* Married: Yep. Twice
* Kids: 19 & 24 years old
* Household income: never quite enough
* Rides a Cervelo: Sold it and bought a Kestrel
* Wears Asics: No
* uses Zipps: No. I'll slum it with Heds and Real Design.
* Aero helmet: Yes
* Wheelcover: Yes
* Powermeter: No
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: No. Whatdaya think I am - some kind of a dork.
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: No. 2 piece.
* Does flipturns: Yes, I practice in my 36 ft backyard pool.
* Shaves legs usually: In tri season ...wife likes it.
* Thinning hair: Nope. Still got thick longish (slightly greying) locks that would make most twenty-somethings envious.

M 55-60

Age: 25
* Married: Nope
* Kids: 0
* Household income: $0 -Just got out of grad school, taking the boards, and looking for a job.
* Rides a Cervelo: Nope, Fuji Aloha - looking for something that fits better but it will not be a cervelo
* Wears Asics: Yep trainers and racing flats
* uses Zipps: Can't afford race wheels, when I do they will be hed 3s or jet 90 c2
* Aero helmet: Yep
* Wheelcover: Nope
* Powermeter: Nope
* Powercranks: Nope
* Compression socks: I've tried them. Got them free from past job
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Nope - always 1 piece sprint to irondistance
* Does flipturns: nope
* Shaves legs usually: When I consistantly ride outside
* Thinning hair: Nope

Age: 28
* Married: Yes
* Kids: 0
* Household income: $0 -getting out of grad school and looking for a job.
* Rides a Cervelo: Nope, just sold the QR Aerial for a 2nd roadie
* Wears Asics: Mizuno for 5 years
* uses Zipps: Reynolds Assaults
* Aero helmet: Nope
* Wheelcover: Nope
* Powermeter: Nope
* Powercranks: Nope
* Compression socks: Nope
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Always 1 piece
* Does flipturns: nope
* Shaves legs usually: When I consistantly ride outside
* Thinning hair: Nope

Age: 21
* Married: Nope
* Kids: No
* Household income: $0 -waiting on a place in college.
* Rides a Cervelo: -P2SL
* Wears Asics: Wore the hyperspeeds but Nike now
* uses Zipps: didnt want to resort to prostituting myself so went with Planet Xs
* Aero helmet: Thinking about it
* Wheelcover: Nope
* Powermeter: Nope
* Powercranks: Nope
* Compression socks: Nope
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: 2 piece cos my thunder thighs would look weird in a 1 piece
* Does flipturns: if a flip-bounce-off-bottom-turn-semi-drown counts, yes
* Shaves legs usually: Yes.
* Thinning hair: Nope

Age: 47
* Married: Yes
* Kids: Yes
* Household income: 160+
* Rides a Cervelo: vintage 1998 cannondale tri
* Wears Asics: Always
* uses Zipps: Spinenergys
* Aero helmet: No
* Wheelcover: No
* Powermeter: No
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: No way
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: New Desoto 1 piece tri suit
* Does flipturns: No
* Shaves legs usually: No
* Thinning hair: No
In Oct 08 came out of a 4 year retirement with 8 weeks training did <5hr 70.3[/reply]

Age: 47, Male
Residence: Canada
Years in tri: 3 (local sprints and oly; no travel to races)
Highest finish: 4th in AG
Married: Y (spouse tolerates tri but likes the new, svelte me)
Kids: 2 (7 and 9--another full time job)
Income: well south of 100k--most goes to fam, house, basics, Canada Revenue
Rides a Cervelo: Soloist Team (love it) plus 70s classic steel and Specialized Stumpjumper hardtail--very retro
Wears: exclusively Saucony
uses Zipps: for races, an old but great 440 tubular in front and FP 60 in rear
Aero helmet: Y
Wheelcover: Y
Powermeter: No
Powercranks: No
Compression socks: No
Wears: one piece
Does flipturns: no--only learned to swim to complete first tri.
Shaves legs usually: May-Sep only (cold here in Winter)
Thinning hair: approaching Kojak
Other hobbies: playing music, furniture making, skating
Reason for doing tris: like the variety of training and social comraderie of triathletes.

Married: for a second time
Kids: 3 that used to be kids but now are adults ... acquired 2 that are still kids
Income: sometimes yes, sometimes no
Rides a Cervelo: nope ... Orbea Ora for tri's, Giant TCR1 on the road, Norco, Specialized and Giant on the trails
Wears Asics: yes and Saucony and Zoots
uses Zipps: Hed 3's
Aero helmet: are you kidding?
Wheelcover: nope
Powermeter: nope
Powercranks: nope
Compression socks: nope
Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: 1 piece on short races, 2 piece on longer races
Does flipturns: why? can't do them during a race
Shaves legs usually: only my face
Thinning hair: what hair?

