a Raleigh 'Bullet' bike, was silver, yellow and red (faded due to being second hand and passed down from my brother)
Learnt to ride on our road / the occasional trip to the shops - dad ran 1/4 mile pretending to hold onto the seat, we got onto our road, he let go, I promptly fell over.
a later attempt at learning to brake (having learnt to ride) I decided that the brake was too complicated and that the back end of a reliant robin (blue) would stop me much more effectively
it did, so effectively that it hurt.