How many years/months riding time have you got?

[FROSTY:Me]

Im wondering how much RIDE time you guys have under your belt
This isn't a question about age just how many years actually riding bikes you have. I know a bunch of you rode in your Yoof then took a break from it. Some have just found the joys of bikes some have never stopped riding.


Me I started riding at 8 on a truetest thingee (like a pitbike but cruder) Then road riding at er actually 14
so Ive been riding offroad,racing, commuting,travelling on a bike for 35 years

Im sure this has been done before but anyhooo.

[dipshit]

(no, edit)

9 to 10 years for me. (edit again) of road bikes.

And 6 years of dirt bikes.

[scott411]

mine started at 2 years old on a JR50 with training wheels, , so that makes 29 years,

[AllanB]

Motorcycle license on the day I turned 16 (on a borrowed step-thru). My parents had a policy of no license until you turn 16.

Figure in a year of hooning around earlier without a license on friends bikes, that makes 29 glorious years of riding.

Looking forward to the next 29.

[Goblin]

25 years road riding with 1 or 2 years not riding due to having babies...but I never sold my bikes. Before the age of 15 I rode any farm/dirt bike I could get my hands on.

[klingon]

Almost three years! What do I win?!

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

got my license at 16 been riding ever since, and never stopped, I don't drive a cage nor have a cage license... I am now 41. You do the math.

[Ixion]

Well, it depends on how you define it.

There is a difference of quite a few years between the two extremes of the cycle of

• Riding two wheeled power vehicles around back yard
• Riding two wheeled power vehicle of road in flat defiance of Dad's orders not to (said vehicle being impounded by Dad as a result , he was on to vehicle confiscation half a century before the gubbermint)
• Riding two wheeled vehicle on public road at illegal age when Dad wasn't looking
• Riding two wheeled vehicle on public road at legal age but without licence, with Dad's tacit assent ("Don't come bleating to me when you cop a fine"
• Riding two wheeled vehicle on road legally with licence

About 46 years at one end, 55 years odd at the other. Less maybe two years in all in my foolish youff when I was temporarily seduced by cars and couldn't afford both

Got to admit though that there were periods once upon a time when I wouldn't have knocked up more than maybe 1000 km in the year.

[Conquiztador]

from 13yo until now. Have had times where no road bike, but speedway and dirtbikes have been there. At times weeks have gone w/o being on the bike, but then at other times as I have travelled with a bike there might have been 12 hours riding in a day.

So 40 years or there about.

[Big Dave]

Had bikes for about 40 years. Stopped for a few when I had two toddlers.

[Gremlin]

Been riding since the start of May 2005, so what? 4 years 3 months?

Doing on average more than 25k a year

[Stirts]

2 year 6 months for me.

And how far I have come in the learning curve has been extreme. I have gone from not having a clue what to do and being shit scared, to having some form of idea on how to ride and being scared. And I have loved every last minute of it and I look forward to thousands more and learning shitloads more!!

[EJK]

I had my license for about 3 years, but only was on the road for half of that time.

[crazyhorse]

Its gonna be 12 years next month - whooppeee!!!

And I'm not ever gonna stop - never, nup, not me!

[spookytooth]

About 40 yrs,started off borrowing/stealing the old mans honda 50 step thu had a 15 yr break from road bikes and took to the dirt,now back on the road