Your first bike

I loved my little budgie, really wanted a foxtail for it…

Ah, I had one of those too, bought from some posh shop out near tunbridge on a day trip with my parents. I was then 'taught' how to ride it on a massive hill.

I seriously cannot remember my first few bikes, probably due to all the blows to the head I received when falling off my latter bikes!

Yep, born in the 70's so I also had a budgie, it was a hand me down from my sister.

Followed by a Boxer

Perfect for ghosties n wheelies up the rec!

I know I had bikes before this that were hand-me-downs from my older brothers but I remember the first bike I ever got just for me was a Emmelle 5 gear mountain bike.

It was a complete pile of shit but I loved it.

This was the first bike that was bought for me, before this I had various hand me downs most of which had solid rubber tyres (no punctures). The last one was a Tomohawk, then the Supergoose.
Pics after restoration earlier this year.

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I was trying to find a picture of the 'chicco' that i stumbled across on ebay last month (I swear i wasn't searching for young spanish boys for sale). Gold frame, big white tyres, it may have been a Raleigh. I swear the rush of nostalgia almost made me buy it, but it was a wee bit small even for my stumpy legs.

some secondhand thing with rod brakes and a fixed wheel..maybe my mum has pictures somewhere..

then my parents must have got a mortgage to get me one of these;
http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/strika.jpg

Striker! Ace bike, never had one though

Apollo Prodigy, I upgrade it every chance I got and it turn out to be lighter than my father old road bike, irony! especially since it got a suspension fork (very very shit mind), what more it´s lighter than my current Kona MTB.

it cost 100 quid brand new from Halfraud, actually come to think of it, I think my mate still have it at his mother´s house in Farnham, I should buy it back having sold it for 120 quid.

Raleigh Grifter. The BMX prototype.

raleigh wildcat. child of the 80's complete with sick sound effects box for extra radness.

Anyone have a Raleigh Bomber? Big old units, like a bigger Grifter but only came in black

Anyone have a Raleigh Bomber? Big old units, like a bigger Grifter but only came in black

this was mine i restored
they came in blue too
and there was a five speed in black / silver fade

That looks totally different to the one some kid had down my road circa '84
Was more like this

mines is stock apart from the tyres and accessories
even the mud guards were original
this is 24'' wheel version
this is 26'' in the brochure

Actually, not that different, must be my old age. Ace bikes though

I had a crappy old raleigh commando that looked like this but nowhere near as nice looking

haha jinx

http://raleigh-bomber.co.uk/

Commandos were wicked for doing wheelies

http://raleigh-bomber.co.uk/

yeah im a member on there
good site,
the superbombers are awesome
still one of the comfiest bikes ive ever ridden

i had one of the smaller versions of the commando, can't remember WTF it was called though....

I had a raleigh bomber - really wanted a grifter but the oldies insisted that I'd 'grow into' a bomber

bastards…

raleigh wildcat. child of the 80's complete with sick sound effects box for extra radness.

bloody hell, thats a blast from the past for me, there was a bigger red one for the next generation up that a friend of mine owned as well, did it have a panel with buttons on it as well?