Off topic: What was your first bike?
12-22-10, 02:56 AM
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Off topic: What was your first bike?
Gt dyno bmx bike, Walmart bmx bike
Gt dyno still have it, walmart bike got stolen from salvation army.
Gt dyno still have it, walmart bike got stolen from salvation army.
12-22-10, 03:40 AM
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CCM Mustang with a 3 speed stick shifter, ape hangars, and a banana seat... think it was 71-72.
I snapped the forks landing a jump.
I snapped the forks landing a jump.
12-22-10, 06:08 AM
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F'n Power Rangers bike. Had the pajamas 2 match.
12-22-10, 07:26 AM
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Late 80's GT Mach One. I loved that bike. Had it till I got my car, probably still in my parents garage somewhere.
12-22-10, 09:03 AM
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1964 Schwinn Sting Ray handed down by my uncle. I didn't really appreciate it at the time and wish I still had it.
12-22-10, 09:06 AM
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My first bike was my sisters hand-me-down. It was a heavy girls bike that my Dad had repainted. It weighed more than I did and it took me months to learn to ride it. 
12-22-10, 09:15 AM
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red schwinn stingray. rode it until the rusted stem snapped off while i was riding, crash & burn.
12-22-10, 09:22 AM
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it was the mid eighties and the apple of my eye was a blue schwinn aerostar bmx, it was ridden regularly by myself until i was about 16 or 17 at which point my 8 year old brother(freshly adopted at the time) rode it for a few years and eventually it's become a rusty oft forgotten thing stored under my parents shore house but i'm told it's pulled out once and again when a child needs a bike
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Sick flea market 16" Huffy with coaster brake and fluorescent yellow fork. Bike was the boooomb.
12-22-10, 10:58 AM
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Coolios! i wish my gt dyno's san marco concor saddle wasnt so beat up, Im getting it re wraped buy a leatherman tough
12-22-10, 11:00 AM
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A third handed haro master from my cousin and then to my brother and then to me. It survived amazingly well; I think it's still in my parent's house.
12-22-10, 12:09 PM
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It was a brand new blue 1952 Schwinn World (SS with coaster brake), Christmas 1951. I don't remember if it was the adult (26" wheels) or juvenile (24" wheels) model. I was a pretty tall nine year old.
12-22-10, 12:41 PM
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My brother and I had nearly identical Mongoose bmx's. Both had silver frames. Mine had yellow grips, saddle, tires, tube pads, etc. His had blue.
I think they were Experts but I can't remember.
I think they were Experts but I can't remember.
12-22-10, 02:49 PM
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check out my 9 yr old nephew's ride - just took this camera phone pict this afternoon. so jealous.
12-22-10, 03:02 PM
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It was a Schwinn, but I don't know what model. IIRC, it was fixed with a rod-actuated tire-scraper front brake. It disappeared when my family moved the summer after third grade
.I had cheap BMX bikes after that, then started converting them with freewheels and derailers to mini-mountain bikes (this was circa 1980-1984). Then in 1984 I got my first road bike (Trek with Campy and mixed other components) and for some years after that I just rode that one bike.
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Various thrift store bikes that got rusted or stolen from leaving them outside. I like my scooters and skateboard more when I was a kid.
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huffy
like this one:
like this one:
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52 Huffy with a kisser on the back rack.
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I'll have to ask the 'rents because they've got it in a garage somewhere but it was a blue and yellow plastic wheeled 18 or 20 incher. Five big plastic spokes and a coaster brake that I used to skid ruts into the gravel driveway for days with. Used it to kill a snake. Tried to learn to bunnyhop on this thing, so effing heavy.
Rode it FOREVER. Until I got my Mongoose Wal-Mart MTB which now (ten years later?) has the crunchiest sounding BB I've ever encountered.
Rode it FOREVER. Until I got my Mongoose Wal-Mart MTB which now (ten years later?) has the crunchiest sounding BB I've ever encountered.
12-23-10, 03:03 PM
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Well since my first bike was a no-name mountain bike, I'll post my first fixed, which was the original Redline 925.
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My first bike was a blue hand me down Schwinn. The first bike that was MINE was a 1983 Diamond Back Viper. I rode that from kindergarten up into jr. high. Then I rode my dad's 83 Trek 620 up until I made my first bike purchase, a 99 LeMond Zurich.
