The May release has been full of some gorgeous new products and we hope the projects from the team have been beyond inspiring! I've picked out favorites of my own, from each of the design team members, to share with you today! Click the link next to each team member's name to see more details about the project shown here, as well as the rest of her projects from this release! And be sure to read all the way to the bottom of the post…..you won't want to miss out on this month's release in review CONTEST!!!
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Now that you have had a chance to see all of this eye candy, how about a chance to win a gift certificate to purchase some of the amazing goodies used to make them!
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Congratulations, Lisa! Please be sure to send an email off to Customer Service and provide the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to! And a big thank you to everyone else who played along. It was so fun to read everyone's responses to the question! Brought back lots of awesome memories that I completely forgot about! I hope you enjoyed reminiscing tonight!
that was a long time ago but I believe it was a shiny medium blue color, such fun thanks for a chance to win!
The first bicycle I can remember was red with training wheels. I haven’t ridden a bike in years but used to love to!!
My first bike was metallic purple that my dad painted and added some iridescent snowflakes on that I thought were so cool. It had a green metallic banana seat. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and would ride all over the place with it.
I had it when I was 10, medium sized red one. Thx for the chance to win.
My first bike was an old fashion red schwinn-oh how i wish i still had that comfy bike!!
I desperately wanted a black bmx so I could ride the track in the local park and go off the jumps (just like the boys) but I got a super-heavy gold girls raleigh bike with a basket on the front and a saddle-bag on the back – soooo not cool – and so heavy it was never going to get any air. The gold metallic paint was a nightmare to fix when it got scratched too.
My sister and I learned on a big blue bicycle, no training wheels! I have the bike of my dreams now–it has a battery to assist me on the hills!!!
It’s been so long that the only thing that I remember about my first bike was that it was purple and I rode it everywhere. Those were the days!!!
My first bike was red and blue with training wheels! I
The first bike I remember was a green one with a really sweet plastic covered banana seat!! I loved that bike!
My very first bike was red with one wheel in the front and two on the back. I was only one year old. Overhere in Holland we start early riding/cycling a bike. It was red , love that color ever since and the handles were white.
I had a bright white bike as a kid, and I remember thinking how cool it was because you could see this shimmer in the paint when it was under the sun. I also had my first major wreck riding it: down the hill and into the prickly bush. It was awesome!
It was purple! With white stripes on the center bar.
Oh, that takes me back! My brother picked up a used bike somewhere. It had several coats of paint on it – red, black and white. It was way too big for me and it was a boys’ bike to boot. I had to get the pedal up to the top, get up on a chair and push off because my feet did not touch the bottom pedal. THen to stop, I’d coast to as slow as I could bet and jump off. I loved that bicycle. I still ride but I have a much nicer Townie Electra now!
Wow–I don’t remember what it looked like but I am pretty sure it was a Schwin and I rode it everywhere!
My first two wheeled bike was purple, and I was so excited – it had a key to lock the steering column, I felt like a grown up pretending I was on a motorbike – all at the age of 9! LOL.
The first bicycle I can remember was red with training wheels. it’s dad who learn me to ride
My first bicycle was a beautiful, shiny midnight blue. I remember pretending to ride it like I was driving a car…using my pretend blinkers and all! LOL. I also remember washing it with soap and water and drying it off, like my Dad would do when he’d wash the family car in the driveway. 🙂
My first bike was a pink Schwinn model with a floral banana seat and a white basket. LOVED that bike! My husband and I just bought Huffy “cruisers” for our anniversary a few years ago and I need to ride mine MORE!
I don’t remember what it looked like, but I remember riding it over and over down the long hall way that we had in our apartment.I must have been around 5 years old.
My first one was silver. I knew no fear and frightened the whole neighborhood speeding around with my training wheels. Most of the time, I made the bends – but not the cars parked right behind them 🙂
My first bicycle was a Huffy Cactus Flower and I loved it! I had it for five years.
My first bicycle was black and gold (my school colors) with a banana seat (do they even make banana seats anymore?).
My first bicycle was rose pink in color, had streamers coming out of the handle bars and had a white wicker look basket! I have many memories of pedalling and singing, carrying towel and pool bag for my daily summer swim. I will have together the new bicycle set for sure!
pretty sure my first bike was a red trike, but the one I remember is a sweet stylin big girl bike with a basket kinda like the one in the die set…love it
When we turned five my siblings and I all got a brand new bike for our birthday. Mine was Hawaiian Shores in color…and had a great banana seat. Since my birthday is in October, my parents got it for me in August so I could have some fun with it for summer. I got in on my Dad’s birthday, and he always teased me that it was his bike. Such great memories! 🙂
The first bike that I can remember was a medium size blue Schwinn. I remember riding around the neighborhood with my best friend.
I received my first bicycle for my 4th birthday, and it was bright red and beautiful!
The one bike I remember was a brilliant blue with chrome fenders. I believe it was a Columbia
I remember my first bike very well! It was a green one. I was only three or four years old. I loved my bike. In special on special occasions when we were asked to decorate our bikes (like on the National Queen’s Day in the Netherlands). It turned out beautifully!
My first bike was yellow with training wheels. My twin brother had one exactly like it… except he got his training wheels taken off way before me. LOL!
Now my bike is a TREK women’s cruiser with a big comfy seat — I love it! Between April (well, May, this year) & October, I ride it whenever I can (i.e. when there’s no snow. 😉 )
My first bike was a blue Schwinn. I remember the red and white streamers blowing in the wind. I use to place cards in the spokes with a clothes pin to make noise I was such a tomboy! Thanks for the chance to win.
My first bicycle came with a Dad attatched to it. More than what it looked like, I remember Dad running up and down the sidewalk with me, giving me balance until I had the confidence to go it alone.
I was only six years old, and my parents bought me a used 26″ red bike. I had never ridden before–and this bike was enormous to me. However, with my Daddy’s help, I learned to ride it, the only bicycle I ever owned. It lasted through my teenage years.
My first bike was a red, shiny fold-up bike that I just adored. It was a birthday present that my Dad had hidden in a little-used part of the house but I saw it there and couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. I spent many a happy hour cycling around to friends farms to play on that bike. It was a huge part of my childhood.
I never had a bike. I was the only girl in the family and grew up playing with dolls and girly things. If I would ever have a bicycle, it would definitely have a basket and a bell 🙂
I had a red trike, like most kids! But then I had something with a banana seat and a sissy bar! Can’t recall the color!
My first bicycle was red with a white basket and a silver bell.
I got my first bike for my 5th birthday from my grandparents. It was purple with white wheels and shiny white streamers, and a purple and yellow honker from Sesame Street as a horn. I loved it so much and felt so cool with the streamers flying as I rode! I also fondly remember my white, pink, and purple trike with it’s “super secret hiding spot” for all of my goofy collections underneath the seat. Both totally unlike my bike now, but what fun memories!
My first bike was rainbow colored with a yellow banana seat. I loved it!
My first bike was shiny black metallic with giant knobby tires…I had 4 bothers who made it for me…I left the best skid marks….I loved that bike even if it wasn’t my dream bike. Now I would love a vintage one with a basket.
My first bike, like so many other things, was actually my older sister’s first. However, spare a thought for my younger brother who also learnt to ride on that same, battered little thing. My first real bike of my own was a pale blue Raleigh Shopper that took me from days out with friends to my first years at work.
Oh gosh, this brings back memories. 🙂 I had a bike with what was called a “sissy bar”. It was a very tall, long curved bar that was fastened behind the seat. Almost as a “backrest”. Of course, being a boy, I had to have playing cards in the spokes so I could have a “motor”! 😉
I remember riding on my brother’s bikes that had long banana seats! Today I would rather have a nice wide comfortable seat.
It was given to me by my dad on my 14th birthday. He knew how much I wanted one – I asked to ride everyone’s bike when we went to visit people! It was a total surprise – he was as thrilled as I was to get it – you see, we didn’t have much money, so it was a big sacrifice for him! The bike was metallic blue and I ran that thing into the ground!
I had a hand-me-down bike from my older brothers and sisters. It was painted dark green. I spent hours on that bike!
I had this hot little number that was pink and white with a yellow banana seat. The seat had silver glitter in it. The handle bars had pink and white streamers hanging off of them. Sadly, one day I came home and my bike was gone. My Dad had given it away to a family we knew that had five kids and no money. I was devestated to say the least. He didn’t mean to hurt my feelings as he thought I grew out of the bike…I just loved that bike.
I lived in Germany when I got my first “real” bike. It was blue and I rode it every single day once I figured out how fun it was to ride without training wheels!
I remember a blue tricycle that I used to race around on – I also remember coming off it, straight into the rose bushes – ouch- with many, many scratches and cuts… Loved that tricycle.
It was a shiny bright blue and Brand New! But I was 17 years old, so I didn’t ride it too much. Not when you live on a gravel road and there was always work to be done on the farm. So my younger brothers rode it more them me.
My first bicycle was red with a white seat and training wheels. Then, for my 10th birthday, I got a purple (my favorite color) bike with a white, flowered banana seat (yes, I guess I am dating myself!) and fringes hanging from the handle bars.
I’ve just realised I have lots of great bike memories. I have a mountain bike, which was my first bike I got to choose, but now want a vintage one with a basket at the front ( especially when we cycle to the library).
My sister and I got bikes at the same time. They were red with a white seat.
My first (and only) bicycle was a 24 inch black bike. I was 5 and it was way too big but I grew into it. That’s how things were back then!
I learned cycling when i was 3 years old. It is now 35 years ago and I do not remember how my first bike looks like. But when i was 14 I bought a cool bike in PINK and I loved it **lol** Today i have a citybike in black 🙂
I used to ride my brother’s bike. I think it was blue and silver and was a dragster with really curved handles. It was great fun!
My first bike that I remember riding was a tricyle that was rather old and rusty looking – but with good reason, as my dad used to ride it when he was a boy.
I can’t remember my first bicycle, but my ideal bike would have a super soft cushy wide seat. I have yet to try a bike that has a comfortable seat.
Being the third child, I usually had hand-me-down bikes, but I remember when I turned 11 or so I got a teal 10-speed bike. The funny part is that I still have it!!
My grandchildren are just learning to ride on their first bikes, so I’ve been remembering my own first riding/falling from a big metallic blue bike with its wide white seat, white sidewall tires, and shiny “ding dong” bell on the handlebars…great memories!
I don’t really remember my first bike but I am sure it was either Strawberry Shortcake or purple as those were two of my favorites way back then :0
I had a baby blue Schwin with a banana seat! Remember the banana seat?! It makes me laugh but I think it must have been more comfy than my mountain bike now!!! You’d think I had enough extra padding!!!!!!!
My first bike was a reddish/purple color with a “banana” seat and high handle bars. I think there was a name for these types of bikes but I can’t remember what they were called. I remember my girlfriend had one too but hers had a cute little basket.
The first bike I remember is a yellow banana seat bike! My sister had a white one. We would travel our subdivision from park to park playing.
It was red with white training wheels. I wanted it to have a cute basket. I remember many, many happy afternoons on it! 🙂
My sister and I had a tricycle, but after that my very own bike was blue with streamers on the handlebars and a white basket.
It’s so long ago that I can’t remember what it looked like but I had such fun riding around the neighborhood with my freinds.
My first bicycle was an adult size in seafoam green with a white seat, huge ‘balloon’ tires, no gears, no hand brakes. She was gorgeous!
My first bicycle was a red trike with a bell, streamers on both handles and a basket on the front. I rode the heck out of it until it was way too small, then graduated to a regular, run of the mill bike – but it was never quite as much fun to ride as that red trike for some reason … with a few modifications (streamer and basket removal, for instance) my brother also rode it when he grew into it. I wonder if he remembers it as well as I do – I’ll have to ask!
I remember having a yellow Huffy with a banana seat. Many summer days were spent cruising around the neighborhood on that seat!
I had a red ‘ladybug’ bike that I adored 🙂 She looked very much like the one in the set!
My first bike was purple, with a basket and training wheels, and those streamers coming out of the handlebars. My sister had the same bike, but hers had a banana seat. We were quite the team!
My parents did not have a lot of money, and they refurbished a bike for me for Christmas. My dad spraypainted it green and replaced the seat with a leopard print banana seat. Maybe that was the beginning of my love for leopard print! 🙂
My first bike was purple and white with a basket! I loved riding it all around the neighborhood growing up.
My first bicycle was green with training wheels, and a bell.
My first bike was green, as was my tricyle and then my 2nd bike. So as an adult, I got a bright red bike! Thanks for the chance!
I had a red bike and my sister a green one, with shimmer banana seats. I remember it had some cool plastic strings coming out from the handle it also had a metal basket where I had my dolls.
My bike had training wheels and my sister used to be on top of them while I was ridding, it was so much fun. Those were GOOD times.
I had the best bike with a big banana boat seat. It had awesome sparkles on the handles.
I think my first bicycle was a Schwinn with a banana seat (thinking about my color choices back then, it was probably pink or purple).
“Like a bicycle”! When I asked my husband this question, that was his answer. In truth, being the youngest of four girls, it was pretty run down by the time it got to me.
My first bike had training wheels. After I mastered riding that, my father let me chose any bike I wanted from the bike shop. I chose a blue Schwinn with a basket n the front and streamers on the handlebars. I loved that bike.
It was green with a big banana seat and the tall u-shaped handle bars. I think it had streamers, too.
Good old second hand bike, a great bmx in blue loved it.
My first bicycle was purple and it had a banana seat with flowers on it. And for some reason, we would take colored straws, cut them into various sizes, then make a slit on the side and stick them on the spokes of the wheels. I guess we were trying to “fancy” it up. Hah!
oh my goodness! how i loved my first bike! it was white, with bits of pink at the edges, and it came already named: Pepper! i never knew bikes could be named, and i loved it!! it also had little streamers on the handles. i flew up and down our road, and the streamers would float in the wind along with my hair. it was dreamy! thanks for the memory.
Oh I remember my first bike…it had a yellow banana seat with white handlebars with yelllow and white streamers coming out of the handlebars! I learned first on training wheels and the joy when they came off was fabulous! I have a mountain bike now but rarely go out on it. I really should try to recapture that joy of riding a bike!! Thanks for bringing back those memories!
the first bike that i remember was a peppermint patty bicycle. it was pink, with the characters on the middle bar. i’m pretty sure it had sparkly streamers coming out of the handlebars too 🙂 what a fun memory learning to ride it!
