I'm not sure if we did this before or not...but I'm interested in an update
and --in a seperate response--for how long have you been on the bike in this particular time of your life?
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I'm not sure if we did this before or not...but I'm interested in an update
and --in a seperate response--for how long have you been on the bike in this particular time of your life?
learned to ride a 2 wheeled bike when I was 9. had a bike through highschool. oh, i'm 56
stopped riding in college, in Idaho where I felt it was too hot and too much work.
Fast forward to adulthood, with Raleighdon as spouse and Raleighdonson and DS
as tots, everyone had a bike, so i got a 10 dollar garage sale PUGH with 2 working speeds and rode it.
Then the new century. I decided that to inspire Raleighdon to ride (who had quit because his bike friends all moved away), i agreed to train for the STP double century. I believe that was 2002. and I was 50 years old. I've been riding since then.
Of course, I rode a bike when I was a kid - as kids do
and, i've been riding about 21 years since I took it up in or around 1987.
spoke
I'll be 40 this year and I started riding 5 years ago.
I am 49 and have been riding for 24 years.
Of course I rode as a kid but that doesn't count.
I am now 27 and took up riding as a hobby/athletic pursuit at 23. My first non-toystore bike was a first anniversary present one month after I saw DH do the Shiner BASH, thought everyone looked to be having fun and I wanted in on that!
Rode as a kid, and as needed in college (both times!).
But seriously decided to ride for exercise and fun about 4 yrs ago. My friends rode, and we watched the TDF together, and I got the bug. Started riding the hubby's old cannondale MTB which I'd pedaled to and from class in vet school, but decided I wanted a bike that fit (and that I could get up hills easier:p). So the next spring I got my road bike. I'm 41 now.
I'm 19 and have been riding on 2 wheels since I was four. My dad is/was a bike fanatic and has always been about the family rides and what not. I stopped riding when I was like 14ish and then got a job at a bike shop and bought a bike last year.
41. DH got me a MTB as an engagement gift (in 1993) and I rode quite a bit til I had the kid, then on and off. Serious road riding started in the beginning of 2001.
I'm 49. Like a lot of the rest of you, I rode as a kid but then stopped for a long time. I started riding again when I moved up to the Tahoe area. It's been about 12 years now. I started mountain biking. Then I got the road bike to build up my endurance for the mtn bike. But I decided that I liked the road more, so that's most of what I do.
I think I was surgically attached to my bike as a kid; I was hardly ever off it. Rode off and on through teens and twenties, but had a long spell off the bike after someone tried to "door" me on a bridge around age 25. I'm in the middle of my third year back on the bike (at 45)
Am 49.
Learned to bike when I was 10 yrs.
Abandoned biking when I was 19 yrs.
Returned to cycling when I was 32 yrs. --just a few
months after I met my partner. Yes, he was the cycling angel that appeared in my life at the right time. Before I met him, I was hankering to buy a bike, but didn't know how to go about doing it..etc.
So have been cycling regularily and commuting in non-snow/ice seasons, last 17 yrs.
I'm 50. Rode as a kid and then on-and-off through my 30s. Stopped during my 40s after adopting a dog and switching to hiking. Got back into biking a little over a year ago when cycling BF got me going again. My now 9-year old pooch has slowed down a bit, so we're doing shorter hikes---cycling helps me stay in shape!
Learned at 5 and have never not had a bike or not ridden said bike, so 35 years.
I had to stop and really think about how to answer my own poll!!! I almost clicked 35-45....but I am 50...!!! (must be a good sign...I feel younger..)
I got back on the bike (my only real foray into excercise besides walking.....since college) last Sept. ...so 10 months, with Jan-May off for that (*&^% virus)...Jeepers!! I am still such a baby biker!! I've only been riding
for essentially 4 months....!?!?
I sure have learned a lot...
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
This summer will be 3 years for me. It was definitely my bike-loving super active BF who got me into it. (And I'm 27 btw)
I'm 49. Injured on a bike at age 10...rode only when absolutely necessary in college and vet school. Vet school BF did a coast to coast and that really impressed me but I was really, really scared to ride.
Started back on my own and this is my 4th summer.
I'm 52. Rode as a kid - in fact my favorite gift to receive was a new bike. I got into riding when I was 27 and stopped at age 37, started back up again at 51.
It's awesome that so many of us are over 40, over 50....
I am so inspired by all of you!!!
I honestly feel like when I turned 50 (the year I started riding again) I re claimed some of the best things of my younger days...like bikes and collies...;-)
I'm 48. I rode from age about-7 to 33, and took it back up again two years ago.
My BF and I are very new to cycling. I bought a bike to ride to work and then bought another bike to ride to work in HALF the time! Been riding since Feb of this year. We've really been enjoying our weekend riding adventures together and I can't imagine us going back to our old, everyday-type of weekends. Lots to learn but we're on our way.
Been at it for a little over a year now. I will be here 12+ years from now as well if I have anything to say about it. :D
Rode as a kid but pretty much stopped after I got my driver's license. Bike commuted for a year in graduate school, and then nothing for about 20 years. I've been riding steadily for the last 3 years or so.
I'm 25 and started seriously riding four years ago. I've been mountain biking, for the most part, and just picked up road riding this year.
I also had a bike as a kid/teen- used it for commuting to jobs in summer and sometimes school.
My first "real" bike ( and bike I love most) in 1984 - did a few triathlons and then stopped riding when I went back to university ( bike in 1 province - self in another)- started riding again once I had more $ again. Mountain biking at first and just got my new road bike 2 yrs ago- I still feel like a newbie:)
oops forgot to add I am 43- soon to be 44:)