I agree: age is just a number. Do you think you\’re \”too old\” to ride a bicycle? Especially if you\’re a beginner?

Fear not. Cycling is for all ages. I rode very little as a kid; and started again at age 51!

At the time I had some issues with dizziness, so I got an adult tricycle; I didn\’t dare trust myself on two wheels. Maybe it was all the vigorous exercise; but after about two and a half years of pedal pushing the weird, wobbly sensations in the middle of my head seemed much reduced. I had become very interested in long-distance cycling; and long rides would be faster and easier on two wheels.

That\’s when I got a hybrid bicycle. Not quite a year later, I added a road bike to my \”fleet\”. Soon after that I let the tricycle go; the guys at the bike shop had warned me months earlier that the trike was \”on its last legs\”. In fact, they said they had never know anyone to wear out an adult tricycle. Well then, I was the first!

I tracked my mileage almost from the start. Now my trike + hybrid + road bike grand total is over 42,000 miles! Shall we light the candles and celebrate; even though it\’s not my birthday? Because, as we know, age is just a number.