My bike was light blue with clouds and blue,silver and white streamers dangling from the handle bars. Thanks for a chance to win!
Gosh Nichole that an awfully long time ago.I am afraid I don’t remember the colour but I do remember it was a Malvern Star and it had the best bell on it.The new bike die bought back many happy memories.Just love it!
I don’t remember my first bike. I do remember my first new bike which was a blue 10 speed Schwinn that I bought for myself when I was in 6th grade. I was so glad to have a new bike and that was the bike I used for the next 15 years, so I got lots of great use out of it!
I had a little red sidewalk bicycle.
It was cute and small with streamers coming out of the ends of the handlebars.
My first bike was red. It had an adjustable bar to make it a girl’s bike (bar down) or a boy’s bike (bar up).
My first bike was a blue and white CCM bicycle. It was the best way to get around in the summer, visiting friends, going to the library and the park. I have a bike now but don’t ride it nearly enough. Now that the snow is gone (finally), it’s time to dust it off!!
I brought my first bike from Sears when I was in high school. It was a white ten-speed, nothing fancy.
It was purplish blue with a pink basket and a little horn. I thought it twas the coolest think ever!!!
My first bike had one of those giant banana seats and a white basket on the front… the bike was yellow I think!
My bum would really appreciate that seat today! 🙂
My first bike was definitely blue with streamers from the handle bars. Wish I could go back to that time, maybe for just a day.
My first bicycle was a blue Schwinn with a white basket on the front. My sister and I shared the bike and we absolutely loved it. It also had one of those little bells you could attach to the handlebars. I have not thought about my first bike in a long time and this question brought back some really fond memories.
Does anyone remember the Schwinn bike? Mine was medium blue, a deviation from the popular red icon. With baskets over the back wheel and tassels on the handle bars!
I think it was purple but the one thing I remember were the streamers coming out of the handle bars!!
My four siblings and I had an old, black, full-sized, ladies bike to share, very much like the one in the stamp set. It was far too big for all of us but we had a great time beating ourselves up learning how to ride.
My bike was Orange and they called me the Orange news paper because I would drive to my mom and dad to tell them everything my brother was doing!! In my defence, I was only 6 years old than.
That was eons ago! I grew up on a farm with several siblings. We had two bikes that I can remember, one red, one blue. I know they had wide tires with inner tubes that we were always patching. We learned to ride bike standing up on those pedals cause we couldn’t reach them if we were sitting on the seat.
The first bicycle I remember was when I was in junior high. It was a bright yellow, 10 speed Schwinn. I was so proud of that bike!!
My dream bicycle has a basket on the front full of beautiful flowers!
wow I really remember what my first bike look like it was probably a tricycle at my grandmothers that must have been my mother’s when she was a child and my dream bike would be one with the nice big basket on it and fashion type
I got my first bike when I was 10. It was a heavy, dark red schwinn boys’s bike which was exactly what I wanted. I loved that bike so much!
I had a turquoise glitter bike with a banana seat, streamers on the butterfly handlebars and a white wicker basket with daisies on the front. I loved to pin playing cards to it so when the spokes rotated it made an awesome sound. I bet the neighbors loved it!
My first bike was turquoise and had a white with pink flowers banana seat!
Mine was shiny red and I loved it!
my first bike was a white schwinn w/ light blue pin stripes. the owner of the taxi company also owned the bike store & my bike was delivered in a taxi. i wanted to be a taxi driver so i could deliver bikes to little kids. thanks.
My first bike was blue and looked like your new die, without the basket.
Karen
I was 6 when I got my first bike. It was a Hopalong Cassidy bike that had holsters and toy guns attached and a cowboy hat. I loved playing cowboys. Loved that bike.
The first bike that I remember was one that I won at my grandpa’s Christmas party at his work. It was black and it was my first new bike!
I got my first bike second hand when I was about 11 it was yellow with a long banana seat and high handle bars…I loved that thing and remember trying to ride double with my younger sister on it…not an easy task
My first bike was a yellow banana seat bike with a big basket in the front. I absolutely loved it. Thank you for the chance to win and all the amazing products.
Mine was purple with long handle bars and a bananna seat!
My first bike was pink with a banana seat and streamers that came out the ends of the handle bars!
My first bicycle was orange with white handlebars. On the first day I learnt to ride my bike I ended up on the bonnet of a car. Luckily I wasn’t injured.
My first real bike was black since it’s originally belong to my brother. He and my dad taught me how to ride a bike. It’s kind of sporty style, no basket.
Aahhhh, the 70’s…. it was like a Schwinn Stingray…. big ol’ banana seat WITH sissybar,’high rise’ handlebars, and of course a stylin’ 1970’s basket on the front to carry all of my ‘treasures’. http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff170/raescards/1960s-1970s-banana-seat-bike_5200065_zps1d0ffff9.jpg
I don’t think I had my own bike until my 20’s and it was a turqoise mountain bike – my then-fiance (and now hubby of almost 20 years! oh how time flies) and I would bike around our apartment complex. Carefree days! Now the only bike I ride is the one at the gym!
My first bike was a pink and white big wheel hehehe! If we want to be technical… but for a two wheeler It was a purple bike, nothing too fancy, but I’m hoping to get another one soon!
The only thing that I really remember about my first bike (who am I kidding, my only bike!) was that it had a basket on the front with the hanging ribbon Pom Pom type things from each handle! I loved that basket! I always would put my book and munches in it so when mom and dad finally got it to the park, I had something fun to do! What do you mean I was supposed to ride the thing!!!!!! Still love baskets too – now they hold my craft supplies!
Believe it or not, I do not know how to ride a bike. I would like one that balances by itself 🙂
My first bike was quintessential ’70s….retro flowered banana seat, high handlebars, streamers, the works!!!
My 1st bike was blue with chrome trim. It had a white banana seat that had pretty blue flowers on it.
My dad found an old bike on the side of the road, completely fixed it up, and painted it my favorite color – purple!
My first bike was yellow with at banana seat and a white basket on the front. Rode that thing all the time as a kid.
Not sure if it was my first, but my favorite bike was yellow with a banana seat!
I remember my bicycle was old and blue. It was even a little bit big for me. I remember being determined, so much so that I rode it on the grass and that is how I learned to ride!
Funnily enough I’m not really a pink girl but I’m pretty sure it was pink, with streamers coming out of the handles on either side. My big girls bike is silver 🙂
your question has brought back memories of a bright red bicycle with black training wheels that not only my sister and I learned to ride but also several cousins! it’s amazing how one small bike could bring so much happiness to so many little kids!
my first bike was a red schwin (?spelling) and i loved it! i rode many miles on that bike.
My shiny blue girl’s bike was a birthday present and once I had it, I was never home, exploring my neighborhood and beyond. What great memories!
I love all these great samples of your new releases!
Awesome release!!! I can’t remember exactly what my first bike looked like, but I seem to remember it being blue – and I remember I ran over my brother in it! We both were a mess after that one, and then I learned how to use my brakes!!!
My first bicycle was metallic blue with a white banana seat, big handlebars, and a white basket with plastic flowers on the front. I rode it everywhere!
LOL, What a great question! My very first bike was bright yellow with a BANANA seat! I know some of you folks will not know what a banana seat is… Ha. Of course it had training wheels but it didn’t take long for me to break free of them and fly around the neighborhood like I owned it. Ahhh, those WERE the days!
It was yellow with a banana seat. I loved it.
My first bike I remember was red with the streamers coming out of the handle bars and a cool basket on the front!
Oh my, that was like 110 years ago! It was pink with a white banana seat. The handle grips were white with pink/white streamers. It was a great bike……until I crashed it at the bottom of a hill.
My first bicycle was ugly! It was a women’s 3 speed, it was tan and brown with a big brown seat. It would be totally retro cool by today’s standards!
Today my bike would be teal, with a basket. No fancy features, just for fun. I can go to spinning class for the hardcore ride.
My favorite bike had a banana seat. We rode everywhere!
My first bike had a banana seat, that’s all I can remember of it, but my best bike was the one I saved up for, from babysitting money, to buy. It was a yellow 10 speed bike that saw me through my teen years. Oh what freedom I felt when soaring the country roads on that bike.(daydreaming now)
My first bike was yellow, and I had to have one with a banana seat, steamers and a basket.
My first bike was pink with a white basket decorated with flowers on the front. I now ride road bikes and still enjoy the feel of the wind!
My first bike was blue, had a banana seat, really big curved handle bars and a bell. Loved it!
My first bicycle was a Care Bears Bike that I won during a coloring contest. I still remember hearing them call my name and I was so EXCITED!! My parents couldn’t believe I won!! It was white with powder blue wheel covers and orange stars all over with the Care Bears title. I LOVED it and once I grew out of it it got passed on to all of my sisters!! Thanks for the chance to win and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! 😉
I remember my first bike as a tricycle. It was red with a white seat. I loved going out and riding it. I don’t remember what my first regular bike looked like but I sure do remember the day my training wheels came off. It was like sweet freedom.
My first bicycle was a 3-wheeler, that was a burgundy color trimmed in white. It had a bell that I loved ringing!
I don’t remember ever owning a bycicle, but if I did I would probably like it in super shiny red and chrome.
My first bike was a beautiful bright yellow. It had a “banana seat” and was great for summer rides! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new pedal pushers set — it will definitely be in my shopping cart!
My first bike was a yellow Schwinn … and it looked *exactly* like the new Pedal Pusher series! It had big chrome fenders, and a white basket at the front. Can’t wait to make a card replicating those wonderful childhood memories! I’ll have to come up with something fun to use as handlebar streamers too, lol! Love, love, love the new products!!!
I can’t remember my first bike, but I always had one while I was living with my parents… in the small village I grew up in, we got around on bikes. My last one was a super cool blue mountain bike. I think my dad still has it in the garage. 🙂
Not sure I remember my first bike, but my favorite that I do remember was a blue Schwinn with a white basket and a bell. Sweet!
My first bicycle was new and beautiful shiny GOLD…but unfortunately soon after getting it I parked it too close to our driveway, it tipped over, and was backed over by my mom. So my first bicycle became a red, used bike with a red metal seat. Such a comedown in my little 5 year old world!
I can’t remember exactly but I am pretty sure it had a banana seat. haha
a Schwin “girls” bike – shiny blue with fat tires. I put a basket in front for a while but took that off as I approached middle school and wanted to look cool.
My first bike was purple and seafoam green, with white tires. I never had a basket, though I always wished I did!
My first bike was a Schwin. It was blue with streamers on the handle bars and a silver bell. For a long time I wanted a Huffy bike with a steering wheel for the handlebars!!
Weird!!
I remember the evening my Dad got home from work, and from the back of his truck, he pulled out the most gorgeous turquoise bike I had ever seen. For me? FOR ME??? I loved it. Dad worked with me a little while, teaching me how to keep my balance. And then he sent me sailing down the hill. His confidence in me was greater than mine in myself. But I made it! All the way to the bottom, with nary a scratch on me or the bike. I was so exhilarated I didn’t realize my Dad was right there by my side, ready to catch me if I started to fall. Such a sweet memory.
My first bike would have been around 62 years ago! It was not a new bike. It was just a plain old girl’s bike – no gears or anything fancy. I don’t remember the color but I do remember that I was relentless in learning how to ride it on our gravel road.
My first bike was actually a red tricycle, but then I graduated to a big girl bike. It was blue without training wheels and had a wire basket. Logged lots of rides around the neighborhood on it. Such fun memories.
Wow that was a long time ago! I think it looked like most of the bicyles of the day.
My first bike was a little red tricycle. My absolute favorite Fourth of July memories are of my cousins and I decorating our bikes with streamers and crepe paper and having a parade around my parents’ house at their annual picnic.
Seem to remember an electric blue Schwinn with pedal brakes. You know, the kind you turn backwards with your feet to stop? Had it all. Basket, for my cat, bell and lights. Ride the sweetest pink and white one now. Looking forward to having that PTI bike stampset! Cute and clever the way it can be changed up!
My first bike was a pink schwinn with streamers on the handlebars. I spent many hours on that bike and had many fun adventures.
My first bike was a used blue and white bike. Remember that it took me a long time to learn to ride but had lots of fun when I finally did!
If I’m remembering right it was purple. It wasn’t all shiny and new but it had these amazing streamers on it that I loooooved. 🙂
– April W
My first bike was a royal blue Schwinn that I got for my 10th birthday. As a matter of fact it’s still in a shed at my parents house (48 years later).
I got my first bike for a First Communion present. It was purple, w/high handlebars, & a black & white banana seat. I can’t remember if there were also streamers coming from the handle grips.
My first bike was green, had a metallic banana seat, and huge handle bars that a friend could comfortably sit on, but don’t tell my mom!
My father worked extra jobs to make sure that each of his children had a brand new bike for their 5th birthday. I was given a blue Murray (with training wheels). Even more special than the bike was all the time my dad took teaching me to ride that bike without the training wheels.
I think my first bike was a big wheel. 🙂 And then I learned to ride a two wheeler on a neighbors bike. The one I most remember is my PINK HUFFY! Loved that thing, it had a basket and I took my little dolls all over the place. 🙂
I will be honest I can’t remember what my first bike looked like. But I know no matter what age I would like a wicker basket in the front of the bike.
What a great question!! It’s so fun to think back and remember my first bike! My first bike was lime green with a banana seat and bright colorful streamers coming out of the handle bars. I loved that bike and spent my summer days exploring my neighborhood with it!
On my eighth birthday, a red and white bike with a banana seat was waiting for me on the patio. Such wonderful memories of that special day.
You are asking me to remember a coupla centuries ago! I think it probably looked a lot like your new bicycle stamps–what fun!
My first bicycle was bright blue with silver streamers in the handle bars and a white banana seat. I loved that bike and rode it up and down our little dead-end street for hours and hours every day with all the other kids on our street.
Heavens, I have no idea – way too long ago! But if I could choose now, it would be a lovely baby blue! Thanks for the chance at having more of your wonderful products!