M 50-54

Age 20

* Married: Nope
* Kids: 0
* Household income: yearly.. idk but $8.15/hr as a lifeguard, but still didnt vote obama
* Rides a Cervelo: yes, dual, which is more expensive than the car i own at home
* Wears Asics: Yes trainers and racing flats
* uses Zipps: Can't afford race wheels
* Aero helmet: No
* Wheelcover: No
* Powermeter: No
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: only for recovery
* Trisuit: 2 piece
* Does flipturns: really well
* Shaves legs usually: hellz no
* Thinning hair: not yet

* Married: No
* Kids: got 3 younger brothers so that's enough for now;)
* Household income: Student, any questions?
* Rides a Cervelo: nope an Enzo and sponsored Focus bikes next year
* Wears Asics: always
* uses Zipps: next year (focus)
* Aero helmet: Yes I even used it once in the winter because it was so warm:)
* Wheelcover: Of course
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: Yes but just for regeneration
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: one piece always
* Does flipturns: Yesss
* Shaves legs usually: from time to time

My point was that the question wasn't asking for people to talk about them selves.

Anyway...it is good to see someone else that races motorcycles.

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

Age: 34
* Married: Yes.
* Kids: 2 little like-a-bikers.
* Household income: apparently above the tri median which is no small feat.
* Rides a Cervelo: No, Orbea Ora, God bless her.
* Wears Asics: Nikes
* uses Zipps: No, hopefully in the budget soon.
* Aero helmet: No
* Wheelcover: No
* Powermeter: No
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: No
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Two piece.
* Does flipturns: Yes, swimming is so much better now that I do them.
* Shaves legs usually: Yes
* Thinning hair: I think it's actually thickening.

This could double as the dating thread!

Cervelo P2K, Trek 5900, Kona Kula, Cannondale Team Crest,
Asics 2130
usually trisuit
compression socks are for nancy boy hose jobs!
wishing for race wheels
i don't need no stinking power meter! - garmin forerunner 305
intriged by powercranks
can do flipturns...on the bike.. currently doing du's
shave? - legs yes - face no
income - apparently to low for race wheels or powercranks
age 57 multisport racing since '84

I think people would have to put finacial net worth in as well ;-)

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

Really? Let's see it!

Married
3 boys (new,4 and 6)
122K this yr (50+hrs/wk)
Ironman Distance
Litespeed (7 other bikes not including the 5 the boys have)
Zipp Tubies
650c
Tufo
Point Zero 3
Shaved
Mid Atlantic State

Hello Ttram and All,

Interesting thread and could provide excellent marketing data.

Married: 55 years, "It seems like yesterday Dear." 3 sons, several grandchildren, no great grandchildren yet.

Rides a Cervélo: Of course - P3C and will probably buy a P4C soon but like the neat integrated front brake on the Specialized.

Wears Asics: Nike ID 360 and Z Coil (Soft landing shoes for torn meniscus)

Compression socks: Wore them last race and liked them.

Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Whatever works, probably bike bib shorts with different bike and run jerseys.

Uses Zipps: 808’s with Pro race 3’s

Probably a wheelcover: Have one but don’t use it.

Definitely Powermeter: SRM V and thinking about SRM VI (Don’t need it but this is a fun hobby and gadgets are part of the mix .... which is also true for 90% of triathlon gear.)

Possibly powercranks: Tried them many years ago but time is in short supply and they took too much time switching.

Does flipturns: Nope – except in backstroke.

Shaves legs usually: Late bloomer – just started – wife ambivalent

Aero helmet: Yes for races.

Hair: Still there but white with 'speed burns' from traveling so fast. :)

Age: 75-79 About 1/2 of my age group (US white males nationwide) will be dead in 9.4 years. (triathletes probably slightly different data)

Income: Answer should probably be Line 22 Gross Income or Line 37 Adjusted Gross Income plus any offshore income, off the books income, blackmarket income, secret government payments, criminal income and so on.

Because these numbers are often in conflict with a person’s romantic image of themselves they are often shrouded in obfuscation. Also I think we give the numbers too much weight and it may have something to do with materialism in the modern age.

In my case as I dance around the question my answer is I have enough money to do most anything I want to do and I came by it the old fashioned ways ...... I worked for most of it ..... inherited some of it .... and didn't get any of it from criminal activities (that I can talk about). That is my story and I am sticking to it.

Occupation: Retired - curmudgeon in training

Cheers,

Neal

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

rides a cervelo-- P2C
wears Asics--Nike or New balance (depends on distance)
compression socks--yes 2 pairs. only for 1/2 and fully marrys though, no tri's
torn between one piece or two depending on length of race--two piece
uses Zipps-- i wish
probably a wheelcover--nope
definitely powermeter--negative
possibly powercranks--no sir
does flipturns-- im not even coordinated enough to do that :p
shaves legs usually--never will I

Male 22
income: Senior in college, broke after my P2C purchase, and im a future teacher (zipp will never be in my future :( oh well)

45 yo married w/ 2 kids
drive imports, didn't vote for Obama
Race on Scott Plasma , train on Tarmac and Stumpjumper
Have run in almost any shoe, lately Newtons
Compression socks
Aero Helmet
1 piece Tri suit, mix it up for X-terras
Shave legs, trim arms & chest
(with all the above I do not advertise race pictures to friends or acquaintances !! )
Zipps
Wheelcover
PowerTap
Garmin 305
Trainingpeaks WKO+to chew on above data
no powercranks
do flip turns from background of swimming


