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

[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