My first bike had gooseneck handlebars and a banana seat. It was awesome and perfect for riding with a friend sitting backwards, holding on to the back of the seat. I’m sure it belonged to my older sister. We rode our bikes everywhere!
My first bike was purple and white and it is one of the events from my childhood that I still have a vivid memory of! I am now an avid bike rider, putting on many miles every summer!
My first bike, and it was my favorite ever, was a deep purple sparkly Shwinn. It had a white basket on the front with pink and yellow flowers, and I had multicolored streamers from each handle bar. I broke my left arm riding that bike, but it never stoped me. Wow, I really miss that bike.
I had a little red tricycle that I shared with my brother who was just 11 months older than I. Then we shared a little red Huffy. The bike that was all mine, was a used bike my father got somewhere when I was about 14. He put back together and put new tires on it. He was good at restoring bikes because that was what he did in the Depression as a teenager to earn money to go to the movies. My father painted the first coat – a burgundy-brownish colored Rustoleum. I liked that color so much it never got a topcoat!
My first bike was a hand-me down from my big brother. A very large and very heavy grey Grifter – my feet could hardly touch the ground. But I did manage to pass my cycling proficiency test on it. x
My first bicycle had trainingwheels and was yellow. For a time it had next to the bell, also a sirene on it. When I outgrew this bike, it was given to my younger brother. I always looked after my bike(s) very well and am very careful with them. And although i live in a cycling country (the Netherlands) and I use my bike frequently (I have no drivers licence), and I just turned 40, my current bike is only my fourth 🙂
My first bike was a turquoise and white tricycle. I got it when I was 5 and I recall riding it up and down my driveway. My first bicycle was purple, pink and white and had a basket on it. I don’t recall putting anything cool in it like flowers or kittens.
My first bike was blue and it did have training wheels. I remember so clearly eating my breakfast as quick as I could so I could get outside on my bike. I used to ride around the backyard and pretend I was driving my family in a car. Oh how wonderful to have the imagination of a child!
It was a handed down green bike with a bit of sparkle and a banana seat of course!
I had to share my bike with 6 other siblings but it was blue and we had a basket in the front. It was so fun to put my dolls in it. My dream bike would have a sterio like a motorcycle has.
I desperately wanted a bike when I was young but my parents wouldn’t let me have one. They bought me a little red scooter instead – but I couldn’t keep up with my friends on that! My dream bike now would have a turquoise coloured frame and be power assisted to help me up hills! It would need a big basket at the front and saddle bags to hold all my stamping things so that I could go and visit friends to craft.
My first bike was white, lilac, light sea foam green, and light pink. Of course, there were matching colored streamers on it. I called it Ghost for some reason- I’m assuming because of the pastel colors. I felt like I could ride anywhere on that bike!
It was green and white. I believe it had training wheels and I know it had a banana seat cause it was 1970something. It also had white and green streamers on the handle bars and a little bar in the back of the seat where we used to tie a rope and then we tied the other end to my brother’s big wheel. Fun times!
My first bicycle I believe was blue and it had a little bell on the handlebars. I remember I put streamers in the hole of the handlebars that waved in the wind when I rode and tied balloons onto the wheels so it made sort of a “motor” sound, lol. Sometimes we would all put streamers of crepe paper interwoven in our wheels to dress up our bikes – such fun! I do wish I had a basket for my bike back then but with PTI’s new set I’ll get it for my stamped bike images 🙂
I remember having a yellow bicycle with a banana seat. I put many, many miles on that bike along with my friends. What a great taste of freedom in my early years.
I think my first bike was blue with a basket. I can remember riding it around town after school and during the summer!
I never had a bike, but I would have loved to have a bright red one, with tons of colourful reflectors on the wheels 🙂
Wow, how bad is it that I can’t remember my first bicycle. I can remember learning to ride it with training wheels but I don’t remember what it looked like. 🙂
My first bicycle really wasn’t bicycle! It was a fire engine red Western Flyer tricycle, purchased at the local Western Auto store in our tiny Louisiana town.
It had a step on the back (for a friend to ride), and a hand-operated bell that let the whole neighborhood know that I was coming!
I loved it with all my heart and wish I still had it today!!
I found a similar one discarded on the roadside several years ago, brought it home and painted it fire engine red. It has a place of honor in my flowerbed to remind me of those wonderful days in the 1950’s. and especially of my grandmother who bought it for me!!
oh my first bicycle was rather special! See we lived in a downtown apt. when I was small and therefore I was not allowed a bicycle at home. However some good friends of mine lived in a more suburb type area so I would go out to visit them often on the weekends and one weekend I received a special gift of a red second hand bike, being about nine at the time…I really didn’t care that the bike was second hand I was just THRILLED to own a bike at all!
My first bicycle was a hand-me-down and I remember distinctly the streamers I put on it that would sail through the wind as I rode it! What fun I had riding around with my big sister! 🙂
My first bike was a LONG time ago, haha! It was light pink with white grips that had streamers coming out of them. It also had training wheels that I couldn’t wait to get off! 🙂 I actually can’t wait to purchase the bike set today! This release has some gorgeous stuff.
Oh my – you’re talking ancient history here. I think my first two-wheel bike was a big clunky Schwinn which was a hand-me-down from my cousins, but the bike I remember the best (at least in terms of how I received it) was the one I received for my birthday. My parents went “grocery shopping” and called me out of the house to help unload the car. I walked right past the shiny new bike sitting in the driveway. It was a great surprise! I don’t remember the color or anything else about it – just that it was a wonderfully happy day.
It was purple with a banana seat, basket, and a bell. I was afraid to ride without the training wheels until I was 8 years old and my 4 year old sister was trying without the training wheels, I was shamed into giving up the trainers……ahhh! Loved the freedom once I learned:-)
Pink! With dangly, spangly streamers coming out the handle bars and a white basket attached to the front. And training wheels too! Fun question!
Metallic purple with handlebar streamers and a banana seat!!! The only new bike I ever had. Loved it.
The usual black sit up and beg. Later traded in for a lime green and orange racer.
Now what would I want well and orange one with a motor!
My first bike was a cute blue bike.
I can still see it standing in the living room, on the morning of my birthday. I loved it!
Hahaha, omigosh my first bicycle…it was a mint green and pink Huffy with white tires. I rode that baby EVERYWHERE! I kind of miss it now. 🙂
Lauren
My bike was red with a banana seat also! Are we old or what? Thanks for the chance to win! Love all the new items this month!
Definitely with training wheels, white basket and handles with streamers…oh it was a proud day when the training wheels came off.
The first bicycle I can remember was a red, rather beat up, second hand bike that I thought was wonderful! It may not have been new, but it took me on every advendture I could think of!
Wow that was a long time ago but I think it was red with training wheels and I remember riding it up and down our street all the time, everday with my best friend. I couldn’t even ride one now! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
My first bike was red with chrome. It was smaller than the bikes my siblings had since they were older. In fact, it was a hand me down bike from my brother.
My first bicycle was pink with training wheels, a little white basket on the front and streamers from the handles. Beautiful!:)
A shiny red tricycle with streamers on the handlebars.
My first bike was found abandoned in a ditch by my parents, who repainted it and cleaned it up. Nothing pretty, but I loved riding my bike!
I had a pink bike with a white banana seat. I loved riding around the block!!
Fat tires, turquoise. My sister had one with a banana seat that I envied, but looking back, mine was better!
My first bike was pink. It had a white basket on the handle bars. I remember how much I loved riding it. Thanks for the chance to win a great prize.
My first bike was a purple Schwin with a pretty white basket strapped to the front. I remember putting everything in that basket including my cat and riding all around the neighborhood. Tons of fun!
Wow… great cards, really looking forward to the new release. As to the question, I never had a bike I used to borrow my next door neighbor’s bike. As for features that it would stay up with me on it! haha..
My first bike was a hand me down from my big sister. It was a red bike that we had two seats for. A regular seat and a banana seat. We’d have my father change it sometimes. I remember LOVING my bike!
I don’t remember the actual bike but I do remember putting colored spokes on and I had matching tassels on the handle bars.
A very girly bike with a white basket on the front and tall handlebars 🙂 I so loved that bike!
My first bike was pink, with white tires & white accents… and now, 20 years later, my daughter’s riding it!
My first bike was a Christmas present and was red and shiny. Took me a long time to learn to ride it and I’ve never been keen on riding bikes. Much prefer the stamp and die version here!
My first bicycle was a pink and white Schwinn with pink tassels hanging from the handle bars. I had a tricycle when younger but don’t remember it. Have only see black and white photos of it!
My first bike was a turquoise color and had a banana seat! I loved that bike! In high school, I bought a ten-speed and rode with my girlfriends everywhere! What great memories!
My first bike was a snazzy pink number with a suh-weet basket on the front and those fun “streamers” on the handles! I loved it, except for when my pants leg would get snarled up in the chain, LOL!! (WHY do I remember THAT?? hehe)
My first bike was the Huffy Desert Rose. It was white with lavender and dark pink accents and had a lavender banana seat!! I got it Christmas morning and immediately hopped on it, rode it through the living room and straight into the kitchen cabinets!
I had a red tricycle first. But when it was time to choose my first bike on my own, I picked out a white huffy with pink and blue paint splatters on it. It was a birthday gift, and I remember being so excited… I rode that thing until the wheels fell off! 😉
My first bicycle was cherry red, I can still see it under the Christmas tree in my mind
My first bike was a red Schwinn with a banana seat and long handlebars.
Too many years ago to remember the color of the bicycle, in fact I think perhaps I was an adult when I got my first one and I remember not balancing so very well on it. I could just as easily end up in the ditch as on the road! Now I do like to bike…especially on flatter ground, ha!
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I’m sure I had bikes before this one but the first one I remember was a yellow stingray bike with a big banana seat! I had streamers that were coming out of the hand grips and put playing cards in the spokes to make noise when I was riding! Oh I’m sure I looked so cool on that bike! LOL
My first bike was pink and white with a basket that had pink plastic flowers all over it and streamers on the handle bars.
Boy, that was a long time ago! I am pretty sure it was a red tricycle that I could buzz up and down the paved driveway at our new house. However, I do remember the baby blue 10 speed Schwinn I had through high school. It became a bit of an embarrassment in college but on the other hand it was never stolen!
I didn’t have a bike until this Mother’s day when my kids give it to me. Still learning to ride it.
It was a robin egg blue color with the basket on the front. Oh those were the days.
My first “big” bike was a 26″ Ranger that had all the bells and whistles. It was a Christmas present when I was about 9 years old. Couldn’t wait for the weather to warm up and the snow to melt to be able to ride it. Loved that bike!!!
My first bike was blue and looked just like the one in the stamp set right up to the basket. I also had one of those silver bells with the thumb mechanism and I thought I was pretty cool stuff when my Dad clothes pinned playing cards to the spokes. Those were the good old days 🙂
It was purple with a banana seat and a white basket on the front. Loved it!!!
My first bicycle as a 24″ blue Murray with big balloon tires. We hard to EARN our bikes, but weren’t allowed to have one until we were TEN. I got mine when I was eleven, though because I was afraid of them–so big for the wee peanut that I was, that I was fearful of falling off. No “Kiddie models” or training wheels were allowed 🙁 back then.
My favorite accessory was the wire saddle basket for my back fender in which to carry my books to school once I had earned my ‘permit’. We had to prove that we were competent with all rules of the road, and passed a riders test before getting that permit, and the school decal for the fender!
Funny the only thing I remember about any of my bikes was the time when I skidded on some sand…..didn’t end well. :(. But I’ve been wanting to get bikes for the whole family so we can do bike rides!
My first bike was a pink Huffy. I just knew I had the bestest bike with little pink and white streamers from the handles.
My first bike was smurf blue with a big white banana seat. I named her smurfette. LOL What a great memory…
I definitely had a bicycle, and started with training wheels! It was a Schwin, and a “girl’s” model, and I know I rode it a lot, but I cannot remember when I stopped! I bought a very nice 10-speed in my thirties, but went flying over the handlebars at one point and broke my nose (my only broken bone) and I don’t think I ever rode it again. That was very traumatic and included a ride in the ambulance to the emergency room (with my bicycle), a lot of blood and stitches as well. Now my bicycle riding is confined to the gym!
My first bike was a three speed. Back in 1960, that was a big deal. I was admiring my new gift and drove right into the back of a car! Ouch!
It was a blue girl’s bike. I was very disappointed because I wanted a boy’s ten speed like my brother. So I “borrowed” his at every opportunity. 😉
My first bike was a blue schwin. I used to ride it
every day. What great memories it brings back to me!
My first bike was my 5th birthday, a blue Schwinn. I don’t know who was more excited, me or my dad! He spent all day pushing me up & down the road until I was riding on my own~ Great memories!
My first bike was purple with a banana seat and had streamers at the end of the handle bars. I believe it had a white basket also!
I was 5 years old and I got it for Christmas. It was Red! My dad bought it used and painted it for me. I remember him helping me learn to ride it in the drive way. Big wide bumpers and a bell.
My first bike was white. red and yellow with a banana seat and little handle streamers off the handle bars, with a white basket on the front and of course a little bike bell. =)
It was the best bike ever!!
My first bike was red, white and blue. It had red, white and blue streamers out of the handle bars and a white banana seat…soooo cool!!
I vividly remember it as both exciting and a little disappointing- It was red, full adult size and a second hand bike- My parents wanted to save money and not have to purchase two!! I grew into it, and then was the first to have a “real English” bike-
P.S- Our family LOVES bikes- I have been waiting for PTI to have a bicycle set!!!!…Thank you-
It was blue and super cool 70 style!!!
My first bike was bright blue with a white “leather” seat and streamers on the handles. My mom even put baseball cards on the wheels with clothespins to make that “click, click, click” sound while pedaling. I was absolutely fearless riding that bike! lol
The first bike I had was sparkly pink and had training wheels where I had to lean slightly to one side. Thank goodness there are pictures because I honestly can’t remember it.
Pink with tassels on the handles bars:) Good times 😉
My first bike was blue, with a banana seat and what was apparently called ” chopper handle bars” the ones with a deep’v’. Who knew?!
My first bike was blue with a flowered banana seat and a big basket on the front. I had that bike until a few years ago, my daughter rode it to school for awhile, was made fun of and refused to ride it again. Loved that bike.
