How will your riding evolve in the next 10 years?

in ten years time I will be 74,  I intend to carry on much as I do now - pootling around on and off road.  I assume I will get even slower

I'm currently riding with a bloke who at 67 is 12 years older than me and still very quick and even fitter. If I'm still riding at all at his age I'll be a very happy bunny, never mind hitting up Dirt Farm and Risca and the like.

ATM my plan is to keep the Spur and get fit enough to do big boy rides by the time I retire in around 4 years. At that point I plan to swap my longer travel bike for some sort of E-bike. We'll see.

I think I will end up selling my Road bike and my Cotic Cascade gravel/xc HT and buying a 130mm ish travel HT and a carbon gravel bike that will still be decent for the odd road ride with a second set of wheels.

Keep the big bike for the odd big day out or Alps trip.

Fully expect to be enjoying riding bikes - hopefully of many sorts.

Same old hopefully, might have succumbed to an Eeb by then. 43 now and my knees aren't the best anymore!

Doubt it'll change too much, hoping to keep improving and get my riding at least back to the level I used to ride at. I should have more and more free time over the next 10 years as the kids grow up, so maybe some trips further afield. I'd love to go back to Whistler or try some of the European bike parks.

Bike wise maybe I'll have finally decided whether I want a gravel bike or not within the next 10 years 🙂 I can see myself getting an ebike too if they become a bit lighter, more affordable and less ugly in the next 10 years.

At 57 I'm fully aware that every year is going to get harder for me just to stay at the same level.

I'm fine with that and I'm sure with suitable adjustments to other aspects of my life I'll be able to keep on trucking along.

I'm nowhere near ready for a gravel bike or bimbling around on fireroads yet.

I’m 57 in a couple of months, and already thinking about retirement plans. 
my plan is to ditch the car and go full eeb for all my transport needs. 
I’ll retain my carbon gravel bike and surly KM for fun use. 

57 here too.

I just hope I am still riding in 10 years time! 

I'm a bit perplexed how much my fitness in my 50s has taken a battering lately, gotta just keep on moving I guess.

Very coincidental timing for this thread...  Leading on from the last one where I admitted spending more time on my road bike, I went out for a [road] ride last night and broke a spoke barely 200m from home. I still wanted to go out, so took down the one remaining mostly working bike I have (my hard tail commuter) and took that out for a spin around the local tracks.

I still enjoy it, but the transition it has had from hard tail to fully rigid commuter (carbon fork, 1x9 drivetrain, etc) has compromised its ability off road, even on nice trails. It does have normal tyres on for a change (not the thinnest, slickest ones I could find), but even with those I much prefer riding the full sus, it just feels more planted and stable on roots and loose rock.  A shame it needs so much work before it is back to 100%.

If I am being honest with myself, I should probably sell some bikes and buy something more appropriate for what is near me. The obvious choice would be a short travel carbon full sus with 29" wheels, something that rolls well and is light enough and capable enough for normal, everyday trails. Obviously I will keep the road bike and the commuter, but I can also see a day when a gravel bike seems to make sense. 

My hope is that it won't change much. Although if it does, it'll be for the better. We'll be living in FoD by then and over the course of the 10 years i'm hoping to hold off on the ebike, but lets face it, places like FoD they really really suit. So that'll be a tough one. 

I'm tempted to build his Session frame into a full bike, but i don't know yet. 

More Audax/touring and easy trails, then invest in a mobility scooter    electric assist. 😉 

Dunno really, I've never mountain biked through my 60s before! Hopefully it will be the thing that keeps me alert and healthy in mind and body. I wonder if I'll get rid of my normal bikes eventually and just ebike... well, actually I'll still commute on a non-powered bike for as long as I can, so that won't change. Somewhere in those next 10 years I will retire, so will get a lot more time to be out and about.

Well, as I'm now 78 I have to be realistic. About 18 months ago I went over to an emtb (Cube Stereo Hybrid 160 HPC SLX) which I'm massively enjoying. I've still got two very nice roadbikes (Spesh Roubaix and Wilier Cento Uno) but I don't ride them at all now. I've also still got my Kona Hei Hei which I really still like a lot but rarely ride.

What does the future hold? Well, who knows. I'm lucky to still be quite fit and reasonably flexible (a few aches and pains but nothing inhibiting. I ride Swinley occasionally and do all the trails there - Blue, Red plus the Clubhouse ones but mainly it's Porridgepot, Tunnel Hill and Minley - occasionally Surrey Hills.  Will I be able to do that when I'm 88???  who knows, will I still be alive?  

I'll just try keeping doing what I'm doing for as longs as I can (and as long as I enjoy it).   I am more risk adverse though after fracturing my pelvis a couple of years ago.

I'll be mid 50s so will likely be on a eMTB. I don't think much else will change though.

I intend to be riding until I die 😆 

I'm 57 and the next ten years will be more of the same as the last ten years. I shall lift some weights twice a week, ride my road bike, ride my mountain bike and my trials bike. I shall be slow and lacking in skill (as I am now) but determined and beligerant to the last! 🤨 

God help the first person that ever suggests I'm too old for anything - I intend to be a 'masterdabber' 😉 

I don't know about my riding "evolving" but I do envisage changes over the next decade or so. Buzzword bingo aside, this is a topic I think about more now, at 45, than I ever did 5 years ago, and really what I do from this point on will probably dictate how sustainable cycling (of whatever sort) will be once I hit my senior years...

I'm still at least another 5 away from having sufficiently independent kids to take significant chunks of time out just for cycling adventures. Plus the bonus of a couple of ageing/ill parents to consider; for now it's maybe one or two over-night trips a year absolute tops. otherwise it's a stolen Saturday or Sunday for (local) riding if I'm lucky.

