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

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[ericthered40]

Not choppers No.

Still got the scars from a Mk 1 chopper incident.

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.

[KeefyB]

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