I got my first bike for my Christmas when I was six years old. It was a Tri-Ang. It had a red frame and yellow mudguards. It had a wicker basket on the front. Curiously it only had a front brake. It also had solid tyres but I loved that bike. Sadly six months later I had an accident with it and my parents being overprotective (to which I rebelled in later years) threw it up in the attic and forbade me to ever go near it again

40 odd years later I'm back enjoying cycling even more than I did the first time

I've got an old photo of me on that bike somewhere. I'll have to dig it out and scan it sometime.