Average age of GG riders!!

How old are you?

  • Under 30

    Votes: 109 16.4%

  • 30-40

    Votes: 173 26.0%

  • 40-50

    Votes: 212 31.8%

  • 50-60

    Votes: 141 21.2%

  • 60+

    Votes: 31 4.7%
  • Total voters
    666
41 years old now and started riding at 8 on a beat up z50 we got at a yard sale. Rode the tires off that until my KDX80 took its place and then way too many bikes to count. I ride alot still with friends of all ages but riding with my 7 year old daughter on her KTM 50 Senior is the best of all. My EC 250 is the first GG in my stable.
 
I'm 37 started riding when I was 14 on a honda xl125 then bought my 1st real motocross bike KX80 and then after that many many more bikes trial/motocross/road.

I would say I'm a nice glass of Duvel (belgian for devil) unique flavour crisp clean and oh yea it's 8.5% a bottle.....small but packs a REAL punch like a 250cc 2 stroke I suppose
 
Hi everyone, New here will be 70 next month. Started riding in 1965, first dirt bike a Yamaha DT 175. Many bikes since. Hope to add an Gas Gas soon. Allan :)
 
I am 47.Started riding a xr75,started racing MX on a yz 100.I do not own a GasGas bike,but I do have two GasGas quads,one Cannondale quad and a Honda CR 250 (I know)had too many rides to remember,funny how dirt never gets out of the blood!;)
 
I started riding at 21 after coming home from my overseas stint in the Army in 1968. Kind of a late start compared to a lot of guys, but I think I've more than made up for it. I didn't keep track of the number of enduros I've ridden, but probably 400-500. I'm 64 now and have as much fun as ever.
 
I started riding at around 13. First bike was a Honda 50 super sport. Learned
to ride in the fields and hills next to our farm. I think I am now 60. Ride
a 05 300de. Love riding single track. I could have competed in enduros and
off-road races. Was a pretty fast rider, well to the best of my recollection!


Dirt biking is in my blood. Still ride as hard as I can with not to much crashing.
Well from what I can remember. What is this post about anyway?
 
Hi gassers

I am 40 years old and I started riding a XR250 when I was 18. Then, I rode a XR600, KTM 600, KTM duke (great bike!), and XRV750 Africa twin. Since 98 I entered in quad world with Warrior, Banshee, DS 650 and GG Wild.

Good rides.
 
.45

Just hit .45 back in rocktober,been riding since 13 but have always been crazy about two wheels. 1975 yz80b was my first love. I go for quality over quantity now so at present I'll take an ice cold Modelo Negro.
Started my son out right with his first 2smoke Gas Gas xc250 @ 15 years of age.
 
I?m 40 and give a present to me this year. My first 2 stroke "smoker" since 1985 and my first Trial Bike ever. The TXT 280 give so much fun to me that I decide also to switch my Endurobike. Back from EFI and 4 stroke back to a simple 2 stroke which only have to work. The Berg?s and KTM?s don?t match with me so only TM, Husky and GG were left. Based on the best experience made with the TXT GG and the idea to get a Bike "ready to race out of the shelf" only one was left...the EC 300 11` Nambo. Awesome bike with best performance on stock setup I ever ride. Nothing to pimp on this bike, nothing to do on the suspensions...great stuff.
Cheers from germany
 
average age

I'll be 50 next month, I think I appreciate GG EC300 torque, six speed gearbox and the ability to get you out of bad situations more than raw speed.
But it is fast when properly set up!!!:D
 
53 YO now, started riding 45 years ago on a home made Briggs and Stratton (with no recoil starter) powered rigid-framed mini bike. After one more "better made" B&S mini, I started down the path of "real" dirt bikes (an asterisk "*" means the bike is still in my garage)...
'70 Suzuki TS90J *
'71 Yamaha DT-2MX
'70 CZ 250
'76 Suzuki RM250 *
'79 CanAm MX-5 250 *
'88 ATK 250 *
'95 KTM 300EX/C *
'04 GasGas EC300 (with Ohlins forks) *

