[Closed] Youngest person who posts on here

I was in my 30’s when I started posting on here if that helps?

I'm young (born in the mid 70s) my measure of young is and will continue to be anyone not more than 5 years older than me until such time as I cannot do anything that I enjoy anymore and at that point I will consider myself old, thus saving me the unfortunate outcome of dying young.

Given some of the conduct on here there's one or two who seemingly aren't out of short trousers.

I've been here since my late 20's. Living alone in a small town, post marital breakdown and with a significant part of my social life then centred around my job in London and the occasional day's sailing it was a good place to hang out and talk bikes and other stuff for a few very bleak months and I've got a great deal of affection for the place as a result.

Emotionally speaking I'm about 12.

Given that it's a cycling forum, surely we're all in short trousers? 🙂

I'm 48 3/4 .... Do I win?

62 I'm oot

Given that it’s a cycling forum, surely we’re all in short trousers? 🙂

See that's just the kind of puerile nonsense I was on about 😀

51 so I'm out of the running.

35 for another month! Am I winning? 🙂

25 when I first posted. Jeez where’s the time gone

I’ve been a member since I was 27....(which was 11 years ago) 😭

25 now, had an account for about 8 years. Don't post much but visit a fair amount.

We should only allow users with a year in their user name (such as johnw1984 and jakd95) to play this. According to my user name I'm 19 now and first posted (post hack) when I was 8.

If some members want to feel real, real old- I started posting on here when I was 14, after I got the Autumn 2002 issue-

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.

I used to love the old mag with its staples and foldy layout.

38 now, been on since the forum started asking people to stump up some cash to do a magazine....

According to my user name I’m 19 now

I’ve just had my 243rd birthday.

I'm fairly sure I'm not the youngest here at 34 (for another month). I joined in 2011, don't post much but often read the forums.

33 here, feel double that though!

I'm 55, and I cannot even claim to have been here for years - I started posting about a year ago.

My hair was black when I first started posting on here.

i started visiting here in 2009 age 34 (when i finally got online that year,better late than never as the saying goes).

am now 45 but feel much older (especially with what this year has bought).

i will always check into this forum though as i have met some very kind people here ☺👍

27, mostly lurking occasionally commenting but planning a few threads to draw on the wisdom of the elders in the coming weeks

I think munrobiker wins.

One of my son's has an account. 🙁

Not me, that's for sure.

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.

Slow the F down, you young bastard....

37. Was young once. Now just living in denial whilst feeling all the more resentful each day.

By no means a regular but, brace yourselves, I'm 22. Get a good chuckle from some stuff posted on here

If, as I think I did, I first joined STW in 2004, then I’ve been on here since I was 32 years old.

For the arithmetically-challenged, that makes me 48.

34. Still feel 18. 🙂

I’m as young as I remember, I’ve clocked up forty.....
Erm...

Well I've been here since just before issue 5 2002. The mag archive tells me that's 18 years ago. 41 now so 23 when started posting. F'knell. Found the forum first then bought the mag.

I think I started on here in 2003, I’m 66 next month.

When I first joined the cantilever versus the new V brake was still being hotly debated.

The 'Properly set up' brigade were fighting a losing battle though.

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By no means a regular but, brace yourselves, I’m 22. Get a good chuckle from some stuff posted on here

Jesus H.... Then you are looking 40 odd years into your future here.

Sorry, could break it in a kinder way.😁

36. I visualise everyone on singletrack as being 50+, semi retired/retired with an IT background, cotic and a log burner.

Positively young with an alloy bike in tow here.

39 but started here late 20s. I think the demographic has aged here and I wonder if it partially contributed to the move from single speed steel to full ebike?

33, going on 18. I think I first joined with a diffent name when I was about 14/15. So basically like munrobiker minus the house and the wife.

I visualise everyone on singletrack as being 50+, semi retired/retired with an IT background, cotic and a log burner.

Well...I am most definitely not 50+ (although I'll admit, I'm getting closer by the day and those days are running out). I bloody well wish I was semi retired/retired, and certainly do not have an IT background. Or ever owned a Cotic. And do not have a log burner.

I now feel like I'm I'm missing something here. What have I done with my life???? Where did it all go wrong??? :O hahahaha 😉

My hair was black when I first started posting on here.

I've been married twice since I first started posting on here...

Given that it’s a cycling forum, surely we’re all in short trousers?

yep, can't remember that last time I wore trousers...

38, I come for the advice on dishwashers but stay for the fashion threads.

2 kids, house, Octavia. However, my new girlfriend is 27. * inserts smiley *

Been here 9 years, almost to the day, was 26 when I joined.

Weird seeing the actual ages of folk here, some I thought were a lot older, others a lot younger, based on what they’ve posted.

Same Tom, you are currently injured at the mo right? and you buy lots of expensive bikes. Therefore i though you were at least 60! 🙂

Approaching 54 chronologically, significantly younger mentally, and been here since 2004ish.

I’ve been here since GoFar always following the average age group but I suspect that’s changed now as has my age being nearer 50 Than 30 now.

I’m 22

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.

Heal up @tomhoward !

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.