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Bike Riding for Seniors

Puzzle Piece — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:23:44 GMT

Do you senior ladies ride bicycles? I'm not talking about stationary bikes but a bike that tours here and there.

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Meowingkitty — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:59:04 GMT

Nope. I tried to learn as a kid and hated it. Tried again as a 30 year old and still could not get the hang of it. I can say at 70 I never really learned to ride a bike and I'm certainly not going to try now. I don't think Arizona has many bike tours and if they do it would have to be in late fall and winter. Maybe up north they do. I'm strictly a car person.

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Sooner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:37:18 GMT

Gave it up when I got wobbly on bike.

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I am still oxox — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:39:08 GMT

Last time I was on a bike I feel over backwards and tore my hamstring. This was about 15 years ago on vacation

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lynnie61 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:51:25 GMT

I haven't been on a bike in decades. Rode a lot as a child and teenager. I may have ridden one on vacation once or twice at the beach, but probably in my 20's. No way I'm riding now.

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Susan345 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:03:20 GMT

Can't remember the last time I rode a bike. I think I could still do the riding but with my balance issues I worry about stopping. I might fall over.

If I did ride it would have to be a three wheel trike.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:06:56 GMT

I loved riding a bike as a child. Last time I rode one was about 10 years ago in my 60s. Rode alone Lake Michigan. Great fun. Wouldn't bike now only because I don't have the stamina for it. Would consider getting an electric bike but living in a big city, it's not safe.

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Carmie — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:11:04 GMT

I ride my touring bike occasionally....maybe 3-4 times a year.

I have an older Royce Union that is over 40 years old....it still looks and rides as new.

It gets tuned up once in a while and get new tires. They dry rot after a while.

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pdlinda — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:19:31 GMT

@Puzzle Piece

When I was 9 years old, I was getting ready to learn how to ride a two-wheeler. Unfortunately, a very dear friend of mine (my age) was run over and killed while riding her two-wheeler bike across a residential street where we lived.

SUCH A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY!

From that day on, I was never allowed to even go NEAR a 2-wheeler bike and to this day I have never riden one.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:20:07 GMT

@Puzzle Piece Yes. A 20th centuey Schwinn.

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Puppy Lips — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:29:03 GMT

My DH and I ride our bikes on occassion. For a good bit of time we did it everyday. Then we stopped, probably because it was too hot outside. We never really got back in the habit again of doing it daily. Now he is having knee trouble, so we likely won't.

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amyb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:24:42 GMT

Well I've known friends of friends who knew people in their 80's and 90's that not only rode bikes, but went on bike tours in Europe etc.

Me...68, gave up my 10 speed Mountain bike about 6 years ago, and hadn't ridden it before then for about 6 years, since my last bad accident on it. I'd had 3. One definitely wasn't my fault, and was when I was in my early 30's. My date at the time went too fast on a bike path, got too close to my bike, and locked spokes! Had to walk back from the bike path, to our car, bleeding, so that was fun. 🙄

The last one brought me to the emergency room, broke a toe, lucky I didn't break a hip or head, leg, knee swelled up like a balloon. I misjudged a curb, went to swerve at the last minute and went flying. Yep, not ashamed to admit that.

And with Osteoperosis, and me not even loving biking that much....(and bf telling me, daily..."you better stick to walking for exercise!!") Ha...he's right...it was not worth it to me....I don't miss it one bit. I owned it 20+ years hardly ever rode it. But that's me, not everyone...I certainly see people my age and older around me, riding bikes.

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SilleeMee — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:41:47 GMT

There really isn't a safe place to ride around here. You could get run over by cars. Bike lanes here are for speed-racing bicycles, not for slow-pokes like me.

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LavernLuvsShoes — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:50:48 GMT

@lynnie61 wrote:
I haven't been on a bike in decades. Rode a lot as a child and teenager...

Me too, but I don't think I would try it at this age.

Very concerned about falling and breaking a hip, don't ya know.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:58:49 GMT

I would love to be able to ride a bike but since my cervical fusion I need to be especially careful about protecting my neck. I'm wobbly too, so biking is no longer in the cards.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:47:12 GMT

Yes, my husband and I still bike ride, hes almost 70 and I am 67. He bikes for about 20 miles several times a week, I do not.....I mostly like to stick around our neighborhood and I like to bike when our grandkids come down too.....I am not a big distance rider at all. My husbnad is in a riding club, so they log their time and miles, and he really enjoys it!!!!!

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Goodie2shoes — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:52:25 GMT

I can't even ride my stationary bike I have at home since I had to have a second right knee replacement in 2020 ! It's sitting in a corner of my bedroom I need to sell it or give it away !

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on the bay — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:59:32 GMT

I did ride my yellow Schwin with a basket to work and to school when I was a teenager and in my twenties.

Now, not gonna do that!

It really amazes me today when I think of how I rode miles to college and to work between 2 different cities and thought nothing of it.!

No way would I do that now or want anyone I know to do that.

I never heard of bike tours. That sounds like a lot lol!

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SoCal Bred — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:17:55 GMT

The last time I was on a 10-speed bike was about 30+ years ago, my hubby and I used to ride on the beach path, somehow not paying attention I must have hit a pebble or something and flew over the handle bars onto the pavement, skinned both wrists and forearms, never rode my bike again. I stick to riding my stationary bike.

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Puzzle Piece — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:26:14 GMT

Sounds like those of you who rode, enjoyed yourselves while you could.

I don't ride now and have to donate the two biles to a charity.

I've not in the best of health to ever ride a bike now.

I have the precious memories and when I give away the bikes, I will be saddened.

Will always rememer my husband for all the enjoyment we had bike riding.