Narrator: Dallas Shannon
We recently did a video on a 72 year old rider named Greg
who attended our ride called the Outlaw Run this year.
This terrain will get you laughing like a little sick coyote.
One of the comments on that video was that maybe a more interesting topic would be
not about the 72 year old rider who's made it, and is still riding, but the 40 year old rider who has
a beat up body and feels like crap physically... but wants to make it to 72.
30 more years of riding!
All you guys that ride out there know how hard this sport is on the body.
Especially if you're a fast and aggressive guy.
You've got the injuries, i'm sure of it.
So how do you go from 42 and make it to 70?
It's simple.
You need to set that as an objective.
And then create a strategy on how to get there.
One. You need to change your expectations.
If you're in your 30s and your 40s, and you haven't had the big one yet... the big crash,
the broken tib/fib, the shattered foot, the torn rotator cuff, four broken ribs...
All that tells me is that you're still riding fast, and you're still taking risks.
If you've had the big one, it means you want to continue to ride.
But you realize the catastrophic consequences of making bad decisions.
I am in that place.
I've been in that place isnce I've been 40.
Although difficult, you need to somehow get a hold of your brain
while you're riding your motorcycle, and limit the risks that you take.
Right oh, chaps! A splendid week ahead of us.
Let's start off nice and safe as we want to last the distance.
But we are here to have fun, so let's ramp it up a bit, take some risks.
Now obviously you thrill seekers will want to ride outside the comfort zone.
But please don't stay out there for too long, there's a good chap.
We want you to go home alive if possible.
I'm not trying to talk you out of going fast.
You'll be ready when you're ready.
And i can't tell you otherwise.
You're going to be fast until you don't want to be fast anymore.
I don't know what assists you in that decision, but oftentimes it's a catastrophic crash.
You need to grab a hold of your brain, stuff the beast back in the cage,
and keep it locked up there.
Because that beast gets you hurt on a dirt bike... unless you've been riding dirt bikes
at a high level since you were a kid, and you're so good that you rarely come off the motorcycle.
Those people exist, they're a world apart from our gang.
And they're a world apart from most people that i know.
The other thing that you need to do, and nobody wants to do this, nobody especially not me...
you need to get in some semblance of physical condition.
I don't mean the physical condition you're in right now, because most of you
are probably dusting Dorito crumbs off their shirt as you're watching the video.
As much as we all dislike this, you need to find
a place where you can improve your physical condition...
whether that's fasting, whether it's keto diet, whether it's calorie counting,
whether it's some combination of fitness weight lifting swimming. Jiu jitsu would be a good one.
Anything where you get physically in condition and it's not destroying your soul to do so.
So how do you go from 42 to 72?
And keep your body intact?
Where you can continue to do this magical thing for 30 years?
Expectations and physical fitness... it's not the entire answer, but it is part of the answe.
And I think a big part.
I don't know if you agree or disagree.
I don't know if there are other important variables or factors that we've overlooked.
But if you can change your expectations, and you can have some semblance of fitness,
you're already on your way to staying on the motorcycle for an extended period of time.