Pistard

A Peugeot randonneur, with fenders, lights etc, a sweet ride back home in France

10 Wheels

Memories.

My Dad bought it at Western Auto.
He rode it home for my 10th Birthday.

Had the Largest Grin on his face when he arrived.





Six years later He was Gone do to a Heart Attack.

chrislee99777

My first bike just like this,mum give it to me.
It is so cute and so portable,wheels so small and can be folded.
But it was stolen in second years.So sad.

Lil Bear

Late '70's everyone I knew had a Huffy. My dad got me a knockoff at the local Cost to Coast store... I don't remember the name... it was black and I literally rode the wheels off it, then I got yellow "mags." They were plastic 5-spoke rims on my black bike with a motorcycle seat. I let a "friend" ride it and he crashed, bent the handlebars. I rode it with the jacked-up handlebars for a few more years until I got a "real" bike - Fuji Berkely 10-speed. Ah, memories.

E: The Fuji had "valite tubing." I didn't know what that was at the time. I still don't!

7_one_cinco

My first bike was some kind of grey huffy. I still remember my dad holding the seat running behind me when I learned how to ride without training wheels.

My best friend growing up had a huffy sonic 6. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bis3ifDKvqs

rydabent

Since I was a little twerp, my first bike was one with 24" wheels from Coast to Coast hardware store. In good weather I rode it 1 3/4 miles to a one room country school.

I-Like-To-Bike

Don't know if the pictured bike was my first, but it the earliest photographic evidence of me on a bike in 1955.
I didn't know or care about the brand names or manufacturers of any bikes I rode until I bought in 1970 after getting out of the Army a Sears Austrian made 3 speed from the catalog and picked it up from the humongous catalog warehouse on Roosevelt Blvd in Philadelphia. It may have had a Ted Williams or a Free Spirit label. A very good bike.

rex615

This one

alathIN

Early 70s - another Huffy faux-Stingray. Orange-yellow-red paint scheme. Seemed like the real Stingrays were three speed (or more?) but mine was a coaster brake 1 speed. The main thing I remember about it was that it was too big for me. Rode it anyway.

ColaJacket

Late 70's.

Bike 1: Some kind of coaster brake bike with a banana seat. Don't remember the brand, but my friends and I would ride around our small town. At least one time we played tag on bikes at the local school.

Bike 2: About the time I went to HS, I got a 10-speed light blue Huffy. And by 10-speed, I mean 5x2. Rode that bike all through HS.

Bike 3: When I graduated from HS (1981), my parents bought me a white Raleigh Gran Sport (10-speed). It got wrecked in college, but it was replaced with one just like it. I still have that one in storage. It may become a project bike.

Bike 4: Current bike that I'm riding is a white Fuji Sportif 10-speed (10x2).

GH

Cougrrcj

My first hand-me-down bike from my older sister was a girls' frame Western Auto 24" balloon tire behemoth, bought used from the mailman in Dayton when we lived there '59-62. It was already repainted red with white fender tips. Sister upgraded to Austrian (Puch) Sears women's 3-speed for her 10th birthday.

By the time I got my Sears 3-speed two years later, Sears had gone to some other manufacturer.

Kiwibikeing

Raleigh 20 still have it today and it's in average condition

RandomEncounter

My first two-wheeler was a sweet Strawberry Shortcake bike.

garyus

My first bike in 64 or 65 was a Mattel Varooom with the motor and a hard plastic seat and a faux gas tank where I could put stuff if I recall correctly being only 6or 7 the time.

Cougrrcj

The Vrrrrroooom! was a clamped-on noise making device that resembled a motorcycle engine.



Although I've seen a pic of a complete Vrroom! bike as well



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GOv

First bike was a Raleigh Budgie '74 i think and rode the death out of it (loved it), then went onto a Raleigh Chopper which has to be the most awful bike I've ever owned lol Most memorable was the '82 Raleigh Bomber but sadly killed it about a year & half later (13 pairs of forks and lots of trips to docs/hospital then frame broke in two). The good ole days those were

Cyclist0084

I think I was ten. Got a 20 inch bike from K-mart for my birthday. It was orange and had black stripes on its orange banana seat. I felt like the coolest kid in the neighborhood. For a 20 inch bike, I can remember it weighing a ton, but it took a crapload of abuse (jumping ramps, dirt trails, hoping curbs) and kept right on going.

mrodgers

I found my first bike once before, but can't find a picture of it now. My brother a few years later had a Huffy Desperado (picture found on the internet.)



This would have been 1980. I was 3 years older. The bike was the same but I remember mine being darker brown with a lighter seat rather than the tan frame with darker seat of the Desperado. Probably would have been 1977 or 1978. Wish I could find a picture.

Next bike would have been maybe 1981 or 1982 when we got BMX style bikes. Murry if I recall and bought at Hills department store.

When friends older than I got their driver's license, I gave up the bike. The next year I got my license. It wasn't until after 1990 when I was dating a girl that lived further out in the country that we bought a couple of mountain bikes to cruise around on out at her house. They were Murry 18 speeds, bought at Montgomery Wards before they went out of business. That bike was stolen.

It wasn't until 2007 when I bought my next bike, the old Walmart full suspension. Bought it to ride the bike trail when I was teaching my oldest to ride. We had a blast together riding that whole 1.5 or so miles out and back in like 3 or 4 hours.

2013 I dug that old Walmart bike out of the back of the garage and cleaned it and adjusted the derailleurs the best I could. I started riding every day for exercise and said if I kept it up, I'd get me a decent bike.

So, in the spring of 2014 I bought my 2014 Giant Escape 1. I hope maybe next year to add a road bike to my possession. Divorce is holding me back from buying a bike right now. A place to live is more important now.

Machka 

Christmas ... 1970-something ...

Machka 

My first two-wheeler was a little gold convertible bicycle, something like the first two bicycles in the photo below ... the Pixie.




It may not have been a Schwinn, especially since the Schwinn doesn't seem to have come in gold.

Ah ha ... but I see that the 1972 came in "Kool Lemon" (the third bicycle in the photo), and I might have seen that color as gold ... so maybe ...

7up

First bike was a 26" baby blue with white tires Penny Farthing that scared me to death when my dad put me on it.I have a picture with me on it from Christmas of 1967.My parents deemed it too dangerous and it disappeared to never be seen again.My first real bike was a 20" red Tyler.

brownfield

My dad bought my twin brother and I matching GT Performers with the plastic fake mag wheels. We would ride them everywhere. Until we turned 16. My first bike that I bought for myself was a Specialized Rockhopper which I sold to buy a fixie. At least I still have that one...

cyclist2000

My first bike that wasn't a hand me down was some green thing that I got for christmas.