Joe Hxxx

I learned to ride at 5 My first bike was my sisters 16 " Road Master that my father had a top bar welded on to
make it into a boys bike and painted blue

Maelochs

I think it was a 16" Murray. not sure ... that was centuries ago.

SylvainG

Learn at 5 as well. First bike was my brother's bike that my dad repainted blue and added some white strips along the frame and a new banana seat (were popular back then). Looked really good.

indyfabz

Don't remember what age, but it had to be before age 8 because my parents hadn't split yet. Bike was a Pinarello Dogma with Di2.

Seriously...It was purple and from Sears, like most of the things in our house. My sister was an ass and thought she was the best at everything. I distinctly remember the first time I rode in the alley after my dad took of the training wheels. My sister still needed them even though she was older. That was sweet.

corrado33

My first "bike" was dirtbike from what I remember. It was a little 50 and I got it when I was 5. I remember that because it had the number 5 on it. After that I remember a 20inch bike with 2 gears and a "flip/flop" type shifter. The shifter was red. Then 3 wal-mart bikes. (Typical full suspension). Then I grew up, went to college, and started buying sensible bikes.

I don't remember any pedal bikes smaller than my 20".

SquidPuppet

I can't remember anything before kindergarten, but my dad says I swiped my older sister's bike and bent the training wheels out of the way when I was 3 years old. He says I told him that I wanted to go fast around corners like the older boys. I have no recollection of that, but I do remember riding in the back yard after I got home from kindergarten. I can't remember using training wheels if I ever did.

seedsbelize 

6? Some old dark blue cruiser. Centuries ago.

DrIsotope

Probably around five. In the grassy field behind our rural-ish property, aboard the neighbor girl's step-through frame 10-speed. I picked it up quickly as I recall, I think the big wheels actually help keep you upright. Shortly afterward I got my first bike, a gas-pipe Murray 20" complete with the numberplate and set of bar and tube pads. Blue on chrome. Undoubtedly weighed more than my current CX bike.

Fixed2Kill

I was 5 as well on a little Spider-Man themed bike with training wheels. What's funny about this is that when I was biking the training wheels were janky and hovered off the floor so I was never using them. My dad told me I should just take them out but I was scared and didn't understand what he meant by, "You're not even using them!"

kcblair

You kidding me ?? I'm 70, I can't remember past 2 weeks. I do remember , I started racing in Monterey , Ca. when I was 16. KB

BookFinder 

Age four or five - I'm not sure which. We lived in rural Hale County, Alabama at the end of a dirt road. I had gotten an old solid rubber tire bike with training wheels a Christmas or two before. My Dad had gradually raised the training wheels until I was mostly riding without them.

One day one of them came loose so he removed the other and ran out the dirt road holding the seat until I caught my balance. I've been riding ever since.

Rje58

I work up on Christmas morning at age six to find a brand new red bicycle under the Christmas tree! A men's full size 26-inch fixed speed. I spent a lot of hours over the next week or so falling off of it. Thank goodness we lived on a dirt road at the time.

I wasn't big enough to get on it by myself, so I would roll it up beside the porch (which had no rails) and climb on it that way. I don't know how many times I fell off it, before I actually did a voluntary dismount. I had to slow down almost to a stop, then jump off on one side and still hold the bike up.

Arizona Nights

Orange Schwinn Stingray. Must have been around 1967. God, I wish I still had it (for the nostalgia, that is).

The Schwinn Stingray | 1963 to 1981

cyclist2000

It was a long time ago, I was about 4-6, I do remember crashing into the neighbors thorn bushes when I looked around and my sister wasn't holding me up.

Im not sure what bike it was, but it was a hand me down from 4 siblings earlier.

Jadesfire 

Five or six. My Dad took the training wheels off of my purple My Little Ponies-themed bike with tassels on the handlebars and said, "Here. Ride it now." I remember being scared, but I learned to finally steer when I almost ran into a tree. That proved to be the incentive I needed.
And I still have the bike up in the attic.

Sangetsu

I was 6, the bike was a Schwinn Orange Krate. I had a colorful time with that bike, getting into my first crash (and my first ambulance ride). Unfortunately, it was stolen out of our garage. It was replaced by a Evil Knievel '76 Huffy. This bike was also stolen, but recovered.

Daniel4

I was 10. During class in grade 5, the teacher was taking suggestions for field trips. Somebody mentioned something about a bike trip. The teacher asked who can't ride a bike. When I put my hand up, everybody laughed.

Later in the weeks to follow, there were classmates who volunteered to teach me how to ride a bike on their banana seat high risers.

That summer, my older sister borrowed a bicycle from her friend and we all taught ourselves how to ride. That summer was also my first bicycle accident as I went zooming down the neighbourhood street and sideswiped a parked car.

In two years, I would be riding around town with friends not returning home until way after dark.

pickettt

I was 5. It was a yellow 16" Schwinn. Conversely, my son learned at 2.5.....and he reminds me everyday that I couldn't ride at the age he did. For his 4th birthday, I had this custom built for him...
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Hardrock23

I was about 4 or so when the training wheels came off.

riptrippers

it was a 20" bike . It was very hard to ride when i was young.

Stadjer

3 or 4 years old when the side wheels came off, can't remember really, too young. Can't remember the bike either, I can remember one longer trip to a busy area with lots of traffic though, that was scary. I can remember the first bike I rode with gears, an SA3, that made an impression. That was also the bike that me discover that you should go easy on the front brake when on icy roads, and it beeing a 26" ladies bike, you fall harder from taller bikes than from children's bikes.

Phil_gretz

Whoa. That probably cost 4x what I paid for my first car (a 67 Mustang) in 1976.


To answer the OP, it was a 16" roadmaster or somesuch with the handlebars rotated forward like a scorcher. I was maybe 5 or 6, because we were already in what would become my childhood home...

Phil_gretz

That reminds me of my two daughters with their little pink bikes. Aaawwww...

Cyclist0084

I think I was 8 or 9 when I learned to ride. I would ride my brothers 20" Huffy in our large front yard. Plenty of soft grass to fall into, which I did plenty of times before finally getting the hang of staying upright on two wheels.

daryou

I was 6 years old when I got a 26" 3-speed bike for Christmas. By my birthday, at the end of the following August, I had my first major crash. As I was turning into the driveway at full speed, the front tire hit a half buried rock; over the handlebars I went, sliding down a gravel road shirtless. The medicine Mom put on the scrapes, after digging the rocks out, hurt worse than the accident.