Re: [CR]Age of list members

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:53:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Age of list members
To: scapin-dmk@comcast.net, Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <032320062248.5720.442325B7000241FF00001658220073407605030BD302079F0E0C9C@comcast.net>


I was living in PA last year, plenty of SUV's there as well. Not as many full size pickups, though. I'll grant you that.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

scapin-dmk@comcast.net wrote: Texas, right...nuf said.

--
Don Keenan
Boulder, CO
303-530-4033


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos"


> Well, the bad part is that, whereas I was about the median age in the last such

\r?\n> survey, I'm now, at 56, several years over the median, both because the median

\r?\n> has dropped and due the the inexorable march of time.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> As to the boomer generation, you're more optimistic than I. Our generation

\r?\n> talks a good game on the environment, but most of us still drive a gas-guzzling

\r?\n> SUV two blocks to the convenience store and crank up the home/car air

\r?\n> conditioner/heater rather than open a window or dress appropriately. I'm afraid

\r?\n> most members of the generation of peace and love are now just as bought into

\r?\n> materialism and consumerism as any other generation. Our words deny it, but our

\r?\n> conduct confirms it. Even the cyclists among us tend to arrive at the start of

\r?\n> the ride with the bike atop a two-ton SUV.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Regards,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Jerry Moos

\r?\n> Big Spring, TX

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Bianca Pratorius wrote:

\r?\n> I was rather happy to see that most list members are about my age (52)

\r?\n> or a tad younger. I was shocked to find out that there are no members

\r?\n> older than 75. I feel pretty healthy nowadays. What am I supposed to do

\r?\n> when I turn 76? Am I supposed to give up collecting and repairing

\r?\n> classic bikes and just drive my classic car up to Pebble beach and play

\r?\n> shuffleboard? With all humility, I believe the boomer generation will

\r?\n> continue to lead the world into ecological and geopolitical sanity up

\r?\n> to our last dying breath. I love the Beat generation that came right

\r?\n> before me, but few of them fell in love with tubes and lugs the way the

\r?\n> frisbee throwing, dope smoking, anti war rallying free lovers like me

\r?\n> did. Rest in peace Allen Ginsberg.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Garth Libre in Miami Fl.