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

[uk elephant]

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.

[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.

[redrhodie]

I can see why you're called uforgot . How old are ya? Fess up.

[maillotpois]

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!

[Tuckervill]

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

[ClockworkOrange]

I longed for a bike as a child but school reports where all so bad 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.

Clock

[redrhodie]

Hey red, not only do we ride the same type bike, but we're both the same age!

1967 rules!

And uforgot doesn't HAVE to put her age in the post - just in the poll!

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.

[Crankin]

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.

[hirakukibou]

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?

[K8sgotgame]

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.

[coyote]

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.

[limewave]

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.

[uforgot]

I can see why you're called uforgot . How old are ya? Fess up.

Yeah, I'm forgetting more and more as the years roll by. I'm 53.