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View Poll Results: What is your age group
20 or less
17
5.52%
21-25
49
15.91%
26-30
52
16.88%
31-35
49
15.91%
36-40
50
16.23%
41-45
35
11.36%
46-50
30
9.74%
51-55
17
5.52%
56-60
4
1.30%
61+
5
1.62%
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Commuters, what is your age?

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Old 08-29-05 | 11:04 PM
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Commuters, what is your age?

I did a search but only found a poll for age of road bikers. So commuters, what is your age group?
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Old 08-29-05 | 11:06 PM
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Don't see a poll but I am 30.

EDIT: There wasn't a poll there at first...HONEST!
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Old 08-29-05 | 11:35 PM
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Interesting where the spikes are, I'm 42 and the last time I was bike-only I fit in the earlier spike, I was in my mid-late 20s.
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Old 08-29-05 | 11:38 PM
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21 . . . which means I have a lot of mistakes ahead of me.
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Old 08-29-05 | 11:47 PM
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Hmm, I was bike-only from about age 18-19 to 21 or so, too!
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Old 08-30-05 | 01:11 AM
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Old 08-30-05 | 01:17 AM
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Oh drat now the spikes have all changed, nevermind.
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Old 08-30-05 | 03:58 AM
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Originally Posted by steel_is_real
I did a search but only found a poll for age of road bikers. So commuters, what is your age group?
I'm 46, will be 47 in September. Damn, where did the year go?
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Old 08-30-05 | 04:02 AM
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I'm 55 ... the oldest on the poll (so far).
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Old 08-30-05 | 04:10 AM
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Old 08-30-05 | 04:23 AM
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I'm 22, have been commuting by bike for the last 6 years and hope to continue commuting by bike for as long as I possibly can.
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Old 08-30-05 | 04:47 AM
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I'm 46, will be 47 in September. Damn, where did the year go?
Hell with that, where did the last couple of decades go?
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Old 08-30-05 | 05:36 AM
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I'm 60. So far there's only one person in the 56-60 category (guess that's me ). I'll be 61 in a few months. I guess I'll be the only one in the 61+ category then.
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Old 08-30-05 | 06:15 AM
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Old 08-30-05 | 06:46 AM
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60 is the new 40, RonH. I'm 32.
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Old 08-30-05 | 07:09 AM
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that's cute and I kinda expected that. I am 44 and we are 13.79 (at the moment.) This is the nice turnaround on the demogragpics when we go back to the things we used to like when we were younger (like biking). Interesting...
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Old 08-30-05 | 07:12 AM
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I've found that bicycle commuting is a great way to get rid of all the demons you towed through your mid-20's to 40. It's like discovering an old toy you thought you'd lost.
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Old 08-30-05 | 08:41 AM
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Old 08-30-05 | 08:49 AM
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Bikes: more, please.

31 = old enough to know better, young enough to not care.

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Old 08-30-05 | 08:58 AM
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Wow, I am only 19, will be 20 in December, we need to get more kids to commute.

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Old 08-30-05 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by steel_is_real
I did a search but only found a poll for age of road bikers. So commuters, what is your age group?
I'm 45 and I find it interesting how many ride into old age.

I think an older a person has learned from the mistakes he's made in his youth and he will benefit by not repeating them.

I attached a graph of accidents of car/bike accidents in BC complied over several years that shows, the older you are, the less accidents you get in. Sure, there are less older people than younger people riding, but the older people may be riding safer too. This is just a broad generlization, but looking at the age poll and the graph here, it makes sense that the 20 somethings get into a larger portion of accidents than 40 somethings.

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Old 08-30-05 | 09:48 AM
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I will be 37 on September 2nd. The old man of the forum.
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Old 08-30-05 | 11:55 AM
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Looks like I am the oldest to date. I turned 63 in May. Been commuting daily and year round since June '99. About 2,200 miles commuting and another 2,400 miles of club rides annually.
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Old 08-30-05 | 12:36 PM
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I'm 24 and relatively new to commuting. This is my 1st year doing it as my main way of getting to work. I still drive sometimes though, but 75%of the time is biking. I'm going to try and bike this winter too!!
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