What was your first bike?

sonny73
sonny73 Posts: 2,203
edited September 2009 in The bottom bracket
Having ridden many a hand me down etc. my dad bought me a second hand Grifter, the first bike that was properly mine; pic not the exact one.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12644766
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    That'll teach me to come home from the boozer and post a thread without reading others :wink:
  • Mothyman
    Mothyman Posts: 655
    Sonny73 wrote:
    That'll teach me to come home from the boozer and post a thread without reading others :wink:

    ... I know what you mean....I've only come up with one original thread since joining.....ha ha.....

    ps -i rode a bike at 4yr - a raleigh which had brakes when pedalling backwards... learnt to skid and wear out tyres
  • fatblokefromwarwick
    fatblokefromwarwick Posts: 331
    Wouldn't listen to my old man when he said a smaller front wheel is unstable and pestered him for one of these Tomahawk's
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    He gave in and soon after i took out my two front teeth and split my bottom lip open :cry:
  • FCE2007
    FCE2007 Posts: 962
    Puch Clubleader 10 speed. Simplex gearing. It ended up as a 'field' bike :cry:
    Powered by Haribo.
  • Sevenfold
    Sevenfold Posts: 86
    First bike I can really remember was a 5 speed Carlton Corsa in red circa 1973. Used it for going to/from school until the back wheel was clipped by a moped leaving me on the floor, knocked out with a huge lump on the back of my head...put me off bikes for a bit. Next new bike was a Falcon Laser in white circa 1990 which I still have but don't use currently as it needs a new BB & I have not got round to it. I now use a mountain bike (Claude Butler Cape Wrath) for commuting (slicks not knobblies) & have plans to buy a new road bike, budget & other half permitting!
  • beatsystem
    beatsystem Posts: 118
    a SUN Massed start
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Raleigh Esquire :oops:
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • Barkiesnake
    Barkiesnake Posts: 244
    1973 5 speed peugeot racer. loved it.
    have recently bought one the same from ebay. :lol:
    "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, your right" Henry Ford
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    Raleigh Boxer, a yellow one. Didn't have BMX in those days, you went scrambling instead!

    First "racer" was a Falcon, it was decked out in faux sponsors logo's. Supposedly to celebrate the Milk Race. Obviously it was lashed together by the shop with whatever stickers were lying about. It had a cottered steel crank, steel everything except the Simplex rear mech, that was plastic. I remember cos the day I got it I threw the rear mech thru the rear spokes because it wasn't adjusted right. That's Halfords for you, aahh somethings never change. This would be 85. All the fun in the world for £99.

    I remember fitting QR skewers to it and chopping off the brake lever extension things. That's when ( in my own mind) I turned pro!
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    I was always handed down my older sisters bikes. Raleigh Striker then a Grifter. But my first bike which was truly mine was a Holdsworth Avanti bought brand new for £199 at a shop called BikeUK in Kings Cross, London in 1983. I saved for just under a year to buy it when I was 13 years old. It was painted a deep red, and as we all know, red bikes go faster...

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    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • sicknote
    sicknote Posts: 901
    My first was a Raleigh arena which got me every where and had one of the hard plastic seat, which did not bother me too much at the time :shock:
  • pepelepew
    pepelepew Posts: 180
    Sicknote wrote:
    My first was a Raleigh arena which got me every where and had one of the hard plastic seat, which did not bother me too much at the time :shock:

    I had a Raleigh Arena as well. Nice metallic blue, with those short mudguards. WTF were they about! Rode it to death when I was a kid, then replaced it with a 10 speed celeste Bianchi. Thought it was the dogs.
    Det. Sgt. George Carter: Do you know what, Jack? You're full of sh!t.
    Det. Insp. Jack Regan: I thought it was about time you made an intellectual contribution to this debate.
    Det. Sgt. George Carter: Boll@cks.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I had a bobcat with 'Coaster Brake' when I was 4 then upgraded to a Raleigh Strika at 6 complete with false front suspension mouldings.
  • Leesykoi
    Leesykoi Posts: 338
    Yellow Raleigh Boxer, then Grifter then onwards to the heady world of BMX....

    I believe i had one of the first DP Firebird Freestylers in the UK.....haha gave it to a young cousin for nowt, little was it to know they were to become quite collectable !!!!!
    I like shiny bikes - especially Italian ones.....!!
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    NapoleonD wrote:
    I had a bobcat with 'Coaster Brake' when I was 4 then upgraded to a Raleigh Strika at 6 complete with false front suspension mouldings.
    That'll be this one:
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    Googled, I'm afraid – that's not my pic. My top buddy had a Striker, I got a Trail Blazer... and I'm fairly sure I had shoes like this poor sod too.

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