My Dad was a stingy bastard.
My first bike was a wee-lad's fixie. No brakes. No training wheels. Solid rubber tires. Much blood on asphalt.
An "Open Road" steel BMX. It was a tank. It had solid aluminium mags which I cracked (along with some teeth) on a quarter-pipe. Gift to the neighbors.
Mongoose Californian BMX (back when they were decent bikes) - stolen
Mongoose Supergoose Al BMX Cruiser
Trek 560 (wrecked)
SR ProAm frame (made by Suntour) Singlespeed. Dad cured me of any desire to ride fixie.