Your very first ride

[davdandy]

On the back of a comment earlier i thought i would start a thread (i hope it hasnt already been done) showing the first ride you ever took.Childhood excepted.

When: 19th Sept 2012

Distance: A whopping 4.8 miles.

Average: A lightning fast 7.5 mph.

Health: I was totally goosed,that half way i stopped for a 15 minute breather.

 

[Dayvo]

Probably a few hundred yards around the back room in Jan. 1963 on my first bike, (a trike) as the weather outside was too bad to be out in.

Although I was told this, as I was only three-years old.

 

[cosmicbike]

Mid 2011 on my then new Boardman MTB. I had debated going for the hybrid, but in the end prefered the look of the mountain bike. My Dad took me for a gentle refresher, 20 miles starting with the steepest hill locally. Given I hadn't riden a bike in 20 years, smoked 20 a day and did no exercise it nearly killed me. The afternoon was spent asleep on the sofa.
Well and truly bitten though, much to the disgust of the bank balance

 

[Saluki]

My parents always told me that when given a Triang tricycle when I was really little, I rode around and around the back garden for ages then came in for a ribena and then went back out again and rode some more. They told me (I don't remember this at all) that I was found asleep on the bike and they lifted me off and put me to bed and that I didn't so much as twitch.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I was 11 and had got a much wanted bike for Christmas. I couldn't really ride - a few wobbly rides in the street on a friends bike, was about the extent of my experience up until then.
The week after Christmas, my brother was sent to the paper shop to get the Sunday papers, and was told to take me along. I wanted to ride my bike, and so begins the tale of my first ride!
I wobbled all the way up the street and fell off a few times. My brother didn't wait on me or help me - he was at that age of not wanting to admit I was with him (he was 18).
On the way back it was the same. My brother shouted at me all the way back and right before we got home, he pushed me....I wobbled dramatically and fell sideways into a womans' hedge, still clinging on to the bike.

And here endeth my first ride....well more a take of my first 'offs'

 

[welsh dragon]

I was 7 and my parents bought me a bright red tricycle with streamers on the handlebars. My brothers who were 6 and 8 years older rhan me jumped on the back and pushed me at breakneck speed down the pavement with me screaming my head off. They were laughing at me screaming because they thought it was funny.

Then I didnt get on a bike for 45 years. That was last year. How far did I go? A few hundred yards. How fast? Not much at all. And the result? I was knackered after 20 mins, couldn't breathe, thought I was having a heart attack. Thought my lungs were going to burst, and my bum was killing me.... but I'm still getting out there.

 

[davdandy]

Guys,i said childhood excepted.I was referring to rides since you took the hobby up seriously,in recent times not as young sprogs.

 

[ColinJ]

On the back of a comment earlier i thought i would start a thread (i hope it hasnt already been done) showing the first ride you ever took.Childhood excepted.

My first adult ride was to get back from work in Burnley having had to work late and missed my lift home. A colleague lent me his bike and I rode it back, which was a bit of a baptism by fire. This is the profile of the route back ...

The first lumpy 10 km were hard work and by the time I got to the long downhill to Todmorden my bum was killing me so I had to stand up for most of the final 14 km!

 

[Saluki]

Guys,i said childhood excepted.I was referring to rides since you took the hobby up seriously,in recent times not as young sprogs.

Oh right.
Well, boringly it was on a blue Halfords Apollo XC26 that I got for free (I really overpaid for that bloomin' thing) and I rode from Anchor Road in Stoke on Trent down to the Berryfields Cyclepath to the end then round on the path and then back. About 3.5 miles and it was fine. Hubster was totally knackered on his mens XC26 (red one, also free).
We didn't fall off or wobble or anything, although it didn't feel terribly safe riding down the slight hill.

Not as much fun as that Triang that I had. Not nearly as pretty either.

 

[raleighnut]

I inherited my cousins old 3 wheel cycle (same one I got the Carlton from) after his sister had finished with it when I was about 3 1/2 rode it every where and terrorised people on it. Learnt to ride a 2 wheeler on it by lifting the idler rear wheel into the air. Then straight onto a 2 wheeler whilst the trike was passed down to first one sister then the next then on to the next door neighbours kids.
Now the wheel has come full circle with me now on my new Trike cos the specialist/consultant won't let me ride a 2 wheeler yet.

 

[CopperCyclist]

Picked up Father in Laws old Orange mountain bike from his house and cycled it back to mine. Wanted to try commuting in to save some cash.

It was just over nine miles, and I almost died halfway up a hill at one point. I felt sick, weak, had to stop and sit on the grass verge for a good few minutes, wondering if I was going to be able to make it home...

Funnily, that 'Hill' I would now describe as what it is, a very short, and not even particularly steep bump in the road!

 

[mark c]

After 29 year break me and the better half bought two mtb,s mine for £60 and hers a pricey £100, The first trip of 12 miles nearly killed us it took a week for my legs to stop aching, and that the last hill (m5 motorway bridge or The Col de M5) was a get of and push.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I had about 18 months of not riding much when I left home & got stuck into student life.

Back in the saddle properly was not long after dropping out of my course for the lure of filthy lucre and needing to get to work at silly hours & realising how much fun it still was. It was a gentle ease back in as I was still living in studentville Manchester so the traffic more than the hills were the thing to get used to again. Then I moved out to the lumpier bits.

 

[srw]

One of my earliest memories is of sitting on a child seat on the back of my mum's bike going round a roundabout in Newcastle. As an adult I almost never stopped riding - my parrents didn't get a car until I was a teenager, so it was my usual method of transport.

For about 6 or 7 years after starting work I did nothing other than my 5-mile commute on my Brompton, then stopped for a few months. Soon after I started again (July 2005 - not a coincidence) I got myself a Dawes Sardar which was too small for me. The first ride I did was about 8 miles.

 

[Dayvo]

Guys,i said childhood excepted.I was referring to rides since you took the hobby up seriously,in recent times not as young sprogs.

Are you SURE?

Methinks there was a bit of sneaky editing!