What bikes did you have as a kid ?
 

Just wondered what pushbikes you had as kids,or what were your favourites?
Grifters/choppers/bmx etc.
I see that theres a growing market in these old bikes with collectors etc starting to pay suprising amounts for there childhood memories..
Personally i had loads: tomahawk, grifter xl, ammaco chro mo pro bmx and a personal fave a curtis freestyler, loved em all.
Still like messing on cycles to this day, be it mtb or road, guess we never grow up!

cool.....

i had a budgie :D Then moved up to the heavyweight striker ...

At age of 10 i started bmx racing on a gt pro with nice set of skini's and loved it to bit's....

My brother at the time was into the freestyle and had a haro (can't remember the name) replica and we had quarter pipe outside the house and some right good time's

at 15 i retired and got involved in motorcycle's

Good Days them

Good Days

Memorable ones were a bronze metallic tomahawk with mag wheels (my favourite!), a raleigh super tuff burner (bling bling gold with black skyway wheels), and a silver fox.

I must admit to tracking a few 'fizzy lemon' choppers (lemon with pink decals - cool!) - they go for stupid money !

Nat

An orange Mk1 chopper and a red Mk2 one also, you could get a top speed wobble on with those stupid small front wheels when you tried! :D

Yellow Mk 1 chopper,:biaggi: happy days :D :D :D


Not first, but best.

blimy I started riding bikes at 4 without the stabilisers
I had some tiny little blue bird thing
then got a striker, they seemed so cool and the last I can really remember before moving on to bigger bikes
I had a Muddy Fox which got nicked
and my mate at school had one exactly the same unbeknown to my dad
who saw him on it a couple of days later in the local town, he nearly beat the living **** out of him. lol
Still have a bike to this day a Kona Scrap
it keeps the youngsters in line

Hand me downs from 2 older brothers, which were invariably not worth having anyway... never had a new bike as a kid, finally bought myself a new mountain bike 4 or 5 years back, only for it to get nicked. Guess there was something to be said for riding around on rubbish old bikes after all!

Never had a new bike bought for me, apart from the little three wheeler trikes as a ickle kid but my brother "Bionicle" has dragged this picture up from somewhere, that is him with the curly hair I am sat on a somewhat modified Raliegh Chopper, complete with gears:)
No coments abouts clothes & hair styles please;)


Chris.:burn:

Nice thread....this is bringing back fond memories of those innocent days when stress was unheard of.....

First bike was a little tin 3 wheeler that I had when I lived in Malaysia as a nipper. The sort with the 'cranks' & pedals welded to the front axle. Played for hours on that until my older brother pushed drawing pins through the seat and left them scattered over the path, which I then ran over......Nice Eh!!!!

Raleigh Tomahawk - Was too small for a chopper so I got a Tomahak in Red.
That ended in tears too after my big brother undid the headset as a childhood prank (can you spot the commeon theme here???). I wheelied off a kerb and the forks fell out causing me to slam into the tarmac. A huge 'Wiley Coyote' style lump appeared on my forehead and after a coupled of days on it getting bigger and blacker I was taken to hospital to find I'd fractured my
skull.

Laser Custom Racer - First racing bike I had. 12 speed, Black with gold components.....My Big Bro had a matching one.....We went everywhere on those......

Pro-Star MX1 BMX - Got bitten by the BMX bug early on and went 'berm-ing' it everywhere I could. Upgraded that to a Hutch Timmy Judge. That was my full-on bling-mobile. Think I spent more on that in bling add-ons than I have on my Duke.

Ah, them were the days................

I'm worried about you Guy...Two attempts at GBH from big bro and you say stress was unheard of ???

I'm in the Urban camp me, just had a load of old clunkers. There were a couple that I built myself from bits that I'd literally found on fly-tipped bikes and in those days BMX or MTB's were unheard of. I lived within spitting distance of some nice swoopy chalk hills and we kids used to build what we then called 'Trackers', stripped down to the minimum, no gears but a small front chainwheel, 'cowhorn' handle bars and if you were really flash the closest thing to 'bling' in those days were those stubby little aluminium mudguards that looked like curved Bounty trays (and were just as flimsy). They only used to have one brake as well...always the back brake for sliding the back end round.

When I was about 12, I once built one that had a frame meant for 20" wheels but with forks and rear end from a 26" wheel bike in it, so that I could fit the big wheels and get some more ground clearance cos the latest craze was riding over fallen tree trunks.

