Can you remember the war? Did your first bike have a massive front wheel and a tiny back one? Who's the oldest mountain biker.. is it you? Just wondered.. (no roadies, they're all old)... Hows your joints?
my gf started mountain biking at 54.
Steven Tyler's really old. Think his joints were mostly good too 🙂
my gf started mountain biking at 54.
after the age of 40, you can't call her your girlfriend - she's 'my partner' or 'the one who irons my pants'
im 46 love it. the joints are pumped with glucosamine. they are fine. the wife says i look like a gimp though with the helmet etc. bitch
49 next week - love it! Don't mend so easily though, so have to be a bit more careful, well thats what I tell the boss 😳
my gf started mountain biking at 54.
And that makes you how old?
after the age of 40, you can't call her your girlfriend - she's 'my partner'
Is it just me that automatically thinks that when a man says "my partner" he is talking about a man?
quite old, with unironed pants
Maybe he means grandfather.
Stop whinging you youngsters. When you get to my age you will know what grief is when wife finds your choice of hobbies unacceptable!
Sample comment on revelation I was buying a FS, 'won't people laugh?'
Well yes but I will be enjoying it.
You didnt mention your age FOG? Tongue and teeth content not accepted.
You didnt mention your age FOG?
Perhaps he forgot??
I feel old, just passing my 1/3rd of a century, hopefully another 1/2 left.
quite old, with unironed pants
quite old, with no pants (just shorts to preserve marginal modesty)
I'll be 52 in May, but I don't feel old, its just that I can't go as fast as I could 10 years ago and I don't heal as quickly after a crash. 😥
deejay and fagus are 2 right old codgers...and trekster.
i consider myself youngish. 😆
with no pants (just shorts to preserve marginal modesty)
SFB in 'I go commando' shocker :o)
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deejay and fagus are 2 right old codgers...and trekster.
i consider myself youngish.
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You might consider yourself youngish. Others might disagree 😉
I'm 37 but feel 67 if that counts?
I remember on my 32nd birthday thinking that I must find some other form of recreation rather than the local jump spot. I found myself thinking exactly the same thing the other day, I'm 40 now...
fagus, too true mate.
i feel very old since my lad spilt the 'you are gonna be a grandad' news.
define "really old"?
Faster now at 48 than I was at 38 ! but then I only started mtbiking at 45. Oh how I wish I could turn back time.
49 next month, feeling fine, joints all good and still racing.
Did my first race in Amersham in 1975 when bikes were steel, clothes were wool and it was all in black and white.
I'll be 56 in May, but I don't feel old, I can go faster than I could 10 years ago and I heal just as quickly after a crash :o)
SFB in 'I go commando' shocker :o)
Oi! I certainly do [b]NOT[/b]! I wear these really neat 'pulling pants' under my shorts :o) Now I advise you to shut up or I'll be forced to post a photo...
Nice one fivespot, 44 myself and was wondering how long till i have to hang up my 5 10s! Perhaps all the hardcore oldschool oldies(50+) dont twot about on computers and instead are out on the hills.. maybe they die up there.. like sheep, in gullies..ah!
some of us are not quite dead yet
No Simon, they're not 'pulling' pants they're "pull up" pants.
They're what you need when you're getting up in years
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Lovin' this thread 8)
No Simon, they're not 'pulling' pants they're "pull up" pants.
final warning, or the shorts come off...
Oh, and I don't bother ironing my thongs 😉
Seriously, if you want to be old, you can be but what's the fun in that? Age is just a number ... and it meant I could buy a mid-life crisis bike 😆
52 and a bit. Still as sprightly as ever, but taking the joint pills now to keep everything moving. I think this is my mtb decade, having been a serious rower and triathlete in earlier times. I am also a dead keen windsurfer, and when I get a bit more time on my hands intend to learn to surf properly. Lycra and no pants for me 😳
i quite like being older and more sensible..
