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