What do old people ride, lets see your bikes
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Here is what this old guy will ride for the '17 season. Modern celeste steel (riding Masi steel for the last 3-4 years). I feel like I'm 30 till I walk past a mirror!
Semi fast tourista will be my riding style this year (replacing racer wannabe). To hell with aero!
Semi fast tourista will be my riding style this year (replacing racer wannabe). To hell with aero!
#1429
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I'm only interested in this kind of bike. I had a nice road bike once and did a few club rides on it but mainly it sat idle. This is my 1992 Trek 930 Single Track. Bought it used in 2003 and it has just sat waiting for an overhaul which it finally got last spring, but then I still didn't ride it - until today.
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Here is what this old guy will ride for the '17 season. Modern celeste steel (riding Masi steel for the last 3-4 years). I feel like I'm 30 till I walk past a mirror!
Semi fast tourista will be my riding style this year (replacing racer wannabe). To hell with aero!
Semi fast tourista will be my riding style this year (replacing racer wannabe). To hell with aero!
I have two steel bikes and two carbon ones.
The steel ones are still my go to bicis.
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#1434
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Left in '75 for Syracuse, Charleston, WV and finally north of Atlanta. Wife and I still have a couple of relatives there and come back to visit every couple of years. Will come up in June this year for the Jazz Festival. I went to Eastman School of Music ages ago but still love music and jazz in particular. I also ride a Honda Hawk GT 650, when I'm not pedaling. Wish we had a Wegmans here. We better take this off-line before they slap our 50+ (65+) old hands. Stay warm.
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Bikes: 1985 Colnago Arabesque, 1986 Colnago Super - Saronni red, 1987 Colnago Master Moda, 1990 Colnago Super - Nero assoluto, 1991 De Rosa Professional SLX - Ariostea Team Edition, 1991 Klein Pinnacle - black, 1993 Klein attitude - gator
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Older peoples bikes
Hello,
here are my bikes.
The De Rosa i bought in 1988, with this bike i did the dolomites and the Gross Glockner in Austria.
The Colnago Master was the last present from my wife, before she passed away. I will never ride it
again.
The black Klein pinnacle is my most used bike, bought 1991.
The Klein attitude i bought 1993. This is the sparebike for the black.
My Colnago's you can find in th Colnago Owners thread.
My age is 58.
I hope you like it?
here are my bikes.
The De Rosa i bought in 1988, with this bike i did the dolomites and the Gross Glockner in Austria.
The Colnago Master was the last present from my wife, before she passed away. I will never ride it
again.
The black Klein pinnacle is my most used bike, bought 1991.
The Klein attitude i bought 1993. This is the sparebike for the black.
My Colnago's you can find in th Colnago Owners thread.
My age is 58.
I hope you like it?
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#1438
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Bikes: 1971 Sekine & a Ross of excellent condition and mysterious origin
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Yeah. I don't know the specifics of them but a lot of people in my town have been putting gas-powered motors on their bicycles. Supposedly they can go about 25 mph without pedalling. Helluva lot of noise and inefficiency abounds as they seem to run out of gas after a few miles. Personally I don't get the appeal.
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Where was the picture of the Anyroad taken?
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Got to ride the loop twice that week and really enjoyed it. I hope to do it again this year! Now riding on rollers, I'm not that brave, I lock into a trainer for my indoor riding.
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Thanks for posting the picture and the location info. I'm south of you in Northwest suburban Atlanta and have done some running and cycling on the Blue Ridge up that way, a little around the GA/TN border.
Would love to get up that way more. Please feel free to post suggested routes and such.
-Tim-
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I don`t like to think of myself as old but young at heart (60).I really like my CADD 10 the most and ride it the most. Sometimes I ride my Synapse if I know I am going to be riding mostly long straight roads for a long ride. I haven`t road my Gary Fisher mountain bike off road in a long time but I did put some smooth tires on it lately and turned it into a commuter bike for running errands to the store and around the neighborhood.
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I got myself a shiny new Rivendell Clem Smith Jr. L-style this year (at 55) to go with my shiny new hip joints. I'm thrilled with all of them!
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My ride.... 1992 Miyata 914. I purchased new as my first real road bike. I have no need for a better/faster/lighter bike, so I just keep riding it.
This is after a 65 mile ride in the rain last fall.
https://goo.gl/photos/gXs8a3NSwhgG1YdD9
This is after a 65 mile ride in the rain last fall.
https://goo.gl/photos/gXs8a3NSwhgG1YdD9
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After accumulating nine bikes in my small shop, constantly working on them and going broke buying parts, I have been looking for the ONE bike that I can say the same about. But then the scope of my bicycle use dictates that I have at least two bikes to fulfill all the various "missions" I typically ride. One of them has to be festooned with racks and fenders. And then there are the rides I go on with the "Gentlemen Cyclists"; I need an English bike for those, preferably with Sturmey Archer power.
There, see how that works? Rationalization is such a wonderful, insidious thing.
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USMC 1981-1991 Semper Fi!
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