http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Your Earliest Cycling Memory en Mon, 18 May 2026 02:59:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302&page=2#post-26963 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:27:10 +0000 Cyclingmollie 26963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...are you suggesting that my picture is more of an early introduction to four-wheeled transport - and a reckless one at that? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302&page=2#post-26955 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:47:48 +0000 chdot 26955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"you also have _four_ wheels!"</p> <p>Definitely disqualified(?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302&page=2#post-26953 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:45:27 +0000 SRD 26953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>you also have _four_ wheels! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302&page=2#post-26951 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:43:40 +0000 chdot 26951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Please note that I'm the only person riding one handed."</p> <p>Does that mean you are disqualifying yourself?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302&page=2#post-26949 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:40:24 +0000 Cyclingmollie 26949@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>chdot: <em>I think we need to set up a judging panel... </em></p> <p>...good idea. Please note that I'm the only person riding one handed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26944 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:23:24 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 26944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@onlyalice</p> <p>That's great :) And it's perfectly in keeping with the thread - it <em>is</em> your earliest cycling memory! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26941 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:18:16 +0000 chdot 26941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think we need to set up a judging panel... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26939 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:08:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 26939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here you go SRD:</p> <p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_adquSnwuZFA/TYCnVNVaAYI/AAAAAAAAC6c/rgMrByneMho/sara%27s%20bike.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26935 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:44:26 +0000 Min 26935@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hehehe, cute! Pretty sure there are no early cycling photographs of myself. Thankfully.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26920 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:13:42 +0000 Cyclingmollie 26920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not a memory exactly but my first self-propelled wheeled thing. I'd say I was just about ready for a Tweed Run.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/5531998378/" title="Wheels by Cycling Mollie, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5257/5531998378_10289ba4f7.jpg" alt="Wheels" /></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26918 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:06:14 +0000 SRD 26918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/I3VTAflXsQ1x0tRXcqyQww?feat=directlink">picture here</a><br /> Got my mother to dig this out and send it. Just like I remember it. (sorry, cannot figure out how to embed it) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26904 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:05:31 +0000 onlyalice 26904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I never learned to ride when I was little because we lived on a busy road in east London. My dad, who was and still is a keen cyclist, fell foul of an inconsiderate taxi driver's door once when I was a baby, and then became too worried that me and my brother would do the same (which indeed I have done in December 2009, luckily not breaking anything!), so. </p> <p>This means that apart from a terrifying few seconds trying to have a go on, and falling off, my cousin's bike when I must have been about 10 or 11, my earliest memory of actually cycling was on the Meadows aged 24!<br /> <a href="http://plaintrees.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/leon/"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/ruby-tuesday/things/howiroll.jpg"></a><br /> (yes, I know that's Holyrood Park - one of my first outings on my own bike).</p> <p>Not really in keeping with this thread I suppose, but it does mean that I've got a very clear memory of it and, unlike most people's earliest cycling experiences, there's even a blog post about it :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26900 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:50:12 +0000 cb 26900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"were you following me en bicycle?"</p> <p>I was a passenger in a car. I only knew it was you because all the yellow bike accessories. You took me by surprise by turning off the Glasgow Road - was expecting you to head straight into town. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26898 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:46:32 +0000 wingpig 26898@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>By the time I was ten or so it was too late to try wheelies. The best I could do were rearward-dismounts which battered and rattled the back end of the rear mudguard. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26895 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:43:48 +0000 kaputnik 26895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>turning off shortly afterwards to head to his folks house to have a rummage for old photos.<br /> </em></p> <p>I got a roast dinner too :) were you following me en bicycle? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26889 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:00:58 +0000 cb 26889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I could add to the spotted thread:<br /> Kaputnik, turning right at the Drumbrae roundabout to head east into town and then turning off shortly afterwards to head to his folks house to have a rummage for old photos.</p> <p>But that sounds a bit scarily stalkerish (and I'm probably wrong anyway...)</p> <p>I'd forgotten about this thread. Was good to see the Raleigh Budgie photos up-thread; I learnt to ride on one, belonging to my friend. Still remember the thrill of managing on my own for the first time (then dismounting; turning the bike around; getting back on and cycling bakc the way I had come).<br /> You could pull ace wheelies on a Budgie I seem to recall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26879 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:58:31 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 26879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We lived in a semi very like that as well (before it all went wrong and we sank down the social spectrum) :)</p> <p>Right, next time I'm home I'm digging out some kiddy cycling shots of me... