I got my first two-wheeler, a little, dark red, Raleigh at age 7 in, must have been, 1961. Shortly thereafter, my dad took me out on the streets of Manhattan and I was allowed off the sidewalk alone at age 9. Rode my first race in college, sometime in the 70s. Got my first carbon-reinforced polymer frame last summer and a power meter this July. It just keeps getting better.