What Was Your First Pushbike.

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  1. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    I suppose that everyone on the forum had a pushbike in their childhood/teenage years.

    What was yours.

    Mine was a hand me down which my parents bought off a family friend who’s son had outgrown it.
    In fact all of my pushbikes were hand me downs,never had a new bike:(

    Mine was a little BSA Junior Parkabike. I guess it was called a Parkabike as it had a stand which was attached/pivot to the rear wheel spindle and whilst riding the other end would clip to the rear carrier

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  2. Callumity

    Callumity Elite Member

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    Started out with a ‘chair’ before switching to solos.

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  3. JtC

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    My question is, why push them when they have pedals!!! :p

    Mine was a Schwinn Stingray. It looked exactly like this:

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  4. Ducatitotriumph

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    raleigh chipper (I think that was it?) Second hand too.
     
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  5. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    You’ve kept that in good nick Calli,do you still use it ;):):)
     
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  6. Callumity

    Callumity Elite Member

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    I’ll set the Moderator on you!
     
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  7. Octoberon

    Octoberon Crème de la Crème

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    The Chipper was the baby Chopper. I had neither...

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  8. Ducatitotriumph

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    Nothing wrong with a grifter!
    Purple ones were faster though (as always the case)!!!!
     
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  9. Octoberon

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    And the inevitable next question is, who stuck a playing card in to the spokes so it sounded like a motorbike?
     
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  10. Octoberon

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    Good but heavy. Had to haul 'em up for the wheelie!
     
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  11. Tiglet

    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    Nah we used to use a empty cigarette pack :cool:
     
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    Tiglet Vintage Member

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    ;);)
     
  13. Don the Don

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    Started with a trike like @Callumity when very young later on I made bikes up from bits and bobs found on the scrap tip or local dump, best colour: Rust :)
     
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  14. JtC

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    Guilty . . .
     
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  15. MadMrB

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    A hand me down Raleigh Dart (with stabilisers :p)...horrible thing:

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    My first "proper" push bike was a red Raleigh Chopper:

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  16. curly

    curly Noble Member

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    Pashley manufacture an almost identical machine today, the Pashley Parabike, looks great, as does your photo Tiglet
     
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  17. curly

    curly Noble Member

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    The convertible transfer, didn't that relate to the big cross bar being quickly removable to enable multi gender use of the bike?
     
  18. MadMrB

    MadMrB Elite Member

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    I think so, at the time I wasn't really aware of it, but I do remember it had solid tyres and you felt every bump.
     
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  19. Ducatitotriumph

    Ducatitotriumph Crème de la Crème

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    Aha! Could be why you picked a triumph later in life!?
    All the clues were there at the start! :)
     
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  20. andypandy

    andypandy Crème de la Crème

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    Had something very much like this but in red.

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    It would have had stabilisers on when I first got it I reckon.
     
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