What Was Your First Pushbike.

I suppose that everyone on the forum had a pushbike in their childhood/teenage years.

What was yours.

Mine was a hand me down which my parents bought off a family friend who’s son had outgrown it.
In fact all of my pushbikes were hand me downs,never had a new bike

Mine was a little BSA Junior Parkabike. I guess it was called a Parkabike as it had a stand which was attached/pivot to the rear wheel spindle and whilst riding the other end would clip to the rear carrier

 

Started out with a ‘chair’ before switching to solos.

 

My question is, why push them when they have pedals!!!

Mine was a Schwinn Stingray. It looked exactly like this:

 

raleigh chipper (I think that was it?) Second hand too.

 

You’ve kept that in good nick Calli,do you still use it

 

I’ll set the Moderator on you!

 

The Chipper was the baby Chopper. I had neither...

 

Nothing wrong with a grifter!
Purple ones were faster though (as always the case)!!!!

 

And the inevitable next question is, who stuck a playing card in to the spokes so it sounded like a motorbike?

 

Good but heavy. Had to haul 'em up for the wheelie!

 

Nah we used to use a empty cigarette pack

 

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Started with a trike like @Callumity when very young later on I made bikes up from bits and bobs found on the scrap tip or local dump, best colour: Rust

 

Guilty . . .

 

A hand me down Raleigh Dart (with stabilisers )...horrible thing:



My first "proper" push bike was a red Raleigh Chopper:

 

Pashley manufacture an almost identical machine today, the Pashley Parabike, looks great, as does your photo Tiglet

 

The convertible transfer, didn't that relate to the big cross bar being quickly removable to enable multi gender use of the bike?

 

I think so, at the time I wasn't really aware of it, but I do remember it had solid tyres and you felt every bump.

 

Aha! Could be why you picked a triumph later in life!?
All the clues were there at the start!

 

Had something very much like this but in red.


It would have had stabilisers on when I first got it I reckon.