[Az-Geocaching] You are never too old to ride a bicycle

[Tim Bremser]

It is not the willingness or the want it is the knees
and balance.   But your chastisment is understood and
accepted.  The fact is that special equipment is
special equipment. Thus if a 5 includes special
equipment required then it is logical to include
bicycles as special equipment.
I think that this would be a moot point if there were
another criteria or code on every site that is
accessablity. Even if the powers-to-be are not willing
to retrofit all existing data in the database with a
new field it should be something considered in the
future for new caches.

Thanks for the chiding
Tim
--- Ken Akerman <ken@highpointer.com> wrote:
> Another geocacher wrote: I am nearly 50 and
> overweight and thoroughly enjoy the sport and COULD
> NEVER ride a bike again even if I wanted to. I know
> many people well over 50 who ride bicycles.  Some of
> them do century rides (100 miles or more in one
> day), like the El Tour de Tucson and other perimeter
> bike rides.  Whenever I do rides like these, it
> appears to me that the majority of people are older
> than I am, and I'm not very young (I completed my
> college degree in the 1980's). Also, bicycling is
> great exercise for losing weight.  Do not say that
> you could NEVER ride a bicycle again;  even severely
> handicapped people can ride specially-made bicycles.
>  For example, if you read this page you will learn
> about: 1) A blind cyclist who rode across America,2)
> A 65-year-old man who circled the perimeter of the
> United States (13,789 miles in 345 days), and3) A
> woman triathlete who is 80 years old.


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