I never persuaded my Wife or my Kids to really love riding bikes, so I guess I'm at a disadvantage compared to those with a family that share their interests more.

Physiologically I'm in OK condition right now (compared to some I know) but the annual winter activity dip, and general diet (not something I exclusively control) means my weight is consistently a bit above what I would like. Managing that is probably more key than planning epic rides right now...

This last couple of winters I've found indoor trainer time (4-7 hours-ish) beneficial, and swapping that for weekday evening rides during summer means I can maintain a year-round baseline level of activity.

I still ride MTBs but nothing like as frequently, I'm not racing or planning to, and I can only see my appetite for risk reducing over the next few years, I'm happy enough on a Blue or Red, I'm happy on some local cheeky, But I'll probably give the Black lines a swerve, because I can't afford really an injury like 30 year old me could.

So realistically I'm a born again Roadie and Gravelist for the most part and I would just like to do more distance both on and off-road, ideally well into my 60s.
The foundation for that really has to be surviving middle-age with something like reasonable fitness and mobility.

I can see my weekly routine continuing to be Turbo sessions, evening rides and I probably need to introduce weights, coupled with one big weekend ride as a sort of 'maintenance programme' for the next five years or so. Beyond 50ish, and assuming I've managed to stick to that plan and minimal hiccups, I will be booking more of my leave to go for multi-day bikepacking trips, riding interesting places in Europe, and more time to go travelling again with an MTB. 

It all sounds a bit meagre when I type it out, not the grand plans and dreams some of you have no doubt, but it's realistic and fits in with my circumstances... 

I've been pondering this recently. At 48 I've long got over the notion I had as a teenager that "I doubt I'll be riding in 10 years time, too old by then!".

I'm slightly softening on commitment to the Hardtail recently and rediscovered the dusty 10yo full suspension. I don't need a new one but a modern, boost mullet FS would be likely my next new bike. For now, nothing beats trail riding in some form, I'm just more conscious of not trashing myself through injury.

I think touring will be my climb down from mtbing, with some longer EuroVelo routes on my mind. 

There's a lot of us who are 57! Me too!

I've not posted on the other thread, but feel my riding has progressed on steeper/more technical trails over the last 3/4 years. I'd like to maintain that at least, as well as the fitness needed to keep riding up hills in order to come back down again!

I also really love big days out in the hills, JRA rides, ideally with a few exciting descents.

And I love gravel riding too.

I think in 10 years, an ebike will either be in my garage, or not far across the horizon, but I'd like to maintain the fitness for solely pedal-power rides for as long as possible.

I should be retired, so more frequent bike-packing and short trips away will be good ...

I've currently got 2 Singlespeed bikes (HT and Gravel/commuter), I hope my legs will still let me ride SS, but wouldn't be surprised if that's the part of my current riding that I have to let go ...

I'll be older, slower, less adventurous in off-road risks.

But hopefully I'll still be riding, which would be enough of a win for me. 

(And running too, unless some over-use injury gets me.)

I am still fairly fit and ride regularly but recovery from longer rides a bit of an issue recently and i find i would rather ride regularly now than taper ride a big day and then need to recover and thus miss some ride days.

Its a real shame as i do enjoy challenging days out. I suppose we meed to be careful with burning our matches now.

So starting to think of selling some bikes and have the one bike does it all for road and gravel and sell the FS and keep the hardtail.

Maybe they can fund a 60 birthday Ti gravel bike as my last new bike purchase?

I'm 70 and my love of mountain biking gets stronger the closer I get to not being able to do it any more. Over the past 10 years I have dabbled in road, gravel etc but realised I didn't really enjoy it compared to the MTB so I gave up on other bikes and nowadays only have mountain bikes. I also have developed a 'if not now, when?' attitude which seems to have replaced the frugality of my younger days, so in 10 years I will probably be throwing myself off a mountain on the latest high end must have bike. Or my arthritic joints will have me moaning about not being able to do the thing I love, and anything else I can find to complain about 

In 10 years time I expect I’ll be riding more as my kids are currently 6 1/2 and love riding.  I’ll probably still have an ebike and hardtail depending on what we’re riding.  I’m 10kg light this summer and plan to be another 10kg(ish) lighter which will hopefully help me keep up with the twins in my late 40s into 50s. 

I plan to be doing much the same tbh. I'll be 55, probably a bit sorer and slower and less brave but on the other hand there's a sort of bell curve thing here where the older you get as a rider the cooler you are.

I keep saying if I have to recover from one more big injury I'll probably get an ebike and tbf the odds look pretty good for that, getting back from my shoulder last year was a bit hard.

Hope to get back into being able to do black trails.  I was never good at them, so hope to remedy that.  Improve my technique.  Make sure I don't totally wreck myself, so I expect it'll be a slow progression, but I'm ok with that.

I'd really like to do a few enduro races.  I'm also keen on doing a few long distance bikepacking trails.  Ideally culminating with something like Badlands in Spain.  Or if I'm getting really daft as the kid will be old enough by then I'd like to go off and do the Tour Divide.

In ten years I'll be 73, if it's bad news I may not be riding at all. If it's good news I'll still be riding and might even have added a folding e bike to the quiver. In recent years I have been doing more walking and paddling .As Neil Young said " it's better to burn out than it is to rust"

Just got a new bike so expecting to use that a lot over the next 10 years if my last ones were anything to go by. 

Hoping that as I slack off work more over time that I get to ride more and that offsets some of the woeful physiological changes from ageing. 

we’ll see. Carpe diem.