Comments on: The potential for the return of an endangered species – the older cyclist http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/ Design for lifelong health and wellbeing Mon, 02 May 2016 12:12:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: Dave Bennett http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/#comment-81254 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:28:50 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1285#comment-81254 I am 60 years old and recently retired I now cycle for pleasure at least 3 times a week. I find that getting around Cardiff is a problem although there are many cycle routes they are not well policed and in many areas cars parking in cycling lanes cause many issues Canton being a regular dangerous area for cyclists.
I have found a good route now which takes in some road cycling with no cycle lanes and then off the main road along the cycle lanes around Avondale Road then around the bay and over the barrage.
I also enjoy cycling in and around Sophia Gardens but Newport Road can be a bit daunting some times.

]]> By: Sue Woollatt http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/#comment-78161 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:54:50 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1285#comment-78161 I’m 61, female and still working (at home, freelancer) and have always cycled. I hate driving so I use my bike (a Trek hybrid) for short trips into town but having moved to Cornwall and having a largely sedentary job I have been starting to ride purely for fun and to keep fit. It’s very hilly here and any trip involves a stiff workout!

Currently my longest solo ride has been about 10 miles. I’m reluctant to stretch it further until I am sure in my head that I know what to do to change an inner tube and get derraileur gears back on correctly. I’m not very good mechanically. Hubby is helping in that respect, he’s 54 and regularly does much longer trips and enters sportives of 100 miles or more, so I get lots of encouragement!

I tend not to cycle in the town centre so much, as I’m not confident of the use of cycle lanes on main roads. They seem to stop and start and change sides and I have never used one. They never had them years ago when I cycled to and from work in a busy town. My rides involve mostly rural roads, not too busy and often single-vehicle size and are hilly. The views range across both Cornish coasts at the same time, my true incentive to cycle.

My contemporaries’ attitude to me cycling ‘at my age’ (!) ranges from bemusement to respect LOL. To be honest, most of them are starting to have health problems due to their size but won’t consider cycling as they see it as hard work, which is a shame because I’d love a cycle buddy.

]]> By: John Wilbye http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/#comment-78048 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:49:16 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1285#comment-78048 I am 68 and retired, and like to cycle. As above most of my journeys are shopping, round trips between 3 and 6 miles. I like to take a longer rides but hate riding on roads because one is often cut up by vehicles passing too close or not giving way. Although we have lots of cycle tracks around Bradley Stoke/Stoke Gifford, for the longer rides there are often no routes that provide a mainly off road round trip. For example it would be good to use the Concorde way to Bristol then the Jubillee way to link up to the Strawberry way and back to Bradley Stoke. So my longer rides tend to be the same ones. Also South Glos doesn’t seem to like cyclists, they put in a new cycle path and put give way lines to cyclists so motorists can exit a car park. Not exactly cycling friendly. They do have a cyclist’s forum but items raised by cyclists remain ignored for years.

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