Comments on: Can Everyday Biking Keep Us Young?

By: Angus B

Angus B — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:22:45 +0000

When I retired, I had just been diagnosed with Chronic Lymphotic Leukemia. I always biked intermittently but retirement let me do so more frequently. I’ve outlived three separate prognoses from my specialist that I should likely expect no more than 6-12 months. I’ve just finished about 1,000 km this year without doing any more than taking my bike to the local shops. Could not agree more with the conclusion that riding a bicycle is great for your health. Someone should do a scientific study to validate what we all suspect anecdotally.

By: Matt Chambers

Matt Chambers — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:53:26 +0000

I’m 55 and still racing with the young bucks,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9YPNisuRqo

By: David Reeck

David Reeck — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:06:06 +0000

This article is very inspiring for me. I am 65 years young. I was a distance runner and still doing a 10,000 meter (6.2 mile) (slow) run in 2001. But now, like many our age, the knees are not liking the pounding of running. The fitness machines, like an elliptical machine are a help, but being outdoors in the fresh air and the fun feeling of riding a bike, give a much better feeling of well-being !

By: Duan Cannon

Duan Cannon — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:47:05 +0000

Currently 58, been a casual cyclist since 50! Have osteoarthritis & fibromyalgia and have been able to avoid knee surgery. Met lots of cool people too!

By: James Rosar

James Rosar — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:26:32 +0000

As a lifelong distance and daily cyclist, I astonish folks who learn my age. At 56, I easily pass for fifteen years younger. Most others I have met with a similar history get similar results. Spend an evening at a cycle club gathering and witness the results upon the most active elders.
The more often I ride until I feel old, the less I age!

By: Mo Hyland

Mo Hyland — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:41:48 +0000

I think I might die without my bikes and biking…

By: John Biggins

John Biggins — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:30:57 +0000

Oh, and I forgot to mention the French sporting cyclist M. Robert Marchand of the city of Amiens, who was born on 26 November 1911. A couple of years ago the Fédération Française de Cyclisme was obliged to create a new age category “riders over 100 years old” to allow him to go on competing.

A former fireman, lumberjack in Venezuela and Canada and lifelong member of the French Communist Party, M. Marchand can just recall German troops in their spiked helmets marching through the suburbs of Amiens in August 1914.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/cycling-102yearold-frenchman-robert-marchand-beats-own-world-record-9101226.html

By: S Sides

S Sides — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:46:49 +0000

At 80 I am an avid femaler cycler and agree with all the above.

By: John Biggins

John Biggins — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:14:14 +0000

If there were any doubt in the matter, it should be laid to rest by this recent article in the British Guardian newspaper about the 93-year old WW2 veteran Mr. Norman Ellis Gregory who cycles daily in the county of Suffolk where he lives, and reckons to accumulate some 3-4,000 miles per year.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2015/feb/23/a-wwii-veterans-lifelong-love-for-cycling

He looks an sounds a good thirty years younger than his birth-certificate age.

By: Eleanor Fry

Eleanor Fry — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:03:53 +0000

I’m 79 years young,never had a bicycle til I was 46.Started doing day rides and then week trips across Michigan.Have done West Shore to East Shore trip 27 times of the 33 years of PALM.Husband & I drove to Tenn. 9 years and did their week trip and twice in NorthCarolina and one in Indiana.Love cycling.Have a new trail near where I live,bought a new bicycle and have ridden on it several times,now have snowshoed on it twice.