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Badger_South wrote in message . ..
On 28 Oct 2004 06:22:00 -0700, (Maggie) wrote: Mike Baron wrote in message ... She was also a sidewalk rider, and didn't obey stop signs. **sigh** I hope you never run into me. I just starting riding again at 50 and my 100 lb Labrador Retriver pulls me up the hill on the sidewalk. I should be in jail soon. Between my poor riding skills and my anti social dog....I better find a bail bondsman or increase my life insurance. ;-) Dear Public Menace g, Good to hear you're back on the bike! -B I am glad someone is glad to hear it. My grown offspring think I am nuts. I think they thought that of me before I bought the bike come to think of it. After reading all the threads within this group I am finding riding a bike to be more complicated than it was when I was young. New laws and all. Back in the day (I love saying that) we jumped on our bikes, put a baseball card in the spokes to make that great noise and rode off into the sunset. Ahhh when life was simple. Now I am old and hoping to make it up the hills without going into cardiac arrest. At least I can still ride. I had to do something to take my mind off of the fact that I am 50. That is PAINFUL!!!!!! |
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Badger_South Wrote: ... Just be aware that now we ride -with- traffic, not against it like runners and walkers... -B The law has -always- been to ride WITH the traffic. Although as youngsters we were often taught otherwise by a parent who also didn't know any better. Kinda sad, I still see parents or even grandparents teaching 6-year-olds to ride against traffic, because that's what their mommy taught them. It's important to realize that when we ride bikes, we are piloting vehicles - which are often allowed on sidewalks. But a cyclist on a sidewalk is still a vehicle, not a pedestrian on wheels. BTW, I don't see anything wrong with being 50, being 49 myself. -- blazingpedals |
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Actually, I was envisioning the lab spotting a swimming pool
and bee-lining for it posthaste :-) cheers, Tom Actually my Lab is very upset because we just recently closed the pool for the winter .....if she sees water she may just drag us both into it. Bike and all. My bike is from Walmart (ON SALE), my dog is 100 lbs and strong as an ox, crazy as a loon, and I am a 50 year old woman who has NOT been riding in 25 years. Any guess how that scenario will play out????? I can't even think about it. Peace and stuff. |
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Badger_South wrote:
On 28 Oct 2004 12:11:31 -0700, (Maggie) wrote: I am glad someone is glad to hear it. My grown offspring think I am nuts. I think they thought that of me before I bought the bike come to think of it. After reading all the threads within this group I am finding riding a bike to be more complicated than it was when I was young. New laws and all. Back in the day (I love saying that) we jumped on our bikes, put a baseball card in the spokes to make that great noise and rode off into the sunset. Ahhh when life was simple. Now I am old and hoping to make it up the hills without going into cardiac arrest. At least I can still ride. I had to do something to take my mind off of the fact that I am 50. That is PAINFUL!!!!!! Fifty? You're still a baby. Many of the good bikers here are 40, 50, and 60. One of the club rides I went on recently, I was the youngest person there. Because I'm not 50 yet. :-D Remember, it's the little bit every day. I rode about 20-30 min per day for about 6 months, and only missed a few snow days. It's all about consistency at first. By June I was up to over 100 miles per week, consistently. In July I rode over 330 miles in about 13 days. Don't compare your mileage to Badger, he's a body-builder. But he's right about riding 20-30 mins a day at first. You might feel like you can do more... and then you do too much... and then you can't walk for a week... (the voice of experience here) Good luck and don't let the 'complexity' bother you. Everybody here is very nice. *cough* Everybody? *innocent look* -km -- Only cowards fight kids -- unidentified Moscow protester http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts proud to be owned by a yorkie |
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"alan" .@. wrote in message ...
"Cheto" wrote in message ... "JRKRideau" wrote in message om... Of course, what the rider did not seem to notice that he was already breaking a municipal bylaw by riding on the sidewalk. I have seen and heard of many reasons for not riding on the sidewalk but this is a new one to me. Of course, the dogs were part of the new "Sidewalk Riders Enforcement Squad" and they were punishing him for riding on the sidewalk. He deserved to get bitten. Cheto around here even the cops ride on the sidewalks. i'd like to tell them how to ride safely but on second thought... Interesting. At least when I lived in the Ottawa area the cycle cops had Can-Bike II or rough equivalent (roughly the same as the US Effective Cycling course) and tended to ride very well. I don't think I ever saw one riding on the sidewalk. John Kane Perth ON Canada |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:38:30 GMT, the black rose
wrote: One of the club rides I went on recently, I was the youngest person there. Because I'm not 50 yet. :-D Remember, it's the little bit every day. I rode about 20-30 min per day for about 6 months, and only missed a few snow days. It's all about consistency at first. By June I was up to over 100 miles per week, consistently. In July I rode over 330 miles in about 13 days. Don't compare your mileage to Badger, he's a body-builder. And don't expect to be jumping in and punishing those Cat C club riders in under a year, like Rose, she's got were-Yorkie genes. But he's right about riding 20-30 mins a day at first. You might feel like you can do more... and then you do too much... and then you can't walk for a week... (the voice of experience here) Here's where you have the Domestiques carry you around and peel you grapes and massage your quads, right? Rose had three male domestiques that work for her in the peloton, but think she's down to one, plus a part-timer, iirc. -B A domestique for every occasion, I always say. Good luck and don't let the 'complexity' bother you. Everybody here is very nice. *cough* Everybody? *innocent look* -km |
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"Benjamin Lewis" wrote in message
... Indeed; I had the pleasure of riding a 400 km brevet with a 75 year old man a couple years ago. The majority of randonneur (long distance) riders I've met are probably in their 40s or 50s. That's because anyone who does those kinds of long bike rides when they have small children in the house are escaping their responsibilities. I should know :-) -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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the black rose wrote in message ...
Don't compare your mileage to Badger, he's a body-builder. But he's right about riding 20-30 mins a day at first. You might feel like you can do more... and then you do too much... and then you can't walk for a week... (the voice of experience here) Good luck and don't let the 'complexity' bother you. Everybody here is very nice. *cough* Everybody? *innocent look* -km I definately will NOT compare anything I do to a BODY BUILDER....If I ride a half an hour to an hour a day, I consider myself a SUPER HERO. I have a few friends who go to the gym religiously and work out. I understand the mentality. I work for a small corporation which does commercial industrial construction. (Public bidding and the Teamsters and all that good stuff) I run the office and I am assistant to the owner. My whole life is surrounded by big guys who work construction every day and go to Golds Gym at night. They work out relentlessly after working hard all day. You can imagine what they look like. I will do my thing and let the body builders do their thing. They are nice eye candy though. Even for this old broad. OK...I am going riding.....We have a bid going in today for a municipal building in Glen Rock so I won't be able to annoy you all today. Peace and Stuff...... |
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