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

[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................

[Jools]

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

[MJS]

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...

[jj250]

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

[jeff st4s]

Originally Posted by jj250

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

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!

[madmav]

Originally Posted by Jools

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

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

[cookati]

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.