Justice Breyer has shoulder surgery after bike accident

[frazzled]

11. My dad didn't switch to a stationary bike till he was 92

He swerved to avoid a car when he was 89, hit a curb, and broke his hip when he went flying. He was riding 30-40 miles a day at that age. He managed to get over the hip thing (walks funny but could still ride a bike). We finally banished him, and he banished himself, to a stationary bike at the gym when his balance and reaction time started getting iffy. He's 96 now, and he still put in 100 miles per week (25 x 4 times a wk) on the stationary bike until just this February, when he was hospitalized with flu and pneumonia. He thought he'd never get back to where he was. He's already up to 20 miles a pop, four times a week. You just can't keep bicyclists down.

My husband broke his shoulder (plus four ribs and punctured a lung) a few years ago. My brother has broken his collar bone and ribs untold times.

As my dad says (when interviewed for the news): "If you haven't had an accident and broken some bones, you're not riding enough."