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

[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

[MJS]

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!

[chris.p]

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.

[Guido]

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................

[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.