Sidney Porter

This is not my bike but it was this model. Open Road (montgomery wards) Trans-Am. 24 inch wheels. I must of been around 10. My next bike was a fuji but I don't remember the model.

markmodesto

I have a metallic blue SR roadbike do you want it?

MixedRider

2000 Giant OCR3 with Once yellow color scheme! Full Sora group.

Bob Ross

Schwinn Varsity Sport. Bright yellow. Dad bought it new for me in 1970 or '71, for I think $90. I rode that bike up until 1984, minus the brief time in 1980 when I owned a gorgeous Raleigh that got stolen after 6 weeks.

dim

a brand new red Peugeot ... I cannot remember the model, but it was top of the range in the bike shop in South Africa in 1979. It was pretty expensive (a whole months salary, and I was on a decent wage).... had chrome on the forks and back part.

I bought it on a friday to do a triathlon on the next day (Saturday). The guy in the shop set the saddle, I went home and parked it in the garage for the next day

On the saturday, done the triathlon (40km canoeing on a fast flowing river), 80km on the bike on a hilly terrain, then a 10km run

I was very fit, but not bike fit, and I really suffered, but done an ok time .... when I finished the bike ride, I fell off (thats how knackerd I was)

I used it a few more times for triathlons (perhaps a dozen times, and it was in mint condition)

sad news is that when my mom moved home, she forgot that it was locked in the shed, and the new owners got the bike. I had moved 600km away, and thought that my mom had taken my bike to her new home. When we enquired about the bike, the new owners said that they never saw it and perhaps the decorators had taken it.

hatrack71

Mine was a Trek 460 back in the 80's. Blue and yellow. It was pretty but a touch small for me. It looked like this one I found in an image search:

DMC707

1990 Marin Limited edition road bike- Tange tubing Shimano 105. Painted in a serious neon fade reminiscent of the Lemond Team Z bikes of the time

riva

Univega, I think it was an arrow something. Grey with white lettering. My father bought it for me. Brand new. Was great for a long time. Then rode to the mall one day, and had to walk home. Boo. Purchased at Wheel World. Still there, still at the same location, still buy parts there. 30 years later.

Hoang

I still own my first road bike. A 1989 Cannondale SC600. 3.0 Aluminum frame and fork equipped with Shimano 105.

MAT1inTX

It was spring of 1972. I was in seventh grade. I saved money from my first job. It cost $130 if I recall. It took four months to arrive at Pima Bike Shop in Tucson. It was a Peugeot AO8. Green, like this:

https://www.bikeboompeugeot.com/Broch...20Page%206.jpg

Bike Rebel

I bought a Sentinel Sophomore from my LBS is 1979 with suicide brake levers, stem shifters and steel wheels. The next year I moved up to a Schwinn Super Le Tour. I was hooked.

ThinLine

A Peugeot 10 speed, then got into it and quuickly bought a Basso Lotto w/ full Campy record and those beautiful yet awful stopping delta brakes.

bikemig 

I had a green robin hood 3 speed that I rode everywhere. Then we moved and my parents bought me a 10 speed nishiki sport. I sold the bike to help finance a trip to Europe.

I picked up a black robin hood 3 speed recently to use as a coffee shop bike; does the job in style.

12strings

It was 2004, I was given a 1983 Brown/orange/rusty motobecane. Not sure what kind. It had only a front brake, and the rear derraileur didn't move...it just kept tension so I could use the front 2 gears. Original tires, I suspect, pretty worn/cracked. I rode it that way nearly 8 years, kept it functioning, commuted a lot on it both in Boston, and now here in the Midwest.

I got rid of it a few years ago to get something with 2 brakes and working gears...If I knew then what I know now, I would have kept it and rehabbed it....Oh well....

rbrsddn

My first road bike was a '73 Raleigh Grand Prix. Paid 75 bucks for it. It got stolen off a friends front yard in'75. Didn't get another until the Rhygin in '98.

CliffordK

1[SUP]st[/SUP]: 24" wheel Green 5-speed with drop bars. Unknown brand.
2[SUP]nd[/SUP]: Red powder coated Viscount. Stolen. Recovered a few years later, stripped, and "cheapened". Insurance Co kept it.
3[SUP]rd[/SUP]: Blue Colnago Super, bought in Parma, Italy. Still have it.

RonH

My first road bike was a 1985 (if I remember correctly) Schwinn LeTour. I rode it for about 4 years and then work got in the way so it went to my 18 year old son. I think he sold or traded it about a year later.
No more riding or bikes until 1999 when I bought a Raleigh R600. There have been a lot of bikes since.

aubiecat

Orange Nashiki 10 speed. 1974 I believe.

deacon mark

A Royce Union has anyone heard of them at all? It was white I was about 12 years old.

Stucky

Does a c.35 lb. high-tensile 5-speed Sears bike with drop bars when I was 13 count as a road bike?

Stucky

Heard of 'em? I had one! It was my first brand-new bike when I was about 7. Wasn't a road bike though- It was a single speed 20" tire banana-seat "high-rise" handle-bars bike in a beautiful burgundy color. I loved that bike! My mother bought it for me for Xmas. That was 46 years ago, and I STILL remember the awe I felt upon getting up that morning and seeing it in the living room!

Thanks for the memory!

MagicHour

Trek 660 - great bike wish I still had it. Beat the hell out of it and died of a cracked top tube in early 00s.
Building up another steel bike soon which is going to be a nod to that bike and era in some ways, although a slightly different animal, in that it will run fatter 28-32 tires.

Ratzinger

2005 Giant OCR Touring. I rode in 8 Provinces on that bike.

Later I got my hands on a pristine 1983 Fuji Del Rey which I rode into the ground, and I've been messing with steel bikes, old and new, ever since.

Outback Cayucan

Steiger Sport, Austrian I believe bought in Kaiserslautern Germany 1968 when I was stationed there. It wasn't the correct size for me at 6 '5" even w/ the longest seat tube they had. Rode it around back roads and small towns near Eisiedlerhof, where we lived. Took a European out and rode it about a month north to Holland, Denmark & Sweeden. Continued riding it in the states 'till my wife surprised me w/ a Nishiki International for Fathers' Day 1979.

AlmostTrick

My first road bike was a Raleigh Record, bought new in '75 or '76. Yep, 40 years ago!

It had a 10/20 lugged steel frame, with downtube shifters and 27x1" tires. Here is a picture of the actual bike, along with its 98 pound 15-16 year old rider.