Respectful awe

Pete Connors said:

I must abandon my lurking posture to relate a tale:
Across the close from me lives Peggy, 85. Earlier this week I went to
her husband John's funeral and was reduced to respectful awe by one of
the other mourners: their gardener. A retired bank manager, he
regularly turns up at their house on a battered Raleigh pulling a home
made trailer - which carries a petrol driven mower during the growing
season. Over the years I have often seen him towing the tools of his
trade around the neighbourhood.
He had made the trip to John's funeral in Macclesfield on the battered
Raleigh and as I left he was changing into his cycling clothes for the
7 or 8 mile trip back to Bramhall. That's a trivial trip for the
Ultegra-equipped carbon cohorts, but he was just quietly getting on
with it.

Was it Johnny Ginger by any chance?

...d

ISBN: 0330376926 by way of explaination.

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Pete the amateur tourer

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Quoted message said:

I must abandon my lurking posture to relate a tale:
Across the close from me lives Peggy, 85. Earlier this week I went to
her husband John's funeral and was reduced to respectful awe by one of
the other mourners: their gardener. A retired bank manager, he
regularly turns up at their house on a battered Raleigh pulling a home
made trailer - which carries a petrol driven mower during the growing
season. Over the years I have often seen him towing the tools of his
trade around the neighbourhood.
He had made the trip to John's funeral in Macclesfield on the battered
Raleigh and as I left he was changing into his cycling clothes for the
7 or 8 mile trip back to Bramhall. That's a trivial trip for the
Ultegra-equipped carbon cohorts, but he was just quietly getting on
with it.
--
Pete the amateur tourer

Aye indeed
We are in the presence of a generation of men and women who have incredible
stories to tell.
At our local Church we had a lady - known in the area as a grandmother of
great wisdom and no sufferer of fools - who had driven ambulances (without
lights) through the East End Blitz and blackout .

Also another who is one of the first female firemen/firewomen/firepersons.

All quietly getting on with it.

OG
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If you want to put your life in perspective, join a Church full of oldies !

David Martin said:

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Quoted message said:

Was it Johnny Ginger by any chance?

..d

ISBN: 0330376926 by way of explaination.

Quoted message said:

--
Pete the amateur tourer

I rather think he would shun self-publicists :-)
Indeed, show him a blog and he'd saw it up into useful pieces...

--
Pete the amateur tourer

Pete Connors wrote:
as I left he was changing into his cycling clothes for the

Quoted message said:

7 or 8 mile trip back to Bramhall. That's a trivial trip for the
Ultegra-equipped carbon cohorts, but he was just quietly getting on
with it.

There are indeed many Senior Cyclists out there who are just getting on
with it. Quite often when I'm whizzing(ish) back to the house from a
ride I encounter a chap who must be in his eighties on a bike which must
be in its sixties pedalling up to the local supermarket. He has only
one speed regardless of the gradient and always raises a hand from the
bars in a wave to this portly lycra lout. If I'm doing that in twenty
odd years I certainly won't grumble (well, not about that, anyway).

--
Brian G

Brian G said:

Pete Connors wrote:
as I left he was changing into his cycling clothes for the

Quoted message said:

7 or 8 mile trip back to Bramhall. That's a trivial trip for the
Ultegra-equipped carbon cohorts, but he was just quietly getting on
with it.

There are indeed many Senior Cyclists out there who are just getting on
with it. Quite often when I'm whizzing(ish) back to the house from a
ride I encounter a chap who must be in his eighties on a bike which must
be in its sixties pedalling up to the local supermarket. He has only
one speed regardless of the gradient and always raises a hand from the
bars in a wave to this portly lycra lout. If I'm doing that in twenty
odd years I certainly won't grumble (well, not about that, anyway).

Aren't you in Crieff? Serious kudos then to that chap..One lesson
utility cyclists learn rapidly is always to patronise the supermarket
at the top of the hill..

...d

Brian G said:

There are indeed many Senior Cyclists out there who are just getting on
with it. Quite often when I'm whizzing(ish) back to the house from a
ride I encounter a chap who must be in his eighties on a bike which must
be in its sixties pedalling up to the local supermarket.

I used to occasionally ride with the Cambridge CTC. One guy was in his
eighties, had tunnel vision so could only go straight or turn left and
cycled about 8,000 miles a year. I attended the 90th birthday party of
a club regular at the tea stop on the Sunday ride. He rode like someone
in his 50's.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

David Martin said:

Aren't you in Crieff? Serious kudos then to that chap..One lesson
utility cyclists learn rapidly is always to patronise the supermarket
at the top of the hill..

Indeed. Now of course there are allegedly plans to build a new
supermarket at a lower level, near to where the cyclist of my tale
presumably lives. I fear for his future health and fitness!

--
Brian G

Tony Raven said:

Brian G said:

There are indeed many Senior Cyclists out there who are just getting
on with it. Quite often when I'm whizzing(ish) back to the house from
a ride I encounter a chap who must be in his eighties on a bike which
must be in its sixties pedalling up to the local supermarket.

I used to occasionally ride with the Cambridge CTC. One guy was in his
eighties, had tunnel vision so could only go straight or turn left and
cycled about 8,000 miles a year. I attended the 90th birthday party of
a club regular at the tea stop on the Sunday ride. He rode like someone
in his 50's.

I wait with impatience for the posting of news of the centenarian round
the world pedaller ... :-)

--
Brian G