rando_couche

I'm 63, learned to ride at age 8 and never stopped.


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OC, OR

duane041

53, was riding at age 4. First bike was homemade from other people's bikes. First "new" bike was an Iverson Road Runner, I think I was 8 or 9.

rhm

I'm 55.

I never had training wheels, but I think I knew how to ride a two-wheeled scooter by age four. This is probably relevant.

I remember learning to ride a bike; my brother said he'd teach me. I got on his bike and he held me up and said he'd run alongside me and keep me up. I was little, and hadn't yet leaned that my big brother really can't run at all. I remember being puzzled that he didn't answer of the questions i shouted as I pedaled away. I got to the end of the parking lot and turned around and rode back to where he was standing, right about where I'd started. See? Sez he, now you can ride a bike. Easy.

My best guess is: I was four or more likely five. Possibly six.

I didn't get my own bike for some time after that.

gaucho777 

I'm 43, and learned when I was 4.

One of my earliest (and fondest) memories: Christmas day, 1977, my twin brother and I were told to go check out to the garage, where our very first bicycles stood under huge red ribbons! I don't remember the make/model--nothing special, but it didn't matter. His was gold and mine was silver. Shed the training wheels a couple months later.

jimmuller 

Hmm. I'm 68 and I figure I was 8 or 9 when I learned to ride my dad's old Schwinn. I recall the events and the place and the year, but I don't recall what part of the year it was. It must have been summer or thereabouts.

bugdust

I'm 47...started on a 16" about age 4? and a 20" at 6...never had training wheels. My oldest son (24 now) was jumping ramps at age 3; my middle son (17 now) didn't ride until age 9; my youngest son (almost 10 now) was riding at 4.

Slightspeed

I'm almost 68 and still learning. I remember my first attempt, about age 5, on a little bike with fixed gear. Not a pretty start to a long but undistinguished cycling career! This picture is about age 15. I still have the, then new, Legnano!

crandress 

47 now. Started riding when I was 5 on a little Huffy I think with solid tires. Had a few BMX bikes after that until I bought a Nishiki Sebring when I was 14 I think. Loved that bike! Had a couple mountain bikes in the early 90's, finally settling on a Bridgestone MB-3 that I still have. Purchased a Ciocc in about 89/90. Rode that for a few years and swapped for a Mercian Vincitore, that I also still have.

brianinc-ville

No way, dude. Most of them are just too busy with jobs and kids to waste their time around here...not me, though.

I'm 42 and way nostalgic. I learned to ride at 7, which was late for my neighborhood, but I was always kind of a ****z. My first bike was a Huffy knockoff of a Schwinn Stingray; I have no nostalgia about that, but to this day I ride a blue Peugeot because that was what my dad was riding at the time (ca. 1981-4).

DiabloScott

Is that a race? I don't think I ever saw anyone wear a hairnet helmet except in a race. And I don't think I ever saw anyone race with bar-end shifters.

DMC707

I'm 45 -- learned to ride a bike early, and dabbled in some local BMX stuff as a kid, but wouldn't consider myself a cyclist until about 19 when I got my first mtb.
I was 21 when I got my first real road bike

Slightspeed

Probably a club training race. We wore helmets for those too. The bike came with bar ends, and thats what I got used to riding with. My first Schwinn Continental had down tubes, and I never liked them. I had down tubes on an old Bianchi (destroyed by a car). Just built up an old Super Course, with yep, Sun Tour bar ends! I still ride the Legnano, don't have a clue where the hair net is. Here's a shot of part of our club, Bakersfield Wheelmen at a club training race, me on the right. Back in the day hairnets were all the rage!