Bicycles from your childhood

[beehive_bob]

Learnt to ride on a yellow Raleigh Chipper. They must have come in different colours but can only remember them in yellow! Somehow broke the right stabiliser off it, so for quite a while I only rode in straight lines or round left hand bends. Later graduated to the long forgotten Raleigh Jeep

 

[Meatbag]

This was my pride and joy as a kid.

 

[Norbert D]

I always wanted one of these, alas it wasn’t to be, didn’t get a Chopper either….

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I had an Elswick Hopper with a 5 speed derailier gear plus cow horn handle bars. I had that until the day the Racecourse estate was built, never saw it again.

 

[Blue Feather]

Some German type which braked if you pedaled backwards and then a Raleigh 'Jeep'

 

[super_city_si]

First proper bike was a Raleigh Striker. You peddled backwards or just stopped the pedals for the back break. Fell off it loads of times. Loved it

Edit - just googled it, apparently its Strika

 

[Bluemanc100]

Raleigh Tour de France when i was about 13

 

[bluemonkey71]

DiamondBack BMX when I was a young'un.

 

[m7mcfc]

My bike history.

The Claude Butler is in the shed and not been riden since 2021

 

[Barcon]

We used to make our own with big honking bull horn handlebars.

 

[dickie davies]

I always wanted one of these, alas it wasn’t to be, didn’t get a Chopper either….

I'd have given her a backie

 

[roman totale]

I had one of these. The only bike I’d ever had.

 

[bluemcr]

My first grown up bike was, I think, one of these:

Parents got it second hand as a Christmas present. I reckon I was about 10. I think I mainly wanted it because it was a car brand.

We also had a bike round my grandma's house than my granddad made. I can't imagine anyone doing that nowadays.

I had the same bike loved it. Used to do my paper round on it till it got nicked.

 

[Legal Alien]

I had one of these. The only bike I’d ever had.
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I had the purple one, it was slightly different from this original one, but it was still cool!

 

[Barcon]

I had one of these. The only bike I’d ever had.
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I had one in lemon yellow. Got it from Robottoms on Oldham rd.
The parental units wouldn't let me bring it to Canada

 

[Jamshopbridge]

Some German type which braked if you pedaled backwards and then a Raleigh 'Jeep'

Probably a Puch.

 

[Fat Chance]

Had a vindec high riser the slightly cheaper version of the chopper that was much lighter and made by the brown brothers ( me mam worked at volmax)...in lemon

Had a few half decent american 90s jobee's since hence the Fat Chance name

 

[Midlands Blue]

1974 - Saved my £1.75 weekly paper round money to buy a Puch pursuit...£42 from Johnny Berry's on Wilmslow road.

 

[roman totale]

I had the purple one, it was slightly different from this original one, but it was still cool!

Mine was a hand-me-down from an older cousin. It must’ve been getting on for 10 years old before I got it in around 1979.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I left mine outside the chippy