That is a lot of Tri toys...but I have taken a few years to build them all up. I figure I put maybe 3-5k a year into the sport
including travel and fees. That is not chump change...but it is less than what a lot of people spend on boats, horses, golf
fishing or many other diversions. I once heard a speaker at a conference total up his boat and fishing gear divided by # of fish
and it worked out to about $900 / Bass :-)

I often wonder what 25 year old me would have done with my current gear budget. I raced my first tri 20 years ago on a $500 REI
bike with basketball shoes because I couldn't afford bike shoes. I ran a 3:10 (strait) marathon then, so the motor was pretty good.
The sweet spot was probably somewhere in my 30's, but with young kids and the internet boom, I wasn't training & racing much.

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" I take my gear out of my car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of of their lives shocks me. "
(opening lines from Tim Krabbe's The Rider , 1978

* Male
* Age: 36
* Married: Not currently, but thinking of giving it a second shot here in the near future.
* Kids: 2 boys currently 8 and 10.
* Household income: North of 100K.
* Rides a Cervelo: Trek
* Wears Asics: Brooks
* uses Zipps: No
* Aero helmet: No
* Wheelcover: No, but will probably have one for the 2009 season
* Powermeter: Not yet.
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: No
* One piece or two: One piece.
* Does flipturns: Only when my training partner needs a good laugh.
* Shaves legs usually: You're supposed to shave LEGS? My LBS told me all the cool kids were getting Brazillian wax these days. No wonder they smile every time I go in.
* Thinning hair: Not yet, but I assume under the dye it's getting quite grey.

Age: 42
* Married: comon law
* Kids: 4 1/2 year old, in the jogger/ bike trailer
* Household income: below average
* Rides a Cervelo: Trek 2300, Rocky Mtn. Element and a Dave Scott steel bike
* Wears Asics: New Balance
* uses Zipps: Rolf's
* Aero helmet: Like Giro
* Wheelcover: no
* Powermeter: no
* Powercranks: No
* Compression socks: No
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Rock'n it in a speedo, well Orca really
* Does flipturns: Sometimes
* Shaves legs usually: Waxing
* Thinning hair: not really,

I'm a 42 year old male.

I must not be ST approved since I don't ride a Cervelo, would buy Heds instead of Zipps but have Spinergy Stealths (although I do have a cover), have only run in Asics once in the past 20 years, always wear a 2-piece racing outfit, do flip turns and train old school without a power metre/cranks or HRM.

Compression socks? You've got to be kidding. If I was close to a podium at Kona and thought they might get me there I might consider them ..... otherwise the hassle of putting them on during the race and the fact that they look absolutely stupid will keep me "sockless" for the majority of my races.

I ride a Kestrel Talon and make $560000/year teaching high school mathematics (ok .... slight inflation of my income but some of the kids at school believe me when I tell them that is how much I make).

I ride a Kestrel Talon and make $560000/year teaching high school mathematics

If the kids believe you make $560,000/year teaching high school mathematics, you need smarter kids.

-Jot

Age: 47
Married: Yes
Kids: Yes, 2, one of each
Household income: 100+
Rides a Cervelo: '08 QR caliente, 1991 kestrel 200ems
Wears Asics: Adidas
uses Zipps: Real Design Supersonic aka Flashpoint 60 w/Real hubs
Aero helmet: No, i'm not fast enough
Wheelcover: No, i'm not fast enough
Powermeter: No, but it might help me get fast enough for an aero helmet and wheelcover(and possibly shave)
Powercranks: No, they do sound _interesting_ though
Compression socks: Not
One piece or two depending on length of race: New Desoto 1 piece tri suit for '09. otherwise bibs and 'normal' jersey
Does flipturns: No, i am a sinker
Shaves legs usually: No, i'm not fast enough
Thinning hair: No, why is this important?

second year in triathlons. '07 bike leg only, '08 bike and run. time to learn how to swim?

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"...I try not to ever ride as slow as 20mph. ;) ... And even more than that, I don't race with a speedometer. My computer is set up to show Power // Cadence // Time. I don't actually ever know how fast I'm going. I only know that if I'm in 53/11, and it takes more than 100rpm to hit my target watts, it's time to coast." - Jordan Rapp on '09 IMC

* Age: 23
* Married: No
* Kids: They creep my out... No
* Household income: 60K
* Rides a Cervelo: P2C, Specialized dolce
* Wears Asics: yes, and brooks, and nike
* uses Zipps: Nope.. too poor after paying student loans
* Aero helmet: Ha, no.. they look ridiculous.
* Wheelcover: No
* Powermeter: Nope
* Powercranks: Nope
* Compression socks: Around the house and at work for recovery. Not during a race or training
* Torn between one piece or two depending on length of race: Always a 2 piece
* Does flipturns: Depends on my mood. By myself, always.. Masters swim.. not usually.
* Shaves legs: All the time... I'm a girl. For what its worth, I shave my arms too, because I like the way it feels in the water :)
* Thinning hair: no