I have a vague memory of it being orange and yellow…..what is much stronger in my memory is the feeling of learning to ride it!
My bike was blue and it had a banana seat on it and a little basket haha… and now the only bike i would get on would be one that actually doesn’t go anywhere.
The bike I remember having as a kid was purple with a basket & big handle bars with a banana seat! I’m sure there was others before but do not remember them!
i honestly don’t remember what my first bike looked like, but I do remember getting a bike that had a banana seat and fringe hanging off the handle grips! loved that bike!
My first bike was red, ruby red with white stripes and white wall tires. The handlebars had that fun plastic fringe that waved in the wind as I raced around my neighborhood. Of course, my bike also had a cool white plastic wicker basket to carry all my important treasures in.
My first bike was my favorite color blue and it had a basket on the front. I loved taking my kittens riding in the basket.
My first bicycle was maroon in color & I used to speed down the road with it.
Mine was purple. It had a white banana seat with silver glitter. I also had the white basket with bright plastic flowers. Very 70’s and I loved it!
My first “real” bike was a glittery purple and white Huffy with butterflies on the seat. Man, I loved that bike!! 🙂
My first two-wheeler was baby blue with a big white sparkly banana seat and those high, curved handle bars; white plastic basket with purple flowers (can’t believe I remembered all that when I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night!) I’d ride around the entire neighborhood all day. Thanks for reminding me — and for the awesome bicycle set/dies (they are a definite on my list!)
Ahh! You got me with the bicycle. I spent hours in a day on my bike. My dad purchased it for me one day while I was away and surprised me with it on the front porch. It was blue and had a white banana seat. I had training wheels for about an hour, and he ended up taking them off! I loved my bike and was on it all the time. Now, I get to share that joy with my son!
My first bike was a light pink Huffy bike with a white banana seat and a wicker basket on the handle bars with plastic daisies on it. I was so excited when I first saw it on Christmas morning. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love this question! It brings back so many good memories! Well, the first bike that I can remember having was a shiny red Schwinn with the banana seat (I think that is what they were/are called)… and it had “streamers” hanging out of the end of each of the handles… and my brother put playing cards in the spokes of the wheels to make a really fun noise! I can remember riding that bike just like it was yesterday!
The first bike I can remember was blue – a used one. After it was stolen, our mother bought my sister and I new 10-speed boys bikes. I chose orange. I am bike-less now. 🙁
My first bike was red, a tricycle but my first fun bike had a purple glittery banana seat on it!!
I don’t remember my first bike, but I do remember my “cool” bike in high school. My dad was really into biking, and I had a speedometer on it. I loved going down the big hill by my house, pedaling as fast as I could, to see if I could make it over 20 mph.
I don’t really remember my first bike, but I remember the streamers that hung from the ends of the handlebars. I remember that the seat was one of those long, skinny banana style seats, and I remember a metal disk bell with the lever on the side. I also remember we used to cut plastic straws and wrap them around the spokes.
Then there was the time someone ran over my little brother with their bike – surely it was my little sister and not me! I haven’t been on a bike in years, but I’m pretty sure I would need one of those wide, cushy seats and maybe three wheels 🙂
My first bicycle was pink with training wheels! I loved it then and can’t wait to buy one for my own kids someday. I love this entire release!
Mine was the “old school” bike. It had a light blue metal frame, a long white banana seat with flowers, and the u-shaped handlebars (possibly with those tassles coming out of the handgrips). …and that was cool …back in the day
My first bike was a trike! It was red and white with white walled tyres and a boot (trunk for all of you across the pond!)in which I made a bed for my dolly, Patsy, and we used to ride around the neighbourhood. It was safe to do that in my small home town back in the fifties. The mums would wave and older people doing their gardening would stop and talk and I would invent “errands” wich involved “buying” empty cardboard boxes and “paying” with leaves from our local grocery.What a sense of freedom and excitement for a little four year old!
My first real bike was blue, just a basic girl’s bike. I thought I needed a “fancy” bike , but now I wish I had that old Schwinn to ride around the neighborhood!
Was an orange bike with a banana seat and cissy bars with a basket in the front. Loved that bike LOL! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
My first bike was a hand-me-down from some family friends. It was banana yellow, one-speed. There were no hand brakes, if you wanted to slow down, you pushed backward on the pedals. I rode that thing everywhere!
HopefullyI I can remember that far back, but it was a blue Schwinn, much like one of the pictures that you showed this time around. I’d love to have that old bike back to ride, especially since being back in California again and all of the wonderful bike paths we have here.
Funny I don’t remember my first bike but I do remember my first trike. It was red with stringers hanging from the handle bars. This would be a great birthday gift if I won today. Thanks for the chance.
I was five years old when I got my first bike. They were blue.
My first bike was pink, with a big banana seat! I loved it!
My first bicycle was a hand-me-down. My dad repainted it blue (my favorite color) replaced the tires and added a bell. I was so proud of that bicycle as I rode it up and down the sidewalk.
My first bicycle was a red BMX that my dad fitted training wheels. It had a low middle bar so you could ride it with a skirt and not get caught. I remember cycling around in the lift lobby of our appartment block so that I coldn’t escape too far. Its funny this question cropped up as I have been looking for an adult version of that bike, just fo bring a bit of childhood back into the now.
Mine was a Triumph Twenty and I had it as a present for my twelfth birthday. It was blue and shiny and had very long spokes and little wheels – I rode it for many years!
It was blue with streamers at the ends of the handle bars.
My first bike was a big Schwinn with shiny chrome fenders and a “pink shimmer” body. I went everywhere on that bike!
I don’t even remember what my first bike was. I didn’t even learn to ride until I was about 9. I do remember one summer when my 2 cousins and I rode around all over my grandparent’s farm turn hang-gliding park and called ourselves WWT (world wide travelers). Ah, bikes were so fun back then. I haven’t ridden in years, now.
My bicycle was a surprise birthday gift from my mom and dad. It was a blue and gold “English” racing bike with a fabulous leather pouch. The memory of how I received the bike is unforgettable, but I’ll spare you the details…lol Love the bicycle stamps and dies; can’t wait to order them!!!
It was a red tricycle and I rode it down a hill and chipped off my two front teeth (luckily they were my baby teeth)!
My first bicycle was pink with white wheels and handle bars. There white and pink streamers at the end of the handle bars.
The first bike I can remember was red with a big white plastic basket on the front and tassels coming out of the handlebars.
Oh how I loved my pink banana seat bike. I remember racing the wind with my handlebar streamers flying in the breeze! It also had a basket, but I never did figure out how to keep my kitty in it so it could have a ride too. LOL!
My first bike was a little red one with training wheels. I graduated to a new one when I accidently left it in the driveway behind Dad’s pickup. That was the end of the little red bike.
The first bike of my very own is still in my parents garage. It was a royal blue 3 speed. I rode everywhere on that bike. Now I have a coaster which I love even more. The only thing it is missing is a basket like the wicked witch, hee hee.
I believe that is the appeal of this new stamp set this month! (YES! I’ll be ordering it! I showed my husband & he said, THAT’S one to get!) It LOOKS LIKE my old bike!!!!!!! 🙂 My bike was a dark blue but, not navy! With the brand in White, it was a Huffy! It had a wire basket on it & I put the miles on it riding around the block to visit my girlfriends! OH, HOW I WISH I still had that bike! 🙂
The first bicycle I can remember was Hello Kitty bike with training wheels. I practice with my dad and I was able to ride it without training wheels after a month later. I used to like ride a bicycle because I could feel wind and feel like I was frying like a bird.
I’ll never forget that my first bike had a banana seat!
I learned how to ride a bike with a man’s bike! ouch…
But then I had my own pink bike! So many memories!
It was greenish and white. My brother had just been born on Christmas and I was staying with my grandparents so I learned to ride it in their basement. New bike and a baby brother, it was a great Christmas.
My first bicycle was a pink Schwinn with a white basket, pink handle tassles and white wheels. Loved it. Can’t wait to get my hands on the new bicycle set, it’s adorable!
My first bike was a metallic purple. It had a purple sparkled banana seat and a purple basket with flowers. I got it for my birthday and I thought it was the coolest ride ever!
The only bike I remember from my childhood was a red huffy bicycle with a banana seat. I always wanted a basket but never had one.
Gerry Smith
My first bicycle was a hand me down. It went from my oldest sister (12 years older) to my next sister (6years older) then to me. Each time it got a new coat of paint. I ended up with black. I loved riding that bike everywhere.
We had a lot of kids in our family so we shared bicycles. The one I learned on was a purple bicycle with a banana seat. Later on, I bought myself a green mountain bike.
I don’t remember what my first bike looked like, but I do remember learning how to ride a two-wheeler like it was yesterday . . . and later spending all of my hard earned money on a 10-speed to ride to swim practice . . . now that I’m almost 60, my dream bike would have a beautiful basket on the front of it and an EXTREMELY comfortable SEAT!!!
I was given MY first bike for my birthday when I was about 8 – I had had other bikes but they were hand-me-downs, this one was new and mine. It was red and shiny with a silver bell, that actually worked!
I actually discovered it when I went downstairs for some water in the night, then I had to go back to bed and act surprised when morning came. I haven’t thought about it for years – thanks for the memories.
I remember my first bicycle very well. It was bright pink with a banana set, and streamers on the handle bars.
I don’t remember wll my first bike, it must have been black or blue but I surely remember the first time I fell of it. It was pretty painful!!!
LOL, my first bike was bright purple with a white banana seat. I remember thinking it was the coolest bike ever!
My first bike was full-size and blue. I treasured that bicycle…we were poor growing up and it was so special to receive it on my 12th birthday. Makes me smile thinking about it. Love the new bicycle stamps and dies.
My first bike was purple sparkle with a rainbow sparkle banana seat and handlebars with streamers. It was so cool!
My first bike was a small blue bike with a sparkly banana seat and a handle right behind the seat that my dad held on to so he could push me. Good memories! Love the new bike set
I think it was blue. And I remember my dad letting go of the seat … a few times before I finally got the hang of riding it. 😉
my first bicycle was a hammy down from my sister. Blue with a sparkly banana seat and blue basket 🙂
I don’t remember my first bicycle, but I do remember my first “mode of transportation”. It was a pedal tractor and it was given to me by my uncle on my second birthday. He and a friend had a tractor that they used to compete in tractor pulls with and it was called “Fastback Farmall”. He gave me a small scale replica of his Case IH tractor that I could pedal around our driveway. I rode that tractor until the pedals fell off!
My parents were divorced when I was a baby. My dad bought me my first bike when I was 8 for Christmas. It was an emerald green Schwinn and even though I didn’t spend much time with him, I felt truly loved. I will never forget that green bike!
My first (and only) bicycle looked exactly like the pedal pusher bike! It was royal blue with white accents and had blue and white streamers on the handlebars. I loved that bike and rode it for many, many years.
My first bike was very girly. It was a soft powder pink with a white basket. The basket had flowers on the front of it. There were streamers on each side of the handle bars and a bell that looked like a girl in a pink dress. It was just perfect for a little girl!
My first bicycle was blue and it had a big white plastic basket on the front. I really wanted one with a big banana seat, as I thought those were so cool.
Mine was pink with streamers out of the handle bars and white basket with plastic flowers on it. I rode that bike everywhere! I even had a little license plate with my name on the back. Good times!
My first bike looked just like the bike in the pedal pusher set. I remember it was so big(or I was so small,) that I had to push the bike to a curb to be able to get up on the bike. I am sure my parents were trying to get a bike I could “grow into” but all I remember was that the bike seemed HUGE!
It was pink, with a flower power banana seat!
Ahh, the first bike I remember had a big long banana seat and a plastic basket with daisies on it. Such sweet memories of riding to the corner grocery for some penny candy.
My first bike was a bright orange one….and I loved
My first bike was a trike; red and silver. I was the terror of the block with it.
My favorite bike is red and white now, but no basket 🙁
My first bike was a purple banana bike with streamers, a sparkly seat and a basket!!
My first bike was blue and it looked pretty much like the new stamp. It has the basket in front and I could carry all of my stuffed friends along while I rode my bike. Great memories.
My first bicycle was a red tricycle. I have a photo of me on the red tricycle. This is a wonderful question because some may know but others may not but I cannot ride a regular bicycle unless it is a Tandem bicycle that hubby & I have & ride. I tell people I never learned to ride a regular bicycle which is so true ann I can pilot a single engine plane which is also so true. Thanks for contest.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
My first bicycle I got for my birthday. It had a “banana seat”, a horn on the handlebars and a white plastic basket with daisies on the front! I think it’s funny now that my daughter wants her new bike to have a basket 🙂
My fondest memories are actually of my tricycle 🙂 it was a perfect purple with streamers coming out of the handle bars! I think that’s why we bought a purple bike for my daughter’s first too, and she can’t get enough of the streamers either!!
My first two wheeler was a well- used bike my dad came home with one day. He painted it sky blue to cover up the beat-up parts. Even the training wheel struts were sky blue! I felt like the richest kid on earth.
Thanks for bringing back this memory, and for the opportunity to win.
My first bike was used for years and years, until I was old enough to borrow my mom’s bike. Mine was purple with a pink seat and accents, and said “Sweetheart” on the frame. It initially came with handlebar streamers and training wheels, but they didn’t last long. 🙂
my first bike I shared with my sisters, it had no sppeds (just our feet) and it was still fun
My first bike was a second hand pink bike with streamers and a basket. We lived in the middle of a hill, my parents said I could ride the bike on the road if I could pedal it up the hill, I don’t think they thought I could, but I made it up that hill! I remember that summer as one of the best ever!
My first bicycle was red, scarlett red.
And my father tried hard to teach me to ride it.
I don’t know which on of us worked harder on that issue.
My first bike was a boy’s bike. That was the one my mom and dad could afford. Not sure what color it was.
It was so long ago, and with five kids in the family, my first bicycle was probably shared by all of us at some point! But I did love it and spent hours riding up and down my street :).
I honestly don’t remember what my First bike looked like, but I remember it got stolen the night of my Birthday.
My bike was Olive green. too big for me I had lots of trouble riding it and hit the mailbox at the end of the lane. Yipes..memories.
