Had Peugeot ‘peds’ at 14 cos you could in rural France in those days… mates’ off roaders also ridden and trashed, various bicycles and rode pillion for a while… lots of 2 wheeled experience 
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I was into bikes from as early as I can remember as my dad was into bikes. My best mates big bruv was a pro bike racer and have lived my whole life surrounded by the bloody things:D
My first bike was around the age of 12 and was a BSA D14 trials bike. Then followed a sucession of Hondas, Maicos and Bultacos.
Do the names Elsinore and Sherpa mean anything? 
Did you not have a push bike chunky ? or was it the ‘push’ bit that put you off ? ;)
Oi Get your hair cut you cheeky fugger;)
Yes, like you I had push bike with cow horns until I was going to cricket practice one evening and my bat went through the front spokes:w00t::D:D:D
I think it was a Puch Alpine or something:hehe:
i’ve still got my pw50 from age 10:w00t: even tho i’ve only had my licence a bit over a year now, i have always loved bikes
I learnt to ride a bike a Tomahawk - a cheapo smaller version of the Chopper.
Then a Grifter copy and finally onto a Raleigh Tough Burner with real Skyway TA mags!
Wanted a scooter (Lambretta TV175) when I was about 17, but wasn’t able to get any form of PTW until a year and a half ago.
Loving it now though!
(sorry no child prodigy MX riding stories here 
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I so loved my grifter but got sick of peddling up hills on it cos it was a heavy old thing so i got bought a comando? similar to a chopper but different bars but have to say my bmx rocked!
Used to love my Raleigh 3 speed, rode down the woods every Saturday, stripped naked and banged one out in full view of the local Sunday School teacher’s cottage, what a naughty boy I was.
Fella down my road used to have a garden full of old ‘bitsas’ which we used to load in his Transit and take to the old gas works in Beckton with a flask of sweet tea and some buttered rolls.Many a Sunday spent flying around there, this is before Full Metal Jacket was filmed there. I remember them moving the tanks in for that one!!
Had bikes since i was 13-14. Puch Maxi, TY175, Honda SS50, DT50MX, C50, Fantic Caballero, KL250, XT500, 350 and 600, XL500R, XL125, Suzuki GT200X5, XJ650, CX500, AR125, Li150, T5, GS125, CB250 Superdream, CB400 Dream (AUTO!), KLR600, CB400/4, RD350YPVS etc etc !!!
very cool, dude!
Lived on a private estate and drove cars and bikes all round it from about 12 years old… A35 van (with Gnasher painted on the bonnet) Anglias, A55 , Mini Moke… On bikes…loads of old Vespas and Lambretta (some bought for a fiver and some rescued from the local tip) Tiger Cub and a Triumph 350 Chop ( not a great choice for fields and unmade roads). The great thing was that ,as members of the public lived on the estate ,it was patrolled by the local Police and we used to love roaring past them in our MOT failures… Great days…
My “Road bike” was a Raleigh Chopper:D
Stuck playing cards (attached by clothes pegs) to the bike so that they would flap against the spokes of my raleigh chopper/grifter’s rear wheel - made a good approximation of the sound of a single/lazy v-twin or flat four VW beetle engine depending what I felt like driving/riding that day.
Later rode mates old scoots and 125’s over the forestry commission land - later graduated to riding mates 250 ktm crosser - no helmets or protective equipment!
http://www.honda-elsinore.com/and johnse1 ,that place is still there in the woods in between darenth valley hospital and the bean turn off on the old A2 …Dave used to have a shop in swanscombe and he did a wheelie the whole way round the TT course in 1978
i hated bikes while i was at school , it was always cars …
but a soon as i left in 1970 bikes took over and never stopped since …
started on my dads NSU Quickly ( or it should be slowly )
then honda C100 …etc , etc , etc
I had a Raleigh race bike as a boy and used to ride off road on a XL185 from the age of about 11-14 in the 80’s, then we moved out of the countryside into the city, so I was stuck on the bicycle instead. Was into cars until 2005 when I started riding again, with an epic ride from Luton to SE London, 65 miles on a moped after a 20 year break from riding a bike… Such fun! I have been hooked since and really enjoy by bikes now. Moved from having 1980’s bikes to a nice 2002 bike that I don’t have to fix up to ride. Just get on and go!