Do you remember...

[shouldbeinbed]

Another bunch of firsts were related to my 3rd bike, age 10/11 ( An Elswick Whirlwind, 5 speed, my first with a drop handlebar, gold and blue colour beauty). I was tootling along talking to the first girl I took a proper liking to, as we got close to her house I said bye and started showing off to impress her (yes I know better now) no hands, foot off the pedals, stood up, looking backwards waving. Turned round and put a spurt of pedalling in, first proper crash on a bike straight into the back of her dads car parked outside their house. First time I broke my nose & the bike & as I was lying there in the road she was laughing like a mad thing & saying how her dad would kill me if I'd messed his car up.

I never did ask her out after that, I was far too fearful of her dad.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I later had the Raleigh Chopper. Distinguished me from the others, who had Schwinn Stingrays.

 

[Dragonwight]

Some vague memories of stabilizers when i was around 5ish and then around 7 a brown bike with white tyres & saddle found on some wasteland which we were forever building den`s on. I remember my first accident clear as day going over the handlebars of a bike meant for someone much older and removing every bit of skin on my face nearly. I could still kill the kid who kicked that ball in front of me. Oh and my first proper bike a new chopper in black with flames it got nicked along with my brothers bike 2 days after Christmas.

 

[oldroadman]

I remember the first time i got one of these ,, it was the best and worse day of my life...nothing to do with cycling but the the title "do you remember your first time" brought back the memory View attachment 35472

Watney's Red Barrel - long after it was stopped in UK, Belgium still had it. I think at one point they sponsored a team in Belgium. Luckily consumption of the horrible stuff was not compulsory.. As was said at the time, don't take the p..ss out of Red Barrel, it needs all the flavour it can get!
First proper rides were on hire bikes at a site where the family had a caravan. Riding a "sports" bike (i.e. handlebars cahnged to drops, single freewheel) over the grass roads around the site and the rough farm roads locally. Great fun, after that parents gave in and riding started in earnest on a heavy old thing with a three-speed hub gear. Freedom at 11!

 

[glenn forger]

I rode straight out of the womb. (Well, it was a womb with a view).

 

[lesley_x]

Going downstairs on Christmas morning to a little beauty of a bike in the middle of the living room. It was pink with a rear wheel cover that said 'free as a bird' on it