What was your first bike and how long did you have it for?
I thought of this while cleaning my current bike last night and thought it would be good to ask 🙂
My first bike was a black mountain bike with 18 gears and no suspension. In fact I think it came out before suspension was being put on bikes. I do not know what brand it was but I do know it had "Astra" written on the sides in red. It was a pretty nice bike that was great and comfortable to ride. It took me over many miles and lots of different terrain during the time I had it which must have been something like 10 years. Towards the end of it's life it ended up having the wheels taken off of it for reasons I forget and I think my dad got rid of it in the end because it got to a stage where it was beyond repair. I still miss it though.
Always had a bike as a kid but as an adult getting into cycling. At 30 I bought a Huffy MTB. I did a few 60 milers on in it. It sucked, crank falling apart, no qr so I had to carry tools. Learned a little more about bikes so I went to a shop and bought a hybrid. Rode it for about 6 months, did a few organized 50 mile fun rides, Then decide to go with a road bike. Trek 1200, rode it for about 2 years then went to a Cannondale R 900. That was in 1998. Still have it and ride it occasionally. Along with my other current bikes.
As a kid I went through multiple second-hand bikes from my older brothers, so I have no idea what kind any of the actually were, I just remember the colours. Likewise the only thing I really remember about the first bike I ever got new was that it was sparkly blue and had tassels on the handlebars 🙂
Oh, my first bike was a bright purple-reddish BMX. I was a 7 year old girl so I must be looked weird on it, but I liked it so much. It also had a small chair for my dolls. 🙂)
My father bought me a BMX 2000 at first. It was a very great bike and my first love and was emotionally attached with it. I can never forget that bike.
Well, I started biking in the early 80's. This was a time when the BMX craze was in full swing. All the kids at school had them and I was constantly harassing my folks to buy me one. At first they didn't want me to get a BMX because so many kids where getting injured trying to pull off the various tricks and stunts that were popular. Eventually, they caved in and got me a shiny blue Mongoose BMX for my birthday. I just had to promise them that I would ride it normally and not try to do any stunts.
I first started riding at an early age and I think after learning to swim it's the next thing my parents made sure I could do.
My first bike was a small red BMX because at the time time the BMX craze was popular, and I remember going everywhere on that bike well, as long as my parent were with me of course as I was only about five years old!
It took a long time for my parents to get me my first bike, so I was 10 by the time I got my own and it was a 63 Stingray from Schwinn I think. I rode that till I was 14 then got a used 1960 or 61 Puch Bergmeister that was originally copper plated but someone tried to paint it blue but the paint was peeling off in areas so I had a blotchy sort of dull blue with shiny copper bike! When my parents moved to California my dad left that bike behind which [censored] me off because when I got to my new home I had no transportation, so I walked a lot and took buses till I got a car 3 or so months later.
