Did you inherit....

[BigonaBianchi]

My parents met on bicycles at age 14. ..dad is still riding at 78

 

[swee'pea99]

Nope. My Dad's idea of sport was a good glass of Rioja while the All Blacks took England to pieces. He and my mum did both get Bickertons at one point, with the best of intentions. Probably did a hundred miles or so...

 

[Typhon]

Nope. Other way around actually. Me starting cycling made my dad go out and get a bike and now he rides it 2-3 times a week.

Funnily enough his dad and uncle were very keen cyclists. Both cycling from a young age until their 80s. Guess it skipped a generation.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I can't remember any of my family riding bikes, but my big sister had a trike when she was five. One day she decided to put our pet mouse in the pocket of her dress and take it for a ride round the block. I clung on to the back with my feet on the rear axle, looking over my sister's shoulder. After a few hundred yards, the mouse decided to do a runner, jumped out of her pocket, and made off down the pavement. I ran after it and somehow managed to squash it with my clumsy feet when it stopped suddenly. I can still picture the tiny drops of blood dripping from its ear onto its white fur. We gave it a solemn funeral with a Gallaher's Rich Dark Honeydew pipe tobacco tin serving as a sturdy coffin.
I only discovered cycling nearly fifty years later.

somehow I was expect the last line to read "I only re-discovered the tabacco tin nearly fifty years later" (sorry)

Can't remember ever having seen my mother on a bike, though she did for a while have one - it was the one I used as a teenager until she purchased me my first road bike!
As for my father - don't remember him full stop, ex-stepfather: nope never saw him on a bike and my current step-father: only the motorised versions - mum made him sell 3 of his bikes after they married and he only has the Harley Davidson left now.
My brother from the same father, also enjoyed cycling until he became a cycle courier and after too many visits to A&E strangely thought taking up the motorised version was safer!

 

[tyred]

I never seen either of my parents on a bike, although my Dad does talk about cycling when he was a teenager. Sport or exercise was never his thing but in fairness he has always suffered from really bad chest as a result of a childhood illness.

 

[tadpole]

My father cycled, but mostly delivering meat for his best friends fathers butchery business. He also cycled 12 miles to work and back twice a day (had to go home for lunch as the canteen charged a fortune for lunch). He didn't cycle for sport. (he played county cricket and club tennis) he can not understand why I want to cycle for pleasure, as for him the bike is just "a means of Transport"

 

[numbnuts]

Both parents never rode bikes

 

[User482]

I have never seen either of my parents ride a bicycle. In fact, I suspect my love of cycling was a reaction to that - being fed up of being bundled into the car for even very short journeys, I wanted a bit more freedom to go and explore.

I do hope I'm not going to put my daughter off cycling through taking her out in the trailer!

 

[Hicky]

My stepdad is ex army boxer and a real work ethic, however he also loves booze so once his work was over he was on it.
Then we moved into a pub and both parents worked very hard but left them very little time to spend with me.
The upshot of this was I had a lot of freedom and they we'rent particularly strict with me or my timekeeping , I always had a bike so used to spend most of my time either on it or using it to get me places!
The only exercise I've ever seen my mum do was a 100M when I was in school apart from chasing me and my brothers with a slipper!

At the age of 9 I now allow my eldest out on his bike with his friends(it fills me with dread every time, but by his age I was riding from Oldham to Rochdale on my bmx to see my older bro) , also I dont want some scrote belting him and stealing it!
My youngest lad(4) is obsessed with riding, even sat and watched Pari-Roubaix....I think waiting for the crashes...similar when we watch MotoGP....sadist

 

[fossyant]

My dad was a recreational cyclist, but did have a fixie he used to tool around on - never knew that until recently (says me having ridden fixed for 3 years). My grandad used to cycle a fair bit, but that was down to not having cars many years ago and he never passed his driving test.

 

[hoopdriver]

Neither of my parents were cyclists, nor was anybody else in my family. My brother, though, became a pilot at a very early age and now has 20,000 hours (he's a commercial pilot) and he finds very much the same sense of release and enjoyment in the sky that I find on my bicycle.

 

[carolonabike]

Definitely. My parents met at a cycle club social event (Wearside Wheelers). My dad had arranged a slide show of a trip to Italy some of the members had been on. My mum didn't cycle when they met so my dad bought a tandem from a neighbour. They married a couple of years later and were photographed by the Sunderland Echo leaving the house on their tandem for a honeymoon in Scotland. When I was born they added a sidecar
He was a keen time trialler when young but they both continued to cycle into their seventies until my dad developed Alzheimers and was unable to balance anymore.
I would like to say my son is continuing the tradition, he talks the talk but there's not much action. He's 24 but I've not given up on him yet. I'm going to try and get him to do the Northen Rock Cyclone this year.

 

[Hacienda71]

My dad used to cycle a lot in his teens. I know he cycled from Manchester to Paris in the 1950's. In his latter work years he would cycle from Wilmslow to Manchester University on a Carlton Corsair which he still has. I was p'd off with him when he moved house and threw away his fathers bike frame which was a 1937 Pemberton Arrow. Would have loved to have rebuilt that....

 

[ComedyPilot]

No.

As far as I am aware, on both sides of my family, paternal and maternal, I am the only cyclist other than my paternal grandad.

So, in dad's family - 2 brother, 2 sisters, 9 kids - no cyclists, mum's family, 3 sisters, 6 kids - no cyclists.

My 4 year old daughter has travelled more miles by bike that the rest of my family put together.

 

[Firestorm]

As I have posted in the Racing forum. My Dad was Eastern Counties Track Champion in 54. Mum raced a bit too, both her parents were cyclists. She still has one of her Dads medals from 1926
I grew up at race meetings, Time trials, Hill climbs etc. I even won a radio in the 60s for a Star Letter in a comic with a tale of a 24hr TT.
Apologies for those who have seen them before but heres Mum & Dad