The bike I remember the most from the past was a BMX style bike I got for my birthday when I was 10 or 11. It was black with red and white splatter paint (1992 or 93 maybe) from American Auto. Every time I would go with my dad to the auto parts store I would look at that bike and talk about it all the way home. I finally got it on my birthday.
For some reason I loved that bike. It wasn’t any particular brand that I can remember. It was heavy too. My cousins and I would build ramps in my uncles shop out of scraps of wood leftover from his cabinet business. I don’t think there was a time when I was 10-13 that I didn’t have road rash somewhere on my body from crashing that bike trying to jump something. I think I sold it at a garage sale for $15.00 when I was 15.
My girlfriend is always quick to tell me about “Sweet Thunder” the hand-me-down bicycle with the banana seat she inhereited from her sisters.
Just about everybody had a bike when they were a kid and it seems those bike stick in our memories. I’ll probably think about that bike when I’m 75 and won’t even remeber my singlespeed or my Rock Hopper unless their still hanging in the garage or something.
What about your favorite bike when you were a kid? Share you bike memories too by leaving a comment below.
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Sarah 09.11.07 at 9:37 pm
My first bike was a hand-me-down yellow banana seat with a black stripe down the sides and the big curvy handlebars. I pretty much hated it. I was the only kid in the neighborhood without the classic looking bike. I did get plenty of use from it, though, between pop cans on the tire and the clacky things on the spokes.