Author Topic: FIRST BIKE??? (Read 4073 times)

deeman · « **on:** January 28, 2012, 03:38 PM »

O.K most people on here probably didnt start their two=wheeled adventures on a BMX,I am curious to know what your very first bike was(no tricycles!),and roughly how old you were when you got it?I was 6 years old when i came back from holiday with my mum and brother to find my dad had bought me the RALEIGH STRIKA I'd been begging for for ages.I will never forget the feeling of going down to the basement to find a gleaming black STRIKA with the prismatic decals.I learnt my first freestyle moves on that STRIKA a bit later on including wheelies,endos and framestands!later it was repainted in grey hammerite,lost the mudguards and chainguard with some pink sharp grips and a pink bmx saddle,as interim measure as my dad couldnt afford a bmx at the time.I recently bought one off the bay because it was 30 quid and literally round the corner.Its a bit tired but all there including the seat(no rips/tears!).I am going to be restoring/rebuilding it with a BMX twist!

for my mate to roll round bug jam on this year.So,what were your first rides?

This old girl is getting a makeover v.soon!
note the rear top tubes,years ahead of a HARO SPORT!

snav69 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2012, 03:55 PM »

I still have the bike i learned to ride on in the early 70's

deeman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2012, 04:00 PM »

sweet!thats in lovely nick!cool colour

Hiro Tonka · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2012, 04:07 PM »

Yep, my first one was a Budgie

I remember doing wheelies galore on it

kuwahero · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2012, 04:19 PM »

Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'

paddy2 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:15 PM »

mine was a budgie too,reckon it was dark green

Peter J · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:17 PM »

I had a blue raleigh boxer

brummie · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:18 PM »

yellow raleigh boxer

Peter J · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:27 PM »

Quote from: brummie on January 28, 2012, 05:18 PM

yellow raleigh boxer

Posh git

In2 bmx · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:37 PM »

Purple Raleigh budgie .

or Mary littlewood .. $:-\$

deeman · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:40 PM »

Quote from: In2bmx on January 28, 2012, 05:37 PM

Purple Raleigh budgie . or Mary littlewood .. $:-\$

lots of budgies here!the wheelie kings!

Devilock · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:40 PM »

fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.

deeman · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2012, 05:44 PM »

Quote from: mothwasp on January 28, 2012, 05:40 PM

fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.

Rich,you forgot to mention you still ride it to work every day!

deeman · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2012, 06:27 PM »

wicked pics!that last bunny hop pic does look ambitious!!

GTnumber1 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2012, 06:30 PM »

Quote from: deeman on January 28, 2012, 06:27 PM

wicked pics!that last bunny hop pic does look ambitious!!

if you look at my brothers bike i snap the bars bunny hoping

Devilock · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2012, 06:37 PM »

Quote from: deeman on January 28, 2012, 05:44 PM

Quote from: mothwasp on January 28, 2012, 05:40 PM
fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.

Rich,you forgot to mention you still ride it to work every day!

Yeah but its been modified again- Ive installed a horn from a train.

snav69 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2012, 07:00 PM »

Blimey Costa

When you said you'd always been that small i didn't actually believe it till i saw them pics

AKGOFF · « **Reply #17 on:** January 28, 2012, 07:52 PM »

Quote from: brummie on January 28, 2012, 05:18 PM

yellow raleigh boxer

Same for me and I loved it

Adam

griff · « **Reply #18 on:** January 28, 2012, 08:18 PM »

me giving my mate spencer a 'backie'

Algoose · « **Reply #19 on:** January 28, 2012, 08:20 PM »

A yellow raleigh boxer for me aswell, Think i was about six.

SE MARK · « **Reply #20 on:** January 28, 2012, 09:36 PM »

I had a blue Budgie

deeman · « **Reply #21 on:** January 28, 2012, 09:43 PM »

looks like budgies were the weapon of choice for most radsters!didnt anyone else have a strika?

lk_97 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2012, 09:52 PM »

Quote from: kuwahero on January 28, 2012, 04:19 PM

Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'

I have one of these at the top of my garden, I got it for a massive £2.99

griff · « **Reply #23 on:** January 28, 2012, 09:55 PM »

Quote from: deeman on January 28, 2012, 09:43 PM

looks like budgies were the weapon of choice for most radsters!didnt anyone else have a strika?

never had one but I sometimes borrowed my mate darren's

deeman · « **Reply #24 on:** January 28, 2012, 10:30 PM »

Quote from: lk_97 on January 28, 2012, 09:52 PM

Quote from: kuwahero on January 28, 2012, 04:19 PM
Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'

I have one of these at the top of my garden, I got it for a massive £2.99

Im sure i learnt to ride a bike on one of these before i got the strika,my next door neighbor had one and he taught me on it!