"lying in my tent bonking" you can't talk about that sort of thing here, on the CR list !! ;-) there are UK list members you know! ;-)
Nic Henderson
Wales
UK
> Chuck Schmidt was musing "I know there are guys still riding in their 80's
> but who knows if I'm one of them or not?"
>
> It's fair to wonder about such things....of course we'll never know until
> we get there, but I'm thinking with good health (thanks to riding my
> bikes and a couple of glasses of Red each evening) I plan on riding for
> quite some time. In 1986 I rode my first of many 'Almost across
> Arizona...Grand Canyon to Mexico' tours. I was fairly new to cycling, did
> it on a whim. An elderly, white haired gentleman celebrated his 80th
> birthday on that tour. While I was lying in my tent bonking, he was
> drinking beer and eating birthday cake. That guy is my hero...every time
> I have a little ache in my hip or some little pain somewhere, that scene
> pops into my head, and I go out to the garage, pull one of my fixies
> (current favorite...early 70's R. International) off the hook and ride off
> into the breeze, dreaming of birthday cake and beer.
>
> Pat Moffat
> Tempe, AZ where I've been having my double Americano and bagel on the
> Government's dime for nearly a year now......Hey Chuck...in 18 years I'll
> be over to ride that Pasadena route with you guys...You'll be 80. I'll be
> a badass 81. In my dream, nobody bonks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Mar 10, 2006 2:00 PM
>>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>>Subject: Re: [CR]KOF Frames and Growing Old--aka I don't want to wait
>>
>>Lou Deeter wrote:
>>>
>>> Rob has a good point. I'm 55 years old. A five year wait for a new
>>> frame puts me in the "I don't know whether I'll even have knees" age. I
>>> mean, I haven't lived the California lifestyle that Chuck Schmidt has so
>>> I doubt I'll be riding 60 miles everyday like he does when I'm as old as
>>> he is now. :) And, while there are youngsters who have 1) a desire
>>> for a steel bike and 2) enough money to order a new one, my belief is
>>> that age of most of the members of this list is decidedly closer to 60
>>> than to 30. Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
>>
>>
>>
>>I was reading along thinking who's this old dude who rides 60 miles
>>everyday and then realized you're talking about me! Actually, I try to
>>ride 2 or 3 hours everyday so its more like 35 to 55 miles with the
>>occasional guilt ridden 25 miler.
>>
>>But yeah, I was hanging around Richie Sachs booth last weekend, checking
>>out his frame with his nervex lug interpretation (NEWVEX lugs) and
>>asking about his 4+ year waiting list and doing the math. I'm 62 in two
>>months (looking forward to that Gov. check to pay for my morning double
>>Americano and bagel) and that would make me 66 when I'd get the thing.
>>
>>I know there are guys still riding in their 80s but who knows if I'm one
>>of them or not? Anyway it was a new thing to factor in that I never
>>gave a thought to before... ***sigh***
>>
>>Chuck "nobody gets out alive" Schmidt
>>South Pasadena, Southern California
>>
>>.