Names and faces to bikes

I just found this photo of me on my first "racing bike" in 1983.

It's an Elswick Hopper 'Thunder Flash' and as you can see is equipped with all the top line racing equipment of the day: 16 inch gaspipe frame, Cottered cranks, mudguards, pump pegs, Sturmey Archer 3 speed, 24inch steel wheels and whitewall tyres. I'm fetchingly attired in a brand new complete Motobecane factory kit - shorts, jersey, hat and gloves. I got both the bike and the kit for my 11th birthday, which was when the photo was taken.

I did 50 miles on it the next day. Fucking ace bike.

Christ, what went wrong?