43 going on 44...
Reckon Ned must be the oldest 'pro' out there though. He's in his 50's for sure.
And my favourite quote of his 'you only get older one day at time...'
You the man Ned!
Here you go Wool jerseys, leather soled shoes, clips & straps, Tubular tyres, 5 speed blocks, exposed brake cables, down tube levers and no helmets.
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Oh, and I don't bother ironing my thongs [:wink:]
we're going to need photographic evidence of those smalls too!
Still as sprightly as ever
that adjective is only ever applied to the hopelessly ancient 🙁
i quite like being older and more sensible..
when exactly is [b]that[/b] supposed to kick in ?? No sign of it here...
Im 104 and my first bike was made of wood. Not as quick as I used to be as the colostomy bag tends to burst on the big jumps.
I may not remember the war, but I remember National Health orange juice, and farthings. Not penny farthings, either.
You can't help growing old, but you don't have to grow up.
Just older than TJ, I reckon. Nearly 56. The perfect age for women who like mature men.
I am 76, still enjoy Garburn & Glentress Black, but now I am VERY slow & walk some climbs. Doing my Scuba Diving Open Water at Easter You have to find new things to do in retirement!
oldogre
keep on truckin matey.. 8)
Just older than TJ, I reckon. Nearly 56. The perfect age for women who like mature men.
1) I believe TJ is considerably [b]younger[/b] than he looks 🙁
2) The simplest test is when you start using your [b]next[/b] birthday age, rather than your current age :o) "It's me age you know!"
Isn't Teejay like 134 or something?.....
😉
Yaaay oldogre. Your what its all about! Truly inspirational. I doff my cap to you sir!!
oldogre - that is seriously impressive! Well done and keep enjoying life!
I remember racing a pensioner home one evening. I was about 20 at the time and he kicked my ass!
He was riding an old tourer too!
Respect!
50 and I remember mars bars being 6d
Born in 1960 me the best year for the music that was to come, oh what you young uns have missed. Had 1st motorbike at 10 years and started racing them at 15 (1975). Stopped racing motor bikes in 1995 cos after using a mountain bike (an Al Carter) to train on and ride the special test's I was finding I enjoyed the pedals more than the throttle. I'm still here and doing it, riding xc two or three times a week and I love going to the bike parks, Coed, Gwydrr, Cannock, Glentress, Thetford, have done the coast 2 coast twice, go to the Alps every year, this year for 2 weeks. I could go on but I can't remember, one thing I can remember is getting Diabetes in 1970 but that didn't stop me. I can't hear a lot these days but otherwise I feel great and always ride bare back, ay you wot. 8)
i am 40. looking at the list iam an infant 🙂 🙂
40 here too.
Top respect to you oldogre, wish my Dad was still as active as you 😉
53 next month. Took up mountain biking seriously 2 years ago. Fitter now than any time in last 30 years. Just trying to pluck up the courage to do small drops and jumps properly. Only trouble with getting older is that when you do come off you go splat, crunch rather than boing.
53 next month. Probably doing more miles now than ever before. Body just about holding together, though have suffered loads of back problems over the years and dread them coming back. Try to avoid crashing these days as recovery definately takes me a lot longer, right elbow wont survive another heavy fall. Have a very stressed lifestyle, couldnt contemplate lfe without the bike(s) its the only thing that keeps me sane.
I'm 45 in 10 days. That's proper 'middle-aged' ain't it?
Ventanarider is no spring chicken!
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age has no issue with how good ur. i have been out, biking, with both fagus and deejay, and although they both can remember watching the sinking of the titanic on tv, they can both ride like the wind. how ever neither will say how old they r, which tends to be a girly thing. The undertaker.
43, and the only time I feel it, is trying to get out of bed in the morning.
Dez; you're looking good for it, mate! I had you down as a bit younger, actually. And your wife is surely nowhere near that?
