not MY fist bike, but interesting anecdote:

when i was in kenya, i saw little kids riding huge, heavy indian-made steel singlespeed, rod brake, baloon-tire bikes.

These bikes were WAY too big for these kids, so they would swing their right leg inside the front triangle and keep their body to the left of (both) top tubes. These bikes were probably heavier than they were! Hardcore!

You betcha. I didn't go to LT, but I have a ****ton of friends who did (some graduated in 2000 I think).

Small world afterall.

A red BMX like bike that my dad put together from 3 or 4 neighbor's trash bikes. My first new bike was a black and gold huffy bmx for my first communion. I wrecked that bike more times than I care to remember and never once taco'd a wheel. Awesome bike.

first bike was hell if i know little kid bike, first one i remember was a green huffy with a radio between the handlebars, first one i rode seriously was my felt f70, first one i fell in love with was my mercier kilo fixed

burgundy red BMX huffy. speed speed of power. As a kid I rode everywhere in my neighborhood on that bike. I later sprayed painted it yellow and my dad got pissed off at me for doing so. Really crappy paint job. I don't remember what happened to it. I think we trashed it.

Red BMX when I was 4. Receiving that bike is possibly my earliest real memory.

Huffy Team Murray.

I have no idea what happened to that bike. I do remember that I had one of those Transformers reflectors. The shiz for sure.

But it's not fair because how many of us grew up in the 80s? It's like asking some 15 y.o. now, was your first bike a mountain bike?

Duh. Yeah.

On the other hand, not so long ago I had a GT freestyle (Dyno Air) which got stolen. Then I had a hybrid for about a year. Which got stolen. Then I moved into fixed gear.

bmx wasn't invented when i got my first bike. it would have been some sort of coaster brake, flat bar kids bike. first bike i loved was one of those bikes that looked like a motorcycle... red plastic gas tank, front and rear shocks, number plate up front. awesome ride. we used to do some sweet jumps on those...

a red schwinn scrambler bmx...loved that bike

Shwinn sting ray that was purple with a white banana seat. Yep, a great memory that it was.

i had some chrome bmx at age 5 that i rode everywhere. still had it until it got donated a year ago or so

my first & last is a soma rush,i ain't buying another bike since this will last me till i die!

a red huffy 24" bmx with a coaster brake, almost everything was red, except the cranks, spokes and chain.

Huffy "Wrangler". It was beige. I rock. I guess I went through an Achy Breaky Cowboy phase as a child...thankfully, that's over.

chrome Mongoose Californian with red tires.... yeee haw.

First road bike was a Cannondale R500 in gray... talk about a boneshaker.

Hey, Hungarian kids in the 70's were even tougher! They did the same in traffic!

https://www.alleycat.hu/?q=taxonomy/term/27

click on "mehet" beside the third photo, "Kerékpáros oktatófilm a 70-es évekből"

The video is an old biking safety advocacy piece, state-ordered, of course
Under it, there are videos of Ted Shred, CM and CMWC of Budapest

Since you asked....... Sears 20" cruiser at age 5,converted it into a Stingray when I was 9.Rode that thing till Junior High (were talkin pre-bmx,and mtb here) Got a huge paper route in Jr.High and went to the bike shop and bought 2 new bikes a Newsboy Schwinn clunker with baskets for work and a Supersport 2 years before the big bike boom of the 70's hit.. Everyone that rode that Supersport came back with grins and saying things like wow thats like flying,no work at all to ride,,almost goes by its self....So are we jaded now or what,,,that thing weighed as much as 2 modern bikes....JJ

Oh yeah I almost forgot I used to take the clunker trail riding,,,,,so I guess I invented single speed mountain biking (yeah right and Gary Fisher invented the mountain bike,,,hahaha)

same here, but mine was grey/black.

Orange/white Huffy stingray-clone, hand-me-downed from my older bro. It had a cowboy motif in the decals, with rope and stuff. Also, the frame had silver splotches on it all over from when he tried to spray paint it silver (at 6 years old) and my parents caught him in the act. Banana seat, not-quite chopper bars, coaster brake. Rode the hell out of that thing on a farm in ND.

The first bike I recall riding was a Sears special blue cruiser type bike with gorilla-type bars and a big black banana seat. My dad taught me how to ride it by bringing me to the top of a big hill and giving me a big push. It evolved into a "bmx" when I changed out the seat and bars. I loved that bike.

the first bike i ever actually rode regularly and owned myself is a ross barracuda "3-speed", much like this one here. i got it 2 years ago and only rode for a summer. then i went fixed. go figure.

ah, you're all a buncha poseurs. i've been riding track bikes since i was 8 months old.


first bike was some no-name red thing. crashed it into the thorn bushes a few times before i got the hang of it. the next bike i remember was a black & gold huffy with an ever-so-trendy top tube protector. i rode that thing everywhere.

some pos kmart version of a sears bike that was stolen before i could grow too attached to it.

red Sears FS500 BMX with the bars in the "Chicago Gangsta tilt" position

Metallic orange Stingray. I was six. I remember my dad paid $18 for it, and it came partially disassembled in a box. It wasn't exactly bmx, but I rode it as if it was.

My coolest bike was a metallic brown Vista 5 speed, with the cantilevered frame, banana seat, and monkey-hanger bars. It's prominent feature was a big honking stick shift on the top tube with punched-out holes on the lever to make it look super sporty. It had whitewall tires, and a huge slick on the back. Hey, it was the 70's!