Your First Bike

[Hopkirk]

What was the colour of your first bike?

Tell us a bit about it.

[davebro]

Not my first but I got a bike for passing the 11 plus. It was a Rudge, red, no gears. Rode it all the time until I graduated to motor bikes.

[Tilly2]

Arky, I was having a race with a lad in our street and pedalled too fast up the hill. The bike wobbled, hit the kerb
and I went over the handlebars.

Yes, I do drive...but not too fast. :-)

[burlyshirley1]

A lovely pink and blue bike called a 'pink witch'. It had a blue saddlebag at the back and a basket on the front, It was a Christmas present from Mum and Dad. I loved that bike.

[Khandro]

The first 'real' bike was a Dayton (yellow) I then moved on as I started racing & not only touring to a P.T. Stallard (frame), of Wolverhampton, a 'curly' Hetchins, a Johnny Berry, of Manchester (which I still have) & I have still an all Campagnolo equipped, Francesco Moser.

[roadman]

dont tell him this is a ploy to get your security question information lol i joke my first bike was blue it was a mountain bike

[beso]

I learnt on my mother's bike but my first own bike was an ancient BSA that was given to me by my grandfather when he stopped riding aged 70 on the orders of my mother after a fall. He had a bad leg from an injury at work where he was hit by a train so he was a bit shaky on it by 70. He had ridden it all his life. Never owned a car.

Very faded red, single speed, 28 inch, coaster brake. It was very heavy but that didn't really matter because I grew up in a very flat town.

That bike opened up my world.

[Old_Geezer]

Blue. It had 2 wheels, handlebars, a seat, mudguards, a pump.

[dustypuss]

Blue. Second hand. First time I went to the shop on it .I came out and it had been stolen.

[Lie-in King]

A blue Chopper. Gods & little fishes, I was in seventh heaven on that thing :-))

[naomi24]

A boy’s bike with a crossbar - second (or maybe fourth or fifth-hand). The only bike I ever owned. Maroon. I always disliked that colour.

[Ken4155]

My only bike was a rusty old hand-me-down with cow=horn handlebars and about the only thing i recall about is that the back wheel always followed the front one.

[Bazile]

My first bike was way too small for me .
Can't remember where I got it from - it definitely wasn't got by my parents

I learned to ride on it practicing on the yard at the side of our house and round to the back - around 15 metres in length .

I can remember the sense of satisfaction and achievement i felt when I could pedal the whole length without putting my feet on the floor .

Can't remember the colour , though

[gness]

Red. I was seven and kept it in the shed at the bottom of the garden. The boy two doors down set fire to the shed when we were on holiday. He was a nasty bully who beat up all the kids in the street, girls included.
He later became the Chief Constable of Northants.

[SlackAlice]

Red tricycle with white mudguards, front brake only. Got it no idea, probably around 1957. Got quite good at going around corners on two wheels