[Rev Bubba]

I rode what I used to call my "home park" on Monday and was not happy with my riding. So, I went back today and rode a different section. I was not happy with my riding.

It's not my bike (it never is the bike). It wasn't the weather. It wasn't the crowds (I was the only rider). It was me. Period. End of discussion. I have aged out of the place.

I'm 72. I used to be a lot younger and probably got a good thirty years out of the trails but its time to move on. Fortunately I have plenty of options and will be doing trail maintenance on one option tomorrow.

 

[Happybill68]

What’s the song? To everything there is a season. If you got 30 good years out of them then you got the jackpot.

Glad you have new places to try.

Bill


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[mr_chrome]

- it most certainly happens; it's getting to that point for me on my single-speed on my home trails........yes, I can still get around on the full suspension / fully geared bike but I still love my SS so I have to travel to slightly easier trails to enjoy riding it.........yes, I could change the gearing yet again but maybe, just maybe, I need to change tactics instead...........

 

[shwndh]

Were you on an e-bike?

 

[Juansan]

Are you training ? How often are you riding ? I'm 70, I ride road 3 days a week and trail 2 to 3 days and feel pretty good about my condition. I went Vegan 10 years ago, stopped drinking but I do smoke the Herb. Read the Ned Overend post.

 

[33red]

My turn will come. I am 63 and i guess in 10 years or less i will stay away from some black trails.
Lucky me i am an outdoor guy, so listening to the birds, seing them, being outdoor will be my joy
on my bike. The distance, the speed will be what they will be.

 

[bitflogger]

I rode what I used to call my "home park" on Monday and was not happy with my riding. So, I went back today and rode a different section. I was not happy with my riding.

It's not my bike (it never is the bike). It wasn't the weather. It wasn't the crowds (I was the only rider). It was me. Period. End of discussion. I have aged out of the place.

I'm 72. I used to be a lot younger and probably got a good thirty years out of the trails but its time to move on. Fortunately I have plenty of options and will be doing trail maintenance on one option tomorrow.

I'm younger in my 60s but the past two seasons have shown me I'm lower in the range of what's an expert trail and I reconsidered the amount of low level flight I'll do. Eyes are one part. If I take the time to wear single focus distance only contacts it can help. Some used to be small hurts have taken more time to heal so there's cutting risk.

On the bright side is just looking at the rest of my cohort - the Facebook group from my high school, how friends and family have aged. There or for people I supervise with parents my age I can still seem okay.

Keeping the right spirit and still pushing our minds and bodies is what's important. We moved my mother to our city in a senior apartment recently. She'll be 90 soon but I see she's still as playful as can be for getting frail and pushes herself in important ways. It is sad as we lose some capabilities but we just need that correct spirit.

 

[kosmo]

I rode what I used to call my "home park" on Monday and was not happy with my riding. So, I went back today and rode a different section. I was not happy with my riding.

Curious, what was the main factor? Rugged trails? Steep trails?

One of my favorite places to ride has a lot of what I'll call underlying roughness. Not super chunky, but plenty of roots and moderate chunk, and it has me thinking about trying a coil fork............

 

[Rev Bubba]

Were you on an e-bike?

Hell no!

 

[Rev Bubba]

Curious, what was the main factor? Rugged trails? Steep trails?

One of my favorite places to ride has a lot of what I'll call underlying roughness. Not super chunky, but plenty of roots and moderate chunk, and it has me thinking about trying a coil fork............

Rugged, steep, narrow, roots, drops, off camber trails, moist conditions making it often snot slick, narrow bridges (I hate bridges, especially snot slick ones), washouts and plenty of places where you can get seriously injured by being an inch off line . My bike handles all of this very well. I no longer handle all of it very well.

This is a park that is known for its technical riding. A place where my wife finally gave up mountain biking after picking her sun glasses out of her check once too often.

If I want to ride another twenty years or more, its time to move on so I can keep moving on.

 

[Rev Bubba]

Are you training ? How often are you riding ? I'm 70, I ride road 3 days a week and trail 2 to 3 days and feel pretty good about my condition. I went Vegan 10 years ago, stopped drinking but I do smoke the Herb. Read the Ned Overend post.

Training? I suppose I'm always training. I ride, on average, two days a week on my road bike for 50 miles and three days MTB. As of today, for a season that started 3/31/21, I have 76 days of riding in plus a couple days skiing at a local indoor facility. My annual goal is to always have my days riding and my days skiing add up to at least 180 or basically, every other day all year round. I am in quite good shape for anyone over 40 I guess. My wife is an RN. She makes sure I eat well though not Vegan. I never drank too much nor smoked anything.

 

[kosmo]

Bubba, I hear you on this topic. We recently moved, and my old, beloved, pretty darn tough and steep home area......is not missed much. Our new locale offers more riding options that my fast young friend calls "kinda boring" to which I reply "kinda easy, but still fun as hell".

 

[Rev Bubba]

Bubba, I hear you on this topic. We recently moved, and my old, beloved, pretty darn tough and steep home area......is not missed much. Our new locale offers more riding options that my fast young friend calls "kinda boring" to which I reply "kinda easy, but still fun as hell".

"... fun as hell" is what it is all about. I joined a crew building a new trail at a local park yesterday and it promises to be "... fun as hell" without the blood loss.

 

[Rev Bubba]

I'm younger in my 60s but the past two seasons have shown me I'm lower in the range of what's an expert trail and I reconsidered the amount of low level flight I'll do. Eyes are one part. If I take the time to wear single focus distance only contacts it can help. Some used to be small hurts have taken more time to heal so there's cutting risk.

On the bright side is just looking at the rest of my cohort - the Facebook group from my high school, how friends and family have aged. There or for people I supervise with parents my age I can still seem okay.

Keeping the right spirit and still pushing our minds and bodies is what's important. We moved my mother to our city in a senior apartment recently. She'll be 90 soon but I see she's still as playful as can be for getting frail and pushes herself in important ways. It is sad as we lose some capabilities but we just need that correct spirit.

Attitude is so important.

 

[Ft.Rock]

Came back from a week off (house hunting out of state) to the trails I've ridden (and built) the last 25 years. For the 3rd time straight I walked the bridge I hurt my shoulder on last month. It still hurts and though I've ridden the bridge several hundred times it's in my head now. I too have learned to hate bridges and skinnies, I'll be 66 in about 6 weeks. I always hated climbs, gravity whore, but lately have been cleaning climbs and feeling happier than I do surviving drops. I'll be moving away in a couple months and I think I'm finally OK with leaving these trails behind, at least the blacks. I still love it, but I get more tentative each year and that's not a good thing. I see more technical xc and less freeride in my future. Probably more kayaking and fishing too...

 

[MSU Alum]

I'm 69 - next month - and when I get to this point, which is inevitable, I'll get a ebike.
Or, maybe a dirt bike for riding in the Uintas.

I never drank too much nor smoked anything.

Well, there's your problem!

 

[Rev Bubba]

I'm 69 - next month - and when I get to this point, which is inevitable, I'll get a ebike.
Or, maybe a dirt bike for riding in the Uintas.

Well, there's your problem!

It depends on how you define "too much."
I make no apology for never smoking - anything.

 

[Sparticus]

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

You may quote me on that.
=sParty

 

[WHALENARD]

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

You may quote me on that.
=sParty

Words to live by.

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[Rev Bubba]

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

You may quote me on that.

There is little doubt I bike and ski to excess and many may think my wife and I travel to excess. She may exercise to excess. We live an excessively satisfying and happy life.