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This year marks the 21st anniversary of getting together with my now wife, I don't just feel old I am old!
42, so by no means the youngest!
41 been here since 2002 (so about where my mental age stopped) bloody hell! Where's the time gone?
Now I’m hurtling towards my mid 30s, am married, own a house, finished uni almost a decade ago and am everything you probably were when I started posting.
Took me a while, but a few years back the penny finally dropped who you were. Rebel has become the establishment.
Last night I got a bit of 2x4 and some bricks and made a ramp in the back garden and spent the evening trying to ride it. The preceding trackstand switchback through the veg patch made it awkward.
33 and 3/4
I’m 41 and haven’t been ID’d for four whole years, so I guess I’m old now!
I'm just 30, Martian.
I got stuck in a time warp loop in the eighties so think I'm still eighteen
(been in IT for most of my working life, have a log burner, no Cotic)
My first issue of the magazine was the same as Munrobiker's, but I would have been 26 or 27 when I first found the site at some point in 2002. I am, and I seem to have always been a mix of middle aged and a man child.
I'm 60, work in IT, thinking of retiring, replaced the Audi with a Volvo. Been here since GoFar.
Median age four years ago (48), probably still am. I remember someone on uk.rec.cycling saying they were off to start some magazine thing when I was a regular there. Whatever happened to him and that promised mag?
Started posting on here in my 20s, now in my 40s (just).
Although I think I actually started posting much before that - wasn't there a massive hack on the site one Christmas and everyone lost their login details?
I was 19 when I joined.... in 2001. Feeling old now.
Therefore i though you were at least 60!
Lol, doesn’t help that I seem to get injuries and issues that normally only affect old folk. Latest on the list is a frozen shoulder... I think my body was just NOS when I arrived, I was born with teeth...
Not as injured at the mo though.
I found this place in 2001. I'm now 57 and saving for a new MTB now that I have the ok to keep bikes in the house since the break-ins of 2019 and loss of the Lefty Cannondale.
My job encompasses some IT and involves getting people on bikes (it's also not well paid but it provides enough). At one time I was the typical Audi owning, Orange riding and home coffee machine using poster boy. (Having a wood burner in town would be inconsiderate of the community otherwise we would have one).
This year marks the 21st anniversary of getting together with my now wife, I don’t just feel old I am old!
42 isn’t old.
Think it was about 2002/2003 when I started on here after signing up for the Verbier Girly Week.
Don't think I've aged that much in mind or body since then, hope I've honed my skills a bit in that time
I are 40 now, my profile tells me I Joined January 23, 2009 so I was 29. Within a year I also had a child and a mortgage... Still no wood burner.
I was 30 when I started posting on here, about 6 months before the hack IIRC, 42 now
51 now, joined when I was a slip of a man at 40. This thread’s made me reminisce on all things that have happened in the intervening 11 years, reading my post history has brought back some memories.
Currently considering replacing my merc estate with a Skoda Yeti, installing a wood burner in the extension and in the last year have spent more on Lego than on bike parts. Have I passed my probationary period yet?
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42 isn’t old.
At work I've gone from feeling like the young guy to feeling like the old guy without ever being the right age in between.
I remember joining here in, ooh, prob 2002.. Going under the guise of DrP when REALLY I should have been 'trainee-DrP'!!
Currently nursing a sore elbow from falling off doing a wheelie. Was drinking cider from a can on the beach last night. And was skidding along a grind-rail a mate made for my lad last weekend.
I'm 37.... 😀
DrP
37, house, wife, child, battered CRV on driveway.
More importantly though
3 road bikes (inc. ubiquitous singlespeed)
1 gravel bike
1 MTB (with childseat more or less permanently hanging off back).
Think I started posting here as Descent-World was on the wane, or maybe just when I finally accepted I wasn't a downhiller! When did the original forum start? I've been a member of this version since 2009.
51 in August.
Married 26 years tomorrow.
Three children, house, mortgage etc
Don't work in IT, took me years to know what IT was, does anyone actually know?
Joined in 2013 - later than most, it seems.
Have a log burner.
Have a wood-fired pizza oven (Aldi £60 iirc), the tits have left it now.
Don't have an estate (car or country pile).
Have a Voodoo MTB, much underused.
