Do you remember learning how to ride a bike (without stabilizers)?

Question

and do you remember your first ever bike?
mine was pink with a basket and tassle things on the ends of the handle bars, and like these weird but cool clip things that clipped to the spindles of the wheels and went round as i rode, so cool! lol did anybody else have them?

Answer 1

I remember learning. I fell off and broke my arm

Answer 2

Yes I was 7 when I learnt to ride a bike. The boy next door who was 3 years older than me owned the bike and held the saddle for a while and then let go and hey presto I was riding on my own.
My first bike was one my dad made out of bits from other bikes. A frame that he painted red, and put red and white chequered sticky tape on, the handle bars and saddle came from an old bike of his, and I never found out where the wheels came from although they had new tyres on them.
The first time I rode it I went around a corner a bit too fast sraight into a pile of chippings and fell off, and scraged my knees which turned septic.

Answer 3

Yay! I had those clip things on the spokes of my tyres too!

.......and also a siren on the handlebars and I could select whether I wanted to sound like a Fire Engine, a Police car or an Ambulance!!

Hahaha, how cool!!! : )

............. and I used to paperclip a piece of old credit card to the back tyre, which made a noise as the wheels went round and made my bike sound like a motorbike!! Supposedly!!
Haha!! : )

Oh thats cheered me up! : )

Answer 4

Yup! I had a 'Bluebird' bike with a basket. I had the 'spokees' as we called them too! and plastic cards that made a motorbike/ farty noise on the spokes when cycling!When I was let go, I swerved into a ditch and went over my handlebars! I have a scar on my cheek to remind me of that day. Ironically i love mountain biking now , so I suppose it did me no harm really.

Answer 5

Somebody stole my bike. I saw it on TV. It was on that UM.... Oh yes! Hovis bread advert. It was a load of cobblers ;)

I learned on other kids bikes. I think i was 5yrs old. I got my first at 14 or 15. It was just like the one one the commercial and once the brakes wore down, i couldn't get replacements to fit lol .

Answer 6

My first bike sounds very similar to yours, except mine was purple!! I loved those clippy things too. I remember my grandad pretended he had bought me chocolate bar, but when i went round i realised he had got me a bike! I was thrilled! I learnt to ride in the park, i didn't realise my aunty had let go of the back of the bike, and carried on riding! xXx

Answer 7

I had the kid's bike (yellow banana seat) with training wheels. Then my dad taught me how to ride my mom's OLD Schwinn. I crashed into a tree and fell on the lawn.

Answer 8

i remember learning, my brother taught me and i remember him letting me go and i went down a hill and he had to run after me but i went straight into a wall..... ;o
lol my bike was purple and black with purple and pink tassles coming from the handle bars, no basket though. lol

Answer 9

When I was 10years I did'nt have my own bike so I borrowed my dad's so it was a long way up in the saddle. I took it on a grass field to learn . I started to stand on one pedal and my older brother told me to sit on the saddle and straddle it. I fell of a few times before learning to balance.

Answer 10

I will never forget it. My first time without stabilisers ended in tears. I suddenly forgot how to steer the bike and rode straight into a wall.....

Answer 11

My first boke was a barbie bike. It was pink and had pink taslles on it. I also had a matching barbie crash helmet too. It was really cute, but i was a bit wobbly on it.

I now use my dad's mountain bike, but keep getting my laces caught in the chain.