I ride with a group of here that has some 40-something vintage riders (I'm 64), and one vintage-rider group member just had his 30th birthday. The younger guys did not grow up with these bikes like me but are enamored with the aesthetics.

I'm working on 50, but I wasn't into bikes until the past 10 years or so.

I am sorry to hear your lack of C&V-enjoying peers! I'm 34 and I can't fully get away from these things...and I don't wish to. I am spoiled for choice for bikes being here in the NW, and in Seattle in particular, and there are C&V riders younger than 40 around here. But as far as, say, active BF members here or part of other things, it's more like they happen to ride an '80s bike but aren't neck deep in it. If one gets out into the suburbs instead of near downtown where I live, it turns into hybrids and mountain bikes (as commuters!) real fast. I'm a road guy through and through so you're likely never to see me on a MTB. So like you, if I moved out of the city, then the vintage stuff sparse, and even more so for us in this age bracket.

In short, there are a few of us, but we're a bit spread out, even given dense bike-friendly cities. Keep the faith, as some say (at least in this non-spiritual context), we're around here!

we should go riding once the smoke clears. 44 and only fast going downhill - as I know there is beer down there.

About 2 years ago for the Portland Velocult C&V ride, the cyclist with the oldest bicycle was the youngest rider. 20's???

38. Been playing with old bikes since I was 23. Not only am I alone in my age group around here, I'm alone in my interest. I've met two or three other people of any age who are genuinely interested in classic bikes, but they're in neighboring cities at least a half-hour away.

I'm trying to remember who that could have been. I know I brought my '74 Paramount one time. It's a full decade older than I am.

Group rides like that are great as it just gets us out there, including those of us that are only as old as our bikes.

I'm not in the under 40 age group, but the buyers of the majority of my CL flips have been from college age to mid 30's.

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I have been 40 for the past 30 years and I can attest that one needn't go past 40 at all.

I'm 59 and started riding again 10 years ago. (on my 81 Schwinn Le Tour, that I bought new) The Schwinn is gone now, but I've built up a bunch of C+V bikes.

I work at a large university and most of the students are on hybrids, but among the road bikes probably 30 - 40% are C & V. Don't know whether those young riders are on older bikes because they appreciate the vintage nature of them or if they ride them simply because that's what was available.

Barely under Forty times two, but my son and some of the grand kids appreciate vintage bikes. Keep on riding, even if not vintage. Good for mind & body. Don

LIES!!!

I happen to have seen your birth certificate! You're 28. And have been 28 for the last 30 years. You can't fool me. We're on to your trickery.