OMG, I TOLD YOU SO!!

If that article were true, the Netherlands would be empty!

Or there are some non-cyclists who are really, really busy ;-).

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Victor Kan wrote:
If that article were true, the Netherlands would be empty!

Or there are some non-cyclists who are really, really busy ;-).

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If cycling makes a man impotent.....it has to be from the tight spandex
on his family jewels. We all know that fertility specialists advise
men to wear loose fitting clothes when trying to impregnant the Mrs.
;-) After our third "quickly conceived" child, my husband starting
wearing super spandex underwear. ;-) ONLY KIDDING!!!!!!

Now that menopause has given me a natural birth control, Life is grand.
I just can't figure out why women have that biological ticking clock,
and men can have kids until their 80. Whats up with that? Is it an
encouragment to get rid of the old bag and find a new and younger model
who can still reproduce efficiently?

My son said he can wait until he is forty to get married, all he has to
do is marry a young woman. I wanted to smack him. He said, hey, I'm
not ticking.

Maggie

Whats up with that? Is it an
encouragment to get rid of the old bag and find a new and younger model

who can still reproduce efficiently?

Men just get better, women get old. Youth and nubility give a woman
value. Nature designed man to maintain a number of women and as they
age they are to become advisors to the younger wives who will service
the man's needs.

Maggie wrote:

My son said he can wait until he is forty to get married, all he has to
do is marry a young woman. I wanted to smack him. He said, hey, I'm
not ticking.

Yeah, that way he is trying to put his kids through college and start
his retirement at the same time!

I had the good fortune to have an uncle who was a bit younger than me.
One of the biggest differences between us was the amount of discipline
we received. Grandma and Grandpa (his parents, my grandparets) were
just too tired to deal with a teenager in their 50s. While I was making
A's in school, he was making D's. It wasn't that he was dumb - he just
didn't have the discipline to get his work done.

The Navy kicked him in the rump and he was top of his class through
every specialty school thereafter. He even told me that his only
problem was a lack of discipline.

I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....

-Buck

Buck wrote:
I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? -Buck


I'm not advocating having children late in life. I am 50 plus a couple
and my kids are grown and on their own....that makes me happy. And I
will be a young grandmother. Starting a family in your forties is
beyond my comprehension. I keep thinking if I started a family when I
was 40...I would have kids who were going into their pre teen
years....at my age that is scary. I was young when my kids were
teenager....I really don't think I could raise teenagers in my fifties.
I am glad they are grown. I am glad I will be young enough for my
grandchildren. I am also glad I never had people asking me if my kids
were my grandchildren. My son figures he can be older and his wife
will be young and full of energy. ;-) He said as long as they are
both not in their forties....it will be fine.

Maggie

Buck wrote:

I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....

The tiredness, has a lot to do with eating and activity. For example,
look at the typical American eatting pattern. Very light breakfast,
probably coffee, a light lunch probably something off the "coffee
truck", so it's highly processed. Then a giant, high fat, high carb
meal in the evening, followed by copious amounts of inactivity. It
takes your pancreas a long time to process all those carbs (sugars),
which is why, it's often recommended for Type 2 diabetics with high
sugar to go for a walk to bring it down, rather then to pop an extra
pill. They often feel very tired when they have high sugar.

The time for high carbs is the morning, when you have stuff to do, like
ride your bike to work, or walk to transit, actually the carbs +
activity will burn off much of the simple sugars and process the carbs,
to give you energy. Actually what gives you energy from activity is
that it gets the blood pumping, so those carbs go into muscle fuel
rather then into storage as fat. Muscles love converting fuel into
activity.

This is why, you can have a good hearty breakfast on a Saturday morning,
go for a 20 mile bike ride, come home, and then have enough energy to
tackle cleaning the garage. Back to eating, follow this up with a
moderate, from home lunch, where you can balance out what your eating
with what you need to eat. Follow this up with a light supper, if your
planning on spending the evening in front of the box.

