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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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