Your first bike

I learnt to ride on a Budgie. Kirknewton, Scotland. Good times. :)

I had a ghostbusters BMX

1st proper bike was a black raleigh stricker. Loved that bike. The replacement was the raleigh grifter. That bike was a tank, handled anything.

I had a yellow bmx with yellow 5 spokes and yellow pads on the bars and top tube

it was rad

1st bike Ralieigh Boxer..but no wife beater tho just a basin hair cut !
the 1st bike i loved the raliegh super burner, classic christmas surprise bike amazing !!!

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andy.w; Kudos, thats is fantastic I would love one of them or an old skool Kuwahara.
I coveted them as a kid.

hmmmmmmm me to or the classic skyway white and blue....(drifts off in to table top dreams)
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/skyway/7752

First brand new bike was a 1983 Raleigh Record Ace

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that is very nice. seeing here Raleigh were most peoples first bike. god bless' em

You spoilt gits, I had a crappy little Raleigh that my dad picked up from the dump.

I had some hand me downs and rescues from hedges and ditches before I got my shiny new Raleigh

Hi, I have a yellow childrens Raleigh Spider sort of decorating the wall in my cluttered garage. I was intrigued that you mentioned such a bike and if it's like the one you still remember. Cheers, Paul

All my mates had Raleigh Burners. I had a burner copy by Ironhorse. With really skinny mags. My Parker was'nt a real parker either. Did'nt have the bright orange lining.

Still smarts.

I really wanted a BMX, but my Dad refused, saying it wasn't a proper bike. Since I couldn't have a BMX I decided I wanted the Raleigh Bomber but didn't get that either, eventually getting a beautiful white and Raleigh road bike (pearl white frame, red detailing). I would love to know what model that was: I remember it had maybe 4 inch long red mudguards that served absolutely no purpose at all. I ended up loving that bike: it wasn't as cool as BMXs at the time but it was sooo fast, I used to leave them for dust.

Anyone know where I may be able to find out what bike it was?

We used to ride our shitty OTP BMXs down slate cliffs, Through dense woods, down steep valley mud paths, and then throw them around a BMX race track.

Funny how I ride handbag XC trails these days, and stress about exactly tyre and PSI I should be using. As well as the best size of hydrolic disc to use.

Gotten old.

Raleigh Burner -

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

+1

At first I was like...

But then I was all...

First pic is my brother, so I had that Raleigh Stryker after him (until the handlebars rusted through and I managed to pull them off the bike whilst riding it!) Second is me on my old Raleigh Burner. I must of been about 9 in that photo. I hate that photo!

I really wanted a BMX, but my Dad refused, saying it wasn't a proper bike. Since I couldn't have a BMX I decided I wanted the Raleigh Bomber but didn't get that either, eventually getting a beautiful white and Raleigh road bike (pearl white frame, red detailing). I would love to know what model that was: I remember it had maybe 4 inch long red mudguards that served absolutely no purpose at all. I ended up loving that bike: it wasn't as cool as BMXs at the time but it was sooo fast, I used to leave them for dust.

Anyone know where I may be able to find out what bike it was?

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/v/Manufacturer+Archive/Raleigh/

very first was my big brother's hand me down but my first bike proper was one of these, think its still under my parents house, happy days they were.

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/healing_industries/3638

I remember it well, out of true back wheel, but I still thought it was bees knees.

Cor, I remember it well. I think it was a Raleigh, gold and red paint job, and the best bit of all, solid rubber tyres that could never puncture!

My Dad refused to fit stabilisers and made me take some falls until I learnt to ride it properly, which didn't seem to take too long.

i had a raleigh street wolf. wish my mum had kept it when i left home :'(

Unearthed this gem the other day.

This is the day I got rid of the stabilisers. Admittedly you can't see too much off the bike, but it's all about the basket and the killer outfit.
She had cherry stickers on the seat tube.

strangelty even though im only 18 i remember having a tiny childrens fixed gear bike for my first bike

I have no idea what my very first bike was, something tiny and blue with a picture of a tortoise on it I seem to remember, that was definitely the bike I learnt to ride without stabalisers, I remember riding it up and down the garden falling off less and less untill I was all gravy, then it was all about the Raleigh Mustang.