Why 60somethings Should Not Buy Mountain Bikes
Hills. Mountains you soon learn are nothing but hills built upon other hills. And, until you get to the highest of them, the mountain biker is like a frog crawling out of a well: two steps up, followed by on step down.
Riding the hills reminds me of August football practice, with thigh muscles protesting the liberal doses of lactic acid and the lungs screaming for oxygen.
I'll bet you a dime to a doughnut hole that Dylan Thomas had never ridden a mountain bike in the hills before he wrote:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It's the rage, and the rage alone, that keeps those pedals pumping.
Then again, Thomas never had the opportunity to rage against old age. He died at 39.
Riding the hills reminds me of August football practice, with thigh muscles protesting the liberal doses of lactic acid and the lungs screaming for oxygen.
I'll bet you a dime to a doughnut hole that Dylan Thomas had never ridden a mountain bike in the hills before he wrote:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It's the rage, and the rage alone, that keeps those pedals pumping.
Then again, Thomas never had the opportunity to rage against old age. He died at 39.
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