What was your first bike?

**Bikeguy Joe** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-16-2008, 07:42 PM

What did you learn to ride on?

I had a 16" non coasting bike for awhile when I was 5 which I couldn't ride, training wheels or not.

Then one day my Dad decided to try giving me a shove on my sisters 26" bike. I did fine until I had to turn, but I eventually got it and by the end of that week, I was riding 26" bikes.

I'm not sure what it was, It was new in the late 60's, and it had two domed, side by side headlights and a small, fake tank between the top and bottom bars. (girls bike) It also had a pressed steel rack on the back and the bike was blue and white.

When I was 12-14, I had a 24" Roadmaster girls bike which I learned the fine art of long wheelies.

deacon · #2 (**permalink**) 03-16-2008, 07:46 PM

Since I grew up in a mill villiage I'm sure my first was a sears or western auto bike of some kind. It was red and 24" for sure.

I learned on it got a push or two from my older brother I expect. I have childhood amnesia so most things are gone but that isnt for some reason.

**Ilikeabikea** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-16-2008, 08:10 PM

I got my sisters hand me down 12" incher. It was convertable to a boys or girls bike. The bar bolted down low for girls. But dad moved it up for me. I never had any training wheels I just got on it and started riding. Been riding ever since..........

**CRUISER** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-16-2008, 08:31 PM

mine was a schwinn stringray. that bike was awesome. i beat it up like any other kid. used to take pipe and make it a chopper only problem was the new forks were not connected to good and did a wheelie and of came the forks down came the bike and over the handlebars i went. that bike was the ultimate freedom. we went everywhere on them

**Bikeguy Joe** · #5 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 07:55 AM

After my sister's 26" bike and my 2 dollar 24" Roadmaster, my Dad brought home two orange bikes, with three speed shifters, banana seats and high bars...they weren't Stingrays, or Krates, but they sure were cool! Huffy?

I wrecked mine in the first two minutes. My brother and I were haulin' down the road and to the dirt side road a quarter mile from where I grew up, and at the intersection was a puddle. I ran through it then hit my new to me hand brakes and there was nothing! IIIEEEEIEIEIIIIEEE!!! over the edge of the road I went, 10 feet down into the "ditch"! It's at the intersection of State Rt. 528 and Hautala Rd., Montville, Ohio...look it up on google earth.

Anyhow, the bike and I both survived, my Dad was PO'ed 'cause I just wrecked my brand new bike, and I was a battle scarred but happy camper.

**CRUISER** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 07:57 AM

ya back then wrecks were cool now it scares me to death to have one

Autocycler · #7 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 12:04 PM

Ahhh...what memories. My first bike was a BMX Mongoose Motomag. That bike was bulletproof. I broke a few bones riding that bike. Mine had the snazzy plasti-chrome rims too

**RedB66** · #8 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 02:02 PM

I had a Mongoose BMX bike. All chrome with the red mags, three piece cranks all the bells and whistles.This was in the late 70's, all the guys in the neighboorhood were in the Boyscouts and we would travel around Florida going to different races. Some of the stuff we did was crazy!! Setting up bricks six high with a ten foot 2x10 and see how far we could jump. That was when it didn't take as long to heal.

Autocycler · #9 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by RedB66

Some of the stuff we did was crazy!! Setting up bricks six high with a ten foot 2x10 and see how far we could jump. That was when it didn't take as long to heal.

In my neighborhood it was cool to ride a BMX Mongoose....kinda like a Lexus for the under 10 crowd

Back then, there was nothing so unforgivably uncool as riding a Huffy or Schwinn. Funny how they are pretty much all made by the same company now.

**CRUISER** · #10 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 03:11 PM

pacific owns swchinn, GT and mongoose. huffy i think is still its own company