I’m 61 and 5.6 tall, 150 pounds. I have never been anything other than skinny but in the last several years I’ve put on about 10 pounds, most of it (the extra 10 pounds) is in my gut.
So I wanted to trim up a bit. In the past I have practiced martial arts and rode bicycles. I was the kid in 8th grade that was a bicycle nut.
In my mid 20s to mid 30s I did a lot of bike riding and was doing about 6 or 7 half and metric centuries (50 or 64 mile) rides/year. Gave it up when we started family life that was when I began martial arts. I have rank in two martial arts.
I haven’t exercised on a regular basis for 15 years. So to get back in shape I started bike riding last fall. I’ve trained a lot and ridden several organized rides, the longest a 65 mile charity ride. As a side comment, my feet are a train wreck so running is out for me.
All this to say I’m really enjoying being back on the bike but the sport is overrun with liberals that know everything and PC to the max. It seems every aspect of the sport is liberal infested.
But as I always say every black cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining here is that the libs as a rule have little personal staying power, this puts good high quality little used 10 year old bicycles out on the used market. I picked up just such a machine, a 12 year old Cannondale road bike for $300 This bike when new was $1500
“I’m really enjoying being back on the bike but the sport is overrun with liberals”
It does not help when a pack of 100 bikes get out on a 2-lane road to self-righteously block traffic. I used to do a lot of riding on county roads east of Raleigh, NC. I dress in a t-shirt and shorts so I look like a normal person on a bicycle. I move over so people can get around me. I take care not to scare horses. I never had any problem. But when the cycle clubs started showing up with their arrogant attitudes, I started having close calls with people who were annoyed by cyclists. Now, I schlep my bike to the greenway. Yes, liberals ruin everything.