What age did you ?

[biggs682]

I have no idea. Very young at a guess, the picture of a naked me on a yellow tricycle is buried somewhere (thankfully).

Are you sure it's not facebook ?

 

[Drago]

5 or 6, slightly late but not terribly so.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I had a 3 wheel trike when i was about 2-21/2 most kids did in the 60s
About 4 when my sister pushed me off on two wheels which ended with me going straight into a sycamore tree.. Outside our house.
Never looked back

 

[Illaveago]

Ooops! I thought the thread was about the first bike owned. Obviously I had to be taught how to ride at a much earlier age than 12 but I can't remember how old I was or what the bike was (probably about 4 or 5). I do remember my dad walking along with me and at some stage letting go of the saddle. I went to tell him something and got no answer - he had let go and I didn't even notice!

I can remember that experience. But how did we progress from there ?

 

[further]

7th birthday

 

[Electric_Andy]

5

 

[Paulus]

It was a few days after my 5th Birthday, my Mum and Dad got me my first small two wheeled bike for my birthday. No stabilisers.

 

[oldwheels]

I set off from my grandparents in Pathhead, Midlothian aged about 3 on my trike to visit an auntie some distance away. I got beyond the bridge over the Tyne ( I think) before the police got me and took me back in a police car to where I started from.

 

[MontyVeda]

Can't remember learning to ride and can't remember having the stabilisers removed... so I'm guessing it must have been around 4 or 5 years old. Thanks Dad!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Must have been when I was 4 or 5, a pink bike with solid tyres, never had stabilizer's, taught to ride by my Dad

 

[Smudge]

There is one particular bicycle from my childhood that i've always remembered, and it wasn't my bike.
I would have been about 9 or 10 at the time around the late 60's, and cant even remember what bike i had back then. But i got matey with a lad that lived near us that had Polish parents. This lads dad had made him a bicycle from an old moped. I remember at the time thinking it was the coolest thing ever, newly spray painted at the time in bright red. Until i had a go on it one day, damn that thing weighed a ton. This lads father obviously couldn't afford to buy his son a bike and must have put a lot of time and effort engineering this scrap moped into a push bike. It looked like a fat bike, decades before fat bikes were a thing.

 

[Brains]

I remember riding my trike down the terrace we moved out of when I was about 3

It was in a terrace of brand new houses as they all looked the same, and not being able to count meant, I rode down several houses and was unable to find 'my' house to go back to, I had visions of never being found by the family!

I rode for the first time without stabilisers on the lawn of a house we moved out of when I was 7, so I guess 5 or 6 ?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Probably about 9 or 10. Though i had those kid trikes before then,but i don't think they count.

 

[Beebo]

I set off from my grandparents in Pathhead, Midlothian aged about 3 on my trike to visit an auntie some distance away. I got beyond the bridge over the Tyne ( I think) before the police got me and took me back in a police car to where I started from.

And nowadays the social services would be getting involved.

 

[Racing roadkill]

I was riding around in my mums womb ( before I was born, not recently, I’m not some sort of deviant), the ultrasound was hilarious, apparently.