My pre adult bike history…

Raleigh Pixie 😀
Raleigh Tomahawk 😀
Raleigh Meteor (drop handled 5 speed “racer”) 😀
Peugeot POS (10 speed racer that fell apart and went back to the shop) 🙁
Dawes Jaguar (proper 10 speed road bike) 😀

…then when I had to buy them myself

Specialized Rockhopper 😀
Scott Octane 😀
Specialized FSR 😀
On-One Inbred 😀
Planet-X Uncle John 😀

Raleigh striker, and looked on as the other kids had cool Choppers or grifters.. spent the next 10 years getting hand-me-down bikes… shoppers/racers/racer with cow bars..

How did I managed to become a reasonably adjusted adult without trendy clothes (did have hand-me-down bell-bottom flares) or toys as a child? 😈

Raleigh something blue and bit girly
Raleigh Chrome Burner 😀
Marin Muirwoods (spoilt child!)

Grifter, yeah baby

yellow raleigh boxer.
My dads old POS flat barred 3speeder, too big + badly setup SA hub = plenty of groin/top tube interfaces.
Old white racer I bought off my mate (raleigh milk race?) managed a few trips up rivi.
emmelle californian.
kirk revolution.
then some proper bikes.

Infact I was only bought the boxer, 1 new bike 1 cast off then all my own hard work, oooooh i got ripped off there I reckon, I bloody hated my spoiled peers 😈

As bought by my Dad, who used to ride fixed wheel road bikes in the 1950s:-

Releigh Strika, my first “new” bike
Stratton BMX, a monumentally terrible BMXalike with great gobs of welding runoff hanging off the frame like warts.
Raleigh Winner 5 speed
Peugeot Racer

By my ex:

Francisco Moser road bike

By me:

Spesh Rockhopper
Spesh Enduro
Marin Wolf Ridge
Marin Rock Springs

Ahh memories—-
Raleigh Tomahawk
Falcocross BMX with red anodised bits
Raleigh Mustang
A FOUR wheeled Raleigh Boxer!! (Went OK in a straight line) 😆

a black and gold bmx that said Harrier on it if i remember right, great wee bike, I learned everything i know on that thing!:D Think i must have had something before that though, as i remember riding it on christmas day, but i don’t remember learning how to ride.

then i got shady a 18″ 18 speed white raleigh marauder “mountain” bike, horribly heavy and far too big for me, considering my current bike is 16.5″, still loved it at the time.

after that i finally got my hands on my brothers saracen eiger, that i loved, felt like the lightest bike in the world compared to the previous ones, i rode that off and on until i eventually bought my current bike in early 2007.

a shite BMX
a lurid Emmelle
a black Raleigh Mohawk
a huge Marin Bolinas Ridge

then I bought my own bikes after that