I received a blue bicycle with a black banana seat when I was maybe 5 or 6. My parents didn’t have much money and my dad found the bike used. I remember feeling a little disappointed that it was a boys bike (I was very much a girly girl) so my sweet dad went and found sparkly white streamers for the ends of the handle bars and painstakingly painted tiny white stars on the black seat so I had a more “girly” bike!
My first bike was blue with a white banana seat. I remember we added a white basket with pink flowers and white tassels hanging from the handlebars. I was styling back then! LOL!
Linda
My first bike was brand new … a traditional girls bike (it was in the 60’s). I had learned to ride on my little brothers “used” bike. The sad part was that the day after I got my bike, I came down with the mumps … both sides at the same time. But my parents wouldn’t let my brother ride my new bike … the “new” had to be saved for me. A couple years ago a friend gave me a bike … another traditional style. I love it!
My first bike was a little blue Schwinn. Actually, it was my brother’s bike. Whenever he laid it down, I picked it up, and away I went!! Whee…………..
Well, it was a long time ago, but I do remember my first bike. It was silver and at the time, seemed so big for me. But I grew into it and remember riding it up and down the street in front of our house.
My first bike was a light purple bike with a white basket on the handle bars. The handle bars were complete with white streamers hanging from each end…oh sweet memories.
I remember my first bike as being pink with a white banana seat. The one thing I remember about my bike , is flying over the handle bars and waking up in the middle of the road with my Grandaddy picking me up and carrying me in the house!!
Hmmm! That was a LONG time ago. I just remember riding around my neighborhood with the wind rushing around me. I am sure it was pink and very small, though!
Wow Nichole I hadn’t thought of it in years!! It was a red tricycle with streamers… My parents told me it was a strawberry shortcake bike and I totally believes them !!
It was maybe the first big thing I had that was completely mine, no sharing with my brothers…I loved it!!
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!
I will never forget my first bike. It was a white stingray, banana seat, with blue pin striping. Oh, how I loved that bike.
Thanks
Ang
I have a bike now that’s black but we are looking into getting a couple of mountain bikes this summer for some fun bike rides.
I inherited a red one but always wanted a purple one…with glittery streamers.
I never had my own bicycle, but if i had one, i would want one with green and yellow colors and pink flowers drawn on it, have the cute basket on it for storage and a flower shaped horn.
Aside from my Big Wheel which was equipped with water pistols on the handlebars, my first bike I remember was a blue banana seat bike and I rode it every day until the poor thing just fell apart!
I’m sure I had smaller bicycles before this one, but the one I remember most had a long banana seat and the whole bike was banana yellow! On a side note, yellow is and was not my favorite color, but it was the 70’s!
My first bike was a red mountain bike. Love it still.
The fenders were green and white. My parents “hid” it behind the Christmas tree.
My first bike was blue & handed down from my brother, but my first brand new bike was a purple mustang with a banana seat that I loved with all my heart!
My first bicycle was a black and white one bought at a garage sale which I shared with my brother. I remember that there were little trinkets on the wheels and it would make this little noise when we were using it. It was the only bike that would let us pedal backwards too!
I can’t remember what my first bike looked like, but the one of my dreams is a retro bike with wicker baskets.
The first bike I remember was an “old fashioned” style with a white seat and blue fenders. Of course it had a basket – needed that for my books as this was my elementary school transportation!
Oh man, I remember my big ole banana set and those high handle bars!! What I sight!! Then I had the bright pink ten speed with racing handles…which we still have, but it’s less bright!! And it makes my kids laugh!!
My first bicycle is inherited from my dad, very old school style and have green wheels, later I changed them to red =p
I got my first bicycle a few years ago – I’m still learning how to ride, never too late, right? It’s a shiny purple hand-me-down but in great shape. I need to use it more. =)
My first bike was a red/orange one and my dad tought me how to ride my bike!
With extra sidewheels at my backwheel.
I was only 3 or 4 years old, because in the Netherlands every kid is tought how to ride a bike at a very young age.
Thanks for this opportunity to win such a fab prize!!
The new release is just great!!
Bye from the Netherlands,
Marjolein
My sisters and I used to love riding bikes together. This back in time when it was safe to go out on your own and wonder around the neighborhood. My first bike was given to me by my aunt, it was a hand-me-down and belonged to my cousin. He had a batman bicycle, and I didn’t care what it looked like because it was MINE and it made me so happy. Now, I can’t even remember the last time I even got on a real bicycle!
it has been so long I don’t remember what it looked like, lol. the one thing I remember is playing chicken on it with my younger brother. I froze, and he wasn’t about to give in and you guessed it, lol, we crashed. I don’t remember if I ever had a bike after that. lol, too many years ago!!
My first bicycle was a red one, it was my 10th year birthday present. It has a bell and a basket. I loved it and I had it for a looong time. Thanks for the memories and for the chance.
I learned to ride on a small adult Schwinn bicycle. I think it was light blue. My siblings and I are all close in age so we shared our bicycles. I’m pretty sure we had one with a banana seat and high handlebars too. We were either on the bikes or the horses.
My first bike was a tricycle, it was red and I still have it. My children and my grandchildren have ridden it, it is in pretty bad shape now but still works. Has to be at least 55 years old!
I don’t remember my first bike but I do remember having a sparkly red tricycle! 🙂
Pink! with a basket up front and ribbon streamers coming from the handle bars!
My first bike was the SWEETEST Strawberry Shortcake bike! All pink and polka-dotted!!!
I don’t remember my first but I have great memories of my three speed grren bike. I used it on a week long girl scout bike trip. Can you imagine hills with a three speed bike that has a sleeping bag and back pack strapped to it? Oh to be young again!
My first bike was a refurbished blue, girl’s Schwinn. It was a great little vehicle, and it got very good mileage going up and down the road in front of the house. Sweet memories. 🙂 Thanks for asking! And thanks for a lovely release with lots of fun product and projects.
I had a purple banana seat Schwinn. It had a shark’s head bicycle noisemaker perched between the handlebars that I won in the national Cappy Dick art contest. Yep, that bike was quirky, just like me!
My first “bike” was a big wheel, but the one with only 2 wheels was a Schwinn and was white and blue with a white plastic woven basket on the front with multi-colored 3D plastic flowers on the front of the basket.
I vaguely remember a small purple bike but it was stolen so the first bike I remember well was a 3-speed columbia in black and it was adult size (I was a tall kid) and I rode the heck out of that thing,
My first bike was powder blue with a white basket that had pink plastic flowers on it. I loved that thing.I would wash it daily and loved putting my stuffed animals in the basket to take them on a ride. I think I put more miles on my bike than my first car.
I wish I had a big girl bike! My first bike had streamers and a bell. We wrapped ribbon around the spokes. I loved that bike.
First bike was a red Schwinn. I remember learning to ride on the sidewalk, and falling into the rosebushes on occasion.
My first bike….I saved $125 (babysitting money) for a gorgeous Raleigh 10 speed. I loved that bike.
What a fun question! My first bicycle was the best one EVER! It was sparkly purple, with long, upright handle bars, a basket on the front (with flowers on it) and a floral banana seat. Still LOVE that bike and had loads of fun on it.
At the risk of sounding pitiful, my first and only childhood bike was a bike frame without wheels, propped up on bricks in a shed. I pedaled and pedaled, going nowhere. If I’m selected for this prize, maybe I can buy a bike all these many, many years later. Lol!
I got a yellow Schwinn with a glossy white basket with a yellow stripe woven in for my birthday. I can still picture it in front of the living room fireplace when I woke up that summer morning!
My first two wheel bike was royal blue, with a banana seat, and rainbow colored tassles on the handle bars. I never did have training wheels. Some other kids on the street did, but my parents liked to rock it old school.
It was a second hand bike that my dad “made new” for me… shiney blue with a banana seat and penant. Thanks Dad :).
My very first bike was my brother’s hand me down canary yellow bike with a banana seat. I tell you I loved that thing! I rode it EVERYWHERE!
My first bicycle was a three wheeled red and white Radio Flyer! My mother has a picture of me and my 3 year old best friend on matching bicycles riding around the housing unit we lived in while stationed in Turkey. It’s funny how looking at that picture brings back good memories and smells from my early years!
My first bike was hot pink with a sparkly banana seat and streamers coming fom the handlebars. It had training wheels but of course because I was such a dynamo, those didn’t last long…..
It was a beautiful blue girls bike with a white plastic basket on front. The banana seat had multi colored flowers on it Every bike needs a basket just like the one in your new stamp set!!!
My first bike was purple. It had a banana seat! i feel old. Hahaha.
The first bike that I remember was painted yellow with a banana seat. It had a basket in the front with streamers off of the handle bars.
My first bike was a blue Schwinn…loved it…rode it everywhere! Now, I want a beach cruiser, either pink or red, like the one in the new set.
My first bike was rather sad looking, it was second hand, but dad brought it home and we painted it blue and he put a new basket on it and made it look new…
My first bike was white with a lime green banana seat on it. White and Green basket on the front that I took everything I possibly could around the neighborhood in. Such good memories.
I’ll never forget my shiny red tricycle. I loved it so much! One day, I let my next door neighbor ride it. When he returned it, he simply left it at the curb… on garbage day! My shiny red tricycle was taken away by the garbage man. Boo hoo!
My first bicycle was blue with a white seat. I learned to ride a bike that was WAY too big, so I had to stand up and pump. My brother surprised me with a brand new bike. I will never forget it…he and my mom acted like they had bought groceries and asked me to help carry them in. When I went out, my brother lifted the bike out of the trunk! I loved that bike!
My first bike was a pink Huffy with a big, long, cushy seat. Recently, I actually bought myself my “dream” bike. It’s a smaller adult tricycle with a basket on the front. The only bad thing is that it is pretty hard to get used to riding.
Don’t remember what color my first bike was, but I’ll always remember how excited I was to get one even though it was second-hand. Of course, it wasn’t anything fancy because speed bikes hadn’t even been released wayyyyy back then. I rode that thing all day long up and down our street until I mastered it. I was so determined and excited be the new owner of this used bicycle.
I don’t remember exactly what it looked like but it was a little 3 wheel trike and it had a bell. I remember riding it with a canning jar of sand sitting on the back platform where you could stand and hold on while someone else was “driving” the bike. Of course the sand jar fell off and broke on the first bump I went over…not a good thing. I was probably around 4.
I don’t know if this counts as a bicycle. But my first one was a big wheel, my twin sister and I would take turns tearing down the sidewalk. And if we were daring that day we would take the back rest off and the other would stand on it and hold on with the other….breeze whipping our hair. Coolest thing to do on a summer afternoon.
I don’t remember I have my own bike. We had one as a family. Everybody rode it. It was silver and black.
I had a pink Barbie bike! With a basket, bell, and streamers on the handles. Plus, my Barbie had a mini version of the bike to match.
I only remember parts of it – like the white wicker basket, banana seat, chrome U shaped handle bars.. Wish I had a better memory!
My first bike was actually the aqua Schwinn – and of course it had streamers coming out of the handlebars! Loved that bike.
I had a red trike as a kid, but the one I remember the
Most is the pink “big girl” bike I got when I was in 3rd grade. It was the perfect color of raspberry fizz!! 🙂
My first bike was a pink Barbie one. It had ribbons coming from the end of the handlebars. I had a matching pink helmet too!
My first bike was a beautiful shiny turquoise in color, with white handle bars. I was somewhat older so there were no ribbons on the handle bars, though I’ve always thought those are kind of cool!
I don’t remember the color of my first bike but I hope it was blue! The feature I would most want is a water bottle holder on my metallic blue bike!
I think it was red with white tubes..such a long time agao…have had many bicycles ..and now days an electric one…SUPER!!
LOVED this release ..have a HUGE wishkist..so hope it all will be there when I order…..
Thanks so much for all the inspiration!
My first bike was a baby blue schwinn! Loved it!
My first bike had a shiny red glitter finish and a white basket
My first bicycle was a strawberry shortcake bike – it had a red frame, white handles with pink & green streamers, strawberry shortcake printed seat, and a few other trim details that escape me. My current bike is metallic hibiscus burst and black – and I have a basket just like the new stamp set that was released!
I had a very big attachment to my first bike. It was a pink Schwinn 20″ with a floral banana seat, white basket with floral trim, and a squeeze bulb bike horn. One day I went in for lunch and came back out to find it gone. I was a devastated 8 yr old. Come to find out our town of 3000 had a high school bike chop shop happening down the road. Our fine men in blue busted the gang but alas it was too late for my bike. All I got back was the basket and horn 🙁 It’s funny how some memories stick with you. I thought of that bike as soon as I saw the basket in Erin new set.
Mine was a cute little pink bike with one of those long white seats and a white basket with pink and yellow plastic flowers at the handlebars. Of course there were streamers on the handlebars, too 🙂
I got my first bicycle when I turned 5. And I’m pretty sure it was blue and white.
My first bicycle was a Christmas gift; it was aqua and white and it had a basket. I thought it was the most beautiful bike I’d ever seen! It rained that Christmas, I can still remember, but I rode anyway!
My first bike was a pinky-lavender color. I loved it because it was such a wonderful unique color. My parents gave it to me in the summer that I was seven. I can still remember how excited I was to get a special gift and it wasn’t even my birthday!
My first bike was given to me on my communion – I was so excited!!! It still tickles my heart when I think of that first ride and my dad gently balancing it from behind. It was blue with a white seat and streamers hanging from the handle bars. It had a cute little button bell, too. What great memories! Thanks for bringing them all back with Papertrey Ink’s bicycle stamp set.
The only bike I remember from childhood is a purple bike that had a banana seat and the vinyl on the seat had sparkles/glitter – too funny! I thought it was pretty cool. 🙂 I don’t really have a dream bike, just one that has a smooth ride and is comfy to sit on. 🙂
I have vague memories of maybe a red bike but clear memories of the two blue bikes. My sister and I were 13 months apart and both ready for our own bike. Dad brought home a pair of bikes. I liked my blue better but hers was a schwinn and was better to ride.
My first two-wheeler was a hand-me-down from a cousin. My Dad repainted it red. I was only 4 years old and been caught a few times riding my older sister’s bike, which was way too big for me. My parents thought I was too young for a two-wheeler, but knew I would end up hurting myself on the bigger bike!
My first bicycle was light pink color with white wheels.
