7:00am | Nothing stops Long Beach resident Octavio Orduño who gave up two wheels for three a few years ago. He turns 103 today and each morning he jumps on his large tricycle for a ride throughout the streets of downtown Long Beach. The city’s bike coordinator calls him the “poster boy for healthy, active living.” Orduño might also be the oldest cyclist in Long Beach, and the world.
Click here and here to watch Orduño on the streets of Long Beach.
From the Los Angeles Times: Orduño lives half a block from the beach. Nearly every day, he toddles from his third-floor condo to the garage where he keeps his red Torker tricycle. On it, he pedals around the neighborhood — to the park, the beach and the farmers market — in a ritual honed over nearly 40 years.
Not long ago, the city’s bike coordinator, a gregarious, gray-haired Texan named Charles Gandy, took notice. He befriended Orduño and shared his story online, posting two videos of him coasting down the bike lanes, propped up by his self-installed blue velvet backrest. And that’s only the start of Gandy’s plan, if the old man is game. He’d like to have him cut the ribbon at bike-friendly ceremonies and appear in television and radio ads.
Click here to read the story in the Los Angeles Times.
