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What was your first bike?

35 posts & 33 voices | Started 5 months ago by seosamh77 | Latest reply from pickle

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seosamh77 - Member

I had one of these I think, or a copy of it maybe. Pretty sure my foam things actually said harrier on them and it had gold bars as well as the gold wheels. Absolutely loved it, though I do remember it being a heavy bugger! Standard bolts were very quickly swapped to trick nuts front and back!

Though I don't think this one was my first bike, I don't remember anything before it. But i could ride this on christmas day, so I must've learned on something else(I'll need to ask that question actually!).

Anyhow, what's the first bike you remember having?

Posted 5 months ago #
colournoise - Member

First thing I remember riding was a trike with a giant breadbin type 'boot' that I used to go and get stuff from the local village shop with when I was about 4.

First bike (as in 2 wheels not 3) that I remember riding was one like this (in this colour). Wheelie mad fun!

Dad was a lorry mechanic/sprayer at the time so later had it resprayed flake blue with custom stickers.

slainte rob

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boltonjon - Member

A Marlboro Zapper BMX

No wonder i struggle with smoking now!!

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jockthestore - Member

Not this one, but it was deffo a Peugeot... not bad for it's day I wrecon. About 1988?

Posted 5 months ago #
buttercup - Member

First bike I ever bought. Late 90's. Hade a super swish blue camo paint job. Couldn't help myself.

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racefaceec90 - Member

it was a blue tricycle with a pink elephant sticker on the (white) seat.it was gnarly dude (well it was when you were 2-3 years old

Posted 5 months ago #
kerv - Member

This is the first proper bike I can remember. Santa brought me this (not this particular one), a good few years ago now!

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bigbloke - Member

My first bike was a generic BMX with black frame/fork , chrome bars and red pads. That was back in 1985/86 iirc. I enjoyed that christmas

Posted 5 months ago #
ask1974 - Member

Grifter.

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senor j - Member

Raleigh Boxer , but I did have one with solid rubber tyres before that come to think of it. But I was too small to lift it up.

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flashes - Member

My Dad bought me a second hand 20" wheeled purple girls bike one Christmas, it went down at school.................not

I too had a trike with a huge boot when I was about 4. I was so excited, I rode it down the stairs............

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Bregante - Member

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Rusty Shackleford - Member

This bad boy...

Posted 5 months ago #
boltonjon - Member

Rusty

My mate had one of them - i was so jealous because i thought he had suspension...

I bet i've got more suspension that him now!!

Posted 5 months ago #
samuri - Member

First bike (as opposed to tricycle) I remember was a chipper.
Then a chopper.

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kayak23 - Member

Ammaco Freestyle King was the first bike I properly remember being very, very excited about.
I learned all sorts of 'stunts', my forte being to ride along and climb onto the double top-tube and surf no-handed a-la this bloke...

Amazing bike, brings a tear to me eye to wonder what became of it.

Then later, A Peugeot Aubisque in Bright yellow. The first bike I (mostly) bought myself with a 'little' help from me Mum after saving up from a paper round. Used to go in the shop every few days to look at it standing there. They must have been sick of the sight of me...

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kayak23 - Member

First bike (as opposed to tricycle) I remember was a chipper.
Then a chopper.

The Chipper was the girls version wasn't it? My sister had one. It was amazing for wheelies...

Posted 5 months ago #
ElShalimo - Member

Being the youngest I always got hand-me-downs
my first ever bike just for me was 5spd Peugeot racer in the mid-80s
The first bike I paid for was a 1990? blue 20" GT Timberline with mixed groupset of Shimano 400LX and 500LX. Loved that bike. Gave it to a friend in 2005 for dog walking duties. I wish I had it now.

Posted 5 months ago #
Crag - Member

Raleigh Tomahawk here.

Not big enough for the Chopper so it's little brother had to do. Loved that bike.

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IHN - Member

First bike that was actually bought for me was a Raleigh Boxer in about 1979:

Posted 5 months ago #
Angus Wells - Member

The tank top was optional. I was more worried about catching my flares in the chain.

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wheelie77 - Member

I had a hand me down from... MY SISTER! My dad did try and man it up a bit for me though by painting it black and gold and calling it the golden sabre, bless him! I need to find a picture of it to post here, it will give you all a giggle!

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julianwilson - Member

My first bike was a fixie! Mind you, it also had 12" wheels, solid rubber tyres and stabilisers.

First 'mountain bike' was a black to fluo-pink fade Townsend Equaliser. I rode it all over the place! Every so often whilst out on a 'proper' mountain bike with suspension and big tyres, I get my teeth rattled on some trail and then remember riding the same trail 20 years ago on my old 1.8" tyred steel 35lb monster, and then have a little word with myself.

Posted 5 months ago #
joao3v16 - Member

No idea what my first bike actually was - all I remember is it was purple and yellow with white/grey solid rubber tyres.

Think I ended up using the wheels to make a go-kart.

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ade ward - Member

I wanted a chopper as all my mates had one , eneded up with a STD Raleigh 24 inch wheels didnt even have gears , but when we all got into bike rides I did see the advantage ,
Then had a number of 5 and 10 speed racers used to cycle with Luton arrows,

First mountain bike was 86 kona cinder cone great little bike,

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epo-aholic - Member

as a kid a raleigh strika, proper bike was a marin palisades as a 17 year old

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rewski - Member

I had something that looked a bit like a chopper, a stick shift but had a more american cruiser look. The sort of bike the red hand gang would ride. Wish I still had it, can't find any pics on google either.

Posted 5 months ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

Raleigh Pixie from in about 1972.

Solid tyres, hard plastic seat and a pull rod brake. Awesome.

Posted 5 months ago #
anotherdeadhero - Member

This is me on my first bike - a fixie none the less! Complete with Postman Pat slippers ...

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ashfanman - Member

My first was a tiny thing called the Red Pippin (no idea on the manufacturer) that I had from two up to the age of four. I then had a rad neon green BMX with green plastic wheels and bright green tyres. Might have been called the Invader or something?

I then got my first MTB - an Emmelle Leopard that was so heavy I'm convinced it was made of pig iron. It already had a shocking multicolour neon paintjob, but I obviously decided it wasn't garish enough as I added an aero wheel cover that was black with bright yellow lightning all over it. Just looking at it while stationary was enough to induce nausea - God knows what that disc looked like while it was spinning.

But I guess my first 'proper' bike was a fully rigid Carrera B52. It was made of huuuge oversized aluminium (scratch that - it was aerospace aluminium) tubing and had toe clips and weird rubber-coated bars with integrated barends. I still have it holed away in my parents' garage. I actually spruced it up (and replaced those godawful bars with a cheap EA30 riser) and took it for a ride last summer. Not anywhere near as light as I remember it being (it's amazing how much lighter bikes have got in the past 15 years), but it was actually lot of fun. It felt very, very fast - particularly when trying to slow down with V-brakes...

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mrblobby - Member

Raleigh budgie for me... followed a few years later by a cast iron tubed grifter...

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retro83 - Member

Raleigh Mag Buster. Awesome bike

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Kevevs - Member

Raleigh Boxer. brilliant for wheelies and making farty noises with the rear mudguard.

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Mintyjim - Member

I had a Budgie too! I snapped the frame after nailing a jump I made in the garden aged 5, I cried, but quickly recovered when I got a second-hand chopper that was way too big for me.

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pickle - Member

Mine was a freemans catalogue Raleigh Burner GS, i loved that bike to bits!!

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