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My first bike was a 1973 Raleigh Tempest, bloody 'orrible but dad wouldn't spring for a Tomahawk/Chopper... Rode that 'til I couldn't stand the 'Oi! Like the girl's bike mate!' taunts any longer and bought a 5 speed Arena off a Turkish bloke in my block for a fiver, whacked some cowhorns on it and that was that, hooked! Me and my mates going mad everyday after school and at weekends on the 'Monkey Hills' in Battersea Park...
Coupla cheap (probably stolen) MTBs followed which in turn got nicked then I picked up a 70s 5 speed Motobecane in the early 90s for peanuts, stuck some nice light wheels a neighbour gave me on it and picked up some 2nd hand lo-pro bars from Dawes Road Cycles for a fiver (I was a poor musician!) and rode around all day just for the fun of it, mostly pretending to be a courier... Loved it! Considered becoming a courier but my courier mates put me off... Shagged my knees cuz I didn't know how to spin properly and had to stop riding for a while (2-3 years)... Motobecane got nicked, I cried...
Once my knee caps sorted themselves out I started commuting to Canary Wharf from Chelsea on a brand spanking new 2000 Bad Boy, always missed my road bike tho' and felt I'd made a bad choice, after a while I got bored and the Bad Boy got left in the shed...
Last coupla years I'd been snooping around for a track bike to get the buzz back again but couldn't find anything i liked so I bought a BMX off the Bay and really got back into messin' around on bikes for the fun of it... Earlier this year my flatmate's old Rockhopper got nicked when we were burgled so he went out and bought a Lemond Fillmore and that was that! I had to get another road bike... Bad Boy went on Gumtree...
Not sure if I can handle riding fixed my knees are 'proper' shagged, but I've got one now, as well as the bling SS that's taking forever to build so I'm gonna give it a good go and see how I get on... Bit scary at first...
That's my (overly long, sorry, I'm quite old) bike life-story! Just love bikes! Drives my girlfriend crazy, unless she's gettin' a backie on the BMX that is, she LOVES that... Stooopid sexy trick nuts! ;-)