Age of Retro bike members?

[godders]

49 ...... :shock: my first bike was a christmas prezzy when i was about 8
... i think then it was things put together out of what ever i could find , even converted my big brothers road bike for off road duty with cyclocross tyres and flat handel bars of an old moped then a BIG gap from 16 to 30 .....motor bikes and children .... then back in the dirt with a dawes one track , kept that for a few years then the dale f 1000 bought new in 1997 , that was my only bike till last year when i put together my cindercone ss , so im a very long way behind most of you lot with the number of bikes owned ..... but ive loved every munite of it

 

[greenstiles]

43 last year !...........started MTB in a forest on Anglesea ( an island off Wales) call Newbough warren in about 1990 with a smoke light on the back and a big panaracer chevron up front...........waaaaaay before the trend for fat tire up front-skinny rear ever happend .........the rest is history as they say.........still doing a bit o mechanics in a shop now and then..............MTB's to date between 35-40...........can't do many extreme things anymore as i got a balance prob with my ears, but can still ride most stuff, but now live in a flat spot in England :?

 

[lewis1641]

Silverclaws. No rich parents for me. I worked hard at a mushroom farm to fund by bike when i was a nipper

 

[WD Pro]

43, so I was in my early twenties when I got into mountain bikes, and was working, so I could afford one, which kind of beats me about those who were in their teens growing up with the things, as how could they afford them, rich parents ?

Nope I am 35 now (soon 36 ) but in 1990 my Bear Valley cost £419, I saved up half for it from my paper round and milk round money. The other half was paid for by M & D on the understanding I would pay them back at the same rate at which I saved for the first half which I did

Only one of my friends had really nice 'top end' stuff - and he was sponsored

WD

 

[al]

I've been twenty seven for the last sixteen years!!


al.

 

[trxrincon]

I'm 25.

 

[BerthaPog]

Hmm 42 going on anything 4yrs onwards. I'm old enough to know better, doesn't mean I have to though.

 

[konaman1]

29 just... No rich parents here either just a long paper round and a lot of trans x stuff on a claude butler several sizes too big for me

 

[clunker]

34 but aged at lot since my wife had our three freerange children.

 

[Ernie]

I am 43, first bike was a marin nail trail in 1994, got from work on an interest free 12 month loan, best £650{give or take} i ever spent. The proviser of the loan is that the bike must be used to get to and from work. Now my daughters are nearly 16 and 18 :shock: time does go by quick .Going into my 17th year on and still cycling to work, love it . Still like my food and real ale though :roll:

Ernie