I could send a message by time-machine to my younger self, I would tell myself to study yoga, tai chi, and every/any other movement/flexibility discipline I could find: if a man can't move gracefully and without pain, he stops doing all the things he loves to do and he quickly ages and dies.
If a man can keep moving he will do the things he loves, stay healthy, and have a lot of fun.
I would also tell myself to stop smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol, the sooner the better, and leave the car in the garage (except for dating).

An older man who can still move like like a young man, and who has not destroyed his looks and health with smoking and drinking, has a tremendous advantage with women of all ages...and with people in general, regardless of gender.

It only gets better, as long as one has his health (and a little, just a little, spending money helps, too).

It seems to me someone told me all this sometime around my 18th or 19th birthday, and I believed it but decided to keep on partying and living to excess until it became a problem.

The problems started for me around 35 years of age.
Happily, I have a job that gives me the time, money and medical-insurance to address my aging issues.

Some person younger than myself who does not have a reasonable expectation of time, money and medical-insurance might then consider putting tobacco and alcohol aside, learning yoga and tai chi (or some other movement discipline), and riding a fixed-gear bike instead of driving a car.

A co-worker once described unsolicited advice as an act of hostility and disrespect.
I certainly don't have any hostile nor disrespectful intentions towards anyone on this forum.
Since the subject of age came up, and since I seem the oldest person on this forum (at least the oldest to so far admit it), I figured it wouldn't offend anyone for me to share my opinions about age (and, if it has, well, life goes on).

In the meantime, I love riding my fixed-gear bike.
I mean, I LOVE it.

Including my 39, here are the stats so far

Mean 29.26666667
Standard Error 1.041296271
Median 27
Mode 20
Standard Deviation 10.67011162
Sample Variance 113.8512821
Kurtosis 0.021356812
Skewness 0.809302666
Range 50
Minimum 11
Maximum 61
Sum 3073
Count 105

In public education you qualify for special ed if you are more than two standard deviations from the mean, so everyone under about 50 is just part of the normal curve. I guess you get some kind of special treatment if you are over 50

Hey Ken;

the things you said about maintaining your body ring truth to me. I am 48 and trained very hard for many years in martial arts. Since I grew up in the ghetto, I thought it was to my benefit to train and train and allow someone to make me do things with my body that they wouldn't do with theirs... I'm really f#cked up right now.(pardon the french)

At the moment I live forgetting the pain until I walk in the door at the end of the day. No one should allow anyone the right to their body like that. I just thought it was the right way, the right thing to do.

Today, I teach people completely the opposite of the way I learned. I focus on energy, intention, body mechanics. I have recently discovered(not that I never heard of it before) the benefit of Network Spinal Analysis, AKA Network Chiropractic. It has given me the best results in the fastest time.

I would only wish that these yung'ns would heed the words of the wise:

I was a bad-ass, but it wasn't worth it. Find someone who is conscientious of your well-being and let them know that you are in control of your life. Let them guide you but don't be lead blindly.

Live on wise men!

45

Ken, you're my hero.

I'm only 20.

I'll probably be like you Ken... keep drinking until I can't, then preach to every one else. C'est la vie.