Bicycles from your childhood

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I had one in lemon yellow. Got it from Robottoms on Oldham rd.
The parental units wouldn't let me bring it to Canada

Remember Rowbottoms well. One of, probably the best, toy shops ever.

 

[uncle fester]

I had one of these -a Triang 1970 - like a poor mans Moulton Mini

 

[Debaser]

The very early 90s were completely style free looking back

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Yellow Mk2 Chopper for me. Then progressed to a ten speed Peugeot racer in Celeste blue which I used to lovingly polish with Duraglit on a far too often basis. Loved that bike.

 

[lloydie]

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.

Went to SBGS

 

[Keeper!]

Cow Horn handlebars, the bigger the more credibility from your mates.

 

[Bruno39]

Apollo Vendetta - double suspension, front disk-brake!

 

[yerwot?]

Raleigh Super Lenton, fixie, Reynolds 531 double-butted frame alloy rims, Brookes saddle.tanner off £24, about 1958, on hp, £2 per month, my paper round money, stolen from school after 6 months, not insured... thieving twat from the Mersey Bank estate was notorious, when arrested for car theft, police found a machine-gun in his house, years later he had a hot-rod entered in the custom car show in Belle Vue, it was recognised by its owner after it was shown in Custom Car mag.

 

[blueinsa]

Chopper.

Iconic.

 

[Fordyboy46]

A green Raleigh Strika, loved it. Then when that phase went had a bmx called a Piranha. Looked cool as fuck but it was bloody heavy limiting my stunts

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

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I had one of these bad boys

This one is currently £1100 on ebay!

I had that exact bike. I got it for my birthday when I was 8, and I think it was the best present I ever got.

 

[remember arthur mann]

 

[jimharri]

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

I spy someone across the road playing pocket billiards.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Raleigh Commando, a poor kids Grifter.

Loving that chain guard, reminds me of an old ‘Sterling machine gun’.

 

[doots]

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Yellow Mk2 Chopper for me. Then progressed to a ten speed Peugeot racer in Celeste blue which I used to lovingly polish with Duraglit on a far too often basis. Loved that bike.

Not my first bike but I also had a Peugeot racer in my very late teens, beautiful bike.

 

[Dirty Harry]

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Weren’t they called ‘Rat trap pedals’ ?

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Not my first bike but I also had a Peugeot racer in my very late teens, beautiful bike.

This is a beautiful machine. If I owned this I’d mount it on the wall and stroke it everyday. :-)

Peugeot Competition Classic French Road Bike 1980s

Peugeot Competition Classic French Road Bike 1980s

steel-vintage.com

 

[doots]

Weren’t they called ‘Rat trap pedals’ ?

Bear trap bastard pedals mate

 

[MikeF]

Raleigh Olympus. The only bike I ever had. Then BMX came along as we couldn’t afford one of those, doing bunny hops on a racing bike was hard work. Friends had Mongoose, PK Rippers and god knows what.

Prior to that it was Boxers, Grifters and Choppers! I nearly killed myself on my mates Boxer ha