Your first bike

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss and I were talking about our first bikes. Mine was a red banana-seat bike that lasted about three weeks before I forgot to lock it and it was stolen. I was seven or eight and devastated; my dad was disappointed … in me, to be clear, not the shit-fuck who stole it.

[Mimi]

Banana seat girl bike with u-shaped handle bars. I have a scar on my right knee where I cut myself on one of the fenders.

[Heston]

Purple tomahawk.

Also stolen, but never left me with the same trauma as my Galen action figure getting lost.

[Sparky]

My first bike was a purplish Sears bike, I think it is #2 in the pictures below. Christmas 1968.

[JennyB]

I had a very girly pink bike with a flower basket and bell. My mom was very big on gender stereotypes in the mid 70s.

[Low Down Low]

Never heard of banana seat bike. First bike was a hand-me-down Raleigh Chipper, basically a kiddie version of the more grown up and enviable Chopper.

[Dr. Medulla]

I had a very girly pink bike with a flower basket and bell. My mom was very big on gender stereotypes in the mid 70s.

The Boss had a girl bike but blue. She denies she had a basket on the front but I think she's lying because she knows I'd taunt her about it. So, you know, I don't begrudge her for lying to me.

[Mimi]

My first bike was a purplish Sears bike, I think it is #2 in the pictures below. Christmas 1968.

Minus the training wheels, I believe mine looked like #3. Can't remember what color.

[Dr. Medulla]

My first bike was a purplish Sears bike, I think it is #2 in the pictures below. Christmas 1968.

Minus the training wheels, I believe mine looked like #3. Can't remember what color.

Mine was closer to #3, but with a much longer seat. Those things were built for … what the hell did we call that? Doubling? Damn, my memory is shot.

[WestwayKid]

BMX bike that my mom bought at a rummage sale and completely rehabbed.

[Dr. Medulla]

I knew a couple guys that had this, with the fake gas tank so that it was like it was a real motocross bike.

[revbob]

I inherited my older sister's blue schwinn. Yeah it was a girls bike. My parents weren't buying a new bike and my older brother wasn't giving up his. At least it wasn't my other sister's purple bike with flowers on it.

[Kory]

I don't remember, it had training wheels but no other features.

[BostonBeaneater]

I had one of these which is selling now for $1700 on ebay. Nostalgia makes people do some kookie things.

[Dr. Medulla]

I had one of these which is selling now for $1700 on ebay. Nostalgia makes people do some kookie things.

Serious understatement. You'd better have absolutely no material worries and be sponsoring a village or two in Bangladesh to justify that purchase.