your first bike?

[runner]

anyone remember their first bike....mine was a dawes kingpin and acquired as an xmas pressie in 1967....didn't we all get a bike for xmas at some time

 

[Soltydog]

Mine was a Raleigh Mayflower. found some old pics a while back of it & posted one HERE
I did a google search on it & found 1 for sale, but it was £80 & the wrong colour

 

[runner]

looking good soltydog

 

[HLaB]

Mine was a Raleigh, I think it was a birdy. It was a bit like a small chopper, my brother had one of those till I inherited it. Unfortunately it got nicked; I'm probably a bit over the top on bike security now but touch wood Ive never had a bike nicked since.

No it was a chipper, something like this:

with a bit more googling I realised it was the smaller one a Chippy:

So my first proper bike was the chopper.

 

[Bman]

I was lucky (I suppose, in retrospect). I got a Raleigh Burner BMX when I was about 6, (1987) for my birthday

Its bringing back memories just thinking about it. I learnt to ride on that bike

Cant find a picture though. I guess i'll have to go through the old photo albums!

Edit: Ahh ha! It was a "Mini Burner"

http://bmxmuseum.com/image/dsc05700_lg.jpg
but that pic has had the padding removed
http://www.re-buy-cycle.co.uk/uploads/82/L/0.jpg

 

[Cathryn]

I had a blue bike from the police pound. I called him Speedygonzales. He rocked!

 

[hackbike 666]

I think my first was a Dawes which was nicked from outside my house in the 70's,then I got a Kalkhoff from Martins Mart,Leytonstone,which lasted into the early 80's.

 

[runner]

mine was a kingpin like this one....remember that stand oh so well

 

[col]

My first for going to school was a hurcules hunter, blue it was, I was ten at the time, then followed the raleigh scorpio five speed, then I got into the kalkoff coup de mond If i remember the name correctly, I was fifteen by then I think?

 

[eldudino]

My first bike that I can remember was a 20" wheel Peugeot 10 speed road bike like this one

Despite going faster than all my mates, all I wanted was a BMX!

 

[Origamist]

Raleigh Budgie

 

[lazyfatgit]

It was some sort of triang, with balloon tyres and a rod front brake. Must have been at least 3rd hand. Learned to ride just after 4th birthday.
Got an upgrade on 7th Xmas to a raleigh tomahawk.

 

[col]

Hey hey Iv found a pic.

 

[runner]

if i'm being really honest my first bike was not a kingpin but rather a bike my father found. I grew up in Northern Ireland surrounded by fields and open countryside. One day my dad came home and said "got a bike for you"...and he produced this old road bike that had been dumped in a ditch! I loved it...i painted it dark red...and put racing stripes on it...it was far too big for me..but as a young lad i did not care....i have a lasting memory of me playing an harmonic ( i kid you not ) on the bike ( no hands ) and and cycling along merrily....until the inevitable happened i fell off...ah what memories.....

 

[runner]

love the bike col...looks fantastic...remind me what it is