Photos of you as a kid on your first bike

Snappy Don's discussion about "I knew I was a cyclist when..." got me thinking about my own origins of my enjoyment of cycling.

I have always had a bike. As a teenager me and my brother would disappear from home for hours while we cycled up to Range Road, to Upper Hermitage, One Tree Hill and around the wheat fields and vineyards at Golden Grove. On holidays we'd cycle all around the slag heaps and mines at Moonta then down to the beach and back. Bikes were always around me. And they still are.

Here's me on my first bike (OK, a trike, but it still counts). Solid tyres, tassles off the bar-ends, pure fixie. A passenger could stand on the rear axel and hang onto the driver. Think I might have been 4, maybe 5 in this photo.

 

But when and where did it all begin? Fellow AC's, let the reminiscing flow and scan those old faded photos of You and Your First Bike.

Tags: 'first, bike'

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Permalink Reply by MARK FERGUSON (SPARTACUS) on June 21, 2011 at 22:31
Not sure if cameras were invented back then?
Permalink Reply by colin ware-lane on June 21, 2011 at 22:49
your the same age as me mark so dig out that photo,you know its there lol
Permalink Reply by MARK FERGUSON (SPARTACUS) on June 22, 2011 at 16:29

Were bikes invented then?

To be honest I don't think I got a photo of me with a bike as a child.

Permalink Reply by Lee-Anne on June 21, 2011 at 22:39
1st day of school back in 1980
Permalink Reply by colin ware-lane on June 21, 2011 at 22:50
aww how cute.
Permalink Reply by Peter Hill on June 21, 2011 at 22:57

brilliant!

Permalink Reply by Chris Hutchinson on June 26, 2011 at 19:16
that is priceless Lee-Anne - love the frock & the bag & the haircut (reckon I have got some hair shots similar!)
Permalink Reply by Nigel "Griffo" Griffiths on June 21, 2011 at 22:49

Not the best scanned image, its a copy of a copy, not sure where the original is.

I'm guessing I'm about 3 or 4 years old (my Dad normally wrote the date on the back of the original) so it's very early 70's

Permalink Reply by Peter Hill on June 21, 2011 at 22:58
awesome. Is that 'Snowy' or 'fluffy' in the carrier?
Permalink Reply by Nigel "Griffo" Griffiths on June 22, 2011 at 20:33

it was probably Fluffy

Permalink Reply by Lee-Anne on June 23, 2011 at 8:55
And youve got a 2nd steed in the back ground, clearly poly-cyclist from an early age.
Permalink Reply by Chris Hutchinson on June 26, 2011 at 19:18
love it Nigel even coordintated thongs to match your purple bike!

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