Comments on: How Old Are BicycleTouringPro.com Readers?

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By: Boyd Wiebe

Boyd Wiebe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:14:38 +0000

I’m 50 yrs of age and took my 22 year old daughter on her first cycle tour from Calgary Alberta over the Rockies to Vancouver, a trip which I had done previously at age 19.
She absolutely loved it and is planning to tour Europe by bike next summer! My two sons, 20 and 17, were very jealous of our trip and want to do one with me next summer. Thats how to get young people into cycle touring these days! There’s simply no better way than to have them see the beauty of our world from a bike saddle.

By: Darrell Robertson

Darrell Robertson — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:42:22 +0000

I think that tour-cycling doesn’t appeal to those with a higher pitched competative nature. I think people in their 30′s are in the peak of that competativness. Tour-cycling may be attractive to that younger group but I believe you will find that the respondents are probably not the competative type. Just a thought.

By: Darren Alff

Darren Alff — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:59:52 +0000

Nick,

For this survey I went back and only included the people who filled out the survey in the past 6 months. So maybe if you filled it out before then you were not included. I’m sure there are other people who are interested in bicycle touring and are in that 30-something age group… but I think the graph here shows that there are, at least to a certain degree, less people in that age category.

By: Nick Andrew

Nick Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:46:09 +0000

I’m 37 (36 when I filled out your survey) and though I can’t remember the specifics, I would be surprised if I hadn’t included my age as I’m not that protective of it… not sure why I didn’t show up in your results….