Today I got my application in the mail for my AARP card. I turn 50 in March. My wife says she’s not old enough to be married to a member of AARP. I figure, I’ll be 50 whether I have an AARP card or not, I might as well get the discounts too.
MuniAddict
February 24. I'll be your age, again.
Again? Happy Happy then!
This is cool, I joined this site thinking it was inhabited by the younger folk. I’m not 50 quite yet but the AARP is knocking at my door.. I think I’m 46 cause I really stopped counting. Just ordered my first uni a few days ago.. An LX 20. Actually, it’s the first thing I bought just fer fun in way too long… I was bidding on a yew stave on eBay to make a sinew backed bow (I make and sell bows and arrows during the off season when the nature preserve I manage is closed) and lost it to a last minute sniper.. Said heck with it, and poked around to find something utterly fun to buy and came up with a unicycle. Why not? I get a real kick out of the young pups hee hawing about what uni to buy at the low price cause my Trek road bike set me back a lot more than what even a top of the line single wheel would have cost. John
PetePuma
Welcome!
Welcome aboard PetePuma!
One day you’ll be hitting that bulls-eye ring with a longbow from your unicycle!
Feb 24th? Me too, 46 coming up.
utemplarbond
Well then, happy birthday to you too then!
Oldies Rock
You guys are all an inspiration. I have not met any unicycle riders here in Bend yet. I know there are some, one woman who is going to Ride The Lobster.
MuniAddict, thanks for all the videos. I watch closely to see what to wear, how high to put my seat, body language, etc… I’m just learning to hop with my Torker DX 24". I made it up on a curb the other day and kept going - once. Haven’t been able to repeat since, but it will happen again. I’m thinking of getting a 20" to help me learn new things, then use those skills on the trails with my 24". Any opinions on that strategy?
I’m not alone!
I’ll be 43 next month!
Found this thread…Awesome! Really have the riding bug.
Glad you like the vids! It sounds like you’re doing great but I’m not sure about learning stuuf on a 20’, then doing them on a 24" Since you’re already using a 24", it might be better to stay with that, unless you want to do mostly trials. Keep up the good work!
Sorry, you are not old enough to hang around here. Just kidding.
Welcome to our little one-wheeled world.
There are a few of us with our age just under the wire. If we keep the noise down, the elders don’t mind us being underage.
I’ve been gone for awhile. Busy got to busier and then even more busy. I’ve still been riding. Just not posting much… well riding but not trying to improve or learn anything new. Thanks to Gina, I’m back and working on better technique.
[COLOR=“Magenta”]Gina[/COLOR], Happy Birthday to you! (belated) You too Unigeezer. I had a b-day too somewhere in there but never did get in a birthday ride. I’m sure I rode my age in meters during that week sometime.
Hadn’t noticed this threat till it popped up. I’m 47. Just started last Thanksgiving. I’ve ridden bikes off and on, but never as a serioius pursuit. I had the unicyle idea, checked into it a bit, and thought, “If I’m going to do this, I should start now!” My son’s been learning too, and daughter a bit, though she’s not as enthusiastic. Can’t get my wife on a bicycle, let alone a unicycle.
Oops, someway I missed this thread 'till today.
Count me in at 59 1/2. Been riding sporadically about 2 years. Never rode before but for some reason began to fantacize about it about a year before I bought a unicycle and started learning.
Good to see I am not the lone idiot as my wife refers to me. I’m 48, rode as a kid on a Schwinn and never thought about it again until about six months ago. I mountain bike several times a week and someone in my riding group told me he had seen a muni rider on one of the single tracks in our area.
I went right out and bought a 29’r from my LBS and I am now hooked, just ordered a Hunter 26" frame and am building a KH/Alex wheel. Haven’t quite got the rolling jump thing down, but I am working on it.
Hi Oldersters!
When I started this thread in October 2007, I didn’t expect it to garner more than a few replies. (To you young lurkers, “garner” means “gather,” he-he.) It’s awesome to see more than 200 replies. I also didn’t know that I was a few weeks away from a UPD that would (temporarily) end my riding.
I was in Golden, CO on November 1, 2007 attending a business conference. I took my 20” on the plane so I could get some exercise. I found a good concrete jungle behind a nearby movie theater and, while acting my age (51) and hopping down stairs, I clipped a step, fell down five more, and rolled my foot on the landing. My ankle made a wicked ripping sound. I crawled to my rental car (dragging my wheel) and used my GPS to find an ER. When checking into the ER I told them that I crashed my “mountain bike.” I later confessed that my mountain bike only has one wheel. They looked at my graying hair and the half-healed pedal-bites on my shins and asked if anyone had been hitting me.
The crash was on my 42nd day of riding (yeah, <blush>, I count). I didn’t tele ski until January (although I have skied 13 of the last 19 days), and I just started riding again last week after 4.5 months of abstinence. Needless to say, the crash shrunk my balls (it could NOT be an age-related decrease in testosterone). Learning to ride again is very discouraging. However, you know what they say about falling off that horse…
Although I am nursing my still-sore ankle and will primarily be a spectator, I’ll be heading to Moab for the MUnifest this evening. I will be at the campground with a white Dakota truck (and KH24) if you want to geez with me. Cell is 801-560-573-Three.
SteveA
Hey Steve - glad you’re back. Was your ankle broken?
Also, where do you ski? I spent 3 years ski-bumming at Alta back in the early 90s.
I tore the ligaments in my ankle. It swelled up like a pumpkin with my toes sticking out like carrots. I think it would have healed more quickly if it was a fractured bone.
I ski patrol at Brighton and backcountry ski in Big and Little Cottonwood. Spring is in the air and I’ve been trying to pound in the backcountry days before the snow melts.
Perfect weather for the steeps. Ski a few chutes off Wolverine Peak for me, and maybe throw in the Y-coulior and the Pfeifferhorn, too.
Those were some good years, living at GMD and hiking every day.