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Thread: My first bike!!!
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03-28-2009, 02:48 PM #1
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My first bike!!!
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My parents have finally entered the age of computer technology, so my mum scanned and sent me some of my kiddie pictures - including one of me on my first bike! Don't know what's happened to the colour, it's all gone a bit orange - the bike was actually a deep red. A Wittekind with 20 inch wheels - it looks enourmous in the picture! I must have been 6 or 7 at the time....in a strange rainbow jumper handknitted by my auntie...
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03-29-2009, 09:59 PM #2
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"True, but if you throw your panties into the middle of the peloton, someone's likely to get hurt."
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03-30-2009, 04:46 AM #3
I heart my bike
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Too cute!!! Your bike does look enormous, even tho the wheels are only 20". You look so happy!!!
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03-30-2009, 06:04 AM #4
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I like the jumper
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03-30-2009, 04:32 PM #5
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Thanks smurf, that is loads better!
Took me ages to learn to ride - or more like believe I could ride. Used to pedal along quite happily, till I realised my mum wasn't holding on to the rack anymore - at which point I would scream "I can't do it!" and fall off. Then I refused to go on it completely for 6 months or so. Funnily enough, once the bike got out of the garage again after that, it didn't take me long at all to get confident...
P.S. I have outgrown both the jumper and the bowl haircut by now!
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03-30-2009, 04:37 PM #6
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That looks like a very nice bike!
Your Auntie is talented, I like that sweater, er...jumper as well.2008 Trek FX 7.2/Terry Cite X
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03-30-2009, 04:41 PM #7
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It was rather scratchy!!!!
Coaster brake at the back - those were the days!
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