Tea? (Part 3)
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IDMark2
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Actually I didn't have a Chopper, wasn't big enough (Me not my...oh never mind...that's why I went back and added Raleigh in the original post...). I went straight to 'a five speed' road bike from, wait for it... a Chipper!
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My first ever bicycle was a three wheel trike...then I progressed to a Triumph Palm Beach (a ton weight) and for my 12th birthday I got a Triumph racing bike with white taped droop handlebars....it cost £19 19s 11p which was a lot of moolah...It lasted me until I discovered girls and alcohol...mostly alcohol
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welsh dragon
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My first bike was a red trike with tassles on the ends of the handle bars, and at the back between the wheels was a bar that my brothers used to stand on. And it had a bell, and white handle grips. Brilliant bike
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I had a wee bike when I was a toddler...no not a Penny farthing
The good (?) old days of Sturmey Archer 3 gears, 5 speed Campagnulo (?) gears, dynamo hub lights and rubber brakes which couldn't stop you..I think you had to give them a day's notice. Leatherette seats no gel in those days or yon brick hard leather shaped seats....inner tubes as thick as today's tyres..good old days my erchie.....
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Eeee..when I were a lad....(or lass, being an equal opportunity website..) 
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Don't mention the last bit in brackets..Eeee..when I were a lad....(or lass, being an equal opportunity website..)
I got stigmatised for a month due to a throw away comment like that
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Ooo, a memory strikes...(it was the brakes that did it Bob...) I worked as a Saturday boy for a Butcher when I were a lad.. and yes, on a Saturday morning I did a round, delivering sausages to old ladies (settle down at the back) and it had the basket on the front and metal rod pulls on 'if you're lucky' brakes.. Weighed two or three pounds over a ton depending on the size of the round...
If anyone gets upset with that after some of stephec's stuff, I'll be off myself anyway.
Don't mention the last bit in brackets..
I got stigmatised for a month due to a throw away comment like that
If anyone gets upset with that after some of stephec's stuff, I'll be off myself anyway.
welsh dragon
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Seriously, I loved my bike. I don't remember it being difficult to ride, or hard on my bum, or weighing a ton or anything else. I just loved it
welsh dragon
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They'd only get upset in another part of the forum.
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I did deliveries occasionally for the Co-op on a big mutha black bike, at 12 it was scary..think Open All Hours..
It surely mac doorly is
Its just us males who complain about everything....
welsh dragon
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Nah. Its probably just my alzheimers playing up again. Oh and, of course looking through rose coloured glases and all that.
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We used to have to go up to the sawmills without the basket but with large potato-sack sized bags, see the yard manager then go over to the exhaust pile, shovel sawdust into about five bags which you then balanced on the empty basket holder... You could get two 'in' the basket bit, thump them down into shape then balance the other three on that... it was downhill back to the shop... and I suppose if there was an accident there was plenty of sawdust to mop up your blood with...
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