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Just to play Devils advocate here, have your run you rehab workouts by your doctor or a certified sports trainer?
Everything I've learned or my degreed trainer friend has told me over the years tells me that working the same muscle groups on consecutive days is a recipe for disaster.

The muscles you use biking have opposing muscle that need working too.
Over develop/work one group, the opposing group can't do it's job.
You wind up with instability in your joints and that's the last thing you or anyone especially with orthopedic concerns needs.

I think I would get a trained expert to tell you exactly what muscle groups your using biking, then find an activity that works the opposing muscles. That way you can work-out everyday without overdoing it or risking long term damage for short term gains. I'd include a stretching session AFTER every workout and a rest day or two in there as well.
This morning on the CBS news they had a segment about " aging" exercisers,
The expert said that you need 3x things to exercise safely.
A baseline of over all muscle strength, same for cardio and you have to be/stay limber.
They also said that the older you get the flexibility becomes more important and in their opinion it was more important than the others to avoid injury.

I get the outside thing. You can still be outside and work different muscle groups on alternating days.
Bike one day and take a nice long hike the next with a light pack, say 20-30 lbs.
Stretch after every session, if only the hamstrings.
One thing about biking, it's not a weight bearing exercise.
Good for re-hab in the beginning, but you need the weight bearing work for the portages.

PX90 is a great program but with your type A+ work schedule you have to be careful your not tearing yourself down instead of building yourself up
Like it or not, as we age we don't recover as fast. Nothing we can do about that.
You mentioned working 90+ hours a week, plus 2 weekends of 20+ hours.
By my math, that leaves less than 10 hours a day for family/sleep/whatever.
All the experts say were a sleep deprived nation.
I'm guessing your getting far less than the minimum sleep of 8 hrs.
Plenty of people get by on less, but let's not fool ourselves, getting by and thriving are two different things. Basically your robbing Peter to pay Paul.
I understand people can't cut back on hours in this economy. You have family obligations, you can't shirk that.
So the only thing you can really control is your diet and your exercise program.
Long term sleep deprivation leads to a host of problems that you may or may not attribute to getting less than your 8 hrs.
It will weaken your immune system. It makes it harder to bounce back from injuries and recover from hard workouts.
That's why I mentioned about alternating muscle groups and recovery days. You can't go full tilt day after day and expect not to pay one way or the other.
When your pushing yourself as you do, something is going to get short changed.
You don't want it to be your health

MT,

I had a friend who did the same thing for years.
He was a millwright for GM in the Golden Years.
From his mid-twenties he worked 7 days/12 hrs a day/Holidays and took little vacation time.
He was bringing in 100k a year plus. Paid off his mortgage in 10 yrs. Had all the toys paid off and a cabin up north paid for. Her and the kids wanted for nothing, except his time. He thought he was giving them the American Dream.

After his 2 kids were high school, he came home to find his wife had filed for divorce ( she never worked). Nobody could believe she did it.
Their lifestyle was the envy of their married friends.
She had the best and shopped at the best places.
Turns out she said he worked to much and she found a someone who would do things with her
The guy worked himself into the ground so they could have a good life and he could retire at 50 with a great pension.
Instead she got 50% of everything including his pension. Since she didn't work, he had to pay alimony. He also paid big child support until the kids turned 18 and now he's paying for their college.
She moved her boyfriend in to their house that he couldn't sell becasue of the kids.
He retired now, living a modest retirement and not enjoying the fruits of HIS labor for 20+ years
It gets better
When she turns 62, even though she never worked in her life, she gets SS becasue she was married to someone who was paying in.
That amounts to almost a $1000 a month.
Like he jokes, I'd kill her, but I can't afford to pay for the funeral
Not saying it happens to everyone, but  ALL work and little co-play is a dangerous mix

MT,

Sounds like a plan 
I didn't mean to imply your mate might bolt.
I was just saying that sometimes what you think is doing the right thing, isn't what they think the right thing is.

The guy I was referencing used to have a running joke when anyone said he was gone to much and working too hard.
He'd say " When my wife re-marries, her new husband will say " What a fine fellow your first husband was to leave ME with all this good stuff" 
Sadly the joke really was on him

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If you suspect foul play, you move to Texas and catch them on the "rise"
I think that old law is still on the books?
Reminds me of this joke. I'll clean it up a bit.

A guy is in the clubhouse after a round of golf.
One of the other members asks him why he hasn't been around lately?

"My Wife passed away do from suffocation brought on by having a STD".
The member  offered his condolences then after a short pause said " Wait a minute, you don't die of that from a STD?
The newly single guy replied " You do when you GIVE it to me!