To ride or not to ride(Part 2)?

dej(Jed) · Jun 21, 2012

Okay-------So now at 62 , my wife says I should quit riding my horses. Yes it is getting risky riding the Goldwing and I will slow that down, but?

dej(Jed) · Jun 21, 2012

whoops

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

Life is short and it is what you make of it, keep riding and be happy. Neighbor was riding his horse until he was almost 80, just slow them both ( horses and wing) down and enjoy.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

(quoted from post at 03:52:49 06/21/12) Okay-------So now at 62 , my wife says I should quit riding my horses. Yes it is getting risky riding the Goldwing and I will slow that down, but?

If you give up what you like, might as well give up living..... If you have health (??) problems effecting riding the horses, maybe teach them to drive and get you a little cart...

Bill(Wis) · Jun 21, 2012

When you no longer bounce it's time to stop playing polo although I have friends who limit their polo playing to the bedroom in order to enjoy the sport a bit longer.

petetx · Jun 21, 2012

62 Ain"t old

Billy Shafer · Jun 21, 2012

I know a man on a ranch down here. 78 and still works cattle on horse back every day. Says he will die on horse back. No better way to die for him.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

You could ride a tractor and keep the horse for pets!

LazyWP · Jun 21, 2012

What is the point of living if you can't enjoy life. A person could die, just walking across the floor too. There are lots of guys in this area, that are in their upper 70s and 80s that still ride, rope, and try to start colts. If you are comfortable horseback, KEEP doing it. If you aren't, give them up.

Nancy Howell · Jun 21, 2012

I"m 59 and will ride until I"m physically unable to do so.

Nancy Howell · Jun 21, 2012

P.S. - know someone who's 86 and still riding.

JR Frye · Jun 21, 2012

I am 65 with two new knees a new right shoulder
and I still start young colts ground train the riding horses and every now and then throw a rope or two,YES I have slowed down and yes I take less chances and my training takes longer
than before, but I am retired now and have all the time I need to do what I want to do.
SO if you feel good and you can handle it
keep on doing it.
JR FRYE

centralilbaler · Jun 21, 2012

I dont know if i'll ever quit. I've been riding since i was 6 or 7. I got put down by a pickup 10 years ago, spent the next 7 months in bed. Butttt, as soon as i learned how to walk again, the first thing i did was go buy another bike. It maybe just like the farm, once in your blood it stays there!

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

"get busy living, or get busy dying" Andy Dufresne- Shawshank redemption

jackinok · Jun 21, 2012

My opinion for what its worth,do what you feel like doing! whats that law of physics.. "a body in motion tends to stay in motion,and a body at rest tends to stay at rest"..you can sit down and give up,or you can keep going as long as possible. how many guys have you known who have retired and were dead in a year? my old dad was 86 when he died,worked every day until he slipped on a tile floor and broke a hip,dr said it wasnt the fall,or the broken hip, that killed old folks.it was the being Immobile that killed them.

Mike M · Jun 21, 2012

Do like Heff and get a young wife to ride ! Let the horses and bikes sit or sell them.

Two Dogs · Jun 21, 2012

I'm 68 and ride some nearly every day that the weather co-operates. Usually 25 or 30 miles just for the sheer enjoyment of living and breathing. TDF

Bob Bancroft · Jun 21, 2012

What? Where do you ride horse? On the interstate?
I don't see how bike riding and horse riding compare at all, unless you're going all out with the horse at the races!

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

You wife doesn't have enough insurance on you.

David G · Jun 21, 2012

You might want to give up the rodeo, but keep riding the horses.

Keith Molden · Jun 21, 2012

I'm 64 and hadn't been on a horse in 42 years till last year. Bought grand daughter one then bought one for me then bought one for grand son. We aren't riding right now cause it's just too darned hot. But you can bet when it cools down a little (this week end) we'll be riding. Great way to relax. Keep on doing it as long as YOU want to. Just my thoughts, Keith

old · Jun 21, 2012

I still have horses but my doctor said little to no riding any more due to back problems so I do not ride much any more and the kids are either gone or rides an iron horse so he does not ride the flesh so they do not get ridden much if at all

Two Dogs · Jun 21, 2012

About four posts up there's an article about a man killed on a tractor. Gosh, I guess we'll have to stay off them too. TDF

agpilot · Jun 21, 2012

I agree... 62 is Not old... One of my stock market friends died about 2 years ago.. he had a sharp mind and was 96.

James Howell · Jun 21, 2012

When it gets to the point I can't ride on my tractor just go ahead and shoot me!

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2012

(quoted from post at 10:24:53 06/21/12) When it gets to the point I can't ride on my tractor just go ahead and shoot me!

It's a scientific fact that ugly tractors make you age faster.....
Just lookin out for ya....

wisbaker · Jun 21, 2012

My dad quit riding horses, quit tractors, quit doing yard work, quit doing home repair, quit going to the coffee shop, quit walking, quit taking the dog out. At about 350 pounds he quit living. Think I'd rather be doing something even if there is some risk rather that sitting in the easy chair and waiting to die. There are somethings I won't do, a previous post wandered off topic about fire works and how some idiots have to shoot 'em at the neighbors house, or horse or chicken coop. My kids always complained I didn't do fire works and wouldn't let them. I'd explain when I went through EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) school the last 3 names on the wall were from a combination of fireworks and stupidity. So I'll defuse bombs and IEDs but those Mexican fireworks scare the heck out of me.

luv2wrench · Jun 21, 2012

62 isn't old. get back on that pony. yeeha.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 21, 2012

Age hasn't stopped a relative of mine from riding but of course neither has a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder,guess he's waiting for the broken neck.

Two Dogs · Jun 21, 2012

Okay, just let me know.

TDF

MSS3020 · Jun 21, 2012

James.. I just told them to dig the hole and drive me into it when that time comes

Fawteen · Jun 21, 2012

I"ll be 62 in October.

My Dad bought me my first motorcycle when I was 16. I rode every chance I got and owned many, many motorcycles until I was in my mid-30"s. Then family and finances put serious limits on that and while I kept my license current, I pretty much quit riding.

Last winter, the bug bit me hard and I bought an old Yamaha 650 (one of the bikes I LOVED when I was a kid) and spent the winter overhauling it.

So, I"m riding again. I live out in the boonies, and virtually all of my riding is on 2 lane back roads in a rural non-farming area. I ride a little slower and more cautiously, but I ride. I don"t see me ever hitting the interstate on it, or riding in a city, but when the urge hits me and the weather cooperates, I fire it up and off I go.

To repeat a point made in other posts, if you give up everything you love because there"s some sort of risk involved, you might as well just lay down and die and get it over with. At least The Wife can collect the life insurance to spend on her new boyfriend.

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