My first bike was a shiny lavender purple with rainbow streamers coming out of the handle bars. I loved it!
Wow – my first bike was a hand-me-down from my sister. Green with a banana seat and bar up the back (can’t remember what that bar is called). We use to put cards in the spokes with clothes pins – to make noise with you rode them. We also use to cut color straws and put them on too! Oh the good old days. My kids would probably think it is a silly “70s” thing.
Thanks for the wonderful question and contest!
I sure I had some when I was younger, but the first one that I really remember was a pink & purple 10 speed that I just loved and it had everything I wanted on it, I think my Mom may still have it somewhere! Thanks for this great release!
It has been awhile, but I remember it being purple with the banana seat and streamers coming from the handle bars. I love it all this month! Thanks so much!
My first bike I can remember was pink with a banana seat.
My first bike was pink with pink and white streamers on the handle bars. It had training wheels and a basket. My older brother took a clothespin and attached a card to the spokes so I could have cool sounds like him as I rode.
My first bicycle was purple with a sparkly purple banana seat. Loved that bike and pretty much lived on it…alas, it was stolen 🙁
I like my current bike, but think this is the summer for a few modifications to make it more my style. A new paint color and a basket are first on the list.
My first bike I can remember was pink with a banana seat
My first bike was an older model my mom picked up on a garage sale. It was red/white/blue and I had a plastic basket on the front that I used to give my stuffed animals a ride.
I think my first “real” bicycle was a bright yellow one… At least that’s the one I remember =)
I had a blue tricycle and my younger sister would stand on the back (and hold on for dear life) and we would go up and down the sidewalk for hours.
Blue with training wheels and handlebar streamers! I loved riding it. Every year we had a summer bike parade at the school, decorated our bikes with crepe paper. Lots of bicycle memories.
The first bike that I remember was a little tricycle that my sister and I would decorate with streamers and ride in our small town’s parade. Good memories!
The first bike I remember having was a yellow bike with a flower seat. I raced my brother and crashed my bike, and smashed my finger. I won the race, tho, so it was worth it. And then it was stolen shortly after that.
Perfect question, mine was red and blue and a huge surprise! I got it for Christmas, and the other great delight that day was a dry, sunny day – which was very unusual for Scotland!
My first bike was pink with a big white basket with daisies on the front. My dad added colorful streamers to the handlebars which blew in the breeze as I pedaled as fast as I could. Great memories!
I can’t remember the color but I’m sure it had one of those big banana seats! I do remember getting a bike with a white basket on it and carrying kittens around for a ride.
I remember a photo of me on a little red trike, but I don’t really remember it. But I still have the first bike that I bought myself:) It’s metallic fuchsia color, feminine but tough (like me) 🙂
Mine was a pink Huffy with a banana seat. Great memories!
I can’t remember much about my bike but I know I rode that thing all over the place and I really got to explore with it! Thanks!
Light blue used 2 wheeler-WOW! It was the best.
I can remember it perfectly! It was purple (fav color) and had a banana seat and training wheels….I LOVED that bike!!
The first bicycle I can remember was red with training wheels. it’s dad who learn me to ride
My first bicycle was purple, with streamers from the handlebars and a white basket on the front, with plastic flowers attached. This was in 1975 or thereabouts, so if I saw it now, it would probably be ugly. But to me it was beautiful. Thanks for the chance to win a great gift certificate!
My first bike had a bright GREEN banana seat and streamers on the handle bars!
My first bicycle was red with training wheels and a pretty white basket attached the handles.Later a bell was also added to the handle. My dad taught me how to ride on that bicycle.I loved it.
My first bicycle was bright blue—my favorite color—and had a banana seat with a colorful butterfly design on it!!! LOVED that bike!!!
I was just thinking about my old bike the other day! It was a gold banana seat, and was the bike I first learned to ride on. It would be very in fashion now!
The first bicycle I remember was blue. My sister and I had matching bicycles with banana seats. Mine blue & hers green. The seats were some type of vinyl with glittery bits in it if I recall correctly. And I remember outgrowing it and being very proud of the pink & white 5 speed bike I got after that.
I had an old boy bike that was blue and rusty. I tried adding purple streamers to make it girly but that didn’t turn out so well. It still looked like a boy bike.
My first bicycle was purple with streamers on the handles and an old fashioned horn. So excited for this release!
WOW, that was a while ago so my memory is not the best but I think it was red:) I remember my uncle trying to teach me to ride with no training wheels.
The first bicycle that I remember having was a hand me down from my neighbor – it was a blue 3 speed boys bike.
A brand new bright and shiny purple Schwinn. It was a beauty – thanks for bringing it back to my memory. Fun times for sure!
I only learnt how to cycle at around 11 years old and till this day, I do not own a bicycle. My dream bicycle is exactly like the one in the stamp set that has a woven basket. It’ll be in blue with some frills or ribbon at the handle bars and the basket will be big enough to fit my dog.
I’m not going to count my red tricycle, because I didn’t feel any special connection to it. But my beloved first two-wheeler – oh, I remember that bike so well! It was a metallic blue Schwinn, with a book rack on the back and white wall tires. Fond memories!
My first bike was the tricycle that my Dad had as a kid. He still has it today and a friend of my recently used it to take pictures with her two daughters. My first 2 wheeler was bright banana yellow with no training wheels!
I got my first bike for Christmas. It had those big tall monkey bar handle bars that a kid could barely reach and a plastic coated banana seat. 🙂 It was my pride and joy and when I put cards in the spokes the sound it made was crazy cool. lol What made it even more special is that my dad up-cycled it for me and made it look like new.
Oh, I have such fond memories of my purple bicycle with the flowered banana seat and handle streamers. I can’t think of bicycle that looks more like its era: the 70s.
What a fun question. The only thing I remember about my first bicycle is that it had a banana style seat. I do remember riding my bicycle a lot around our neighborhood.
I can’t remember what my first bicycle looked like?? I know I loved it. I would ride all day with the neighborhood kids – Why don’t I ride bikes anymore?? Hmmm… I remember my big wheel though…low to the ground, three wheel, orange, and fast as the wind (that’s the way I remember it anyway) – does that count??
Great May inspirations!
Lyn
I don’t remember my first bike:( My favorite bike, however, had a big banana seat and those raised handle bars. I had streamers and we would put playing cards on the spokes so we’d hear clicking as we rode around the neighborhood. What great memories!
My first real two wheel bike was red with a black seat and a bell! Prior to that I had an awesome big wheel that I loved! I bought a big wheel at Christmas and my nephew who is loving it just as much as I did back in the day. Nothing like bombing around a neighborhood on a big wheel.
My first (and only) bike was a purple Raleigh 3 speed with a big ol’ basket. I got it for my 9th birthday. I rode that bike everywhere back in the day.
My first ‘big girl’ bike was a purple Schwinn with fringe on the handle bars and a banana seat. I absolutely loved it! The current equivalent would be a black Maserati but I don’t think that is going to happen.
I seem to remember my skinned knees learning to ride my first bicycle better than I remember what my bicycle looked like….but it might have been red and silver!
My first bicycle was a big, heavy Schwinn, and I LOVED that thing! No, as I approach retirement, I’m looking forward to getting a beach bike in aqua – can’t wait!
My first ever bike was a looker
Shiny and red with a bell
I’d ride it right up to the hill top
so I could freewheel down with a yell
My brother would jump onto the rear rack
Gripping on as we rode at great speed
Like a daredevil act from the circus
Warnings of safety we never did heed
Other times I’d cycle at my leisure
just potter along for the joy
the sun on my face as I peddled
heart content, at one with this toy
Oh what became of my metal stallion
I cannot recall, cannot tell
But I thank you for stirring the memory
Of a beautiful, treasured childhood spent well
My first bike was a big and pink, with baskets over the rear tires, no training wheels. My mom would put me on the bike and walk me up and down the street. Back in the late 50s’ there was only one kind of bike – it had fat tires, so it was pretty easy to learn to ride. My biggest treat was getting a bell. I loved that bell. With my doll in the back cage I would ride up and down the street ringing my bell – Happy Days!
My first bicycle was pink with a flowered banana seat, high handlebars with streamers and clickers in the spokes! Ah…memories!!!!
I have only had one bike in my life and I got it when I turned 10, it was pink and white with a pink plastic basket on the front and silver tassels off the handle bars. I loved it and I totally cut my knee open shortly after I got it. I loved my bike!
I had to think about this question. I think it was a schwin sting ray. It was green and had a silver sparkle banana seat with those big handle bars! Can’t remember what those were called!:) So 1970!
My first bike was teal blue with a banana seat. I never had training wheels…just learned to ride by wiping out several times 🙂
I never had a bicycle. But, I do want one. Specially now that both mu husband and son have one and they go for rides every time they can.
I’d love the color to be teal, and yes, it need to have a basket!!!
Wow, such great creative cards!
My first bike was a white and pink training bike with streamers. It had a unicorn on it! I remember riding that everywhere in the neighborhood with my dad walking behind me.
It was a pink Schwinn that I was able to learn to ride on and it is still in good shape. Thanks for the chance to win.
it was a lovely green and white Schwinn – a hand me down from my sister but I thought it was great. it was at least 50 years ago but I can still remember my dad teaching me to ride it. I remember I was so surprised when I turned around and he wasn’t holding on anymore – I was riding all my myself!
Waw this are all so pretty that I just can’t choose which one is my favourete!! The baby ones are so cute and the flowers look so divine, but I think the one with triangles is my favouret, there is so much options to use them. Hugs! Mojca
My first bicycle was a little red tricycle, but my favorite bike was the aqua one with the banana seat with big bright retro flowers printed on it and the white basket with big bright plastic flowers attached. Oh the 70’s!! : )
My first bike was a purple Schwinn with the streamers coming out of the handlebars! I absolutely LOVED that bike. At first it had training wheels and I still remember when my dad took them off and I learned to ride without them. I can still picture him running alongside me and being there when I fell, encouraging me to get back on the bike again. And now I love to bike as an adult with my husband. I think this new bicycle set will be perfect for me!
Although it was over fifty years ago, I do remember it was red with training wheels.
My first bike was a red one-speed, with a large, comfortable seat. It had one speed and was second-hand, but I didn’t care! I loved it!
My first bike was a strawberry shortcake bike. It was awesome.
My little green bike with training wheels.
Wow … what memories that question brought to mind! My first bike had a banana seat, somewhat torn and with a metal bar on the back so we could ride double. High handlebars with plastic multi-coloured fringes hanging off, and of course, a playing card attached to the wheel spokes with a wood clothespin to make it sound like the fastest bike on the block 🙂
My first bike was red and white. It had a white basket in the front with yellow flowers and it had streamer coming out of the handle bars. My daddy put a horn on it.
My first bike was a strawberry shortcake bike with a basket. It was awesome.
My first bike was metallic purple with a white banana seat, it had silver and purple metallic streamers coming out of the molded grips on the handle bars.
My first bike was a red three wheeler and I rode it everywhere!
My first big girl bike was a cool purple with a white banana seat, and streamers hanging from the handlebars, of course! It had a basket on the front too!
My first bicycle was a beautiful blue Schwinn that I received for my 6th birthday. I just recently came across a photo of my birthday party that year, & boy did I look happy!
It was a white 10 speed with purple and fuschia writing/designs. I loved that bicycle!
It was a red three wheeler and I loved riding it up and down the driveway!
My twin sister and I each got a purple bike with the banana seats and the streamers from the handle bars.
My first “real” bike was called ‘the cactus flower’. It was yellow with a banana seat, and a bright pink cactus flower painted on the chain cover. 🙂
I don’t remember what my first bike looked like but I do remember GETTING it. It was for Christmas and it was the last gift I got from “Santa.” My mom (Santa) had created a scavenger hunt which ended in my mom’s bathroom with the bike in the tub. I was SOOOO excited! It was so much fun looking for the clues around the house. I remember getting on it in my nightgown and riding it around the apartment complex. I felt like such a big girl. 🙂
I can’t remember many details only that my bike was a hand-me-down, but my parents got me some new accessories (basket, bell, streamer for the handles) to spruce it up, and I thought it was awesome.
My first bike was pink and green, with flowers on the seat and pink tassels hanging off the handle bars. Thanks very much for the chance to win!
My first bicycle was a baby blue girl’s Schwinn. It had colored tassels that would flare out from the handlebars when you rode fast. We added the clothespin and playing card to get it to make noise. So cool for a young kid.
It was white and had mini wheels plus the training wheels which came off in time. We grew up together !
As a child growing up in the city, my Mom wouldn’t allow me to have a bicycle because~she was afraid I would get hit by a car 🙁 My DH bought us matching black Huffy 18 speed multi-terrain bikes and I learned how to ride as an adult 🙂
Thanks for all of the wonderful inspiration with the May Release!
My first bike was purple. I think it was a hand-me-dad that my dad painted special for me. Sometime later, something went wrong with the chain and my little brother decided he could fix it by using a hacksaw to cut the frame to get the chain off. He was a very industrious little brother.
My first bike was a Huffy, color pink with a basket in front, so pretty in my eyes. I really enjoyed riding it after school.
My first bike was my early 1970s trike! I had it when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It was dark red and shiny and my older brother had put an “STP” sticker on it. To this day when my husband is watching Formula One and I see ads for STP, I still think of my cool red trike. If I had a bike today, the only one I’d want is your adorable new stamp and die set!
My first bike-I can’t remember the color but what I do remember was my favorite part of the bike-the long pole and the big orange flag attached to the seat…that one accessory made me feel…”cool”. 🙂
I’m not even sure I remember my first bike, but I do remember getting my “dream bike” as a teen. It had very skinny wheels. I thought I was in heaven riding it.
Too far back to remember, but I loved riding it! I would love a pretty new retro one with a basket like the new stamp set! I know the stamp set is on my list!!
My first bike was a pink Huffy, it was awesome! And now I have my dream bike (Christmas present from family), a coral and teal Electra Townie 🙂
My first real bike (2 wheels) was bright pink with a floral “banana” style seat. It had a bell and pink streamers coming off the handlebars. I remember clipping a card in the spokes so it made that really cool sound. I loved that bike and rode it endlessly.
My first bicycle was a little light blue bike – given to me by a friend who lived one street over from me – I was always tall for my age – and she was quite short – so this bike was small for me but I whizzed around on it everywhere! I remember the wonderful sense of freedom I felt riding around on it!