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26877 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:11:17 +0000 Min 26877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Loving the early addiction to yellow tyres. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26876 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:01:24 +0000 kaputnik 26876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh no these were Bovis! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26875 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:19:00 +0000 wee folding bike 26875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We used to live in a Wimpy semi just like the one behind your pavement photo. Did the roof corners fall off that one? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26871 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:01:10 +0000 splitshift 26871@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>first bike was a second hand red thing, unisex frame, white tyres and a pressed steel rack on the back.no wait I had a white trike, two wheeler never had stabilisers,I could only ride it down the path, not back up.It had a removable , mild steel top tube,white seat. Think i progressed to a second hand rsw 14, 16 ? then i had a brand new raleigh........ Stow away !Folding version of the rsw 20. complete with paniers and cast iron ever ready lights with batteries that lasted 17 minutes ! After a particularly interesting crash it became known as the bent fork special ! My mates all had 5 speed arenas,my wee brov got a grifter !!! MTB forerunner ! joy ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-26870 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:51:51 +0000 kaputnik 26870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Look what I found!</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5530741404/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5530741404_067ab4e5ef.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5530741404/">The first cycling hipster</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5530741100/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5530741100_f195a48f89.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5530741100/">Breaking the law, age 6</a> </p> <p>Cycling my colour-coordinated retro singlespeed BMX on the pavement in twill shorts, a peaked cap and lace-up shoes? I'm way more hipster than anth! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24408 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:37:55 +0000 kaputnik 24408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>looks like arrelcat's current handlebars came off of smudge's kiddie bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24396 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:58:09 +0000 Smudge 24396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Know what you mean, I mean to say, look at this, mine was much bigger than that.... wasn't it?!?<br /> <img src="http://www.yodathewise.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Other%20raleighs/budgie1.jpg"><br /> and anyway, mine was red and therefore clearly better lol </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24392 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:18:48 +0000 Arellcat 24392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hah. A bit more research proves that my first bike was actually a RSW14. There's one on eBay even now! Gosh that's a tiny little bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24382 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:07:27 +0000 wee folding bike 24382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tri-ang trike, all metal, blue with white seat. I got it when I was one, have photos. Got a red metal Tri-ang pedal car when I was two.</p> <p>Second hand Tri-ang bike. Painted with Humbrol gold paint. Solid tyres, fixed wheel. Got it when I was three.</p> <p>Puch mini-Sprint when I was 9. Single speed roadster, purple with chrome mudguards.</p> <p>Sun Squadra, a re-badged Raleigh Arena, when I was 11.</p> <p>'51 Claud Butler and went everywhere on it from '80 to '93. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24380 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:47:17 +0000 Smudge 24380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"until all my then non-stabilised friends made me cry from embarassment" :-( it's easy to forget just how cruel children can be. That sentence made me wince :-( have a virtual hug(!)<br /> Thinking back, my first "proper" bike after the Budgie was a "Vindec" that I vaguely remember as being a gents roadbike, I know I rode it absolutely everywhere and loved the freedom but can't remember much else about it, except that it finally died when something broke in the freewheel area and split the rear hub wide open :-o </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24366 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:28:01 +0000 kaputnik 24366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I must dig out some photos that my parents have of my wee kiddies bike with stabilisers in metallic orange and my first red and yellow BMX. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24364 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:10:50 +0000 Arellcat 24364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My first bike, I have now established with almost certainty thanks to the indelible impact one's first bike makes on one's consciousness, was a Raleigh RSW111, but lacking both the dynohub and the Sturmey 3spd. Mine was metallic red originally but was repainted to a nice primary colour red. See? Start as you mean to go on. :-)</p> <p>I was probably 5 or 6 years old, and made do with stabilisers for a while, until all my then non-stabilised friends made me cry from embarassment. After that it was literally all downhill when I first learned to balance on two wheels while my Dad ran increasingly further behind me.</p> <p>In the end, the bike broke just behind the head tube, and I graduated to bigger, stronger things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2302#post-24348 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:14:49 +0000 Mabs 24348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't remember the first time riding nor the first time without stabalisers but one momment has stuck with me.</p> <p>I was about 4 or 5 and learning to ride and in this memory there are no stabalisers.<br /> From what I remember cycling that day was impossible. Not because I couldn't balance but because I was in the garden pointing up slope and at that time it was very thatchy and clearly not suitable for riding on.<br /> I can see the reasoning behind it, soft ground etc but up slope? I must of been confident in my abilities but alas I can't remember going down slope.</p> <p>Something must of clicked though because I have been riding ever since. </p>