How old are you? How long have you been riding?

**elk** · 06-02-2008, 10:18 AM

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?

**mimitabby** · 06-02-2008, 10:49 AM

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.

**spokewench** · 06-02-2008, 11:07 AM

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

**kerrybelle** · 06-02-2008, 11:14 AM

I'll be 40 this year and I started riding 5 years ago.

**denda** · 06-02-2008, 11:14 AM

I am 49 and have been riding for 24 years.

**Aggie_Ama** · 06-02-2008, 11:15 AM

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!

**jesvetmed** · 06-02-2008, 11:45 AM

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

). So the next spring I got my road bike. I'm 41 now.

**CarbonCandy** · 06-02-2008, 11:50 AM

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.

**maillotpois** · 06-02-2008, 11:50 AM

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.

**lauraelmore1033** · 06-02-2008, 11:56 AM

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)

**shootingstar** · 06-02-2008, 12:14 PM

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.

**KathiCville** · 06-02-2008, 12:18 PM

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!

**singletrackmind** · 06-02-2008, 12:18 PM

Learned at 5 and have never not had a bike or not ridden said bike, so 35 years.

**elk** · 06-02-2008, 12:23 PM

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...

**uk elephant** · 06-02-2008, 12:33 PM

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.

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