My first bike was a used, army green, boy bike. I was so envious of the girl bikes with the banana seats and baskets, but looking back, I admire my parents for not trying to keep up with the Jones’. It got me where I needed to go.
My first bike was absolutely beautiful to me. It was used and today’s word would definitely be “retro”. My dad bought it in the early 60’s and I can still feel that seat underneath me when I close my eyes! 🙂 Love your new goodies here! Would love to have them all!
My first bike was my sisters hand-me-down pink Huffy! My dream bike is my red Cannondale!
My first bicycle was a pink Huffy! Loved it!
I just bought a brand new bike that looks like the Pedal pusher! It has a white basket and is purple and white!
Mine was pink with streamers and a basket on the front. I remember trying to put the nieghbor’s cat in the basket, but the cat was not so eager for a bike ride! I put a lot of miles on that bike…
It was a boy’s bike ( I was quite of a tomboy at the time !). Quite a flashy one too : bright orange… Never put a lock on it since I was so sure it would not be stolen because it was one of a kind… Got missing one day though !!! Since then, got a few other ones which blended more in … and bought locks for them !My last one looks like the one from the set. Even got the basket… turns out that I have become quite girlie after all
It was orange. I think we got it at a garage sale. It had a spot on the cross-bar where something had broken off and it was sharp. I fell on it once and it cut my leg. I still have a scar.
my first bike was pinkish purple in colour…. loved it…it had training wheels too.
my younger brother too learned to pedal on d same bike.. haha
My first bike was totally old school, it had a banana seat and was light blue from the early 1970’s. My dream bike is pink bike similar to this month’s stamp release. I want a pink bike with a basket because in a house full of sons, it would be completely mine. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen my kids ride off on my bike.
Banana-ish handlebars. Hard seat. Gold (um, like mustard) color. But it did me well for many years!
I can’t remember my first bicycle but I do remember borrowing a neighbour’s bicycle regularly and it was a very basic, small, blue framed bike.
I think my first bike was blue but I don’t remember the make. I sure did have fun riding it though. Such good memories!
I never had a bicycle because I never learned to ride one but if I did have one, I would love a wicker basket on it.
My one and only bike was green. Everyday after school all the neighborhood kids would have fun on our bikes. Oh, the good old days.
Now, my idea of a bike comes in shinny red. It would be a wild hog, HARLEY DAVIDSON!!!
My first bike was a small red bike with training wheels. After the training wheels came off, I would ride with my sister and neighbor to the swimming pool in the summer a couple miles away. No wonder I was exhausted by the time we would get home.
My first bicycle was a purple Schwinn with a solid silver glitter banana seat, it was my only means of transportation when I was living with my mom during the school year in Utah, then one year I went to visit my Dad in Colorado for the summer and my mom took it upon herself to GIVE IT AWAY! I was hurt beyond words, still, to this day I’m not happy with her decision.
Now fast forward 30 years, if I could have a dream bike it would not be a bicycle, it would be a Harley Davidson sportster, purple, of coarse lol.
My first bike was a little blue one my dad got second hand. It was the perfect size for a five year old and I learned to ride all in one day! No training wheels for me. 🙂
Shiny fire engine red. I loved my first bike and wished I still had it.
I had a blue bike. I cannot remember the brand. It was from a hardware store. I had to learn to ride on gravel ~ HARD. We lived in the country. My cousin and I woult take lunch and water and ride off for hours! I would have NEVER let my boys do that!
Times have changed!
Susan
My first bike was a gift. It was bright blue and way too big for me at the age of seven! I learned to ride it standing up and still had it when I graduated from high school. I loved that bike, and my lovely grandfather who gave it to me.
Never had a bike…”dream” bike would be bright yellow with a real woven basket and aqua streamers on the end of the handly bars.
My first bike was blue. It had a white woven plastic basket mounted on the front. It also had white tassels on the edges of the handle bars. Thanks for a chance to win!
It was red – and it was beautiful!!!
I have no idea what my 1st bike was, probably a trike lol
I don’t remember what my first bicycle looked like but I remember getting it from Sears at the mall…I can remember riding it around the store itself and then riding it out to the car. If we had lived closer to the mall I would have petitioned to ride it all the way home!
My first bicycle was very 70’s looking. It had the high handle bars and the slender banana seat. the tall neon flag on the back and a white basket on the front. I liked to make runs to the store for my Mom.
My first bicycle had belonged to my big brother! It had solid wheels, funny brakes and it was grey in colour!!! But he taught me how to cycle that monster and I still remember that first moment when I flew off on my own. We were both so excited and from that day on, me and that bike went everywhere until I got too big for it! Then, my own brand new bicycle was in my favourite colour red, woohoo and it is still to be viewed at the back of the garden shed! Happy memories of my first experience of freedom and independence.
Can’t remember much about my first bike, except for the color…A bright, cherry red, that sparkled in the sun 🙂 I loved it dearly. My dream bike today would be a vintage cruiser with a big, beautiful basket that I could ride to the farmers market and fill with all sorts of yummy treasures.
I remember my first bike being a teal green with pink wheels. very cute to say the least 🙂
My first bike was a big, ugly, used ten-speed that was way too big for me. But I was determined to learn to ride, and I did!
A big tire blue and white Schwinn. After my brother and two sisters learned to ride
on it (no training wheels) they received a new bike. I was the last to learn to ride and the bike became mine. I spent many hours on that bike with my lunch, swim suit, and pool money.
You know, I have a terrible memory, so I’m not sure what my first bicycle looked like, but the one that I actually learned on (without training wheels) had the banana seat, the big U handlebars, and I think it was kind of a maroon color.
My first form of transportation was a red tricycle and I graduated to a blue bicycle with
training wheels. They both had a floral basket! The training wheels were not needed for long.
My first bicycle if not mistaken was a red BMX. It is too high for me actually and my dad needs to put two small wheels behind the tire for balancing. No matter how it balance, one day, I just wheel myself into the drain!
My 1st bike was blue and looked very much like the stamp. I can still see the picture of me with it by the Christmas Tree….It was too big for me but I didn’t care. It was new and it was mine. I was thrilled as I stood there in my nightgown grinning with my two front teeth missing some 40 years ago.
My first bike was a recycled one from my cousins. Dad painted it a metallic green and I was so proud of it. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Mine was a red four-wheely – the two normal wheels and supporting wheels in the back which you could unmounted:-)
My first bicycle was electric blue in color with a matching, sparkly seat. It was a banana seat (is that what it’s called?) and it was so comfy. I wish I still have it!
Yes – I had a bicycle. I was blue with white spokes and training wheels. I loved that bike. Good thing I grew up in the country as I rode it all over after the training wheels came off. My dream bike would be a bicycle built for two with a large basket on the front full of flowers. I would like it to be maroon in color. Then my husband and I could ride all over the country. Thank you so much! You all did such an awesome job!
My first bike was a very plain and utilitarian one with no bells or whistles, but way back then there weren’t too many fancy options for children’s bikes. It was all about the ride.
I don’t remember much about my first bike except it had a white wire basket, and pink streamers on the handles ! I loved it!
And my dream bike ? A tandem with Scots Olympian Chris Hoy!
Thanks for the opportunity!
My first bike was a hand me down from my cousin, who is a guy, so it was a very masculine bike. There was no flowers or anything fancy. For a second there was a little bell, but that didn’t last too long. So I was always dreaming about having a more girly bike, maybe with some flowers…
Being the youngest of 3, my first bicycle was a hand me down. It was silver and blue with a lot of dents and some ruston the handlebars. To make it special, my mom & dad bought me some shiny, blue & white streamers and a bell.
My first bike was a pink Schwinn, with a basket (so I could ride my cat around the neighborhood) a bell and streamers.
My first bicycle was a Christmas present. I have a picture of me standing by it right in front of the tree in my “Christmas Eve pajamas”. It was bright green with a white banana seat. It has a white woven basket with flowers that would spin and streamers on the handlebars. What a great memory!
I only ever had one, and it was pink and purple with white metal… I wasn’t much of a biker then, but man does it bring up some good memories of biking around my neighborhood!
The first bike I had that I remember was royal blue with a banana seat and tassles on the handlebars. I thought it was pretty sweet:)
My first bike was a bright pink with a white banana seat. I really loved that bike and I rode it everywhere!
Wow, I don’t actually remember my first bike. I know I eventually had something purple with a banana seat and streamers on the handle bars. Good times!
The first bike I remeber was blue and white with a wicker basket.
My first REAL bicycle had a sturdy curved frame and was a dashing metallic blue. We didn’t have a lot of money and so my parents bought one that was a bit big for me. (I remember quite a few spectacular pile ups while I learned to ride that thing). I really treasured that bike for many years and ended up riding it to school. (When I finally outgrew it completely, I got a silver bicycle with 3 gears!) Oh those happy wind in your hair, pedalling along golden days!
My first bike was a gift for my 7th Christmas and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how Santa got it down our skinny chimney. It had a banana seat of course and was refurbished by my Mom who was broke at the time. She spray painted it blue and added butterfly decals. It was perfect! 🙂
It was a metallic red with silver.
I had an old rusty bike we got a garage sale and I changed the color all the time by painting it with flat house paint 🙂 Never had a new bike of my own until last year when hubby got me my first!
The first bike I remember was a royal blue Supercycle! I remember wanting a basket for the front but before getting one I moved on to a bigger bike!
My first bike was used and spray painted metallic blue. I took off the training wheels and learned to ride it in the backyard so (as my Mom said ) I wouldn’t kill myself.
My first bicycle was blue with dark blue stripes, black seat and white handlebar grips with blue and white tassels.
I’m so old it’s been too long ago for me to remember what it looked like. I know it was big & bulky compared to today’s bikes & I had a basket & a bell. Love the cards you highlighted today–especially all the ones for the 4th–just fabulous!
It has been so long ago to remember the color but I do know it had a banana seat and we clipped playing cards to the spokes.
My first bicycle was pink. It had streamers coming from the handles and a little white basket on the front. The seat had a bunch of colorful balloons printed on it. I added neon beads to the tires that made noise when the wheels turned slowly. It was a great ride!
The first bike that I remember having had a banana seat and high handlebars. It was red and had streamers on the ends of the handlebars. We used clothespins to clip baseball cards on the wheels to make cool noises when we rode down the street. It had a sissy bar on the back of the seat so we could ride double.
My first bike was a shiny midnight blue colour So much fun!
My first bike was red balloon-tired hand-me-down from a neighbor – it was way too big for me. I’ll never forget the feeling of looking back that first time on my own to see that my dad had let go….wheeee!
I know I had a bike, can’t remember what it looked like (too long ago). My dream bike is one with a wicker basket with flowers cascading out of it leaning against my fence in the back yard.
My first bicycle was a pretty bright rosey pink! But when the banana seat bikes came to town I traded it in for a lime green one with streamers and a basket!!
My first bicycle was bright yellow and white with a big ol’ banana seat and tassles on the handlebars! I loved that bike!
I don’t remember the color, but i do remember my first bike had the old banana seat!
Wow does that bring back memories!
my first bike was a red two wheeler- maybe 3 feet off the ground – it was tiny – but i was only 5. I remember getting a bell for it too! (no basket like the stamp set.) And I rode that thing everywhere! I remember my brother, who was 5 years older than I got a new bike – and he was having trouble learning. He let me get on his bike – my feet barely touched the pedals but I rode it – even before he could LOL!
My first bicycle was a boys bicycle with rusting, peeling ( I believe blue and white) paint and had no fender on the front.
Money was tight at our house and I wanted a bicycle so badly. A family that we knew had several boys and one of them had this bicycle for sale so Mom bought it for me.
I was about ten years old and I loved that bicycle.
The first bicycle I had of course was pink with the little fringes. It also had a white basket and training wheels attached! Loved that bike when I was younger 🙂
My grandma had one of those banana seat bikes I used to love to ride at her house. It had those huge tall handlebars. Very retro!
It was a yellow 20″ with a banana seat and training wheels. My father made it from scraps- It looked like a brand new bike. He was awesome!!
I was 9 years old and shed the trainers in 1 day.
DIANA L.
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Hmm, that’s a hard one because all I remember is my 10-speed bike that I crashed when I was about 10 and had a road burn over the right side of my body! Not a pleasant memory for sure, but I rode that bike everywhere… even after the crash!
My first bike was a rusting red contraption that I shared with my two sisters. We found it hidden at the bottom of the garden when we moved into a new home in 1974!
My first bike was used bike – which was probably a good thing. It was blue and had a basket. If anything, I remember wanting a bell and streamers coming out of the handle bars.
my first bicycle was a pinwheel bike. it was pink with pink streamers hanging from the handles and a pink and white banana seat… remember those? 🙂 i loved that bike!
It was blue, but the thing I remember most was that it had to be shared by 7 of us!
I barely remember my first bike (I remember my Big Wheel!) but I do know that it was a hand-me-down from either a cousin or a brother and that it had a long, “banana” seat. I didn’t care- that bike meant freedom! 🙂
It was a hand me down Hello Kitty bike.
My first 2 wheeler was my brother’s hand-me-down, which I didn’t like, but I loved the feeling of riding up and down the street as fast as I could go! I also remember using clothespins to put pieces of cardboard on the spokes so that they made a noise as you rode!
The bike that I remember is still hanging in my parent’s basement…it is yellow with a banana seat and a white basket with pink flowers on it (plastic of course!). I used to ride it almost everyday!
My first bicycle was amazing! I started with training wheels, but soon lost those:) It was a hot pink, with a bright white banana seat, the elogated handle bars (like on motorcycles)with multi colored streamers coming out of the handle grips. It had a white wicker basket on the front that I would put my dog in basket. I thought I was the coolest kid ever:)
Mine was a bold 1970’s pink with a glittery banana seat. It was used when I got it, and well loved, but I rode that bike until I just got way too big for it. It had a basket with big plastic flowers…then it was kind of ugly, but now it’s retro cool!
My 1st full side bike was given to me for Christmas but only because it fell off the back of a truck on the freeway and hit my older brothers car! It was still in the box too!
