sewupnut

Haven't read all the posts, so maybe someone has said this.
Only adantage I can think of is I'm not 60 or 70 or 80 or dead.

sun

JBar

One advantage of age is that i could afford to buy a really nice bike.
PS: A Glock is a handgun.

HiYoSilver

Let's restrict wisdom to biking life. Many advantages, here are a few:

1. don't have to always get the cheapest bike
2. don't have to try to impress chicks and dudes and in process hurt self
3. able to disagree without being disagree-able
4. able to say there is no one perfect bike for everyone
5. no need to put down bents as funny riders, just a variety in HPV choices

6. take satisfaction in making small progress in improving health
7. pick and choose which of current bike fads to follow
8. satisfied riding without being an Olympian contender
9. enjoy helping others enjoy the sport
10. being more gentle with self and arguing against the negative self talk.

Artmo 

An Austrian-made pistol.

rusht8205

Sounds good to me - I am 67 and getting ready to ride part of the "Southern Tier" - San Diego to Phoenix to Dallas / Fort Worth area on 4/18/05.

Planning to motel and fast food it all the way. Meeting girl friend at her daughters in Phoenix - wash clothes, hit the ATM, eat Mexican Food and then hit the road again.

Tom Rush
Honolulu HI
"old puffing fat guy on a moutain bike"

Blackberry

Bravo!

John E

Glock manufactures many of the pistols used in law enforcement. Of course, a bicyclist should carry a Steyr sidearm instead, in deference to Steyr-Daimler-Puch's contribution to our sport.

Richard Arthur

I'm 56 and never ride to win. Just trying to pass the guy/gal in front of me.

Fredmertz51

Instead of telling people I'm unemployed with nothing on the horizon, I can just say I'm retired..... and they believe me!

James55Thompson

My wife passed away when I was 51, she was 49. So one of the things I did after that was reflect on the rat race and realize that it wasn't worth it. I no longer had the one person that I wanted to share in my success, so that success was bittersweet. But now I ride to work (a job making half of what I made in corporate America), ride on the weekends and enjoy things alot more than I did in the past. This may not address the question directly, but I have learned that the advantage of being 50+ is that life is sweeter.

ChiliDog

I like that! Yes, like IS sweeter! I feel the same exact way.

I have nothing to prove, no one to have to impress...and "frankly, my dear I don't give a damn" whether anyone thinks I am eccentric about the bikes that I own and my joy (bordering on obcession) in riding them!

(I just wish I hadn't wasted 20 years of my 50 NOT riding bikes!)

obxbes

Thought this might fit into this coversation.








TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for
diabetes.


Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but
we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cellphones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms (only with some tomato sauce for me) and although we
were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the
worms live in us forever.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law!


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever!


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!



And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own
good.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
it?!

capejohn

I was told I look like a biker even at 54 while riding. Boy does that image change when I get off the bike and everything sags. But I can say the biking keeps my young as I grow old.