What Was Your First Bike?

I've been looking for a picture of my first bike for ages and finally found it. It was a 1976 Huffy, "Star Spangler". My brother had the boy version and we rode them constantly. This bike made me so happy as a kid. ‪#‎bikelove‬ 
What was your first bike?

1976 Huffy, "Star Spangler"

You can see the bike to the right. That's me with my brother, we are not being very patient about mom taking our picture.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Lee on July 1, 2015 at 10:30am

  an early 50's Schwinn,bought for $3 in 1958,  that I still have, frame only.

Permalink Reply by David Barish on July 1, 2015 at 11:13am

Sadly, no pictures can be found. The first bike I can remember was a Red Schwinn Sting Ray with a sissy bar. A number of kids in our neighborhood had similar bikes. We thought we were Peter Fonda  and Dennis  Hopper in Easy Rider when we rode down the street on those bikes. We would slam on the brakes to make big skid marks with the slick rear tire.  We never understood why kids would get the Kart bikes which were five speed versions of the Sting Ray. They had a big shifter handle  on the top tube that was inconveniently located to place the prospect of puberty for an 11 year old boy in great peril.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 1, 2015 at 12:47pm
20" Bikes - Schwinn/Sears/Huffy. Before the Stingrays came out. Rode it and traveled everywhere, far & wide with my friends. We were like gypsies. Kids are not allowed to do this anymore in our social environment.
Permalink Reply by Seancarl on July 1, 2015 at 1:16pm

Found this picture, I think its from 82-83.  Not sure what the bike is, but I haven't been without a bike since. 

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on July 2, 2015 at 7:36am

I love everything about this picture - puppies and bikes are the best!

Permalink Reply by Gecko on July 2, 2015 at 3:00am

This was my first with pneumatic tires.  Of course I rode tricycles first, then a hard-rubber-tired 2-wheeler that looked like a little dirtbike.  This was the one I learned to actually ride on (without training wheels).  My little brother learned to ride on it too.  This thing is incredibly still hanging in my parents' garage, along with a bunch of other bikes from my youth.  I never realized it before, but when I took this pic I noticed that it has cottered cranks and a Euro bottom bracket!

Yes, the pic is upside down, the bike is actually hanging from the ceiling :)

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on July 2, 2015 at 5:18am

I am almost certain it was one of these:

For Christmas some time in the mid sixties I received a 26" bike that looked like that and my younger sister received the 24".  Looking at those prices, I know that my parents had to have worked really hard to come up with the money for those bikes.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 2, 2015 at 5:22am
Yep. $39.95 ! Flamboyant Blue ! Slim-line tank?
Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on July 2, 2015 at 7:20am

Permalink Reply by Barry Niel Stuart on July 2, 2015 at 9:48am

Dad bought me an Austrian-made J. C. Higgins 20" boy's bike.

Permalink Reply by Dave Grossman on July 2, 2015 at 11:53am
I had a Roadmaster BMX from Venture. I rode that thing until I destroyed it. I used to "endo" by jamming my foot into the fork. Many concrete face plants followed.
Permalink Reply by Bob Jarosz on July 2, 2015 at 12:24pm

In 1947 on my 10th birthday, my dad built or maybe rebuilt the attached bike for me.  The logo on the front tube read "Peerless".  Anyone heard of a Peerless bike??

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