Your first bike
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Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
Purple tomahawk.
Also stolen, but never left me with the same trauma as my Galen action figure getting lost.
Also stolen, but never left me with the same trauma as my Galen action figure getting lost.
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Re: Your first bike
My first bike was a purplish Sears bike, I think it is #2 in the pictures below. Christmas 1968.
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Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Re: Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
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.
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Re: Your first bike
BMX bike that my mom bought at a rummage sale and completely rehabbed.
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Re: Your first bike
I knew a couple guys that had this, with the fake gas tank so that it was like it was a real motocross bike.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Your first bike
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.
Re: Your first bike
I don't remember, it had training wheels but no other features.
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Re: Your first bike
I had one of these which is selling now for $1700 on ebay. Nostalgia makes people do some kookie things.
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Re: Your first bike
Serious understatement. You'd better have absolutely no material worries and be sponsoring a village or two in Bangladesh to justify that purchase.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑06 Feb 2023, 3:12pmI had one of these which is selling now for $1700 on ebay. Nostalgia makes people do some kookie things.
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