Jokes, love, bicycles
- added June 9, 2008
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style over speed.
quality vs. quantity.
California love.
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92-year-old enjoys riding bike, lot of laughter. What a super cool cat!
MADERA RANCHOS, Calif. — Fred Mathes rides his bike to the post office (which in this neighborhood is inside the local video store), to the local diner, and out through the open fields.
He’s 92. His bicycle — a black, still-shiny, three-speed Schwinn — is 56.
For his 80th birthday he rode to Oxnard, Calif. — some 380 miles. For his 90th birthday he went for a 40-mile bike ride to Friant Dam and back. He hasn’t made plans yet for his next birthday bicycle ride in October, but Friant is in the running because he likes to have lunch at the Dam Diner.
Mathes said he believes in keeping things.
Jokes. Love. Bicycles.
“I don’t like to throw anything away that’s valuable. We’re very careful with gasoline, electricity, water,” he said. “We try to make things last. We’re real conservatives unless you’re talking politics.”
He does not favor Lycra or cycling shoes. His riding clothes are whatever he happens to be wearing, usually a pair of trousers (he rolls up one pant leg), a long-sleeved western shirt and a stylish cotton hat from Italy.
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quality vs. quantity.
California love.
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92-year-old enjoys riding bike, lot of laughter. What a super cool cat!
MADERA RANCHOS, Calif. — Fred Mathes rides his bike to the post office (which in this neighborhood is inside the local video store), to the local diner, and out through the open fields.
He’s 92. His bicycle — a black, still-shiny, three-speed Schwinn — is 56.
For his 80th birthday he rode to Oxnard, Calif. — some 380 miles. For his 90th birthday he went for a 40-mile bike ride to Friant Dam and back. He hasn’t made plans yet for his next birthday bicycle ride in October, but Friant is in the running because he likes to have lunch at the Dam Diner.
Mathes said he believes in keeping things.
Jokes. Love. Bicycles.
“I don’t like to throw anything away that’s valuable. We’re very careful with gasoline, electricity, water,” he said. “We try to make things last. We’re real conservatives unless you’re talking politics.”
He does not favor Lycra or cycling shoes. His riding clothes are whatever he happens to be wearing, usually a pair of trousers (he rolls up one pant leg), a long-sleeved western shirt and a stylish cotton hat from Italy.
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"We're real conservatives unless you're talking politics."
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god bless him, i recently got rid of my car and now ride a bicycle. i have lost about 20 pounds and have never felt better in my life.
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"He does not favor Lycra or cycling shoes. His riding clothes are whatever he happens to be wearing"
A man after my own heart.
Rock on Fred! -
just say no to the lycra-nazis.
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I always picture the devil in lycra, with a hole cut out for his tail and a custom helmet for his horns.
This story made my heart sad for all my old bikes I no longer have. I miss them all dearly, my oldest bike right now is 2 years old! He has one sweet ride. -
That is so good. It just so happens that I have started riding a 1980 Schwinn Traveler!
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- googolplexer
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