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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: deeman on January 28, 2012, 03:38 PM
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O.K most people on here probably didnt start their two=wheeled adventures on a BMX,I am curious to know what your very first bike was(no tricycles!),and roughly how old you were when you got it?I was 6 years old when i came back from holiday with my mum and brother to find my dad had bought me the RALEIGH STRIKA I'd been begging for for ages.I will never forget the feeling of going down to the basement to find a gleaming black STRIKA with the prismatic decals.I learnt my first freestyle moves on that STRIKA a bit later on including wheelies,endos and framestands!later it was repainted in grey hammerite,lost the mudguards and chainguard with some pink sharp grips and a pink bmx saddle,as interim measure as my dad couldnt afford a bmx at the time.I recently bought one off the bay because it was 30 quid and literally round the corner.Its a bit tired but all there including the seat(no rips/tears!).I am going to be restoring/rebuilding it with a BMX twist! :-X for my mate to roll round bug jam on this year.So,what were your first rides?
(http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i349/deeman37/002.jpg)
This old girl is getting a makeover v.soon!
note the rear top tubes,years ahead of a HARO SPORT! :LolLolLolLol:
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I still have the bike i learned to ride on in the early 70's 8)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n164/snav69/DSCF0635-1.jpg)
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sweet!thats in lovely nick!cool colour :daumenhoch:
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Yep, my first one was a Budgie :daumenhoch:
I remember doing wheelies galore on it
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Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp322/kuwahero/ScreenShot2012-01-28at161523.png)
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mine was a budgie too,reckon it was dark green :)
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I had a blue raleigh boxer :daumenhoch:
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yellow raleigh boxer
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yellow raleigh boxer
Posh git ;)
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Purple Raleigh budgie . :daumenhoch: or Mary littlewood .. :-\
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Purple Raleigh budgie . :daumenhoch: or Mary littlewood .. :-\
:LolLolLolLol: lots of budgies here!the wheelie kings!
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fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.
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fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.
Rich,you forgot to mention you still ride it to work every day! :LolLolLolLol: :daumenhoch:
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wicked pics!that last bunny hop pic does look ambitious!! :daumenhoch:
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wicked pics!that last bunny hop pic does look ambitious!! :daumenhoch:
if you look at my brothers bike i snap the bars bunny hoping ;D ;D :D
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fooking Tomahawk.
Well thats what they should have been named.
It was red. Loved it.
Rich,you forgot to mention you still ride it to work every day! :LolLolLolLol: :daumenhoch:
Yeah but its been modified again- Ive installed a horn from a train.
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Blimey Costa ???
When you said you'd always been that small i didn't actually believe it till i saw them pics ::) ;D
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yellow raleigh boxer
Same for me and I loved it :daumenhoch:
Adam
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me giving my mate spencer a 'backie' ;)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ad120/gr1ff1ngton/BITD%20pics/menspencer.jpg)
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A yellow raleigh boxer for me aswell, Think i was about six.
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I had a blue Budgie :)
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:LolLolLolLol: looks like budgies were the weapon of choice for most radsters!didnt anyone else have a strika?
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Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp322/kuwahero/ScreenShot2012-01-28at161523.png)
I have one of these at the top of my garden, I got it for a massive £2.99 :LolLolLolLol:
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:LolLolLolLol: looks like budgies were the weapon of choice for most radsters!didnt anyone else have a strika?
never had one but I sometimes borrowed my mate darren's
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ad120/gr1ff1ngton/BITD%20pics/meondarrensstrika.jpg)
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Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp322/kuwahero/ScreenShot2012-01-28at161523.png)
I have one of these at the top of my garden, I got it for a massive £2.99 :LolLolLolLol:
Im sure i learnt to ride a bike on one of these before i got the strika,my next door neighbor had one and he taught me on it!
