I remember when I got given my first proper bike, it was a red shiny classic bike and I got it for my 8th birthday. I felt SO grown up, and had no idea as my mum had hidden it in the neighbours garden shed so I wouldn’t find it! A few years later that was replaced with a mountain bike with twisty gears on the handlebars, and I still loved riding it even when I got knocked off by a car and broke my wrist (once the cast was off, obviously!) Nowadays, electric bikes and scooters are becoming popular. But how do electric scooters work? They work just like electric bikes do, but they are more compact and are lighter, and your journey is easier because a battery does some of the work for you!
At some point in my early teens I also discovered roller skating, and for a long time preferred ‘proper’ skates over inline skates but I think that’s because we used to go to a roller disco every few Saturday nights and you weren’t allowed inline skates there! I was always in awe of an older gent who would spend all his time in the middle of the arena doing fancy things with one leg behind his ear whilst spinning rapidly in a tight circle! The fanciest thing I could do was skate backwards I think!
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I cannot remember my very first bike but I remember my dad teaching me how to ride without stabilizers by making me ride round and round our garden. I also had a budgie bike when I was little!
I had a little red bike, I loved it, I can’t really remember much about it other than it had white stabilisers
Pink with a little basket!
A second hand blue and silver bike with a blue saddle.
My first bike was pink. I never had a scooter
I remember it being red and having four wheels x
My first scooter was white and blue with white air tyres and solid metal frame. It was big and bulky but I loved it 🙂 x
omi gosh I loved my scooter as a child, just as mine loves to shoot around (her words), would love an upgrade we only have a cheap one 🙂
my first bike was pink and yellow and i think called imp
a pink raleigh shopper with a basket on the front, I loved it!
I had a red bike with a little basket on the front to put my dolly
my first bike was yellow with lion stickers
A lovely purple bike with a Barbie helmet, haha.
My first bike was pink with a little white basket – I rode it everywhere!
Red and racy. I had great fun with it for many years.
Scooter : Red, great fun. Bike , I didn’t have. My sister did and I tried it occasionally. Scooter was much more fun.
first bike was a chopper
A yellow bike
I don’t remember what the bike looked like but I remember falling of it into a muddy and smelly ditch. Not a good memory…
My first ‘bike’ was actually a blue & red trike. it was the 60’s. 🙂
I can remember a red trike I had that my sister would stand on the back whilst I pedalled
I never had a scooter but I did have a gorgeous pink bike 🙂
I don’t remember my very first bike, but when I was young I had a black and gold BMX and could do stunts on it. I was the only girl over the bike park! Great memories
I had a second & hand black & white bike which was far too small for me because my parents couldn’t afford another one 🙁
I don’t really remember the bike but do remember customising it with beads that went on the wheel spokes that came free with breakfast cereal!
A little pink bike with stabilisers
I can’t recall a make but it was pink . It was brought from Halfords brand new. I remember hassling Mum and Dad to buy me one. They agreed as long as I realised it was a Christmas and birthday present, as they didn’t have a lot of money. It was one of my favourite things being out on my bike. All my friends had bikes too.
pink and white with twizzles on the end
My first bike was my Dads old one! I used to ride it lopsided with my leg under the crossbar. How times have changed from when I was a kid
I had a little red car and also a trike. The dog we had at the time used to copy what I did, so more often than not would sit on the trike like a human lol. Funny little thing.
It was a nice little blue thing with a very unique name (which I cannot remember) but it was the favourite thing I had as a child.
It was a second hand, folding bike, that actually used to fold up while being ridden, caused many an injury!
It was blue and I could
not ride it very well
My first bike was a raleigh boxer
I had a blue bike with a bell. x
blue 3 wheeler
Don’t think I have ever owned a scooter but I remember my first bike; red with a plate on the front with my name on it… so cool!!!
It was pink and I still remember it being wrapped under the tree – soo obvious what it was but no less exciting!!
I do not know what I had first but I do remember having a large red and cream tricycle before I went on to have bikes. I know I had scooters but do not remember much about them.
A lovely shiny purple scooter
A little blue plastic trike!
I have seen a picture of me on a little tricycle, but don’t remember it. I remember having a bike that said 1970 on it, I was probably about 6 at the time and 1970 seemed a long way away.
