Dirt bagging round Andalusia in my van shredding enduro trails and riding quiet mountain roads for a few months. Totally rad in my eyes old and rubbish to couple of 20 year olds I've ridden with who have far more skill than I'll ever have, had. Off to work on a horse ranch for two weeks starting next week, grew up watching too many cowboy films. It's never ending routine that does for you and you get old because you stop etc.....
Age 54. I still do decent sized jumps & drops. Practice wheelies every week <br /><br />
I’ve a 60 year old mate that started riding a few years ago. It’s become his thing now. He just won all the state enduro races he entered in his age group, plus the 100km singletrack Epic, he learnt how to wheelie off the kids down his street and last week broke his scapula over jumping a gap.
His last big crash was (sort of) captured on camera.
As for me. I’m not Rad.
But my bike is:
I'm a Scout Leader who makes model kits and likes wearing slippers.
Deal with it.
likes wearing slippers
Love slippers! Espesh with a cup of Yorkshire tea.
Be interested to know what people do to keep themselves feeling young and alive…but preferably not in an old man trying too hard way!
Basically, by never having given a rats ass what other people think about what I do, read, dress or listen to. As a direct result most people assume I’m around twenty odd years younger than I am. I was never ‘rad’, so I’ve got no ‘radness’ to lose or care about.
Simples. 😁
Just watched the video above ☝🏼and it looks like the first guy who piled in came off better than his bike! That looks like more than a zip tie and duct tape fix, more like phuct!
And that was horribly close to a multiple vehicle pile-up.
Hope he was ok.
My theory is that you have to keep learning new things - either within an existing activity, or by trying something new. It has to take you outside your comfort zone, but that doesn't mean risking your neck - could be stepping on stage as a musician after 10 years practicing alone, just as much as trying to really deck out your rock to fakies (ahem..) 😀
Along with Franck skateboarding at 70… here’s Jim Martin, who first learned to skateboard aged 50
My theory is that you have to keep learning new things – either within an existing activity, or by trying something new. It has to take you outside your comfort zone, but that doesn’t mean risking your neck<br /><br />
I still have my bikes, and I’m planning on getting the S/S out and having the seat-stay modified to enable a Gates belt-drive, which will lighten an already light bike - On-One Inbred 853, carbon bars and forks, Hope hubs and 4-pot discs, then getting some D3O knee pads, because it was coming off that bike at walking speed that has left me with significant discomfort in my left knee, with subsequent loss of confidence. There aren’t any similar things I’m interested in, although maybe the knee armour might encourage me to give the longboard another go. I really can’t see myself taking up bowls, although there’s a club practically behind my house, but the archery I’ve started recently at least might improve my muscle tone across my shoulders! Plus it doesn’t involve anything more than a stroll to the target to retrieve my arrows and tot up the score. 😁
I really can’t see myself taking up bowls,
Skate bowls yeah?
A year before my Whistler Summer I was diagnosed with Osteoporosis and they found 2 crushed vertebrae in my spine , I was advised to never ride a bike off road again.🤔
After Whistler I rode Moab , Tahoe , an epic BC road trip so definitely took it easy 🤔
I say ‘dude’ at the end of every sentence. I’m pretty sure that makes the kids think I’m one of them. Dude.
Learn new things is a good one. Today I stripped and reassembled a headset for the first time, and I only got it wrong once! Tomorrow I will make sugar free flapjack
Do as you will. Don’t worry too much about what others think, but do have some self awareness:
Hmm, I’m so old I cannot use tech properly. My above post should have finished with this image:
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👆I like how the cameraman carries on filming instead of stopping a hundred other riders from sending it into the casualty <br /><br />
I made the same point. To hit that road gap you need to commit to another gap before that at a fair pace, but in theory you should be able to see all the way down the hill and make a judgement early enough.
Since that crash the landing has been changed. I rode it with the same guys a month or two after and it was fine.
The guy that crashed rode out … albeit with mild concussion symptoms. That probably used to be considered rad.
Socks and Birkenstocks? Isn’t that like socks and sliders?
I stand by moderate features at trail centres, shouting "send iiiit" every time a rider passes. Also I say "stoked" a lot.
Not really. Never been rad and don't want to be rad.