50 is the new 40. A friend of mine recently turned 50 (she looks 10 years younger). And she's currently toddling round Africa. Is always on the go. Other friends, that are a good bit younger, are much lazier.
I think that if you keep yerself active, then you stay healthier, mentally as well as physically. If you accept the 'I'm getting old therefore I should slow down', then you're ****ed.
My mum is 72, and gets annoyed that she can't do the heavier physical things any more. She has Osteoporosis, and needs treatment for it, but refuses to 'take it easy'. Always up to mad schemes. But her mind is sharp as anything. People always mistake her for being a lot younger, simply because she doesn't come across as an 'old lady'. And all my mates love talking to her, simply because she doesn't seem like 'someone's mum'.
I can't persuade her to come out mountain biking, though. She won't have it. Tried to get her interested, by showing her the Collective DVDs. She's not having it.
Relative youngster at 44 which suprises me - but I am now starting to feel it a bit with nagging little aches here and there(knees and back etc) which I never had up until last summer really.
Also, pretty sure it will only a couple of years before I will be needing reading glasses. I had to take my LOOK Keos to my LBS so they could read the date and see whether there was a recall on them!
6o this April (all pressys greatfully received ,nothing expensive , Cotic Soda , Moots softtail ect)left knee a bit "funny" & just done my rotator cuff.But as most of my riding is at Thetford I should manage another 20 years.
44 - Been cycling for 6 years and last year i was the fittest i have ever been by a long way. I aspire to complete the Bod Graham round next year.
"Chapeau" Oldogre
Well oldogre makes me feel positivly juvenile at 52 but now I'm an enigma I'm too old to be fast and to fast to be old ? 😉
Wow!
Sometimes you get inspired from places you least expect.
Oldogre = Legend! 8)
I have to say I feel very humbled by this thread.
So old my camelback bladder doubles as a collostomy bag.
Lots of 52 yr olds about. *waves*
If you accept the 'I'm getting old therefore I should slow down', then you're ****ed.
[b]DEFINITELY!![/b]
They'll have to drag me kicking and screaming into old age!
Hmmmmm not sure because my birth certificate *must* be wrong!!!!
( honest)
🙂
it just cannot be right..........
( goes off for another look..........)
Q
51
[i]who's REALLY old?[/i]
Looks around. . . shrugs . . . no idea! I'm only 51 😉
Just turned 49 - only felt my age for the first time last year when I ripped my calf muscle skiing and it took a while to heal.
My missus (very soon to be ex-missus.........seriously !) reckons I'm having a midlife crisis by mtb'ing, having a sports car, snowboarding, motorbike and chasing woman.
I've mtb'd for 15 years+, had sports cars/bikes for 33 years, snowboarded for 6 and chased women since puberty, so how can it possibly be a mid=life crisis. 🙄
A sprightly 63
and(very soon to be ex-missus.........seriously !)
chased women since puberty
are these connected ?
A sprightly 63
doesn't 'sprightly' mean 'surprisingly active for a old geezer' ? It's packaged age discrimination 🙁
a youthful 43 here
My father in law is 70 & can leave me standing on a road bike ride
I was 54 back in December and it was only another change of number as far as I'm concerned.
I'm by no means the fittest person of my age that I know but having seen some of my old school contemporaries just recently and some of my ex-Army mates I'm not doing too bad.
I must say that the full-sus that I now have makes life a bit more comfortable.
Good to hear all of the yarns - on the full sus for the back comfort, but the bloody Masters class is one of the biggest in the XC classes here in Canberra! A spritely 44 here! Keep it up all!!
86, faster now than when I was 5!
SFB
are these connected ?
Sadly yes - although entirely faithful to current partner for the duration (10 years) of our relationship she refuses to believe it !
Never mind, I will get out on the bike more 😀
53 in April and haven't noticed any real failings as yet. Bit more lard but still at it with the bike, motorbike, surfboards, special friends. Use it or lose it.