My first bike was whatever was at the hardware store , cruiser of some sort I think it was a Schwinn but I honestly can’t recall. Biking wasn’t a passion at the time , it’s just how we got to one another’s house and the store , or to go fishing .
No no one that I knew of growing up had good bikes and the small town I grew up in had as I said earlier a couple of hardware stores that both sold bikes, Schwinn and Huffy that I recall.
When I turned 16 I wanted a car and got one , 17 into the US ARMY that was that . I didn’t even give bicycles a passing thought again till 2014 . I have some regret because I really do enjoy cycling now and had I stayed with it from childhood I would most likely be in far better physical condition , minus my bad knees from the aforementioned military service .