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Old October 28th 04, 08:11 PM
Maggie
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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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Old October 28th 04, 08:35 PM
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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. I can say that I'm biking at about 80% of the ability I had in my 20s.
Of course I didn't specifically train on a bike until my 30s for a couple
years, and then only infrequently, b/c I could ride fairly well. Now my
ability is purely b/c of getting out every day.

This time re-starting on the bike, the day I retired I started biking every
day, and just passed the 1 year point in Aug 04.

If you just bike around in the neighborhood, you really don't need to
worry, nor will you be affected much by any bike laws. Just be aware that
now we ride -with- traffic, not against it like runners and walkers, and
it's good to have a mirror if you're out on the faster roads. You might
consider finding a rich neighborhood where the roads are wide and traffic
is light and ride there.

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.

Good luck and don't let the 'complexity' bother you. Everybody here is very
nice.

-B


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Old October 28th 04, 08:56 PM
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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.


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Old October 28th 04, 09:07 PM
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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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Old October 28th 04, 09:38 PM
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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

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Old October 29th 04, 12:04 AM
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"alan" .@. wrote in message ...
"Cheto" wrote in message
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"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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Old October 29th 04, 12:33 AM
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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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Old October 29th 04, 12:36 AM
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"Benjamin Lewis" wrote in message
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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 :-)


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Old October 29th 04, 11:15 AM
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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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