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There are few photos of me as a child - we're not a family big on cameras. So none of me with bikes. But my bikes were:
A trike with pedals fixed to front wheel and a bin at the back for putting stones and acorns into.
A solid-rubber-tyred single speed bike that I crashed on first stabiliser-less ride (looked round at my dad and fell flat on my face). Then crashed again trying to use it like a BMX on the steep dip down to Dibden Hill and grated half my face off - that resulted in the scar on my eyebow and the slight droop to my left eye when I get tired.
After I outgrew that, I had no bike for a while, then whilst trying to save up for my mate's old Chopper, my folks bought me a new one. In red. With the tiny rack that was just big enough for my paper-bag and the proper springs under the seat which actually did fuck all anyway.
Then when I outgrew that at about 16, I briefly had a loan bike for a while, then nothing til I was about 35. And nobody is interested in grown up bikes.
BTW, can I just mention the Grifter... Did it really weight more than the rider, cos that is how I remember it.