Your First Ride

[Sabie]

So now you Ride an ST, but what did you ride as a Kid?

photo or photo of a like bike please

[Brock]

I dont think I was ever a Kid, cant remeber that far back..

If I was a kid, then I probablyhad a 24" bike followed by a 26" Malvern star with back pedal brakes. Alos might have ridden a horse or two, a mini bike, a BSA Gold Star and a 250 motor bike of some description  (no licence of course)..

[Sabie]

My pride and joy as a 6 year old for my birthday was a gold speedwell dragster 3 speed.

[Shiney]

I got my first pushbike for my 8th birthday
It was a no name brand BMX bike with a heavy steel frame (it was unbreakable and served me well for some time)

After a number of years I had saved up enough to buy myself a freestyle Readline
It was something like this one:



And over the next few years I proceeded to add many farkles

Until while attending high school one day it was stolen

[Kev Murphy]

As a 10 year old, I was given a custom made Malvern Star track racing bike that was built to my measurements. This was before the Velodrome was built at Whyalla.
I had that bike for 6 years until it was stolen. Was found 2 months later, thrown into a salt water creek near Port Pirie, stripped of wheels, and road racing gears. By then, I already owned two motorbikes, anyway.

[Tipsy]

  py
my first as a 10 yr old was an adult size bike
no seat , couldnt reach it anyway
no peddles just the steel rod was left
no tyres or tubes on the old wide rims
put one leg thru the bar and pushed of down the hill to learn
on a very heavily gravelled road.
we made a canoe for the damns out a sheet of corrugate iron
and patched the  nail holes with tar from the road.
Also used old bonnets and boot lids for toboggans
and carried water up the hill so we could slide down it.
living on a farm meant you made do with what you had.

Tipsy & Tirvy

[alans1100]

My first was back in about 1970. A Malvern Star Skidstar with a three speed hub. I added hi/lo beam lights which were 6 volt generator type. The picture is similar except for the colours and gear shift which on mine was on the RH grip. I added a rear carrier as I was still in high school and needed it for my bag.

[Biggles]

And boy!  Didn't those generators add to the pedal power needed!
I didn't have a camera when I got my first bike in Mackay a little while ago (compared with the age of the earth).
It was a basic jobbie with back pedal brakes.
My cousins taught me to ride in the back yard and it set me up for the two-wheeled life.

[alans1100]

And boy!  Didn't those generators add to the pedal power needed!

Never really noticed that much.......at least we didn't have to worry about replacing batteries though spare globes were almost essential.

[Wombat]

I'm just a little kid waiting to grow up 

 

[Philbo]

In 1967 for Christmas I got an Astor 28 inch bicycle with three speed Sturmey Archer gears.  I farkled it with rear carrier with tail light, twin headlights (with large dynamo running off the front tyre and streamers on the end of the handlebars.  We used to extend the streamers by feeding them out through the aluminium  clamp with only a short length of the streamer doubled over.   So I was riding along flat out in top gear , sitting on the carrier and steering with the streamers, when I went over a slight bump and pulled one of the streamers off the handlebar. I couldn't actually reach the handlebars from my rearward position.  It was then that I realized that I had not thought the whole thing through very well.   I lost quite a lot of skin that day.  I would like to thing that I became wiser, but I still continued to do idiotic things,
Philbo

[ST.George]

My pride and joy as a 6 year old for my birthday was a gold speedwell dragster 3 speed.

Back in 1969 I had a bike very similar to yours Sabie. Banana seat, Gorilla bars, 3-speed gear shifter. Metal flake gold - bewdiful! Used 2 ride home from DeLaSalle college to home in 20 mins and have 5 B&H smokes. Remember the Stuart Wagstaff commercials - and he was a non-smoker! Anyway, those bike days were magic.

[Candles]

That dragster is probably worth as much as a fully farkled ST now. What a classic, love it.

I had one like that, but converted to to a BMX. Then I got a Team Mongoose, Cherry Red fully set up for BMX racing. I've still got it

My first Motorbike was a 1987 GPZ250R. I've still got one and I love it. Decked out with Gopro, GPS - so I tell how fast I'm really going 

Then a GPX250, 1988 VFR750, and so on.