Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 21474303)

Wearing head/earphones. Helmets have their own sticky. This topic is worthy of one as well. Here is latest thread in General:

https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...eadphones.html

Like dog threads, they usually end badly[.

Originally Posted by Jim from Boston (Post 18722427)

”50+ the way that it used to be”

…What has captivated me most about Fifty-Plus beside the general milieu are (were) the Annual rides begun in 2010 up though last year. I have ridden in five of them, and have compiled the personal narratives of all the Rides on the thread, "A Chronicle of the 50+ Annual Rides".

I myself think this so-called "way it used to be" ended with the Fourth Annual Ride in Tennessee. BTW, @billydonn [now deceased] was on that one

Another change IMO is the seeming disappearance of self-identified females from those good old days. Miss Kenton, Miss Jean, and Beverly come immediately to mind as the Women of Fifty-Plus, since I have met them all in person. I considered Miss K the doyenne of the Forum with her savvy and witty posts

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 21474303)

Wearing head/earphones. Helmets have their own sticky. This topic is worthy of one as well. Here is latest thread in General:

https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...eadphones.html

Like dog threads, they usually end badly.:innocent:

Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

...For me the heady days on the Forums were from about 2008 to 2016, in particular participating in the Fifty-Plus Annual Rides, which have since disappeared.

I think I have absorbed all the good advice I can for a complete and agreeable cycling lifestyle, and recently I have clicked on many fewer threads than before.

In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.

I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.

Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”