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@clefty
HA! I had a raleigh budgie it used to click every time the cranks rotated so you could hear me coming from miles away.
I had two learning phases, one in Ham, Richmond on the grass with my grandad, and one awesome baptism of fire that involved me on my mates grifter, several mates behind me giving me a push, letting go me flying down the road - seeing my dad up on the balcony of our place - screaming at him 'look Dad, looook!' then crashing head first into a hedge as in my excitement i'd forgotten there was a corner.
I still remember my dad pulling me out of the hedge by my legs - was proper comedy stuck in head first.
Also remember my mum screaming blue bloody murder at me when she caught me laying under a badly fabricated ramp in the middle of the road whilst Bobby from Number 1 (who had a proper bmx) jumped over me and my mate. I honestly couldnt see what the problem was at the time.