DBF got his first road bike at roughly the same age as Crankin's son, as he was in Boy Scouts and doing the cycling merit badge. His dad and one of the troop leaders were really into it, so it didn't take him too long to go from a Diamondback flat bar bike to a road bike (basically, as soon as he was tall enough to ride a bike with 700c wheels), and clipless pedals and lycra weren't far behind.