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Redwood City resident Rich Habeeb, 82, on his bicycle. (Donna Habeeb) 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. Habeeb plans to pedal into mile 50,000 on Aug. It’s a journey that has taken strict discipline, meticulous planning, and a keen attention to numbers and mileage clocked. This idea came to him about five years ago, as he sat at his desk at home thinking about how his trusty Schwinn was coming up on 50 years since its purchase in the summer of 1976. At that point, his bike showed 42,800 miles on its odometer, and so he started doing the math. "I'm going to have to put 7,200 miles on it in just under five years.

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