Mine was my older sister's hand-me-down girls'-frame 24" balloon-tire behemoth. Total mystery make/model because my parents bought it used/repainted, but for some reason I'm thinking it < might > have had a Montgomery Ward headbadge... I remember putting a Vrroom unit like this on it:



For my 12th birthday I got my own new Sears three-speed instead of pirating my parent's matching 1959 JC Higgins 3-speeds, or my older sister's Sears 3-speed.

The first bike I bought for myself was a '74 Fuji Special Tourer in orange. That got stolen three months later, so I got the identical bike as a replacement.

Then in '76 I 'saw the light' (weight) after riding my College roommate's Viscount Aerospace Pro (with death fork, but we didn't know that at the time), and I bought the Fuji S-10S that I still have today... Was my primary ride until this year when I picked up my Univega.