Remember your first 3 bikes? Then post some photos & history
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Some blue bike with 16" white tyres, given to me by a mate who was a couple of years older. Proud to say I never had stabilisers, but the rod brakes didn't work and I ended up just missing a lorry head on and hitting the kerb. Truck driver was in shock, I couldn't see what the fuss was about and all the neighbours came out to look
second bike was a Raleigh rodeo. 20" wheels, white tyres, red frame and blue mudguards and proper cabled brakes. Dad bought it in a scrappy state from a second hand junk shop and I remember he and mum cleaning it and it looked new when they had done. Me and bro continued to ride this as a teenager on the back lawn, bmx style till I passed it on
third bike was a Hercules roadster with 3 speed SA. This bike got me into cycling and I put drops and a narrower saddle on it and started riding with ctc about age 14. I can remember being jealous of a mate who had a chopper while I had this "no-cred" machine ... till we hit the hills and the chopper was a donkey
Some blue bike with 16" white tyres, given to me by a mate who was a couple of years older. Proud to say I never had stabilisers, but the rod brakes didn't work and I ended up just missing a lorry head on and hitting the kerb. Truck driver was in shock, I couldn't see what the fuss was about and all the neighbours came out to look
second bike was a Raleigh rodeo. 20" wheels, white tyres, red frame and blue mudguards and proper cabled brakes. Dad bought it in a scrappy state from a second hand junk shop and I remember he and mum cleaning it and it looked new when they had done. Me and bro continued to ride this as a teenager on the back lawn, bmx style till I passed it on
third bike was a Hercules roadster with 3 speed SA. This bike got me into cycling and I put drops and a narrower saddle on it and started riding with ctc about age 14. I can remember being jealous of a mate who had a chopper while I had this "no-cred" machine ... till we hit the hills and the chopper was a donkey
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Judging from some comments I've read on this forum, some folk can't even accurately remember the bikes they've got right now.
I can remember my first three... (maybe because I've yet to get beyond my second three.) I even know the dates that I got 'em, the first one in 1966. That's the only non-secondhand bike I've ever had. 16" wheels, rod brakes, solid tyres.. and stabilisers... for a while..
Judging from some comments I've read on this forum, some folk can't even accurately remember the bikes they've got right now.
I can remember my first three... (maybe because I've yet to get beyond my second three.) I even know the dates that I got 'em, the first one in 1966. That's the only non-secondhand bike I've ever had. 16" wheels, rod brakes, solid tyres.. and stabilisers... for a while..
Re: Can you remember your first three bikes?
1st: Old BSA 24" wheel rod braked bike, in black and rust. Handed Down from my brother and a cousin and a few other kids I suspect.
2nd: Triumph Palm Beach( I think PB anyway, we're talking 1970 here...), Sturmey 3speed, blue with yellow Bluemels mudguards Loved it
3rd: After we moved to South Africa, my first new bike, a "Panther" with Sturmey 3speed
4th: Bright red nearly new Carlton Ten (South African spec) with Simplex gears. The bike I started my racing career on
Think I can actually remember every bike going back to the '60s across 3 continents...
1st: Old BSA 24" wheel rod braked bike, in black and rust. Handed Down from my brother and a cousin and a few other kids I suspect.
2nd: Triumph Palm Beach( I think PB anyway, we're talking 1970 here...), Sturmey 3speed, blue with yellow Bluemels mudguards Loved it
3rd: After we moved to South Africa, my first new bike, a "Panther" with Sturmey 3speed
4th: Bright red nearly new Carlton Ten (South African spec) with Simplex gears. The bike I started my racing career on
Think I can actually remember every bike going back to the '60s across 3 continents...
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Did you manage to move any with you are were they all left behind?
BTW the lists are more fun with photos.... even if they are screen grabs from internet
Did you manage to move any with you are were they all left behind?
BTW the lists are more fun with photos.... even if they are screen grabs from internet
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1) 88 Nishiki Cascade
2) 92 Trek 9500
2) 93 GT Zaskar LE
1) 88 Nishiki Cascade
2) 92 Trek 9500
2) 93 GT Zaskar LE
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Are you kidding? They would have been poloraids.
Here is a link to the actual Trek viewtopic.php?f=6&t=315793&hilit=trek+9500
and to a later Zaskar that I've built. Not the 93' but I do still have the Trek and 94' GT. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47997&p=2654676&hilit=zaskar+le#p2654676
No dice on the Nishiki.
[/quote][/quote]PeachyPM":19fh1uhq said:
Are you kidding? They would have been poloraids.
Here is a link to the actual Trek viewtopic.php?f=6&t=315793&hilit=trek+9500
and to a later Zaskar that I've built. Not the 93' but I do still have the Trek and 94' GT. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47997&p=2654676&hilit=zaskar+le#p2654676
No dice on the Nishiki.
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