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I'm 32, and I learned to ride a two wheeler at 7. I've always used a bike for transport since I was allowed to cycle beyond our little street. Cycling just for training/excercise only started two years ago when I was training for ALC and I enjoy it so much I'm still going...or at least plan to when the phd lets me have a life.
I rode when I was a kid as most kids do, then I didn't ride until after I had my son and my Doc suggested it since when I walked I got shin splints. So my husband and I got mountain bikes and we rode every chance we got, and also took the boy on a few organized rides and pulled him in one of those trailors. Then we he got to big to pull, and was to little to keep up, we quit.
About 2 years ago, I started getting back into it and got road tires for my mountain bike, and rode it for about a year and at the end of last summer I got the new bike, and really love it. Now if I could just get a good seat that fits, I will be set. LOL
Oh, I'm 43, soon to be 44 the end of this month, but ain't claiming it until the day. LOL
I'm the big 4-1 :cool:, started riding for real in 2004, 4 years ago.
I rode as a kid, kept riding for transportation in college and as a young teacher and then when my kids came along, they rode on my bike and then with me, so I've always been riding in some form or another.
I can see why you're called uforgot ;). How old are ya? Fess up.
Hey red, not only do we ride the same type bike, but we're both the same age!
And uforgot doesn't HAVE to put her age in the post - just in the poll! ;)
I'm 46. I had my last bike ride when my oldest son was 6 weeks old. He's now about to be 26. Fortunately, I found my first love again and I have been riding for the last 4 years.
I really do love to ride and love everything about bikes. It's kind of one of those passions that I put off for motherhood, that I didn't even realize was a passion until I started doing it again.
Karen
I longed for a bike as a child but school reports where all so bad :rolleyes: was not allowed one until I was about 10 years old, then it was a second-hand bike, although I loved it.
I was a nutter on my bike but when moving to central London, had to get rid of it at the age of 12 years.
37 YEARS LATER............at the age of 50, I started riding a bike, again a second-hand one.
So have been riding for 8 years and now 58 years old............and loving it. :D
Clock
Yeah, I know she doesn't have to, but I'm thinking she just forgot. I hear she's forgetful. Or, she thinks I forgot. Hmmm, maybe I did forget? I can't remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
I'm 54 and started riding when I was 47, almost 48. I started because my son was racing as a junior and my husband was heavily into it. Before that, I didn't learn to ride until I was 9 and then rode a lot until I was 13 or so. I stopped pretty much when we moved to Florida when I was 15.
I rode a little bit in the late 70s early eighties as a grad student and young mother, but never more than 5-10 miles.
I am 46 and have been riding for two and a half years. I knew when I got involved with my current partner that I would be doing MORE exercise, what I didn't know what cycling would become central to my life and become my OWN. So here I am, two and a half years later, a newbie racer and a teacher of bicycle riding and an athlete for the first time in my life. Who knew?
I don't fit into the poll... I'm 25 :)
I always rode as a kid until about 4th grade when I had a bad accident on my bike. Then I just rode it around the farm and less on roads.
I really picked it back up in college and used it as transportation when I moved (car-less) to AZ for a winter... then it was on to MTBing and now road.
I'm 44 and I've been riding for 5 years. I started as a kid but my bikes were always flat. I rode a bit in the Bay Area...mostly too cheap to pay for parking at the community college :) Tried to ride a bit in LA...boy was that scary. Fast forward to now...my longest most serious spell of biking.
I'm 29 (30 next month!). And I've been road riding and mountain biking for four years. I started riding so DH and I could do something together. Now he's so busy he doesn't ride at all and I have to ride by myself or with DD.
Yeah, I'm forgetting more and more as the years roll by. I'm 53.Quote:
Originally Posted by redrhodie