Two road bikes - one decent, one cr@p.
Have no idea what GoFar is...
Started reading maybe 11 years ago, and posting in about 2011. I’m 29 now and feel like one of the younger posters/readers.
I do own a log burner, but no steel bikes, and I don’t work in IT.
Been here for many years. Probably since issue 5 or 6. I turned 49 yesterday. I have ramps in my garden and still refuse to grow up.
I was on the GoFar forum, so posted on here before here existed. I think I was at uni then, but had left by the time the "first 5 issues for a tenner" subscription offer. So, must have been 21 or 22 when first posting, and now approaching 43.
I'm 49 tomorrow.
Here since 2003 ish when I was first considering spending a lot for me on a bike. Came for advice.
Two teenage kids. Don't work in IT. Drive a VW (cos I spend so much n bike stuff).
I miss the good old days
No idea when I first joined, early 2004 maybe, my first alias, brf, got a lifetime ban and a snotty email from the original web dev and then rejoined as footflaps, and been here for a while. I used to have a complete set of Mags back to about issue 5 or 6, eventually binned them as taking up too much space.
Surprised I'm actually older than quite a few of you. Not mentally, just physically.
I’m 41 and haven’t been ID’d for four whole years, so I guess I’m old now!
Know that feeling!
At work I’ve gone from feeling like the young guy to feeling like the old guy without ever being the right age in between.
Yeah know that feeling too. Never seemed to work with people my own age. Went from a string of jobs working with mostly a bunch of old bastards to a new job where I'm the old bastard.
I do tend to consider everyone older than me, especially if they have a mature attitude or look their age (that is look their age for the average unhealthy person). Quite often turns out it's me that's older.
Will be 50 in 5 years OMG.
Wasn't there someone on here a long time ago asking odd questions about a bike. A lot of the response were "you need two bikes" It turned out that he was 15 and could only afford one.
Somebody replied with something like "I'm 47 with 10 bikes and I would give them all away to be 15 again"
only 6yrs but i had a massive brake in riding in my late 20s early 30s
now almost 38, think i am about 14 cos i still love wheeling like a chav on a pinched carerra
Somebody replied with something like “I’m 47 with 10 bikes and I would give them all away to be 15 again”
I'm way happier at 49 than I was at 15, I couldn't be arsed with being young again....
39 in September and started posting, though not that often, when I started mtb'ing properly, which was around my 30th birthday.
I've been in my late forties since I was a teenager. I haven't been outside without a jacket since 1983.
It's only now that i'm finally growing into my true age.
35 years young.
I accidentally bought a flat in peebles.
Other than that I don't think i act my age christ I still sometimes have sweeties for breakfast.
Wasn’t there someone on here a long time ago asking odd questions about a bike. A lot of the response were “you need two bikes” It turned out that he was 15 and could only afford one.
*Waves*
Am 35* - the general banter on here is really good, whether from someone who remembers paying in Shillings and Tuppence (or Threepence or whatever it was) to someone whom, for all we know, may be about to become the next Bitcoin Billionaire...
*with shed and log-burner, natch.
41, joined up after the chocolatefoot forum dwindled away - maybe 2007? First post was an invitation for people to slag off my bike, which they/you did quite a nice job of. Still got the bike, now rigid SS.
Log pile, woodburner, gravel bike from before they were called gravel bikes, no hair, no beard, 2 axes, 2 deckchairs, 2 hedgetrimmers, 2 sets of drain rods, 2 apple trees (Katie Cooker and Carl Cox), 2 kids.
I signed up just before that forum upgrade, I was 13.
I'm 51 now.
Feeling a bit deflated because it appears I'm the second oldest so far at 64.... 🙁
32 but I've been lurking for at least 10 years.
34 now, account since i was 23
Well Im not the youngest, as Im 41, or am I 42 now?... erm. Oh dear. Been on here with current profile for 10yrs, vaguely recall I had a different one before that, think I still had Mag21s on my bike when I first started lurking. Pretty weak effort with my post count over 10 years on reflection, I should probably get some sort of wooden spoon style prize, owned with bombers, or have my shoes wee'd in, etc
I keep coming back as I feel sort of virtual affinity with the other old ravers that evidently hang about here. I also have a passing interest in those occasional posts about bike stuff.