FIRST BIKE???

[deeman]

Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled?

[griff]

Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled?

yeah    tbh I thought the strika was a shit bike though - always felt too tall for the size of the wheels and hated the pedal back brake

my bro (pictured with tricycle) had a yellow boxer when he was a bit bigger and that was much better (until I made the spokes go all wobbly bunny-hopping the fook out of it  )

[xGoose]

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



 

Nice to still have that!  It was my first bike as well. Wish I still had it

[deeman]

Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled?

yeah    tbh I thought the strika was a shit bike though - always felt too tall for the size of the wheels and hated the pedal back brake

my bro (pictured with tricycle) had a yellow boxer when he was a bit bigger and that was much better (until I made the spokes go all wobbly bunny-hopping the fook out of it  )

the BOXER was the smaller of the two though!still 16" wheels but like a smaller version of the GRIFTER frame!only mk1 strikas had a coaster!the only thing i hated about those bikes was the grips!got a set of SHARP XC for the Strika!

[bobbbbsy]

real non kiddy bike with no stabilisers in my sig i think !! may be wrong !!
i was 4 or 5 here but look older!!

[Gnarlyscoots]

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

Had one of these too    No inner tubes if I remember rightly 

[lk_97]

I'll have to dig the small rider out soon then, when the weather is good enough so the garden can be cut I will do it, I'm holding out not much hope of it having survived though, also an odd freestyle frame and forks, looks 90's pos but I can get that whenever. You're right on the tyres though, mine has raleigh carefree ones on it

[Jon The Bassist]

Raleigh Budgie, aged 4

[Toblerone]

The Strika was my first set of wheels too

[That Swan Guy]

Raleigh Chipper. Aged 6.
The single speed smaller brother of the Chopper!

[mattfx81]

I inherited a green raleigh strika when my brother got his falcon pro beta.

[Julian347]

Can't remember the the make of my first bike. All i know is that I managed the crack the frame and then got a silver Strika. Happy days  

[deeman]

Can't remember the the make of my first bike. All i know is that I managed the crack the frame and then go a silver Strika. Happy days 

they are rugged little things!indestructable!when the world ends all that will be left are cockroaches,pauter con rods,...and STRIKAS!

[bmxgirl]

I had a Raleigh Husky it was light blue with solid wheels. I was 4 yrs old.
Sadly no pics of it and ive never seen one since either 
I wasn't allowed a BMX as my first bike 

[steve69]

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

I had a green Strika but i think it was my 2nd or 3rd bike  not sure what my first bike was, my dad put a extra seat on it so i could take my teddy bear out for a ride with me

I have a NOS black Strika frame with the prism decals (like yours) in the garage that still has the original wax paper wrapping on it 

[deeman]

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I have a NOS black Strika frame with the prism decals (like yours) in the garage that still has the original wax paper wrapping on it 
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pm me if its for sale!

[brettypeeps]

I had a green Strika as well,  Always wanted a grifter when I had it though

[Retrodan72]

I had a silver Strika, my Bro had the small version, a Chukka, a few Xmas's later, my same Strika had a proper custom paintjob in red, and Our Kid had outgrown the Chukka and had a new black prismatic Strika.

Our 1st 20"ers were made by a British firm called Team Playway, the bikes were called Trak Trails and had suspension on the front.

Our kid went on to a Grifter then that got given to us by our cousin, and I took ownership of a brand new Piranha Mag Freestyler in July '85.

All British bikes, I think my first non-Brit was my Marin Muirwoods in '95.