Oldest rider = 70. Think he said his name was Lee, from White Horse, Yukon.
6/10 ride a Surly on the Baja DIvide.
7/10 ride on 29+ 3.0 tires. My 29 x 2.6 seem to be the thinnest out there.
8/10 have a Brooks saddle. I don?t know why.
1/10 have drop bars. I did not like them, until I rode a few hundred miles north and into the wind on Mex 1.
In the old days I would never see another rider on the back roads. But would see groups riding down Mex 1 every day or two.
This year I saw 1 rider with panniers on Mex 1 and 10 or more riding the gravel roads.