Other bikes in the garage for kids and stuff

'94 KTM 50SX *
'97 Honda CR125R *
'99 Yamaha PW80
'00 Yamaha TT-R90 *
'01 Yamaha TT-R125L *
'03 KTM 200 EX/C *
'04 Suzuki RM100 (KX100 in yellow plastic) *
'05 KTM 200 EX/C *
'08 KTM 250XC *

and a toy or 2 for me down the line

'72 Maico 440 radial *
'74 Honda MR50 *
'74 (?) CanAm 125 *
'75 Yamaha DT250 *
'77 Yamaha DT175 *
'87 Honda CR250R *

Grew up riding MX in the Central Coast of Cali (Santa Maria, home of Spillway Park), moved to the northwest after college and discovered off road racing, and I haven't looked back. For the kind of nasty, technical, steep, loose riding that we travel all over the US for, the GasGas has been the best bike I've ever had. After 7 years of hard use, it's currently torn down for a full rebuild, and it amazes me how little really needs to be replaced. The most worn out thing on the entire bike seems to be the rear brake caliper (where it slides on the locating pins on the carrier).
As much as I'd like to buy a new bike, 2 kids recently out of high school and trying to find their way in life make that a no-go financially, but I'm not feeling too bad about refreshing my "old" bike. At least now it'll LOOK nice and fresh when I have to see it next to Roscoe's spiffy new(er) bike.

I really miss the DT2-MX and the CZ. Especially the CZ.

Tim H
 
turned sixteen and got my first bike, GG250. and that was 3 years ago! some of us young bucks can appreciate the finer things in life!:D
 
46

46yo, I started riding (unbeknownst to my parents who forbade me) at 12 when a couple of friends got bikes (Honda XR70 & Yamaha GT80), my parents found out a few months before I turned 14. For my 14th B-day my day handed me the classified section of the paper (if you are under 30 and don't know what that is ... just ask your parents!), and said, find a dirtbike that you like with a price that I like.

I ended up getting a Hodaka Combat Wambat 125 a week later and I never looked back. Traveled the whole gambit from MX-HS-Road Racing back to HS & Enduro.

In 2009, I had the opportunity to join a team (chase crew/chief mechanic) to run the Sportsman class for the 2010 Baja 1000. A few days before leaving for Baja, I was given the opportunity to become the 5th rider as well! What a dream come true, until a crash on a "pre run" 2 days before the start, in which I broke several ribs 10 miles into a 40 mile run. Although, I was able to finish the run it was obvious that night I was out for riding and assumed my duties as mechanic and driver of on of the chase vehicles. What a blast it was!!!

I currently have a 2001 GG 250XC, I loved it soo much that I sold the 2000 KTM 300MXC that I had been riding. I do miss the grunt of the 300 but I don't like the "ride on top of a building" feel that the KTM's have (all my major crashes have been aboard a KTM- the 300 & 450rfs in Baja!) and I find that my GG has that "low in the saddle feel", very similar to the 94 YZ 250 (after revalve) that I rode before the KTM. I don't know if it is due to the factory or my suspension guy (Hyperformance Cycles) who had already set it up with the previous owner. I have only ridden one other GG, an 03 300 and it felt nearly the same to me.

Anyway, I am currently re-habbing from ACL recon surgery (MXing my XC) and looking to find a nice e-start bike, hopefully I won't have to resort to a PDS bike!

Bikes currently in the garage:
1982 Husky 430XC (for sale/trade)
1994 YZ 250
2001 GasGas 250XC
2003 CRF 150(daughter's)
2007 110 pit bike (my toy and son's ride)
2000 Kawasaki ZRX 1100 (for sale/trade)

My other addiction ......
1965 Fairlane 500 Sport Coupe
1966 Datsun SPL311 (1600)
1967.5 Datsun SRL311 (2000-#321)
 
never stop

52 this year. first 2 wheel ride was on the back of a 67 Honda Dream 350 when I was 8....had to dream about bikes till I was 15 and bought a 75 kx250. Have 9 bikes right now, never did like the big 4 bikes, so I bought the 250EC GG for single track woods. I vintage race MX also on a 74 CZ 400, 83 Husky 430WR; 77 Zuk RM 250.
 
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