First bike was a green robin hood 3 speed. I used to ride it down a bike path to the lake near our house to go fishing. Never caught much of anything but I did learn how to ride no hands. Second was a silver ten speed nishiki that my father gave me when I was 14 to ride to high school. I learned how to wrench on that bike. I bought a copy of Richard's Bicycle Book and decided I could do my own work. I went down to the local Raleigh bike shop and bought a basic set of tools. Man did I want one of those Reynolds 531 Raleigh bikes. I still own and use those tools 40 years later. I remember taking that bike apart and thought that this was easy. It took me a week to figure out how everything went back together! Heck sometimes it still takes me a week (or more) to figure out how to put things back together,