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Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled? :daumenhoch:
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Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled? :daumenhoch:
yeah ;D tbh I thought the strika was a shit bike though - always felt too tall for the size of the wheels and hated the pedal back brake
my bro (pictured with tricycle) had a yellow boxer when he was a bit bigger and that was much better (until I made the spokes go all wobbly bunny-hopping the fook out of it :angel:)
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I still have the bike i learned to ride on in the early 70's 8)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n164/snav69/DSCF0635-1.jpg)
:coolsmiley:
Nice to still have that! :4_17_5: It was my first bike as well. Wish I still had it ;)
(http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt134/botophuket/DANBCHOPPER.jpg)
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Thats a top pic griff!I see Darren had already removed the rear mudguard!do you remember the distinctive clicking/clunking sound they all made when you pedalled? :daumenhoch:
yeah ;D tbh I thought the strika was a shit bike though - always felt too tall for the size of the wheels and hated the pedal back brake
my bro (pictured with tricycle) had a yellow boxer when he was a bit bigger and that was much better (until I made the spokes go all wobbly bunny-hopping the fook out of it :angel:)
the BOXER was the smaller of the two though!still 16" wheels but like a smaller version of the GRIFTER frame!only mk1 strikas had a coaster!the only thing i hated about those bikes was the grips!got a set of SHARP XC for the Strika! :daumenhoch:
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real non kiddy bike with no stabilisers in my sig i think !! may be wrong !!
i was 4 or 5 here but look older!!
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Raleigh Small Rider which I got for my birthday Aug 73'
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp322/kuwahero/ScreenShot2012-01-28at161523.png)
Had one of these too :daumenhoch: No inner tubes if I remember rightly :LolLolLolLol:
(http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j406/Londonhellboy/Sara12.jpg)
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I'll have to dig the small rider out soon then, when the weather is good enough so the garden can be cut I will do it, I'm holding out not much hope of it having survived though, also an odd freestyle frame and forks, looks 90's pos but I can get that whenever. You're right on the tyres though, mine has raleigh carefree ones on it
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Raleigh Budgie, aged 4 :daumenhoch:
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The Strika was my first set of wheels too :)
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Raleigh Chipper. Aged 6.
The single speed smaller brother of the Chopper!
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I inherited a green raleigh strika when my brother got his falcon pro beta.
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Can't remember the the make of my first bike. All i know is that I managed the crack the frame and then got a silver Strika. Happy days :)
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Can't remember the the make of my first bike. All i know is that I managed the crack the frame and then go a silver Strika. Happy days :)
they are rugged little things!indestructable!when the world ends all that will be left are cockroaches,pauter con rods,...and STRIKAS! :daumenhoch:
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I had a Raleigh Husky it was light blue with solid wheels. I was 4 yrs old.
Sadly no pics of it and ive never seen one since either :(
I wasn't allowed a BMX as my first bike :'(
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:LolLolLolLol: looks like budgies were the weapon of choice for most radsters!didnt anyone else have a strika?
I had a green Strika but i think it was my 2nd or 3rd bike :-\ not sure what my first bike was, my dad put a extra seat on it so i could take my teddy bear out for a ride with me :)
I have a NOS black Strika frame with the prism decals (like yours) in the garage that still has the original wax paper wrapping on it :daumenhoch:
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I have a NOS black Strika frame with the prism decals (like yours) in the garage that still has the original wax paper wrapping on it :daumenhoch:
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pm me if its for sale! :daumenhoch:
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I had a green Strika as well, Always wanted a grifter when I had it though :4_17_5:
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I had a silver Strika, my Bro had the small version, a Chukka, a few Xmas's later, my same Strika had a proper custom paintjob in red, and Our Kid had outgrown the Chukka and had a new black prismatic Strika. :Great_Britain:
Our 1st 20"ers were made by a British firm called Team Playway, the bikes were called Trak Trails and had suspension on the front. :Great_Britain:
Our kid went on to a Grifter then that got given to us by our cousin, and I took ownership of a brand new Piranha Mag Freestyler in July '85. :Great_Britain:
All British bikes, I think my first non-Brit was my Marin Muirwoods in '95. :daumenhoch: