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

[LainiePants]

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)

[SlowButSteady]

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.

[HillSlugger]

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.

[violette]

Was doing spin classesfor 3 yrs and one day someone e-mailed me telling me that his friend had a road bike for sale. Looked at it and decided that was it. Bought one and never looked back. I was 37. Rode when I was younger but that doesn't count. For some odd reason, I feel so sexy on a Road bike. WEIRD...

[HoosierGiant]

47. Ex-marathon runner who didn't have time to train once the girls came along. Needed to do something, so started cycling 3 years ago after watching DH make the same transition. The girls and I were his SAG support for RAIN (Ride Across INdiana -- 160 miles, one day, one way), and I thought it looked like soooo much fun. That was all it took!

[BarbaraAlys]

I am 47 and never learned to ride as a kid; I had a trike when I was little, but never a bicycle. I learned to ride in July of 2005, at the grand old age of 44. That was on a moutain bike, on which I quickly installed slick tires. I did my first organized ride two years ago on that bike, 37 miles on flat pedals. Death seemed preferable to finishing that last mile!

And yet I rode again!

Now I'm on my new Trek 2.1 WSD. It is beautiful!

Barbara

[northstar]

I'm 28 and just started really riding last year. Always had a bike as a kid, but fell in love with road riding last summer.

[DDH]

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

[redrhodie]

I'm the big 4-1 , started riding for real in 2004, 4 years ago.

[uforgot]

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.

[Pika]

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

[cyclinnewbie]

I rode a mtn bike for 4 years or so, pre babies. Continued to ride a bit after the first baby, but gave it up after the second. Fast forward 10.5 years, and I got me another mtn bike, then 6 weeks later got my first road bike. That was just a couple of months ago. I love it...I feel like a kid on my bike! I'm now 38....

[Midmichigangal]

I am 33yrs old and have been riding since last year. I rode a Roadmaster mt. bike I got from Wal-Mart a few years ago. This past April I bought a Diamondback Comfort bike from a lbs. I usually ride several times a week. I ride for enjoyment and exercise.

[rij73]

Turned 35 today. Been riding one year and 3 months. Before that, hadn't been on a bike since I was a teenager.

[sgtiger]

so what i want to know is what happens to women after they're 65?

I'm hoping it's just that they are not as computer literate as the rest of us.

Maybe they're just out riding. A couple of days ago, while driving, I passed by a woman coming in the other direction that I'm guesstimating was in her mid sixties. She had an incredible figure. If I had not seen her face and neck, I would have thought she was younger than me.

Then there's my grandfather, who never learned to drive and who was too impatient to wait around for buses, rode a bike into his early to mid seventies. I don't know how he did it. It always seemed to me like the people driving around Mokpo and Kwangju took traffic lights as suggestions. I wouldn't want to drive there, much less be on a bike! In the shopping districts, cars barely slow down for all the pedestrians in the streets. (There are so many pedestrians that they spill out onto the streets from the sidewalks.) The drivers just honk incessantly and assume everyone will move out of their way in time. Riding in a taxi is very scary. I prayed that the driver wouldn't hit anyone and white knuckled the "oh, sh*t" handle.