In Support of 60-year old Women Everywhere

[maillotpois]

What a great picture! That woman is awesome!

[hebe]

Excellent! My cycling instructor is a 60something woman, and she rocks!

[Susan Otcenas]

I'm on the board of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. It's generally thought (by the BTA, local bike planners, etc.) that women are an indicator of the health and safety of the bike network. The more women you see out there, the better the conditions are thought to be perceived by the riding public in general.

[Bike Writer]

Bravo! Hooray! That woman is my hero

[AllezGirl]

That woman on a shopping run could be a cat 1 racer in her "alter ego"! I find it funny that they don't think we can be both!

The woman who has inspired and encouraged me from the first club ride I did to where I'm at today is 59 years young! She was there the first time I got stuck at an intersection because I wasn't strong enough to turn the gear I was in to get started, to leading me out for my first podium. Multiple time medalist in the Senior Games and current PA State TT Masters Champion, she continues to be my hero.

I'm turning 40 this year. It's the first birthday I've had trouble accepting. But I have several teammates over 40...and I look at their accomplishments and I realize that age is just a number! Heck...Laura Van Gilder is 46, she's #1 in the WORLD on the UCI CX calendar. And Jeannie Longo...well, nuff said!

My personal feeling is that whether commuter, recreational, tourist, racer or whatever type of cyclist we are...women are much more 'core than men!

[marni]

she is my hero as well. Reminds me of a lot of the riding I did while living in the Netherlands, only you would have to add two saddlebags and a child in a bike seat ( no nifty trailers at that point) and the usual amount of Dutch seasonal liquid sunshine.

On the last cross country ( Southern Tier) ride I did, our oldest rider was 72 years old and she probably could have outridden us all distance wise. My favorite photo of her is after one of the longer, hotter, dustier days in Arizona when she put on her swimsuit,clogs, helmet and gloves and rode around in the rain instead of swimming, and to get the dust and grit off her bike. Miss Bee was a pip.

[chicagogal]

I just wish the woman in the photo was wearing a helmet. It just irks me so to see people riding without them. . .

My mentor is in her mid-40s, racing as a cat 2 on the road and the track, and some of my best teammates are 50+ . . . and we all plan to continue racing together for a long time to come :-)

[Bike Chick]

I just wish the woman in the photo was wearing a helmet. It just irks me so to see people riding :-)

I agree. She's old enough to know better!!

I was 46 when I started riding a bike and have been riding for 6 years. I hadn't been on one since I was kid but riding a bike makes me feel like a kid again. Any wonder why 60 year old women enjoy riding???