Drive through Daytona Beach on A1A during Bike Week (or NASCAR) and you will see lots of old guys sporting flowing beards, tattoos, and riding Sportsters. They are edgy with attitude.

Most of them are loners who do not wear colors. They have their own edge and do not need affiliation.

They are not just bikers. Go south to Sebastian Inlet to check out the best surfing in Florida. Long boards. Short Boards. The younger guys are carving with respect for the old surfers that are treated like gurus. They move edgy on boards or sliding down a wave as body surfers.

But edgy old dudes also like their rods and custom metal. I went to St. Petersburg because there was a car show and auction. There were flames and chrome everywhere. Most of the owners, beaming with pride, were older guys – late fifties and into their sixties who were finally able to live their dreams.

Theyre edgy old dudes whove arrived.

They are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers sporting shaved heads, beards, earrings, and ponytails. But the thing they all have in common is that they do not want to die having wished they had done things instead of actually doing them.