I remember my first bike was a Raleigh Apple bike, it had stabilisers, it was red and it had a white box attached to the rear to store things in!
My sister is eight years older than me, and I remember one Christmas or Birthday getting her old bike. But it no longer looked like my sister’s bike. My dad had sanded it own and sprayed it light blue. I had Union Jack stickers on it. I loved that bike. 🙂
A little red bike that had been my big brothers.
I had an orange budgie bike which I absolutely loved!
i cant remember what my first bike was but I remember having a yellow chopper which I thought was the best thing ever – horrible to ride though 😀
my first bike was a little yellow bike which was handed down from my older sister. i remember riding up the road and when i got to the little hill it snapped in half. i didnt go home for ages because i thought i was going to get in trouble for breaking it when id only had it a few days. a few weeks later i got a brand new bike
I had a green and yellow tricycle that I loved!
A classic 90’s scooter which had a blue frame with red foot board and handles. It was my favourite ever Christmas present.
to tell you the truth it was that long ago i cant remember x but we have just bought our grandaughter a spider man bike lol
It was Lilac and had a bluebird on the side. Also had a little basket on the front but i took that off to seem ‘cooler’ lol
mine was a purple chopper, it was my brothers first..I loved it!
A red three wheeler triang trike
I cannot remember having a scooter but I do remember my first bike it was red and had a box on the back and I think it had stabilisers on and the first time I rode it without them my Dad gave me a 3d piece(it was over 50 years ago!)
A second hand blue and silver bike with a blue saddle
Squeaky, use to wake the neighbors , nice and early on a Sunday morning!!!
Transformers Raleigh bike
I had a aqua green bike with a purple basket which I loved!!
I had a red trike. it was lovely.
I had a tiny blue bike with a basket at the front!
my first bike was was blue and white with a bell on the handlebars
My very first bike was a trike with big wheels and it was red & yellow. I don’t remember it but I’ve seen photos my mum has of me riding it when I was about 3
I had a second hand Moulton Mini!
My first bike was pink
my first scooter was a yellow noddy scooter i also had a noddy car to go with it:)
It was pink and purple, with ribbons coming out of the handlebars and a dolls seat on the back
I got my first bike at 11, it was pink and a bit rusty but i loved it x
Red Bike with a basket and lots of coloured plastic things that clipped to the wheel spokes
1970s Raleigh Chopper
Red 3 wheeler with a little basket on it..loved that trike
Mine was a rusty red bike that had been my brothers years before mine
My first scooter was metalic pink and had to share it with my 3 sisters!!!
I never had a scooter as a child but my first bike was a second hand budgie bike.
It was a small bike with fat white wheels
My first two-wheeled bike had blue and black stripes and a white basket (that was added on by mum!) .
A cream bike with a basket!
A hand-me-down with 3 previous owners. And I still loved my bike
a bright blur Raleigh!
I never had a scooter but my first bike was a little red one with stabilisers 😀
My first bike was my older sister’s bike but I loved it.
I had a little red tricycle when I was really little my older bike was a brown one you could fold in half, but it got stolen out my garden when I was 9 never had one since 🙁
A bmx
A Raleigh Mini Burner in blue and yellow, together with a yellow siren to annoy the neighbours
Tell me what your first bike or scooter was like…a rickety little thing
My first scooter was bright red and I thought it was the bees knees! x
Plain metal with a wooden board – not like the sleek things of today at all!
I had a chopper and loved it
A mountain bike 🙂
It was a chunky solid green one, with lovely multi-coloured tassles that came out of the handles. It even had a break!
A rusty blue and red scooter with no bearings or any real comfort feature.
I remember my first bike well. I couldn’t have one while we were living abroad but I had been promised one as soon as we moved back to England so I had to be patient for a couple of years. As soon as we got back, my mum got me a second hand dark blue metallic bike with white wheels. My next task was to try to learn to ride it on the pathway in my grandmas garden. I went up and down lots of times falling off in the bushes or onto the lawn repeatedly until I finally worked out how to stay upright on it! My knees got quite scraped up in the process, but the worst bit was falling off into a whole bunch of nettles !
It was 3rd hand after my two sisters and then me. It was very old fashion but fast!
A scuttlebug 😀
Oh gosh, I cant remember my first bike, though I know I had one, but not till I was about 11, I think it was one of those Chopper bikes, if that’s the correct name x