How old were you when you got in to cycling?
01-13-07, 10:31 PM
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How old were you when you got in to cycling?
Just curious how old some of you were when you got into cycling. I know just about everyone has had a bike and ridden most of their lives, but how old when you actually got serious about it.
01-13-07, 10:32 PM
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17 (last summer)
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01-13-07, 10:33 PM
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14....that was 28 years ago....
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01-13-07, 10:37 PM
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5 for bmx
10 for mountain
19 for road cycling (4 months ago)
I love anything on wheels.
10 for mountain
19 for road cycling (4 months ago)
I love anything on wheels.
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01-13-07, 10:41 PM
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24 (what, about 20 months ago or so now? In any case it was May of 2005) I've bought and sold the first two bikes I purchased since then. And they're still 4 other bikes in the other room. 
01-13-07, 10:42 PM
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22...about 10 days ago after getting a road bike for Christmas. I've only been asking for it for five years.
01-13-07, 10:50 PM
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47, that was less than a year ago.
01-13-07, 10:56 PM
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I've loved riding bikes my whole life, but I became a roadie at 19.
01-13-07, 11:01 PM
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13. I'm 16 now, and have went from an '84 Trek to an '87 Cannondale to my '06 Cannondale. Hopefully a Bianchi Pista Concept or Giant Omnium will be in my very near future.
01-13-07, 11:13 PM
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I was around 10 when I took my first bike apart and put it back together. Was serious about bikes through college. Took a 15 or so year break and returned in earnest at 40 - 13 years ago.
01-13-07, 11:18 PM
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Started at 55 to ward off the effects of chemotheray. Nine years later, at 64 I have 4 bikes and a new one on order and put in 15K km a year.
01-13-07, 11:22 PM
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I was a pretty serious BMX racer up until 14. But in '92 i bought my first mountain bike (GT timberline) and have been upgrading ever since....I was 24.
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01-13-07, 11:24 PM
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13 on the mtn bike, 19 for the road. It was the '94 Vail World Cup that really did it. I started riding the summer of '94 and that September my dad took my little brother and I out of school for a week to go to Vail. Thank you, Dad.
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5.
Got my first BMX for my 5th birthday, and all I ever wanted to do from that day on was to ride a bike. The neighborhood kids wanted to play touch football and I wanted to ride my bike. My friends had baseball practice, and I wanted to ride my bike. My highschool buddies had soccer, football, jobs, etc., and I wanted to ride my bike. I had several years after getting married where I did very little riding, thanks to my own career, family, etc., but it's all come back now and I can't see it changing any time soon at all.
Got my first BMX for my 5th birthday, and all I ever wanted to do from that day on was to ride a bike. The neighborhood kids wanted to play touch football and I wanted to ride my bike. My friends had baseball practice, and I wanted to ride my bike. My highschool buddies had soccer, football, jobs, etc., and I wanted to ride my bike. I had several years after getting married where I did very little riding, thanks to my own career, family, etc., but it's all come back now and I can't see it changing any time soon at all.
01-13-07, 11:26 PM
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Three.
I can't think of a time ever where my bike wasn't an consuming and important part of my life except for a six month period when I was 6; moved to Greece and didn't have a bike for a while.
I can't think of a time ever where my bike wasn't an consuming and important part of my life except for a six month period when I was 6; moved to Greece and didn't have a bike for a while.
01-13-07, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by PhattTyre
13 on the mtn bike, 19 for the road. It was the '94 Vail World Cup that really did it. I started riding the summer of '94 and that September my dad took my little brother and I out of school for a week to go to Vail. Thank you, Dad.
Then headed over to Steamboat to meet friends, got out of the car, pounded some Taco Bell, and rode up Steamboat. They were about to have a NORBA cup race, and a guy came along on an ATV picking up every little rock out the course. It was like a carpet of dirt. Then he asked us not to cross streams because we might "get the course muddy" for the wussies. It was a different time then in NORBA.
01-14-07, 12:31 AM
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I was wondering if there was any corelation between when people tend to get into it and when people quit for a few years. I am seeing no such corelation. I think its awesome that this sport attracts people of so many different ages.
01-14-07, 12:49 AM
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14. well, that's when i got my first road bike. can't say i was serious at all. i'm still not very serious about it.
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01-14-07, 12:52 AM
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01-14-07, 01:01 AM
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At what point does cycling become serious?