Your first love (bike)?

[MintSauce]

 Well....having always been a mountain biker, I look back at my first one, a Nishiki of some sort and the feeling that wells up inside me is.....THANK GOD FOR TECHNOLOGY!

 

I F_EN HATE THAT THING NOW!

 

 

 

 

[Mr LOOK]

Got a new Blue Peugeot Rapport in 1987 from Cycle Centre in PTA...paid R 502.88 The good old days!

[RABUBI]

Mine was a mountainbike I bought in 1999 from a friend of mine.

 

Kuwahara frame, no shock, shimano STX 7 spd for R1000. I had it in my garage until last year gathering dust, then I knocked black guy of his bike one evening and gave him the bike to make up for the damage.

 

I saw him the other day and he loves the bike, pimped it so bad I almost did not recognise it.

[epoh]

My first bike was a Cervelo Soloist Carbon

[slowjoe]

My first bike was a Cervelo Soloist Carbon

 

hope you upgraded since then

[Man with no name]

My first road bike was a pink Le Tour that I traded for my MTB with a local dominee. He thought he got a good deal

 

RSX downshifters, crappy hubs and rims, but it flew like the wind, or so I thought....

[word]

I bought my first bike a year ago to the day (30 aug 2006). wow' date=' a year later and i still suck at this

 

It was a raleigh , fixed that mistake very quickly

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Are you sure you fixed that quickly? You bought a Felt. Seems to me like you still need to fix it.

[slowjoe]

word, someday when i grow old i will buy a bike for old age people, something simple with a design thats 20 years old. a specialized !!

[E1A104]

I remember drooling over a Battaglini in the window of Advanced Cycles and all I could afford was some dodge brand - Vacari - thought I bought from Aqua City in JHB City Centre ...

[Tumbleweed]

first bike i bought (with an insurance payout) was a mate's 2nd hand (he had it for six months) a black cannandale f900 with lefty shock. gave it away in december. i miss that bike now. 

[Reg Lizard]

Shame, I hope that you did not have to ride it for too long. The humiliation that you must have gone through.

[Tumbleweed]

Shame' date=' I hope that you did not have to ride it for too long. The humiliation that you must have gone through.

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i hope you're not talking to me.

[Reg Lizard]

Why, should I be afraid, should I be very afraid.

[Ratty]

My first bike I bought when I was 15 for R75.  It was a old, rusted, light blue bike, but it acted as a very good form of transport getting to friends and the stables.  Think the longest I ever rode her was 40 minutes!

I bought her new grips (red and black) and a comfy gel womens saddle for R50 and gave her a spray paint.  Unfortuntely when I was at stables one day the boer bull got hold of her and chowed my saddle and tyres to pieces.  That was the end of my cycling until 8 years later when I bought a Giant Rincon. 

[BrokeSpoke]

1986 - Bought a second hand Le Turbo with Ofmega and Suntour components from Willie Engelbreght at AVH Cycles for R650

 

 

Glad to see someone else's "first time" was with a Le Turbo. Mine was from Robbie Macintosh, cost just over a grand at the time and was top of the line. The frame was 2 sizes to big for me , but the idea was I would "grow into it". She still hangs in my garage, her racing days long over.

 

I left her for a Colnago a few years later, from Alan Van Heerden (when he was close to Alexander, and it was safe to ride in that direction) , 1 size to big, She cost me about R2500 at the time (about a years worth of pay checks)

 

Today I'm on an  Bianchi Niarone 56 cm frame (never did grow up), cost me 800 pounds sterling, and she has just done 5000Km today.

[hagar]

my first bike i can remember was a girls bike family friends gave me was hand painted brown and silver. I was 5 years old and my brother taught me to ride by running behind me and holding the saddle. my Dad took the pedals off cos i was riding down "Clarence Road"(Durban) at the age of 5 with my feet on the handle bars  can rember getting a hiding too !!! In std 9 i got a Armstrong challanger Raliegh 9 speed lovley purple and my girlfriend had one of the Raliegh Choppers and we used to go riding down to Blue Lagoon . Those were the days   hagar2007-08-30 05:56:54