[Closed] old blokes on old bikes

Proper MTBers, I was once one of them on me trusty 94 GT Timberline, until i discovered this place. Now I daren't go out unless I'm looking super fly.

i saw a guy yesterday (whilst picking up skyrim) riding a grey gt pantera 🙂

I regularly get my arse handed to me by a old fella with the complexion of a four hundred year old oak tree on a Saracen...

There's a gent who I see regularly on a single speed road bike. The gearing looks huuuge and he seems to clock about 18 mph+ on it. He must be in his 70's and if he isn't then he's had a hard life.

Hard as nails old boys are where it's at.

There's a guy round my way who rides about on an immaculate Klein attitude, in pink white and green, still an object of desire for me (the bike that is 🙂 ). Met him in the park and he told me he also has a curly Hetchins, so clearly a man of taste.

I saw an old fella just yesterday leaving a pub and climbing on a mid nineties purple Klein. Put a smile on my face.

Also, earlier in the year we had a weekend up GT and kept seeing this old dude with full Santa Claus white beard on a hardtail just 'show up' at various places around the forest. Never actually saw him ride though.

slimtubing - Member
...Makes me smile to see these objects of lust from yesteryear having a long and productive life.

Please tell me you are talking about the bikes, and not the old blokes.... 🙂

lol^ brilliant! 😆

There is a Klien vibe. There is a chap I would say in his mid / late sixties that I have seen burning around Richmond Park (not gnarly) but he is tanking it on a nice big fat tubed purple Klien.

He looks a bit like skeletor. Never with a helmet - instead protecting himself from falls by a bandana.

I thought he looked like Keith Richards the first time I saw him.....

slimtubing - Member
lol^ brilliant!

I'm an old bloke. He was making me nervous.... 🙂

Pah, old bearded blokes on old Kona's - bloomin' perverts, the lot of them.
All that fully rigid nonsense, don't they know things have moved on [i]et cetera [/i].

I remember a gentleman I often used to find on some climbs.

Signor Locci.
he was 74,I remember him telling me,he looked no older than early 60s.the bike must have been an early 80s,late 70s.I was 18-9.
always doing 110k on a road hybrid with bar ends.that's why I love drops.
Anyway,
he's dead now,but it was always nice to chat to him.learnt a lot.
he'd been cycling,racing all his life.so nearly the same generation as coppi,bartali.
continuity.I miss that here in spain.maybe if I was in the basque countries there would be more cycling culture.though it's not bad here.

loads of senior gentlemen on oldish(30-40ys) road bikes when I used to live in italy.out for rides.I miss that.The different generations all together like,and chatting and getting dropped by people 3x my age.
and old blokes,retired and on really bling bikes,I mean really bling.and doing 150km a day.every day,or every other day.It wasn't exactly flat either.in their little oap chaingangs.hammering.
and enjoying themselves.

Ah,memories.

I sometimes chat with a bloke on an old road fixie, God knows what it is as it's covered in black oil.
He has to be in his eighties. He wears cycling shorts and either a normal button up shirt or a wooly jumper. No lid. And an old Stan Pike cotton musette.
I always enjoy meeting him

We met this old boy on an ancient, but well maintained and good quality, tourer/audax type bike. He must have been 70 at least. He told us he'd had a stroke and struggled to walk too far, but he could ride his bike 'all day long'

He was a charming chap and a real inspiration IMO
🙂