I proudly rode my new creation up the hills then rattled down at breakneck speed, only to have the whole rear end collapse and have me in a heap. The forks were OK, just a bolt on, but I guess I learned then that soldering the back end on with my Dad's primus blowtorch just wasn't a solid engineering solution - I'm surprised I made it out of the back yard :lol:

Don't forget the football cards and things in the spokes for a bit of noise... must be where the desire for Termi's came from... :lol: :lol:

looks like lots had choppers and tomahawks, fortuntely we all forgot the love of cowhorns all we'd all be on harleys

I did the same a jools but, we put lolipop sticks sideways under the brake block, the stick flicked by the spokes made a sound like an engine!
some weeks later the wheel fell apart, with loose spokes
lol


mav

I had a Raleigh Super Tuff Burner too Nat, after recking a Grifter.

First outing on the 'Super Tuff', went up a big ramp a bit off centre and hit a wall mid-air snapping the forks straight off !!! My Dad still had his bike racing stuff so welded the forks back. Later in the bikes lifeMe & my mates were doing 8-10ft high jumps and when I landed I snapped the foot pegs off, my mate went one better by snapping both mag wheels...

Still have a raleigh mountain bike in the shed, don't use it much though.

Andy

First bike i remember having was a full size 20" wheel chrome burner when i was 7(raleigh BMX)... which was sweet but a little too big for about a year (and really i allways wanted a team burner)

another BMX after that, it was a mongoose villian (quite apt for me at the time being a wayward 13 year old... not because i was a criminal but because i had sharp teeth with a long body covered in fur and occaisionally ate snakes).

after i'd grown out of that awkward phase i stuck with BMX's till i was 21...

i built loads but my favorite has to be the one with a S&M John Holmes frame (no joke! it was the long toptube version of the S&M dirt bike heheh)
Aah that was a sweet bike... G-Sport hubs with 14mm bolts instead of 7mm axles... choclate brown... black forks... black bars...

and a back wheel that nearly split me in half in an 8ft deep concrete bowl at harrow skate park... thats what you get for not dropping in properly... made
a reasonably good friend give me an inspection cause i honestly thought i'd torn myself a new one... retired from the world of BMX after that.

Blimey! 'Ow you rich kids 'ad it easy! I see that 'awk' says that e ad a budgie, and e RODE it. We were that poor, that when the old man was put out of work......we 'ad to eat our's. tell you wat, there ain't much meet on a budgie....The only bike in our street was called brass, and my old man couln'd offord her.

Translated version here.

Blimey! 'How you rich kids 'ad it easy! I see that 'hawk' says that e ad a budgie, and e RODE it. We were that poor, that when the old man was put out of work......we 'ad to eat our's. Tell you what, there isn’t much meet on a budgie....The only bike in our street was called brass, and my old man couldn’t afford her.

pmsl

mav

Bleedin ell Mav! ave you lived dahn sahff? yu seem to now the langwidge.

Not choppers No.:devil:

Still got the scars from a Mk 1 chopper incident.:eek:

Standing up peddling like a nutter, changed from second to third and got the false neutral. Collapsed forward and so did the bars.

Most of the skin grue back. :lol:

Yep,old shonker wiv cow'orns for me too.
Us Lincolnshire boys are not afraid to show the pics,....

Call that an old shonker...you've got the ally 'Bounty tray' mudguards AND a front brake. You've always been a bling merchant haven't you ;) :lol:

Yes I forgot about that, all my mates used to make cowhorns in metal work for their bikes, the teacher used to get well miffed, as the amount of design and manufacture was not quite what he was looking for, think he was expecting more than just self gratification skills to be honed to a fine art by teenagers, adults eh, they ain't got a clue! :lol: :lol:

Guilty as charged!:lol:

I had a Tomahalwk then a Griffter with a gert big reflecter on the back not to mention home made brake lights ,playing card throttle and one of those little yellow horns with the mike attached so you could get feed back through the speaker also had BMX namley burners and a diamond back!!!Now have diamond back montain bike (with pie rack).

Ah the orange X1..there 1st full sus bike if i remember, i really wanted one but told myself i didnt need rear suspension so bought the orange P7..
Sadly 6 months later i changed my mind so £3000 later i had a Marin team downhill, great bike and its still in the garage and i use it to this day

just because you USE it to put your motor bike cover on when its not on your motorbike thats not really use is it .

Ha Ha... no i use her old nc30 to rest the cover on,about the only use that gets!

Didn't realise you knew one of the lads from Bay City Rollers Keith ?:frog: