Cycling Over Sixty
The Cycling Over Sixty Podcast is for anyone who wants to get fit and stay active later in life. The show is built on a simple idea: if exercise is medicine, the bicycle is a medical device for delivering it.
Host Tom Butler uses his own journey to show what’s possible. After decades of inactivity and poor health choices, Tom took on a major cycling challenge at age 60 when he rode Seattle to Portland. Finishing it changed his health and his outlook, and he decided never to go back to his old way of living. Four STPs later, he’s still riding, and he’s honest about both the wins and the setbacks. That includes personal bests, stretches when work pulls him off the bike, his ongoing work on weight and blood sugar, and the experiments he runs on himself along the way.
Guests include researchers, physicians, bike builders, adventurers and everyday riders. They share what they know about fitness, longevity and life on the bike. Some topics come out of Tom’s own journey, and others come from the growing Cycling Over Sixty community.
Season five interviews focus on three areas:
- The science of the bike as a medical device. What cycling does for the body and brain later in life, and the research Tom is helping build with Dr. Gary McCall, university partners and Outride.
- The group ride as a public health intervention. This includes the Cycling for Active Aging Network’s work to reach adults 55 and older who aren’t active.
- The modern bike club. How a local club can be one of its community’s most valuable partners through social connection, civic engagement and advocacy, and by making your area a better place to ride.
If you’re looking for motivation, expert insight and an honest story of someone figuring it out as he goes, Cycling Over Sixty is for you. Remember, age is just a gear change.
Cycling Over Sixty
Latest Episodes
Cycling Over Sixty Reboot
Host Tom Butler opens season five of Cycling Over Sixty with an honest look back at a quiet season four. There were fewer episodes because Tom was building the next chapter of Cycling Over Sixty, and that work pulled him off the bike. His weigh...
Getting on a Bike in Your Seventies
Host Tom Butler opens the episode with a reflection on this year's Seattle to Portland ride. It was made special by finishing in Portland with his daughter. He then introduces Sue Nicholson, a woman he considers a mentor. Sue came to cycling la...
Exercise is Medicine Advisor Dr. Gary McCall
Host Tom Butler opens with the report he promised on his new Otso Warakin TI: a first long ride that turned into a navigation disaster but still delivered an encouraging first real test of the bike. He gets into what went wrong trying to find t...
Getting a Gravel Bike
In this short solo episode, host Tom Butler walks through the build of his newest bike: the Otso Warakin TI, a titanium gravel bike spec'd to be a true do-everything machine. This isn't a review. With only a handful of miles on the bike so far,...
Mark and Juno are Riding from Edinburgh to Athens
Host Tom Butler shares a rundown of where Cycling Over Sixty stands today and how much the show has grown since its beginnings. As part of that update, Tom introduces the Cycling for Active Aging Network, a Pierce County partnership designed to...
Fan Mail
I use a suntour suspension post on my gravel bike as well as a redshift pro suspension stem. I like them both. I chose the suntour post because a friend has one and likes it. I considered the redshift sus post but even the pro model is heavier than the suntour. The redshift stem replaced another stem that was based on a parallelogram. It was fine at absorbing shock but it was clunky, the redshift stem is smooth!
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