Let's go retro. What was your first bike?

Just been pootling about on the interwebz and found a photo of my first bike (not mine actual, but the same model) it was a yellow and black raleigh boxer.

must've been about 10 years old when i got it in the mid/late 80's, but i totally loved it.

so post your 1st bikes: the first real one, the one your dad or whoever took the stabilisers off for you.

Think this may have already been explored by the forum.

mine was a metallic blue peugeot 10 speed. i used to wash it and polish it every saturday (while my dad washed and waxed the family car).

Just been pootling about on the interwebz and found a photo of my first bike (not mine actual, but the same model) it was a yellow and black raleigh boxer.

must've been about 10 years old when i got it in the mid/late 80's, but i totally loved it.

so post your 1st bikes: the first real one, the one your dad or whoever took the stabilisers off for you.

You were TEN when you got your first bike? and you still had stabilisers? :)

Can't find the thread but this is a repost...

My 1st, 2nd and 3rd bike was Raleigh Burner. The first was a junior, wrecked the 2nd and turned down a new mountain bike for the neighbour's Burner which I got for £5.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread16996.html

oh wait, we're doing first real bike or first bike? i had a bigwheel (and i'm pretty sure a tricycle before that). and i sort of remember some yellow vaguely bmx-ish shaped thing that had training wheels on it.

You were TEN when you got your first bike? and you still had stabilisers? :)

ha ha yeah that reads wrong. i meant the bike not me!

i thought it may have been done before but i had a little search and couldn't find anything. ah well. so come on then; the bike you had when the stabilisers came off

My dad taught me to ride my first bike when I was four. I may have got it for my fourth birthday. I can't remember the make, but it was dark red and had a white saddle.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread16996.html

Not that one, there's an older one than that... Not working, Will? :[

and more interestingly, at what age did you learn how to cycle?
I was really late, must've been about 12 when I learnt how to. No garden/next to a main road until then.
First bike was some gash trek which I think is still breeding rust and mould in my garage.

Learnt to ride on a Boxer . . .

Then a Blue and Silver Coventry Eagle BMX (can't find pic)

Then a Raleigh Flyer! :)