This is SOOOO obviously Photoshopped! EVERYONE who knows ANYTHING knows old people are too feeble to ride bikes and they NEED cars to get around anywhere! This is how it's ALWAYS been, duhhh!
Think you could put one over on us North Americans at the summit of global civilizzzzation, did you? Besides, old people like that riding bikes are threatening everyone's basic God-Given FREEDOM to drive their car.
@ Kiwehtin - Think again! This is far from photoshopped. I have lived in Copenhagen for four months and it's hard to believe the incredible cycle culture until you see it. These older people in the picture are not even the oldest that I have seen. Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age with grey hair can be seen riding around the city, along with heavily pregnant women and three year old children (without training wheels!). I don't see how old people riding bikes impedes on anyone's freedom to drive their car but if they chose to ride a bike instead of drive them props to them right?
Mikael, I'd urge you to post even more photos of older people on their bikes. It really is something special and it seems people still need convincing. :)
"Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age"
Talk about coincidence, I just came in from talking to a woman who is older than 75 starting out to the drugstore on her bike.
It's up the valley wall and she's not quite as young as she used to be, so she takes the switchback route now rather than the direct; on her one speed.
She still likes to yell "Wheeee!" on her way back down.
My granny lives in a Danish town of about 16.000 people, and she rode her bike well into her 80's. When she started to have problems with her balance she was given a three wheeled bike by the city and that gave her a few years extra. Now she's 86 and gave up riding her bike last year because of poor eyesight. She misses it though. 'I don't get around town anymore' she says.
As ATX says, yes: I had my tongue so firmly planted in cheek that I almost bit it off in self-satisfaction. ;-D
I'm one of the people who cheers Mikael whenever he puts up pictures of older people or handicapped people.
You can be forgiven for mistaking my intent though, because unfortunately, what I wrote isn't too far from the kind of thing that you find so many people say with total conviction...
I was impressed and encouraged to see the same kind of thing when I spent time in the Netherlands. Even here in Montreal, where cycling could take up a much greater share in everyday transportation, you do see the occasional older person pedalling around. Still, nothing like what you see in societies that have made more intelligent social choices.
"Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age" I live in a compound with mainly elderly people, 70 and over. Most of us have bicycles and use them, for the simple reason that cycling costs less energy than walking at that age. Mikael's photos show why so many men in the Netherlands prefer a step-through frame. It allows them to keep up with their wives :-).
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The woman is ahead of that guy because the man trying himself to be a young rider..ha.ha.ha nice post
This is SOOOO obviously Photoshopped! EVERYONE who knows ANYTHING knows old people are too feeble to ride bikes and they NEED cars to get around anywhere! This is how it's ALWAYS been, duhhh!
Think you could put one over on us North Americans at the summit of global civilizzzzation, did you? Besides, old people like that riding bikes are threatening everyone's basic God-Given FREEDOM to drive their car.
Hunhh!
@ Kiwehtin - Think again! This is far from photoshopped. I have lived in Copenhagen for four months and it's hard to believe the incredible cycle culture until you see it. These older people in the picture are not even the oldest that I have seen. Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age with grey hair can be seen riding around the city, along with heavily pregnant women and three year old children (without training wheels!). I don't see how old people riding bikes impedes on anyone's freedom to drive their car but if they chose to ride a bike instead of drive them props to them right?
Mikael, I'd urge you to post even more photos of older people on their bikes. It really is something special and it seems people still need convincing. :)
I think K-guy was kidding. This is very nice though. I don't think I've ever seen an elderly person riding a bike in real life.
"Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age"
Talk about coincidence, I just came in from talking to a woman who is older than 75 starting out to the drugstore on her bike.
It's up the valley wall and she's not quite as young as she used to be, so she takes the switchback route now rather than the direct; on her one speed.
She still likes to yell "Wheeee!" on her way back down.
My granny lives in a Danish town of about 16.000 people, and she rode her bike well into her 80's. When she started to have problems with her balance she was given a three wheeled bike by the city and that gave her a few years extra. Now she's 86 and gave up riding her bike last year because of poor eyesight. She misses it though. 'I don't get around town anymore' she says.
Anon - That's why god invented tandems and grandchildren.
Mackenzie-
As ATX says, yes: I had my tongue so firmly planted in cheek that I almost bit it off in self-satisfaction. ;-D
I'm one of the people who cheers Mikael whenever he puts up pictures of older people or handicapped people.
You can be forgiven for mistaking my intent though, because unfortunately, what I wrote isn't too far from the kind of thing that you find so many people say with total conviction...
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I was impressed and encouraged to see the same kind of thing when I spent time in the Netherlands. Even here in Montreal, where cycling could take up a much greater share in everyday transportation, you do see the occasional older person pedalling around. Still, nothing like what you see in societies that have made more intelligent social choices.
"Very elderly people probably about 75 years of age"
I live in a compound with mainly elderly people, 70 and over. Most of us have bicycles and use them, for the simple reason that cycling costs less energy than walking at that age.
Mikael's photos show why so many men in the Netherlands prefer a step-through frame. It allows them to keep up with their wives :-).
@kfg. :-) I would love to take my granny out on a tandem, but alas I live far away from her and only talk to her on the phone :-(
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