Who rides bikes where you live?

35% "homeless"
35% "casual/family"
15% "cyclists"
10% "hipsters"
5% "commuters"
 

Hmm..probably 50% Roadies (Probably 50/50 between serious teams and guys like me) 25% mountain bikers and 25% causal riders (mom and dad with the kids or cruisers)

On a summer weekend in my town I will see literally hundreds of bike, four or five large groups, and almost everyone riding for fitness.  Of course evening you see the cruisers and on the bike paths you see the families.

50% bar drunks on cruisers (I may or may not be included)

25% roadies

20% TTs

5% all others

you can get DUI on a bicycle here!  the drunks walk their bikes home.

I definitely have seen a hipster or two riding one of these:

Oh you can here too but miraculously and thankfully they seem to leave the cruiser groups alone so long as they aren't acting like complete idiots in the middle of the street.  

Pretty much everybody, although the number is getting fewer and fewer as more people can afford cars

And next week,  THESE GUYS!  

Stage 5 goes right past my office!  I'm going to get the kids from school early so we can watch them go by!

50% people who have crashed

50% people who will crash

I think this is probably pretty close, except take out hipsters and replace it with retirees. The number of homeless on bikes is increasing.

It's hard for me to put percentages on it, but I do look out my window at one of the bike trails in town so I get to watch people all day.  

My guess

50% mountain bikes out for a leisure stroll on the trail
20% Tri bikes (lot of Triathletes around here)
20% road bikes kitted out
9% kids (see more skate boards and razors than bikes)
<1% Communter bikes (I'm trying to think if I've ever seen anybody commute on a bike around here)

I thought this was a great question and forwarded it to the mailing list for Bike Club of Philadelphia. Will be interesting to see what kind of response there is. Here's my guess. Being a city I'd say it varies widely depending on time of day and day of the week. On the weekend the river drives are closed (Saturday there is a time trial) and it's 100% roadies, triathletes, and recreational riders.

5% Delivery guys
10% Bike messengers
50% commuters
10% roadies
5% triathletes
5% recreational riders
15% hipsters on fixies

0.003% kids out having fun (sadly)

0.0001%  adults out having fun (might be high, actually)

0.0001% triathletes riding hard but having fun  (guess who!)

0.0001% roadies having fun  (ditts, yo)

1% triathletes with scowls training to qualify for something or beat their friends  (Ahem... OK, there might be some overlap with the above two) 

~97% uptight roadies on WICKED expensive bikes who regret not having been pro's in their 20's.  Or 30's.  Or 40's...  You get the idea.

1% serious cyclist of all types with great attitudes.

There are a crazy number of riders around here, but most are roadies and most don't **look** like they're having any fun (but I know they are - all part of the experience).  Some segments within a mile or two of my house have been riding by thousands of people.  It does make a Strava KOM a bit more satisfying (to the extent Strava bling satisfies...  )

Even with the sourpusses, though, I have to say it's great to see so many people being active.  THOUSANDS of cyclists in town on any given nice weekend day.

Matt

lol, I was at one of our local bike shops last summer and everyone was oogling around a $16k road bike that was custom ordered in.  I asked the guy behind the counter:  "Let me guess, the buyer weighs 200 lbs."  He laughed at me and said:"oh no, he's a lot heavier than that".

10% Kids running around the subdivision

20% leisure riders - older couples on upright cruisers or cheapie mountain bikes cruising along at 7 MPH

15% Vehicularly challenged relying on a bicycle to get to Point B

15% Tri-Dorks out on their $3500 Tri-bikes in full Tri-Gear riding in aero between the stop signs a quarter mile apart on the MUP and sounding like the guy from the "Sh*t Triathletes Say" video

40% Freds getting in their 25-40 mile Sunday morning rides provided it's not to hot/cold/windy/rainy

Depending on the day, I fit in to one of three of these categories.  But if I'm running, they're all listed above.

In Vegas you get the few neighborhood kids.  The even fewer Sunday morning take the hybrid/beach cruiser bike out.  The Vegas strip bike cops and parking garage security.  The occasional triathlete and the occasional "I don't have a car/license" commuter.  But MOST are typical recreational/club riders with full kits and average to good bikes.

I may be because it's typically too hot to comfortably ride in Vegas, so unless you HAVE to (for work or lack of other transportation) the people that ride are serious enough about it to want to do it even if it's 100+ degrees.