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Come down south. I'll borrow you a bike and we can suffer the Gold Camp Road climb and come down Teh Chutes.
This is us right now even though most days neither of us drives.
Hmm. I shall take you all up on your offers to ride but first I'll rent a bike and get a weekday ride in just to see if I have any stomach for it any more. 
From my riding in Seattle in 2013-2014 I know I can still technically ride and make it down this or that but it's a question of whether it's fun enough to be worth the cost and time.
From my riding in Seattle in 2013-2014 I know I can still technically ride and make it down this or that but it's a question of whether it's fun enough to be worth the cost and time.
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I hope you post your cost benefit calculation.Hmm. I shall take you all up on your offers to ride but first I'll rent a bike and get a weekday ride in just to see if I have any stomach for it any more.
Just get yourself a new
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Me too!
I don't enjoy autocross enough to do it these days, either. I'm just becoming a sad sack in my dotage.
I already fully acknowledge that I am fat. That's no secret. Somehow my blood pressure is fine as is my pancreas. My normal weight wife has worse A1C than me (long-term glucose level indicator). Genetics.
I think renting first and testing the waters is more prudent. Cost-benefit aside there's a chance I'm just too old for this, older at heart than jbp and Shared Skittles alike.
In your wasteful days of youth you just have yet to fear your own mortality.I don't enjoy autocross enough to do it these days, either. I'm just becoming a sad sack in my dotage.
I already fully acknowledge that I am fat. That's no secret. Somehow my blood pressure is fine as is my pancreas. My normal weight wife has worse A1C than me (long-term glucose level indicator). Genetics.
I think renting first and testing the waters is more prudent. Cost-benefit aside there's a chance I'm just too old for this, older at heart than jbp and Shared Skittles alike.
Um, yeah, gotta call bullshit on this on Dr. Photomat. You are in your mid 30's correct ? I didn't start racing DH until I was in my 30's. My Dad stopped riding last year officially at 77 and it was with great reluctance due to having severely impaired vision. If he could see just a wee bit better, he never would have stopped.
If you think your age now is too old for mountain biking, then you seriously need some friends outside of work collegues who are not scared to step of a curb; i.e. you are around the overly cautious too much.
And for fuck sakes, you're a Radiologist, you can afford to treat yourself to a new bike. It might just make you feel young again or at least your actual age. Also if you buy one, you will feel obligated to ride it unlike a rental which is temporary. Do it now before you really are too old.
As an alternative you can spend your time watching Matlock on
I wonder how Dr Grandpa is going to feel when actually starts getting old? Assisted living when he hits 45?
we might have to ban toshi if he quits biking.
Being made to climb to the top of Belcher might not be the best first ride out to persuade him to ride more
i'm in my early 30's and i thought i was a whiny old bitch. glad to know i'm not the biggest nancy here.
More time to do nothing?
Fuck that. Belcher it is.Being made to climb to the top of Belcher might not be the best first ride out to persuade him to ride more
you come off as WAY older and grouchier than 30s!
I'm on Team Old Guy, but still manage to have fun against ever growing opposition.
I have more hair than that South Park dude!
Things I'd do in retirement:
- travel
- hang out in mountains (I still do like to ski, as far as I know, although I haven't been in a while)
- play trumpet
- read books, watch movies, troll people on internet
- count my gold dubloons periodically
Things I'd do in retirement:
- travel
- hang out in mountains (I still do like to ski, as far as I know, although I haven't been in a while)
- play trumpet
- read books, watch movies, troll people on internet
- count my gold dubloons periodically
In Toshi's defense, I look at all the stuff I used to do on a bike and how I used to ride in my teens/early twenties and I can't help but feel enormously deflated. These days, if I could be even 25% as confident/skilled as I used to be, I'd be a happy guy.
Ride more. You'll get back there.
I rode Dakota Ridge recently and fucking HACKED my way through it. I just need to ride more.
the older i get the faster i was
When I was 36 I was the strongest I have been my whole life. Was still racing, eligible for 'vet' class but started racking up overall wins. Now at 42 I am significantly slower, I am pretty confident this is due to lifestyle. Past two years have been fucking miserable as far as biking is concerned. Too much stress, work, travel, food and beer, too little sleep and riding.
Although I am less willing to take risks I feel like I am a more skilled rider now. Learn new shit each year, albeit in very small increments. Unfortunately my psoriatic arthritis means that every injury I rack up will likely be a lingering pain in the ass for the rest of my life. I push the envelope less often but work to embiggen said envelope.
Although I am less willing to take risks I feel like I am a more skilled rider now. Learn new shit each year, albeit in very small increments. Unfortunately my psoriatic arthritis means that every injury I rack up will likely be a lingering pain in the ass for the rest of my life. I push the envelope less often but work to embiggen said envelope.
I'm with @Westy - I rode more often 5-6 years back but I feel like my confidence has increased as I've ridden a wider range of terrain. I'll bomb gnar/tech stuff now I wouldn't have back then, or at least at the same speeds. I wish I could ride more often and get back to a better fitness level so I could go for longer rides, but you've gotta take what you can get. I'll take every second. I turn into even more of a bitchy grumpy asshole than usual the longer I go between rides.
I have more hair than that South Park dude!
Things I'd do in retirement:
- travel
- hang out in mountains (I still do like to ski, as far as I know, although I haven't been in a while)
- play trumpet
- read books, watch movies, troll people on internet
- count my gold dubloons periodically
No mahjong?
I'm great with stereotypes... how tall are you? I could send you a bike for the summer, a real one with proper size wheels and working everything. You could spray paint it back so no will know how knar it isn't.
Heh, it was more a reference to your senior ways.