anyone up in their 30's still ride mountain bikes

Hi jackknife-

No, you're not a fossil! Ultra Fuel is one of the many carbohydrate-rich energy drinks that is on the market. It also contains a bunch of vitamins and has a pleasing taste in my opinion. You generally see it in healthfood stores and gyms.

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As far as your tires go...if you're not using really aggressive knobbies, you're already getting some of the benefits of decreased rolling resistance. Both my roadbike and my "winterized" mountainbike roll on completely slick rubber with no tread. I've never experienced any problems with thorns, glass, or anything else where knobbies would have prevented a flat. The grip on pavement is outstanding because all the rubber meets the road, similar to the rear tires that one would see on a dragster.

My offroad knobbies have poor handling characteristics on pavement because the actual "contact patch" is reduced in size. The opposite is true on dirt when each of the knobbies can really sink and "bite" into the terrain along with the rest of the tire. Happy Trails!

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Bluejays,

I ride quite often, trails and road. I'll be 37 in June and have absolutely no intention of stopping or even slowing down. Of course, I don't do insane, suicidal downhill bombs, or big drops or even really high log piles- but that's because I never have done that sort of thing. I don't want the downtime of an injury (not because of age but because I might possibly have to stop riding to recover!). I also have respect for my bicycle and don't want to destroy my equipment. My personal philosophy is don't even think about your age, or at least do so as little as possible. When you start thinking "am I too old" for this you create self-doubt.

Jacknife-

That is so awesome about you and your wife riding. My father is a very healthy 73 years young and he's only recently stopped riding, but mainly because he's taken up RC flying instead. Keep pushin those pedals- the benefits you receive from the exercise are probably much greater than the slight chance of injury you might encounter from sensible riding (which all age groups should do). Good thread, BTW.

Paul
 
Thanks BlueJays

Jackknife. After standing in sardibe can trains here for a while I was on the point of exploding so I decided to cycle the 13 miles to work instead. I originally had a stock MTB with smooth fat tyres (1.9" wide) but they went up to 65 PSI.

After the initial aches and pains and getting used to it and learning a little about bikes in general I swapped my tyres out for 1.25" slicks. HOLY SMOKE! it felt like I was going twice the speed for half the effort!

These were the tyres you can fold up and put in a Fanny pack, Alas they are not too great when you are doing about 7,000 miles a year and I have gone back to 1.5" Michelin that have 3000 on them and still look new.

My suggestion is to get a pair of 1.5" that will take a high pressure and see if you feel like they are making your life easier.
 
Thank you all very, very much for the advise. At my age I'll try anything that makes it a little easier on my arthritic old bones. Plus I want to stay in as good a shape as I can, so I make myself use the bike for errends if the store I want is not far off.
 
I'm over 50 and still ride single track with the best of them.My hobby other than knives is riding and restoring 1950's ballooners and Sting-Ray type bikes.tom.
 
Over forty here and still riding a SURLY rigid one-speeder. I recently changed my gearing to a 32 x 18 and now my knees are happy campers. Say, has anyone seen my youth ?
 
had a rigid mountain bike for years...in fact i commuted to medical school on one. got out of riding 15 years ago with work/family/ and general busyness.

took up road biking again 3 years ago and love it. sold a ton of knives and guns to buy my first really nice road bike (a tommasini) to replace my felt.

on a lark i recently sold a few safe queens...and ordered a new cannondale f600. i was looking at buying a moots but decided my real love is road biking and the cannondale fit my needs perfectly. i am going to put a moots seatpost on it though :)

30s is not too old at all
 
As long as I can put a leg over a bike, I'll be riding one.
I'm in my mid thirties, have ridden mountain bikes for 15 years and own a bike shop which caters to mountain bikers.
Riding is my life and I will never stop. My interest in knives awoke about two years ago, and here I am. Now I sell both knives and bikes in my store.
Life is good on two wheels yo!:)
 
Just turned 36 and I still ride (well, took this summer off for the birth of my baby), but plan on getting back up there this fall! I still skateboard, too. You're still young!

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44 here---Have a Klein road bike and a cheapie Trek mountain bike---still ride now and then---but my bikes have seen a lot less use since I got back into motorcyling a few years back.
 
35 and riding. but can't climb as well these days. still bombing on the descents though, haha!
 
I'm 33 and riding - have been since high school except for a couple of years during college and work. I have a Jamis Eureka with Deore LX. The guy I ride with is late 30s and we really don't do any daredevil type stuff - just nice, get-your-heart-rate-up type of rides. We try to go out every weekend. There are plenty of mountains here and the killer ride is a wicked 7 km (about 4.5 miles) uphill that ends at a nice snack shop where we drink OJ and then swoop down the hill. We usually combine that with a long 30km (20mile) or 40km (25mile)ride.
 
I will turn 39 on October 14 and I have been riding daily for at least 16 years now. To work, from work, everywhere. Wife understands completely and drives to our destination and waits for me. Love her to death.
 
just bought a gary fisher tassajara as a 40th birthday present to myself. there are some nice trails in MA where i live, but i really like going up a couple of times a year to the kingdom trails network in VT's northeast kingdom. i'm definitely still riding...
 
At this point, I am strictly a roadie but am entertaining the thought of getting a mountain bike. I blew past 30 "many" years ago.

My reasoning for looking to go off road is that there are more places I can go, different terrain.

What you will notice is that the "masters", those of us over 35 years old, tend to have and can afford some of the better hardware than the 22 year old scraping up enough scratch to lay down on a halfway decent bike. The young guys that do usually work at a bike shop and that's ALL they have.

On the road bikes of the older guys, you will see carbon components, Shimano Durace or Campy Record, and the latest and greatest gadgetry such as a wireless Garmin GPS bike computer instead of one that's wired. No, it doesn't make you go any faster, it's just the coolness factor. The same applies for the mountain bikes.

Craig
 
I am 31 and I ride my ideal zigzag everyday. Now it is not always in the woods but over here in Greece the unimproved roads could be consided hard pack. Its not extreme downhill so I evjoy the hardtail. I tried a buddies full suspension bike and didn't like the feel. Thats just my opinion.
 
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