Originally Posted by
froze
Dang, were your parents into cycling? They seem like they were to pick out a steed like that! My first bike my parents bought me was a Mattel Varooom at the age of 8, that's probably worth a mint now but I was the joke of the neighborhood then; then when I turned 12 my brother needed to buy a car and thus needed money so I bought his Schwinn 3 speed. I jumped at the Schwinn because I broke the Mattel doing jumps about 3 years prior, and walking just wasn't the thing to do when all your friends had bikes.
So you're an addict from an early age:-)
The Holdsworth was my consolation prize when my parents bought my older sister a new car, a Datsun 510. They didn't know anything about bikes, but I sure did. I ended up with the car about 5 years later after my sister trashed it. I learned a lot about working on cars just trying to keep it going. The engine eventually went because it had been so poorly maintained, but I still have the bike.:-)