The Brief
- An 82-year-old man has set a goal to put 50K miles on the bike he purchased 50 years ago.
- The bicyclist has meticulously planned out the achievement, set to reach his goal on Aug. 8.
- The bike shop where he purchased the Schwinn Varsity 10-speed is still open in its original location.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – An 82-year-old Bay Area man is on the verge of completing 50,000 miles on the same Schwinn Varsity 10-speed bicycle he purchased 50 years ago.
“It’s been literally 50 years in the making,” Redwood City resident Rick Habeeb told KTVU on Thursday, at which point he had logged 49,950 and on schedule to hit his milestone.
August goal
Habeeb plans to pedal into mile 50,000 on Aug. 8.
It’s a journey that has taken strict discipline, meticulous planning, and a keen attention to numbers and mileage clocked. …