Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > What bikes did you have as a kid ?

[jj250]

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!

[hawk]

cool.....

i had a budgie 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

[Nattyboy]

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

[jeff st4s]

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!

[Gaz 748]

Yellow Mk 1 chopper, happy days


Not first, but best.

[keefer]

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

[andys 900ss]

Originally Posted by Nattyboy

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.
Nat

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

[ducati dad]

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.

[madmav]

Originally Posted by ducati dad

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

[ducati dad]

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