W

The Wogster wrote:
Buck wrote:

I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....

The tiredness, has a lot to do with eating and activity. For example,
look at the typical American eatting pattern.


What does that have to do with raising kids when your in your twenties
and raising them when you are in your forties. Or the emotional strain
of handling teenagers when you are older and when you are younger. I
think I have alot of energy for a woman in her fifties..I love walking,
riding, and going out..but I really don't think I could be a parent to
three teenagers right now. In fact I think I would shoot myself. My
kids were teenagers when I was in my late thirties and very early
forties. I had the stamina to deal with them physically and
emotionally. The teenage years can be rough....and if you have an out
of control 17 year old and you are 60.....more power to you. I don't
think I could handle it. At 60, I want some peace of mind and a
grandchild. Not a kid in High School. I think you missed the point of
that last post. It was about raising pre teens or teenagers when you
should be thinking of retirement and grandchild....plus having the
freedom to do all you dreamed of doing, but couldn't because the kids
always came first. (Well they did with me). I love Rod Stewart, but I
am beginning to think he is an asshole with all these young wives and
new babies. Enough is enough. He is past sixty. His wives are younger
than his kids from his younger days. It gets ridiculous after awhile.
Now Donald Trump's bride is pregnant. Well I guess the kid will be a
millionaire so who cares if his father is an old fart and has bad hair.
Maggie

Buck wrote:

I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....

If people in their fifties are so tired and worn out, how come I
regularly see people in their 50s averaging 17-19 mph on 40 mile
non-stop group rides? How come I have known many hikers well over 50
who could do a 16 mile dayhike with 5,000 feet elevation gain without
any problems whatsoever?

I remember when I did a 50 mile nonstop group hike when I was in my
thirties; me and my other young friends finished 3 hours behind some
people in their sixties and seventies.

I remember another hike where a guy in his 80s left two guys in their
30s and 40s in the dust.

Andy

Maggie wrote:
The Wogster wrote:

Buck wrote:


I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....

The tiredness, has a lot to do with eating and activity. For example,
look at the typical American eatting pattern.



What does that have to do with raising kids when your in your twenties
and raising them when you are in your forties. Or the emotional strain
of handling teenagers when you are older and when you are younger. I
think I have alot of energy for a woman in her fifties..I love walking,
riding, and going out..but I really don't think I could be a parent to
three teenagers right now. In fact I think I would shoot myself. My
kids were teenagers when I was in my late thirties and very early
forties. I had the stamina to deal with them physically and
emotionally. The teenage years can be rough....and if you have an out
of control 17 year old and you are 60.....more power to you. I don't
think I could handle it. At 60, I want some peace of mind and a
grandchild. Not a kid in High School. I think you missed the point of
that last post. It was about raising pre teens or teenagers when you
should be thinking of retirement and grandchild....plus having the
freedom to do all you dreamed of doing, but couldn't because the kids
always came first. (Well they did with me). I love Rod Stewart, but I
am beginning to think he is an asshole with all these young wives and
new babies. Enough is enough. He is past sixty. His wives are younger
than his kids from his younger days. It gets ridiculous after awhile.
Now Donald Trump's bride is pregnant. Well I guess the kid will be a
millionaire so who cares if his father is an old fart and has bad hair.

Buck said that too many parents were to tired, that tiredness often
comes from sitting in front of the idiot box, trying to digest a heavy
meal, when they should be out, doing things, especially family things.
My parents were older, dad was 50 the year I was born, and mom was 38.
Dad is no longer with us, mom just got bionic knees, my father in law
just turned 70, he is older then my mom who is 82!

W

Andy wrote:


I remember another hike where a guy in his 80s left two guys in their
30s and 40s in the dust.

Andy

How did this go from raising kids at an older age to riding a bike at
an older age. Buck answered the raising kids question. Not am I still
mobile after 40 or do I need a wheelchair.

Maggie