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.

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 NOT! 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

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.

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 that 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.