Your first bike

This beast. I remember it had awesome sparkly green paint. Used to bomb it round my garden and down some local trails with my mum and dad, up near Corbridge up north.

The first bike I remember was a '94 Mongoose Villian with green mags!

But what I learnt on I do not know :)

Mine was a 1987 Raleigh Team Styler BMX with oakley finishing kit - I got it from my cousin Adrian who used to race. even though I didn't get the mag wheels, I had blue tyres, and for a few fleeting days I was the coolest kid on the block. I also built a ramp out of plywood and took it off some sweet jumps.

Raleigh jungle for me, had been through the family with loads of kids learning to ride on it. Then when I got older i saw it down at my granddads and whipped of the brakes and chain guard then set about learning to bunny hop :D

I know I'm bringing an incredibly old thread back to life and I don't know how people feel about that but I love the idea of seeing how people started cycling. I also think it's interesting how many people have started on Raleighs.
Speaking of which my first ride was one of these. A raleigh alien quest. Check out the alien on the chainset. I used to ride this thing along the banks of the Mersey every day during my youth in Manchester. Sadly I traded it in one day for a 3tonne blue, yellow and red full susp BSO in a moment of 9 year old weakness. Fortunately it quickly fell apart and I got a ridgeback mx-3

this thread needs more first bikes. here's mine: raleigh slammer with the sickest of fades. should never have sold it. if i could get a grown up sized version of the same bike I'd be all over it.

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The chrome, the gumwalls, the blue and yellow.

God that's a good looking colour scheme

I'm sure there's a Yeti that would scratch that itch.

Raleigh Chicco - it would have been 1974 at a guess. Very "Clown's Bike" in retrospect. I suspect my mother chose something she felt in keeping with the neighbourhood, rather than anything too chopper! Being a twin, my brother got the same one, it must have looked very David Lynch sinister, seeing the pair of us riding towards you. It's amazing I carried on cycling. In later years as a desperate stab at rebellion my brother took off the mudguards and the chain guard, he's been like that in life ever since...

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I'm pretty sure, sadly there is no photographic evidence, that my first bike was a Raleigh Budgie. Ah, halcyon days. Brown cords, home knitted tank tops, and a Budgie. I fookin rocked as a kid!