[Baz]

Posted in the "Cycling for Seniors 65 and older" FB Group:
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I’m an experienced road biker in my seventies, though for years I have limited my riding to a six-mile paved bikeway that is closed to traffic. It is also used by joggers, runners and walkers. My bike is a carbon frame road bike and I ride in full road gear that pro riders use. For years, a daily 12-mile round trip on this bikeway was my primary form of exercise. I’d always been a very careful rider. But one day, in the fall of 2022, I encountered a scenario I had never considered. I was approaching a group of pedestrians on my side of the bikeway. The other side was clear. When I began my maneuver around them, a jogger who was running on the wrong side did the same thing. We were heading directly at each other. I shouted at him, but he didn’t hear me because he was wearing noise canceling earbuds. We both went over, but I had my shoes clipped into my pedals. I fractured my pelvis in three places, along with my elbow. The jogger was uninjured. The moral of the story is this: No rider over 60 years old should use clip-in pedals. While they do improve the Biking experience, they vastly increase the likelihood of injury for older riders. My recovery took about two years and included three months in an assisted care facility.