Let's hear about your first bike.....

[3weight]

Mine was a black and yellow Huffy (fixed gear, of course!).
What was your first bike?

[Eden]

Classic little red tricycle of course!

[mimitabby]

ditto. I had a little red tricyle too. It could drive like a car, do K turns & U turns.
Of course I always signaled when I turned and parked it carefully.

My mother was learning to drive when I was 5 so I was usually in the car during her lessons with my terrified father.

[SouthernBelle]

Funny you should mention that, I was just thinking about that today. My first 2-wheeler came from Santa. I think I was 4 yo. It was red and blue and had training wheels. My cousin took me out on the road in front of my grandparents' without the training wheels to teach me how to ride. I ended up with a scraped knee, ruining my new that morning tights.

[aicabsolut]

Classic little red tricycle of course!

I totally forgot about that bike! Probably because I rode it inside the house and then progressed to using it as a scooter (stepping on the platform between the back wheels). Shiny dark red.

First 2 wheeler was my sister's old Schwinn. Fixed gear with foot brakes.

I refused to have training wheels. My first ride on a real bike was on my friend's pink bike with training wheels. The neighborhood boys laughed at me, and I refused to let my parents put any on my sister's old bike. And I demanded they teach me to ride asap.

[7rider]

I remember riding this blue thing - a Columbia or something, I don't remember. But it had upright handlebars, and I tied a rope from one grip to the other, and those were my "reigns" and I used those to steer the bike. Because, I didn't want a stinkin' ol' bike! I wanted a HORSE!!!

[CyclChyk]

Does a Big Wheel count as a bike? Aside from that, my first bike was a giant Rincon about 7 years ago............ I was 31.

[aicabsolut]

My bike is my horse until I can afford to have another one.

I gave up the bikes for oh, 20 years once I inherited my sister's pony. Pony > Schwinn.

[mimitabby]

I remember riding this blue thing - a Columbia or something, I don't remember. But it had upright handlebars, and I tied a rope from one grip to the other, and those were my "reigns" and I used those to steer the bike. Because, I didn't want a stinkin' ol' bike! I wanted a HORSE!!!

Regina, when i was a little kid, i didn't need a horse. I WAS a horse.
I had found a couple of sticks painted black, with only white primer on the bottom. They were my front legs!
I galloped all over the yard (my pasture) whinnying and trying to eat the grass.

[alpinerabbit]

I had learned how to ride a bike on one of the neighborhood kids' bikes. I think I learned it in an hour or so. I rememer feeling the movement all again before going to sleep (that happens with every new movement I have learned, like swimming in the sea for the first time) - then later on I had a red regular bike (no gears that I can think of). We moved to a house on a hill so it wasn't much fun.

We rode hobby horses with heads made of old socks all over the neighborhood playing cowboys and zorro. How embarrassing thinking back.

Later I used my mom's 5-speed but that was hellish up our hill (couldn't shift under pressure), and what a new dimension when the first mountain bikes came out - 18 speed! Wow!

[RoadBunner]

I remember riding this blue thing - a Columbia or something, I don't remember. But it had upright handlebars, and I tied a rope from one grip to the other, and those were my "reigns" and I used those to steer the bike. Because, I didn't want a stinkin' ol' bike! I wanted a HORSE!!!

The first bike that was all my own (not a tricycle shared with cousins or a red training wheeler-turned two wheeler shared with my sister) was a purple and white Huffy. I also put rope "reins" on it and pretended it was my horse (which is what I really coveted at that age).

[Zen]

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[Lifesgreat]

But it had upright handlebars, and I tied a rope from one grip to the other, and those were my "reigns" and I used those to steer the bike.

I remember trying to steer my first bike with a jump rope. Unfortunately, it did not work out well. . .


My first bike was pink and white with a tall sissy bar on the back, one speed, coaster brakes, a silver banana seat and a white woven basket.
I LOVED THAT BIKE!! It is long gone now

[shootingstar]

A blue, one-speed that shared with 2 other sisters. I didn't learn to bike until I was 11 yrs. old. Did not have training wheels. I could barely touch my toe on the sidewalk. It was a bike meant for a short adult.

So I skipped the tricycle phase.

But we did have a red and blue tricycle for younger siblings.

[Kristi]

My very first bike I've ever owned I got two years ago. It's my Giant Trance 3. I think she's beautiful. We didn't get along at first. I didn't take her out at all for almost a year after a big argument last spring that left me pretty bloody.

I rode lots of bikes as a kid, but never had one of my own. I treasure this bike. I can't imagine feeling the need to get a new one. I might replace pieces and parts, but I love the frame.

I've been back riding this spring and have ridden at least once a week for the past 2 months. It feels great!