[NMCycling] Changing times / Racing Age

[John Savickas via Bike-racers]

It could be the price of a bike. 

 

Hum, buy them a car for $5,000 OR a Bike for $5000.Oh they need a MT Bike
too for $3,500 and Cyclocross for $1,800 for a total of $10,300. Only guys
that can do that are like in there 40's or 50's..Hum

 

What I did was buy my kid an Xbox for $400 and bought myself the $7,000 road
bike. Save myself $2900 and now I can go for the 5 hour ride and my son
never knows I'm gone. Win, Win!!!! (April Fools Ha. Ho)

 

:)

 

From: Nathan P. Masek [mailto:NPMasek at mrcog-nm.gov] 
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:29 AM
To: New Mexico Sports Online <info at newmexicosportsonline.com>;
bike-racers at swcp.com
Subject: RE: [NMCycling] Changing times / Racing Age

 

Yeah, kindof troubling when not as many kids are into it.  

 

More distractions?   Less free time?  Less ability of parents to give the
kids that time (often both parents are working).

 

I know it's a constant challenge I face in supporting my son - not many of
his friends ride.

 

This just makes ever so important the Devo efforts that we do have in
cycling, and this includes Duke City BMX, plus all the other advocacy and
event-related activities as promoted by our community.

 

 

 

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From: Bike-racers [mailto:bike-racers-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of
New Mexico Sports Online via Bike-racers
Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 8:20 AM
To: bike-racers at swcp.com <mailto:bike-racers at swcp.com> 
Subject: [NMCycling] Changing times / Racing Age

 

Just an interesting trend in cycling and who is racing. 

 

Back in the late 80's and 90's if you were 26 yrs old you'd be one of the
oldest guys in the cat 4 field and the racers would ask, "who is that old
guy". (there wasn't a cat 5 yet).  As we were assigning bib numbers last
night for the Adoption Exchange we noticed a huge change in who's races
these days.  In the cat 5 more than half range from 60 to 30. The Cat 123
the majority is 50 to 30.  

 

Something to ponder during your morning coffee..

 

Have a great race this weekend!

 

John

 



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