At what age did you get your first touring/road bicycle

I was just wondering when the first age of when you got a touring/road bicycle. everyone around where I live (Marion,Iowa) most kids (5-20 ish) have some form of bmx or mountain bicycle then when you get about the age of 21 or so there are some that i see have a touring bicycle or a hybrid and it seems weird that i had aquired a touring bicycle at the age of 16 and loved it ever since well after i fixed it up. so tell me when did you get your first touring/road bicycle?

 

I was touring on a 10 speed at around the age of 11 or 12 - it was with my mom, mostly shorter 30 mileish days, but for up to 4 or 5 days at a time - fully loaded touring. I'm small and always have been so at that age the only bike selection I had was a girls step through style frame. I stopped growing around 14 and got my first real road bike then. I used to go out and ride 75-80 mile days by myself during the summer when I was off in high school.

 

I was 21. I was fat as I had stopped smoking at 19 (I was a regular smoker since 12!!!). I did 4500 km during my first season (last year) and I'm on my way to 7500 this year (I'm 22). Road biking has been absolutely amazing for me, I cannot stand gyms and their thugs, so biking is perfect for me. I've improved a whole lot since I started, last year. I now ride with a club at an average pace of 34-35 km/h for 100 to 150 km rides. I'd like to try amateur competition in a couple years.

 

I think I was about 13-14. A Huffy 10 speed. It replaced my old single speed banana seat cruiser (it was cool in the 70s and it's cool again now ). Used it to get around, when it was still safe to ride your bike everywhere. Definitely extended my range as a kid by a few miles.

 

I was 18, (last summer) I got a trek 1000. Now im 19, and I and getting a cervelo p2c in a few days!

 

I bought a Trek 1500 last sunday. Until then, I had been riding a borrowed DeVinci Silverstone. I'm 16.

 

15. A steel frame that was massivley too big for me - but I loved it.

 

I got a lime green Schwinn varsity for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. I absolutely hated it and convinced my parents to buy me a Schwinn Scramber 36/36 a few years later. When I think about riding bikes during my childhood, I think about the 36/36. Great bike. I didn't get another road bike for 20 years. It was a Raleigh R600. The Raleigh has spent the last 6 years on my indoor trainer finally retiring about a month ago from all of the corosion.

 

In my day Schwinn had campus green. My first road bike was a 12th birthday present and was a campus green Varsity with fenders. I loved it. This was long before the days of bmx or mountain bike.

 

My folks bought me a yellow Kabuki in the 70's (I think I was 14 at the time and it cost $110) when everyone else was riding $85 Sears and Montgomery Wards ten speeds. I really thought I had it going on. Only had the bike a year when it was stolen. Replaced it with a Motobacane, and it pailed in comparison.
Now I'm riding a Trek Madone, and even though I love it I still miss the old Kabuki.

 

I just bought my first road bike and I'm 23!

 

I bought my first road bike....Today! I'm 24 (man, the years just flyby. How'd I get so old?)

First bike I've ever purchased!

 

24???? Are you kidding? Take it easy, your practically right out of diapers.

 

I had a "grocery store" ten speed when I was about 10. I bought my first racing bike at the age of 17. Still have the frame, with updated components and wheels.

 

Somewhere between 9 and 11 I got a 10 speed and then another 10 speed when I was around 15.

But, I bought my first "racing" bicycle when I was around 22. I had gone for one semester of college following high school, dropped out, worked for a couple of years and went to night school. When I decided to go to a university I applied for a credit card and a classmate raced occasionally so I bought a low-end racing bike and put it on the credit card. Been doing thousands of miles every year since and I am 40 now.

jt

 

If my Schwinn Continental (bright yellow) counts: 14.
If not, my black Surly Pacer, bought it for my self last Christmas: I'm 47.

 

I am 26, and I just got my first road bike (Trek 1600) two days ago.

 

My sister had a campus green Varsity.

 

Got my first road bike, Specialized Allez triple, last year at the tender age of 40 years young. Hadn't been on a bike in probably 10 years (had a hybrid that I rode occasionally) but I had a co-worker who had a road bike and got me into this insanity, err I mean sport.

Promptly jumped into my first crit 2 weeks later and three laps into the crit I was shot out the back. That was the best thing that could have ever happened to my racing career as I had no respect for cyclists before that humbling day...Took me 6 more crits before I could finish with the pack.

I now have a total of 5(!) bikes - 3 road bikes (1 for crits, 1 for road races, and 1 for training), a TT bike, and a track bike; I guess I'm a little obsessed...

 

The specialized allez triple is one of the couple bikes that I test rode, i like that bike too. But I ended up getting the Trek 1600.