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Post by rockynv on Aug 27, 2015 22:27:31 GMT -5
Motorcycling is actually good low impact exercise. Many when they first start riding are quite a bit shocked at how much upper body and abdominal muscle strain speeds over 35 mph can generate.
I lost about 20 lbs when I started riding full time and have put on a few lbs in the time since my accident. Got back on the interstate the other day and a 30 minute ride at 65/70 did show how far out of shape I have gotten during the recovery period.
It is generally low impact unless you are motor cross racing and jumping but riding is regardless good exercise. Many forget over time what it was like when they first started riding especially if they were currently out of shape and needed to tone up the muscle groups you work balancing a bike through a snaking road and maintaining position touring on the interstate. Balancing a bike at a traffic stop is just a small part of riding.
Yes people are a bit shocked by the elderly man they see when I unfold my cane and flip up my face shield as I walk away from the bike.
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Post by rustic on Aug 28, 2015 20:56:01 GMT -5
I will be 71 in November and I use either a bicycle or my scooter for most of my transportation during the snowless months. Last year I used only two tanks of gas in my car from April - November. I will keep doing this until I am old enough to know better.
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Post by rockynv on Aug 28, 2015 22:02:43 GMT -5
I will be 71 in November and I use either a bicycle or my scooter for most of my transportation during the snowless months. Last year I used only two tanks of gas in my car from April - November. I will keep doing this until I am old enough to know better. I don't ride when it's snowing either however the last time that happened here was between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM on December 28, 2010 so it was all cleared up and gone by the time I left for work that Tuesday. Test road a Chieftain along with a Victory a while back and it shocked quite a few people when the salesman handed me my cane back when I got off the last bike. I can swing a leg over if they don't have the full touring package and just the side cases. Here is another gem a young fella threw my way - "Old people need to wear safety gear because they are more likely to drop their bikes." |
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Post by horace on Aug 29, 2015 17:28:45 GMT -5
I am almost 40. I find that talking to anyone older than me is usually a decent opportunity to learn something new........ to bad I did not know that in my younger years... They say, education is wasted on the youth...... Now days, I would have kicked the 25 year old me in the butt.... I knew everything and nothing at the same time....  Oh well, life goes on and the cycle continues... At some point a lesson will be learned. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by horace on Sept 3, 2015 14:53:49 GMT -5
BTW, Have a bone Old chopper guy---- Pure experience deserves at least that my friend!!!!!!! I hope to learn from my elders at some point........ ( so long as knowledge is the key, Not just being right about everything ) Side note--- At what age do you become Young again ? ( That old fart is 71 years young ) Is it like a baby at 24 months old instead of being 2 years old? Just kidding around !!!!!! |
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Post by Paladin on Sept 3, 2015 19:02:58 GMT -5
... At what age do you become Young again ? .... Your "second childhood" is a lie. We are always children, but there is a time where we have to fake it. Mostly when you have to raise children and work to get money. When you are 4 or 5 years of age, you have to go to school and you are a slave to the clock Through school, career, you can take breaks but always have to go back and punch the clock. Until you retire. That is when you get to be as young as a toddler. (and you start being as wobbling as a toddler.) |
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Post by horace on Sept 3, 2015 19:41:03 GMT -5
After retirement it seems you still have to " punch the clock " with doctors visits and family obligations... ( again just kidding around ) Although somewhat serious.....
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 3, 2015 21:29:14 GMT -5
"Your second childhood is a lie. We are always children..."
Well said, Paladin.
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Post by rockynv on Sept 4, 2015 6:15:29 GMT -5
I have two pictures of my Dad that are priceless when side by side. One is after his mother died from complications with the birth of his youngest brother in 1910 when he was 4 years old in which he was waving like a little lost boy and the other was the day the Marines finally extracted him (4 months late) after he was dropped off on a Pacific island as a Jungle Raider and it was the same little lost boy waving at 41 years of age despite the hundreds of threats he had neutralized while there with a bayonet and hatchet (covert op so no guns). At 98 that little lost boy was still there to the day he died on his feet after a full days work cleaning up the yard.
You can't get rid of the little boy as that persona stays with you your whole life.
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Post by novaraptor on Sept 8, 2015 10:30:29 GMT -5
rockynv said: "Here is another gem a young fella threw my way - "Old people need to wear safety gear because they are more likely to drop their bikes." Ahh, I so hope he lives long enough to look back at that and laugh at his dumb .  |
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