Age groups for MTBing

steelo

Not sure if the poll is closed now but I am 27 and I ride singletrack and XC.

Dan67

15 Singletrack and xc

miggillicuddy

wow how this place has changed from MBUK. The majority of people there were under 25.

Anyway, I'm 16, ride aggressive XC

John Stevenson

Aggressive XC? Is that where you ride along making fierce animal noises?

Always preferred doing motorbike impressions myself

miggillicuddy

broom brooooom!!

Nah, it's just a hopeless attempt to make me sound more hardcore and less of a XC gheyboi.
:roll:

Panhandling Prince

Approaching 29 and have just entered my first 2 XC races (Gorrick Autumn Classics), in 4 years.

I dont do things by halves.

I am loving being out on a bike again.

TomR

Im 21 and ride allsorts, Rode trials from the age of 14 until everyone got cars and quit riding, then a few years back when i left college and started working fulltime started riding street, got bored then got another trials bike and an XC bike, now i ride dual and 4X on what used to be my street bike, still ride XC and my trials bike just sits there. Assuming my knees last long enough, i've got plenty of years left riding yet!

royboy11

I'm in my mid 20's and I ride with my dad every week who's in his mid 50's. We started riding together on a weekly basis about 4 years ago. Normally we go on really rocky technical XC trails but every now and then we head to the hill for some downhill.

shorty15

Dont think it matters what age you are

passout

Started at 16 with a Rockhopper in 1988. Now 35 and liking suspension. I've always ridden cross country - mainly in the Lakes. Still not very good compared to my mates.

two6two4

I started jumping when I was 16, went through a P1, I now have a brooklyn for jump duties. Then I stopped riding once I learnt to drive, and my friends have all gone over to bmx . I just bought a bighit frame and have built it up (minus a chaindeivce) for under £800 so I want to send it off some drops right now and get a bit fitter (I put on a stone in 6months!!!).

dalemk

I'm 42 in a fortnight...bought a nice new scott when erindoors walked out 3 years ago...best thing i ever did...no jumping tho'...i leave that to you youngbloods!!

teacherman

Age is (up to a point) irrelevant. When i was in my 20's rode the red route at Dalby with a guy of 43 who whipped me on the ups and the downs. The difference? He was fit and knew what he was doing, I smoked like a chimney and didn't have a clue. That was years ago and at 33 I reckon i would have had a better chance of staying with him.

I ride XC - don't jump or look to drop off things unless that's what the trail dictates.

LaurenceGough

16-20 I guess, I'm 16.

BigLee1

36 & can remember buying those first issues of MBUK I only started driving so I could chuck my Muddy Fox Courier in the boot & ride different trails up here in the flat & boring Lake District
I bought a trek road bike about 4 months ago & have been riding the 18 miles into work & back as & when I can, I work shifts, and am fadding on a new fs Kona to replace my aging Trek Y3
Loved cycling & hope to get back into it like when ah wus a lad but large motorcycles, work, kids & wife tend to take time up that was spare years ago

lost-time

32 here. Been biking since I learnt to ride aged 4. Was really into it by the age of around 7 on a hand-me-down Raleigh Tomahawk, then progressed onto a silver Grifter. A few 'racers' until my mid teens when I got a Raleigh MTB... 15spd non-index (friction!) gears, BMX styled BB, weighed a ton. Just progressed from there really, followed a few trends including bright lycra, white Onza Porcupines, anodised purple bar-ends, Girvin flex-stems . Now ride Rockhopper pro, Trek Remedy 6, and an On-one Inbred 456.

clarkson

im 18 and ride pretty much anything, although with a slight leaning towards xc. been riding for about 3 years now, n am loving it more and more. my bikes are spoilt and have far too much money spent on them. but i love it!!

i ride a GT-idrive 2 and an 06 specialized enduro

i intend to keep riding until my body says no!

The Big Cheese

33 and ride XC....

Weekends get about 30 mile in - not so good in the week but have started to do ~20km on the cycle at the gym every other day to keep the ol fitness levels up - not what they used to be...

garsr6

nearly 30, got back into mtb 2 years ago after 13 years out. i remember saving hard for my girvan flexstem with two paper rounds when i was a teenager. :oops: nah they were great at the time.

lost-time

garsr6 wrote:

..... nah they were great at the time.

Yeah, but the green elastomer always had a tendency to split as I'm sure it was just a wine gum in disguise...

Mr bump

Im 29 and have no intention of stopping anytime soon!

BigLee1

All you original MTBers have a look at this & get all nostalgic I had the flexstem, framebag, bar ends, cantilevers, four fingered levers, egg rings, sharkfin, thumbshifters & clips & straps!
Them were the days http://mudintheblood.co.uk/hwutrhome.htm

gaz047

them were the days big lee !
started mtbing at age of10, went through to 17 till i joined the army (only cycling i did then was triathlon and duathlon). left in 2003 and got a rockhopper and have never been more into it, love it!! oh yeah 30 years old. stopping any time soon? no chance

Vaudevillevillain

28 and although only recently got into it, loving it!

Looking at the vote seems to be a good mix of ages on here. Bravo all.

WillGTJumper

I am 14

Mr bump

you young wippersnapper WillGTjumper!

hastings

only 15 and have just gone through a growth spurt so now i can cycle like a maniac with less effort

Anonymous

im 28 and have been riding for about 12 months. i only do simple xc and am an absolute coward! im deffinately getting braver but find i enjoy tinkering and fettling as much as riding, it has be an expensive love affair so far but its worth every penny.

steve100

As they say you are only as old as the woman you are feeling, in my case that means I am only 26 . I am really 30. I have always been fit but I am in better shape now than I hav been for a couple of years.