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Originally Posted by zennmotion

Sorry, yes it does <<Ithaca special wet snowball pitched! If you live outside the downtown area above the "bowl" where much/most of the housing most likely to be attractive to a retiree. OK- Ithaca "area" outside the city limits proper then. My 85 year old father is riding daily on flat or gently rolling roads every day as I did for 25 years myself. It's glacier-affected terrain, avoid the terminal moraine at the S end of the big lakes that the city nestles into and the E-W trending roads that rise directly above the lakes and it's gentle terrain especially N of the city. What's nice about Finger Lakes area roads is the variety of the topography, between the lakes is often quite flat, as confirmed by a USGS map. The local club includes a good number of active riders > 70 years of age. And anyway, e-bikes are getting better every year, I'd get an e-bike way before I'd "settle" for riding exclusively in pancake flat terrain...

I stand corrected