My happiest: My little sis and I had just taken our (little!) 16" wheeled baby bikes out after having removed our training wheels, and I showed off to Dad how I could ride all by myself. =D
My proudest: After an incident on my older huffy, where I could just SEE my mom trying to calculate ER costs as I dragged myself out from under the bike, I pulled my water bottle out of the holder, hosed out my bloody little hands and knees, took a couple drinks, put it back, looked at Mom and said "Okay, we can get going again." She was so proud.
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08-26-2006, 02:38 PM #1Kitsune06 Guest
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08-26-2006, 03:43 PM #2
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I'd been bike-crazy since I was a toddler, and obsessively rode my tricycle EVERYWHERE and all the time.
When I was six I saved up my allowance and with some parental $$ help I bought a blue Schwinn! I don't remember training wheels, but I do remember riding on everything with that bike. Cow pastures were great, cuz you could go really fast."If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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08-26-2006, 04:00 PM #3
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mine is when my dad took off my training wheels.
my good friend mandy that i grew up with was over and she didn't have training wheels on her bike. so i told my dad that i didn't want them either. he helped me take them off, ok so he did all the work i handed him tools, wheeled that bike out of the garage, and hopped on. went around the little circle of drive way by the house with no problem!
i was so proud that i was just like my friend mandy with no training wheels who was a year older than me.
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09-02-2006, 03:50 PM #4
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Oh my gosh, I just found this post. I wish I could find a bike the same color as the Schwinn I had when I was a kid!! It was sparkling teal green -- it actually sparkled! With a sparkly white vinyl seat. Oh wow, I wish I still had that bike!
Great memory!
Louise
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"You don't really ever have to fall. But kissing the ground is good because you learn you're not going to die if it happens."
-- Jacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan, former U.S. national champion cyclist
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09-02-2006, 03:57 PM #5
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My brother and I "inventing" mountain biking when were living in Italy ('69-'73). We'd ride our banana bikes up the nearby mountain (The Dolomites) and race down the goat paths and stream beds...my poor dad had to have our bikes welded back together constantly.
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09-02-2006, 05:13 PM #6
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Wow.
Most of my memories of cycling as a kid involve crashes and pain!
How did I ever get into cycling as an adult??????
I do remember I had this blue bike...I honestly don't recall what kind it was. But it had upright handlebars and a big white banana saddle. I tied a rope to either end of the bars, by the grips, and those were my "reigns". I really wanted a horse in a bad way, and that was how I pretended my bike was a horse!
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09-02-2006, 05:43 PM #7
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On my 9th birthday I got my first 2 wheel vehicle. Learning to ride was tough on me and my new bike. My scariest and proudest event in elementary school was when I rode my bike 8 blocks to school for the first time.
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