Ungrateful Bar**ards.

[Stick Legs]

I have read a few times on this site about how many of us as childern / teenagers lusted after the bike in the shop window and pestered parents for months about getting a mountain bike for christmas.

Then the feted day arrives and there, in all it's majesty is 40 lbs of mild steel with caliper brakes and chromed steel wheels.

How many of us have feigned delight and then tried everything in our power to break said implement so a proper MTB can be bought in its place in 12 months time?

I am a lucky exception, I got a Shogun Trail Breaker II. Sloping top tube, 200GS and alloy rims. How many of us were not so lucky?

 

[IDB1]

By the title of the thread I thought you'd met my kids !!

I was bought a road bike, the world had only just got past horse and cart at the time...

Twas a Carlton Pro-Am 12...

Prior to that I wanted a Grifter.

 

[GT-Steve]

When I was about 12 or 13 I WANTED a Raleigh Team Banana and after a lot of pestering I got it.....

A year or so later I wanted an Alpinestars CroMega DX, so I pestered, and got............told I needed a paper round and had to save....

And I bloody saved every penny for that bike, and it made me appreciate every moment and every sqare inch of it.

Not like my mates who just had everything bought for them, just to 'keep up with the Jones' and all that cr4p :roll: :roll:

 

[xerxes]

Carlton Pro-Am 12

I had one of those. My first proper bike, I wasn't spoiled like you though, I had to save up and buy it myself.

 

[Lysander]

Save up and buy it yourself??!!!
OOOooooo, lah-de-dah, ain't we posh!
We used to dream about savin' oop for one ourselves........... had to get oop at two in the mornin' to mine ore and then smelt the iron before we could even...........etc.........

 

[taffy]

I had the joy of a Peugeot Team replica (the black and gold one that came after the Tim Gould one i wanted) and sadly it was bloody impossible to break. Sure i bent the handlebars and gave the rims hell but the vast majority of it refused to yield to teen abuse .

So i saved damn hard sold all my old transformers and everything else and eventually bough my Zaskar Le frame and had the joy of building my own bike.

Seeing the well of to do kids on their wasted on them nice bikes made me a little peeved. but i just went out and rode

 

[dyna-ti]

Dear old Mum saved up all her spare housekeeping to buy me a tonka truck[the metal early ones]
Took me a day to dismantle it completely


My bikes off my parents were all second hand as a small child that is,the one they got me that was new was an M200 cannondale,i think it was just under £500 :?
I think they rue that day

 

[marin man]

I had a peugeot road bike that was very nice and I had to save to buy it after about three years I got knocked off it by a b.t. van :twisted: :twisted: Bike trashed but only a graze on my ankle The guys at b.t were excellent and had a whip round and bought me the claud butler alloy frame in my local bike shop window (the alloy one with oversize tubes and black and green paint job in a bark effect ) I had lusted after that for over a year and it took me nearly another year to build it up But all with my earnt money so it was looked after like it was solid gold unlike the spoilt brats who get everything on a plate :shock:
Incidentally I bought my son in law a lovely gt with rockshox indy forks in 1998 and it was the best bike in the school and he wrecked it within six months :evil: little bast..d :twisted: Give kids nothing make them earn it

 

[coomber]

Save up and buy it yourself??!!!
OOOooooo, lah-de-dah, ain't we posh!
We used to dream about savin' oop for one ourselves........... had to get oop at two in the mornin' to mine ore and then smelt the iron before we could even...........etc.........

Nearly fell over laughing at that!

 

[marin man]

Save up and buy it yourself??!!!
OOOooooo, lah-de-dah, ain't we posh!
We used to dream about savin' oop for one ourselves........... had to get oop at two in the mornin' to mine ore and then smelt the iron before we could even...........etc.........

Nearly fell over laughing at that!

So you did not get pocket money / do a paper round / go and wash peoples cars / cut your grandparents grass / clear snow from old peoples pathways etc. etc. :?: This is called using your initiative :shock: It seems to be quite rare nowadays

P.s did you live in the north then