Just wondering about average age and careers of you riders

[badfish89]

17, i work landscaping when im not doing highschool sports.

i want to wheelie, but im getting better and better at riding - 2 1/2 years now of riding, and i just now have a legal license!

[totalmotorcycle]

Hey i'm new to biking and probably will have to wait about a year before i can get one. In the meantime i was just curious to know how old the riders on these forums are, because i may have to wait many years before getting a bike. Also, wat occupations do you guys have so i can see if theres any trends to bikers. Are there any doctors out there who ride..cuz thats my career goal. Thanks in advance.

Im only 16 with no job lol. wat about u guys? plus...can any of you do weelies?

Great topic!

I'm now 39 years old and started riding in 1991 at 20 years old. Had a some time off in the late 90's before getting back into it in 2000. I do wish I started earlier (ie, kid on a dirt bike). But my folks were agaist me getting a motorcycle for the longest time (till I just bought one and took it home).

My occupation has been quite the list of Jack-of-all-trades such as:

Assistant Baker
Canadian ARMY (reg force) Private
Graphic Artist
Store Owner
...and since 2000 founder of Total Motorcycle.com http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/ maybe you have heard of it?

Mike

[pchast]

61, retired Boiler Room Engineer.

[ibswooft]

55, retired restaurant owner-operator of 20 years, electrician by trade

[sapaul]

Hey, this thread said average age, my average age then is 25.

I am a Financial planner/insurance broker
Director of the THINK BIKE NPO in South Africa
Head Marshal of the THINK BIKE Marshals

I stole my first bike when I was around 12, oops where is that delete button

Rode all kinds of junk as a kid, but my first legal bike, a Kawa KL 250 was when I was 18, spent 20 years doing Trials and got back into big road bikes 12 or 13 years ago and gave up all the dangerous off road stuff.

I have dedicated the last 6 years now to Think Bike which is the South African safety and awareness campaign. Especially in the area's of Marshaling and training. The Goose gave up all riding when the kids were small but started back 4 years ago and now rides a 600 RR Honda. She works with me in the business and is also involved in Think Bike and is a founder Marshal.

www.thinkbike.co.za

[jstark47]

50, project manager in applications software development for a large psychometrics & education company. No wheelies, no desire to wheelie.

Well, the last time I posted in this thread, I was 50..... now about to turn 55.

Still a project manager, the pay isn't bad and the work is interesting. Less exclusively focused now on the software part, and more on the total span of our projects across our company.

[gsJack]

Just turned 74, retired ME.

This is an old thread, I'm 78 now and still riding year around here in NE Ohio every chance I get. Not the best of winters this year so far.

[fireguzzi]

50, project manager in applications software development for a large psychometrics & education company. No wheelies, no desire to wheelie.

Well, the last time I posted in this thread, I was 50..... now about to turn 55.

Still a project manager, the pay isn't bad and the work is interesting. Less exclusively focused now on the software part, and more on the total span of our projects across our company.

still no wheelies?


Im 31 and unemployed among other irresponsible things.
Former dump truck driver/loader operator, atv/marine mechanic, golf ball manufacturer, security guard, pizza cooker guy, restaurant cooker guy and I helped this one dude with repackaging large amounts of well.... it was not legal and the dude just got out of prison for it so I won't say what that product was though it's probably not what you think. I used to get an allowance for keeping my room clean too.

[sv-wolf]

I'm fifty-bloody-nine (someone will pay for this!) I'm a social housing manager working in local government. I also work occasionally as a shiatsu practioner (all jokes on a postcard please, addressed to the waste-paper bin).

I've previously been: an adminstrator in a nursing home for schizophrenic clients; a community worker; a youth worker; a night shelter worker; a homelessness worker; a learning difficulty support worker; a home tutor; a cook; a kitchen assistant; a self-employed painter and decorator; a carpenter; a labourer; a building site bonus clerk; a toy-maker; a street market researcher; a call-centre worker; a receptionist; a nutritionist; a homoeopathic pharmacist; a marketing manager; a condom and pessary production worker; a mushroom farm worker; a horse products production worker; an ethical investment administrator; a housing officer; a housing advice officer; a typing teacher; a home tutor; a policy officer; an 'alternative' renting agency manager; a plastic-bottles warehouseman (most fun job I ever had); various other kinds of warehouseman; a fork-lift truck driver; a factory production worker (manufacturing grooves in typewriter keys to high tolerances - mine!); a shop assistant; a filing clerk; a collating clerk!; a hospital porter; a hospital store worker; a transport co-ordinator; an editor; a writer; a bookshop owner; a student counsellor; a student (various times) and a bum.

Oh and once in desperation, I tried being a travelling salesman. I lasted five days.

They could use my career trajectory to design an off-roading m/c training circuit somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

I don't kinda settle easily.

[jstark47]

still no wheelies?

Only unintentionally