Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Halford’s Cascade, ladies racer in metallic mint green with white bar tape.
First proper, new bike.
Loved it.
First proper, new bike.
Loved it.
Your first real / treasured / remembered Bicycle.....
- Thread starter sevenfourate
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Jameshow
Veteran
This was my first proper bike but in brown / yellow!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22416248...tixoXeJTeO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I'd buy it but at £500 I think it's overpriced???
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22416248...tixoXeJTeO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I'd buy it but at £500 I think it's overpriced???
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Grifter , blue , bomb proof , weighed a ton !
I thought that too- I thought that you just needed to pedal faster- but it was like a willpower thing.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Dunstable Downs?
ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
Come on then; crud outside here - so lets all reminisce a little (WITH PICS ! - even if that's of a likeness as mine is.) about our first true-loves.
Circa 1984. I was a mere 12 years old. I had a bike i'd been handed-down by my Cousin. It did everything a bike should - and most certainly gave me the gift of freedom. But the freedom was the excitement - there was no passion over the bike itself. I'd already crazed my parents for a BMX over at least one previous Birthday and Christmas to no avail. Eventually my prolonged tantrums sunk in. And a Kalkoff Spitfire BMX:; fresh out of the front window display of the local LBS (And that i'd drooled over many a trip home from school) arrivedMan i loved that thing. And it started a 'BMX lifestyle' for quite a number of years thereafter. Good times....
Gateway bike. Shouldn't be legal to sell bikes to kids - look we all turned out
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
One of these, many many years ago
Jameshow
Veteran
Snap!! Rubbed my thumbs raw on those tough rubber grips!!
Played with the SA 3spd gears and couldn't get it running right!!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
My first proper bike was a Raleigh Elite
I was probably about 12 - first bike that I was allowed to ride on the road
Once I was trusted I could ride it the 4 miles to my friends houses
well - when I say ride - I had to push it up the 3 hilly bits - standard 3 speed Sturmy Archer gears - granny handlebars
and a frame that weighed about the same as a main battle tank
After a while my Dad realised that I got little enjoyment out of riding it and offered to buy me a better bike a few years later
Now THAT was a bike!!!
or it was to me
The shop had just got some Peugeot bikes in with dropped handlebars and - an unheard of miracle - 10 speeds
no-one else I knew had 10 gears!!!
and it was cheap - one of the cheapest bikes that was in the shop except real clunky things
this was about 1974 - can;t find a picture of it now but I did a few years ago
it had aluminium mudguards front and back and a rer rack witha bungy cord on it
OK frame was still steel
First time I tried riding to my friends houses I was amazed by just whizzing up the hills with only one gear change and no need to push!!!
$deity knows how many miles I did on it over the years at school, university and after
then some toe-rag knicked it off the wall of my garage one night!!!
I just hope someone else got some enjoyment out of it - it was a great bike
Oh - and it was purple - the picture I found was blue - but whatever!
I was probably about 12 - first bike that I was allowed to ride on the road
Once I was trusted I could ride it the 4 miles to my friends houses
well - when I say ride - I had to push it up the 3 hilly bits - standard 3 speed Sturmy Archer gears - granny handlebars
and a frame that weighed about the same as a main battle tank
After a while my Dad realised that I got little enjoyment out of riding it and offered to buy me a better bike a few years later
Now THAT was a bike!!!
or it was to me
The shop had just got some Peugeot bikes in with dropped handlebars and - an unheard of miracle - 10 speeds
no-one else I knew had 10 gears!!!
and it was cheap - one of the cheapest bikes that was in the shop except real clunky things
this was about 1974 - can;t find a picture of it now but I did a few years ago
it had aluminium mudguards front and back and a rer rack witha bungy cord on it
OK frame was still steel
First time I tried riding to my friends houses I was amazed by just whizzing up the hills with only one gear change and no need to push!!!
$deity knows how many miles I did on it over the years at school, university and after
then some toe-rag knicked it off the wall of my garage one night!!!
I just hope someone else got some enjoyment out of it - it was a great bike
Oh - and it was purple - the picture I found was blue - but whatever!
Jameshow
Veteran
My second bike was a purple emmile mountain bike awful thing 100gs gears and a plain steel frame!
My first proper bike was a Triumph Rodeo. 3 speed SA gears. It was blue and gold. With 26 inch wheels. I got it for my 11th birthday in 1968. I kept it until 1976, when it really was a bit small for me then.
I sold it to a chap at work for his son.
I bought a Dawes Galaxy then, which I still have
I sold it to a chap at work for his son.
I bought a Dawes Galaxy then, which I still have
OP
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sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Fabulous pic ! 👌
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
my shifter cable snapped and it was stuck in the fast gear , no wonder i have thunder thighs
