Why didnt I get into this a long time ago?

Good for you...When you start meeting awesome people as well, you'll kick yourself even harder.

I wouldn't worry about how much time you've 'lost' not riding, instead make for it and enjoy the time you're on the bike!🙂

BryanM said:

Hi All,
I've been riding bikes on & off for 20 years (I'm 42) or so but never much more than a 30 minute crawl from A to B. In the last 12 months I have been riding 23kms each way to & from work & got pretty fit doing that.
I just bought a 2007 Giant OCR2 & went for a 38km ride Sunday morning & loved every minute of it. Got all the gear (clip ons, lycra etc etc).
I can see myself really getting into this bigtime & doing longer rides.
Dont know what I have been missing all these years.
Cheers,
Bryan

All you need now is some good tyres on the beastie and you will love it even more, exspecially on those longer rides.

I did get into this a long time ago.......1966 I think, unfortunately, gave it away in '72 when I got Ls for a motor bike. I'd reckon I did about 20 kls between '72 & 2002.

Then for some unknown reason, we cleaned up the shed. For a bigger unknown reason, an old mountain bike which had been sitting around for 10 years actually held air in the tyres. Now for the biggest unknown reason of all, I rode the bugger 300 metres.

From that day in 2002 till today I've traveled 26000 kls, & frankly, just can't get enough of it.

Edit:- To prove how keen [stupid] I am, yesterday arvo a strong Southerly wind arrived which sent everyone except me looking for shelter............ I went for a 43 k ride which included 2 exposed bridges. Took several minutes longer than usual. Never saw another cyclist