I can’t even remember my training-wheels bike. I think it was red. Maybe. The one that stands out clearly in my head is the one I would have to ride to school on every day in Middle School and High School until I *finally* got my driving permit. It was a mountain bike painted white with a splatter paintjob of pink hues all over it. I LOVE those adorable “town” bikes, but I’ve always ever owned a mountain bike because they are more conductive to hills and non-paved roads with their gear shifts.
My first bike was a tricycle that had a pull out handle on the back for my Dad to push me along. No such thing as stabilisers then!
My first bike was royal blue with a metal basket on the front. I was 13 years old.
My first bicycle, I think, was red. My dream bike I got when I was nine. It was a beautiful shade of blue with streamers!!! I was so excited for the streamers. I would braid them and fix them all different kinds of ways! That was the best!!!!
My first bicycle was a red hand me down from an older cousin. If I could get a new one, it would be pink with a front basket and bell on it!
My really OWN first bike was a red one, I got it with ten and was very proud of it because it was so shiny and red and new. I love new things because I often got the old things from my two older brothers and there things weren’t shiny at all! 🙂
Ooh that was so long time ago…My first two wheeled bike was pink, and the one before that with the training wheels was red, and it also included a basket. I just love those memories =) Thank you for the chance to win.
My first bicycle was actually a red and white tricycle that I rode indoors as well as outdoors. I think my first proper bicycle was blue and very businesslike, not cute at all like many kids’ bicycles these days.
My first bike was lavender with a floral banana seat.
My first bicycle was blue with tassels off the handlebars and a white basket on the front. I remember sticking old playing cards in the wheel with a clothespin to have it make that “motorcycle” sound when the wheels moved! Love bicycling!
My first bike was purple with a banana seat, a basket, and plastic streamers on the handles. Fun!
My first bike was red, white and blue with a white seat and streamers flowing from the handlebars! Many happy hours were spent on that bike!
My first bike (sfter the tri-wheeler :D) was a bright shiny red one with a white “wicker” basket with plastic flowers on it. I pedaled it every day after school tothe library.
My first bike was pale pink with a white woven basket with flowers. I was very much a tom boy and wasn’t fond of the color, but I didn’t care because now I could keep up with my brothers!
My first bike was blue. I road it to school in the fourth and fifth grade.
I never had a bike, but my dream bike would be light blue with a wicker basket in the front.
I don’t remember my very first bike, but my first ‘big’ bike was a Raleigh – it was shiny red and had a brilliant bell.
I believe my first bike was pink…and it was called Sea Star. Me and my sister used to pretend our bikes were horses…LOL, but we sure had lots of fun! Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I HAD A ORANGE BANANA SEAT BICYCLE THAT I LOVED. IF YOU DONT COUNT MY BIG WHEEL AS MY FIRST BIKE I HAD AS A TOT.
My first bike—wow it was almost 70 years ago. As I recall it was probably red and I clipped a playing card with a clothespin to a spoke on the front wheel to make noise.
My first bike was a little red tricycle that I still have pictures of, but my true love bicycle was a pink Schwinn that my grandfather gave me for my high school graduation, that he got on Mackinac Island, Michigan. I LOVED that bicycle, and passed it on to my oldest daughter some years ago. I recently “retired” from a job I loved, and they gave me another pink Schwinn so similar to my first one, that it was love at first sight. Wonderful release! thanks so much
i remember learning to ride in the grass of the back yard on a way too big of a bike, there was no using the seat, had to stand…i believe it was blue and had to share it with my sisters.
I don’t remember my first bike, however I actually still have my red/white/blue bike. Need to take it for a ride. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
My first bike had been my Dad’s. It was old enough the two wheels were like a trike’s and it had a belt instead of a chain. Anyone over 50 pounds couldn’t ride the little thing cause the belt would slip. I rode it all over my Grandpa’s farm.
My first bike was a red Schwinn with a glittery banana seat and magical u-shaped handlebars. Awesome!
My first bike was purple with a banana seat with flowers on it. There was a white wicker like plastic basket on the front with a flower attached to it. I was very proud of my bike. We rode bikes similiar to the style in this release when we were on Mackinac Island a few years ago. Bike riding is great exercise and alot of fun at any age!
My first bicycle was a birthday gift from my parents, a pink and white Schwinn cruiser, very similar to the one in the set. It is still in the attic at my parents’ house, waiting for me!
The first bike I remember was a blue sparkly banana seat bike. It had glitter mixed in with the blue paint and had blue and white glittery streamers on the handles. I loved that bike. I rode it everywhere! I remember being very sad when I was too big to ride it anymore!!
My dad won our first bike, it was red and a little too big. I learned to ride on gravel roads….OUCH!
My first bike was second-hand, Dad painted it Pepto Bismol pink for me. I loved it!
My first bike was black and white–no training wheels! I never had another and rode it until I left home for college. I guess that’s getting your money’s worth since I think I was in 2nd grade when I learned how to ride…
I love the 4th of July stamps and card samples – really fun! As soon as I saw them I knew they were on my “get now” list!!
I had a bike that looked just like the bike in Pedal Pusher. The only difference is that I used my mother’s wooden clothes pins to hold a couple of playing cards onto the front and back spokes of my wheels. Boy, those were the days….
My bike was turquoise and white and the handles had streamers. I loved it!
I think it was pink and white with a basket on the front and streamers hanging out of the handle bars. I was so scared to write it until my cousin put a feather in the handle bar where the streamers came out and told me it was magical like the feather that dumbo used to fly and that it would help me ride my bike. It worked I guess!
My first bike was a turquoise hand-me-down from my big brother. I learned to ride it when I was 4. It was a plain old bike but I didn’t care. I felt like such a big girl when daddy took my training wheels off and taught me how to ride on two wheels.
My first bicycle was a green Schwinn with a banana seat and handle bars and high-rise handle bars! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
My first bike was a 10-speed that I acquired while in college. I couldn’t afford a car and was super excited to have a bike. It was blue.
I remember my first bike very well. It was a pink and white banana seat Huffy with tassels hanging from the handlebars. It was a glorious day when I got that bike! I think I rode that bike so much, I wore the tires out :-).
My first 2-wheeled bike was Blue. My friends and I rode constantly. I remember longing for the banana seat, but never had one. If I had a bike now, I’d have to have a seat much more comfy than the standard seat.
my first bike that I recall was metallic purple with a banana seat. I had streamers at the handles and a basket. My dream bike would have a built in sound system and juice bar! LOL
My first bike was a big and heavy one, that was a hand-me-down from my cousin. My dad painted it a medium aqua color.
Geez, haven’t thought of it in years, yet I can remember like it was yesterday…blue with chrome fenders! And the “streams” hanging from the handlebars! What freedom I felt! Years later, when the “stingray” bike was all the rage, my dad took me to the bike shop and bought me a banana seat and high-rise handlebars so I could be “cool”. Loved that thing! Thanks for reminding me of those fond memories.
BTW, I’m really enjoying reading the other posts–what a great subject!
First bike that I can remember was red with training wheels. Great Memory.
My first bike was yellow with a banana seat. For Mothers Day I got my favorite sweet ride – a new Raleigh cruiser with purple fenders and a tooled leather seat and handles!
I remember my first bicycle very clearly….it was an bright orange bike with tassels and a white basket with flowers….a REALLY girly bike 🙂 (hee,hee)
The first bike I remember was bought at an auction.. the ugliest one there. It was this rusty bronze colour with a banana seat (remember those?). I hated it, but I still rode it to school every day – where it was stolen! I was more shocked (at about 9 years old) than upset – shocked because who would want it, and not upset I think, because I knew I could finally have a pretty bike since there was no more auction!
The first bicycle that I remember had playing cards in the spokes–what a great noise!!!
While I dont remember my first bike, the last bike I owned was pink and purple and had pompoms on the handle bars and removeable training wheels. I’m planning to buy one this summer though!
My first bike was purple with a white basket and streamers coming out of the handles. I loved that bike!
i can’t remember what my first bike looked like, but i remember riding my brother’s silver stingray with the banana seat. does anyone even know what those are anymore? i know my kids have no idea!
It was a red and chrome Schwinn bike that I got for Christmas. What a thrill!
My first bike was a blue Schwinn – I was so proud of it and learned how to ride a bike on it. Had it forever!!
My first bike was a pinkish/purplish color with a banana seat and basket on the front!
My first bike was pink with a shiny white vinyl seat and a white wicker basket with bright plastic flowers on the front. Gosh, I couldn’t even begin to guess how many miles I rode that thing!!
My first bike was turquoise and had a banana seat and handlebar tassels. Thanks for the chance to win.
Ha ha, what a fun question! I had to ask my dad, hi hi! It was a yellow one, with extra wheels in the back to help me going! 🙂
My first bike was pink and chrome with a little white wicker basket on the front. And (back in the 70s) we used to weave ribbon through the tire spokes to make rainbows as the wheels went around! And, of course, it had the long banana seat (white leather) and the tall ‘flag pole’ off the back of the seat that held the triangle orange safety flag! Yep, that was me…stylin’ in the alley! =o)
I remember my first bicycle like it was yesterday! My dad got it for me through a 2nd hand store he owned. It was burnt red with the paint coming off. I thought it was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAD EVER SEEN. My first ride on it was EUPHORIA, really.. I was in another world!!! I LOVED that bike! Your set “Pedal Pushers” makes me want another bike just like it! I want the basket too! You have done an excellent job with this set! It is Brilliant. I am SOLD!
I remember my first bicycle like it was yesterday! My dad got it for me through a 2nd hand store he owned. It was burnt red with the paint coming off. I thought it was THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAD EVER SEEN. My first ride on it was EUPHORIA, really.. I was in another world!!! I LOVED that bike! Your set “Pedal Pushers” makes me want another bike just like it! I want the basket too! You have done an excellent job with this set! It is Brilliant. I am SOLD!
Memories, the bike a remember the most was a 1964 Huffy Sportsman Black with a basket on the front. I loved that bike and rode it everywhere. Picking up kittens, treats at the local stop and go store. I have great memories of that bike, and I still love to ride to this day. I want that bike stamp set and dies for sure. Thanks for a chance to win.
I got my first bike from Santa when I was 5 years old. I remember how excited I was to see it sitting by the tree. It was a pink girl’s bike with a banana seat, white basket and training wheels. My mom was terrific as she ran along beside me teaching me to ride without the training wheels. I sure put a lot of miles on that bike. 🙂
the bike i remember was a pink and white huffy with lots of rainbows on it. thanks for the chance to win.
My 1st bike is the one I own now. I come from a large family of 11 children. We had “family bikes” to share. My bike is a beach cruiser complete with white wall tires & basket! I’m going to add a bell so it will be perfect :o)
My first bike was a Mickey Mouse tricycle that I rode down the basement steps! Thankfully I wasn’t seriously hurt, but I gave my parents quite a scare!
I loved my first bike!!
My first bicycle that was truly mine – I have an older brother and sister – was a mid-size blue “cruiser” with a white seat, which was a birthday present. It was just a regular bike with no handbrakes. To this day, I am leery of handbrakes!
I had been riding a smaller bicycle with training wheels. When I got my new blue birthday bike, my dad told me that I could ride it without the extra wheels. The first day with my bike, my dad ran up and down the street holding onto the back of the seat. Each time he let go, I wobbled and tilted and fell. After we took a break for dinner, I sneaked out by myself and practiced some more. After a short time, I was able to ride by myself. I remembered feeling like the biggest girl that evening and thinking that I could now keep up with the big kids. That took a little longer, but what fun I had trying.
My first bike was a green and silver Schwin. It had fat tires that took me everywhere I wanted to go. I loved that bike.
My very first bike was red with one wheel in the front and two on the back. I was only two years old. Over here in San Diego we start early riding/cycling a bike. I love that color ever since and the handles were white.
My first bike was a Hello Kitty tricycle with rainbow streamers and a pink horn :o) I loved it!!
My first bike was a red 3 wheeler that was passed on to my sisters and brothers a long time ago. Love the bike stamp set.
My first memory of a bicycle is of one with a really loud bell on the handlebar!
My first bike was the typical red tricycle. I remember pink tassels hanging from the handle bars and it had a horn on it!! (Which I am pretty sure I overused!)
My first and only bicycle was a red Schwin. I was so proud of it and put many miles on the bike, riding down the dead end rode behind my house!
My first bike had a white basket on the front with daisies on it. My hand grips had streamers that came out the sides. I loved riding bikes with my siblings. Back in the day we didn’t have computers to occupy our time. We were outside playing. Thanks for bringing back special memories.
God bless,
Peggy Allen
My first bicycle was white with red accents. I so loved it!
I don’t exactly remember but I’m pretty sure it was red complete with banana seat and streamers hanging from the what seemed like very tall handlebars!!
My first bicycle was a hand me down one from my older sister. It was a 20″ girl’s bike. It had fat tires and blue fenders. I know that after I learned to ride it, it got passed down to my brother.
gettin’ inky…
I had a blue Schwinn bike that looks like the one in the new set!
I have always wanted a lavender bike.
I don’t remember my first one, but the one that I loved the most I got when I was 12 years old…. It was beautiful, aqua blue. I will never forget that bike!
I was seven so it was a bigger bike kinda resembled your stamp. Oh, and it was blue. My dream bike would have cup holders! LOL! Love Love Love the bike stamp and dies!
My first bike was yellow, with a basket and streamers. It was the coolest thing I had EVER seen!
My first real bike my dad bought me and told me I could paint it any color I wanted. I chose purple metallic. It was sooo cool. I thought I had the coolest bike of all my friends. I kinda miss it and wish I still had it…:)
I was not interested in learning to bike until I was 12. My dream bike then was a mountain bike.
My first bike was pink, of course, with a a white basket where I would give my dolls a ride. It had streamers on the handlebars and I loved it, just like I love the stamp set!
My first bike was all purple with a basket with flowers and training wheels! Thanks for a great release!
Chris L
My first bike was light blue with white flowers on it.
I had a blue bicycle with a white banana seat. It had red trim and red streamers on the handlebars
My first bike was actually my cousin’s beautiful red bike. He was afraid to ride it and I learned on it, so it became mine! My ideal bike now is one with a comfortable seat!!!
My first bicycle was lime green with a long banana seat and tall skinny handlebars. LOL I LOVED my bike!
My first bike that I can remember was a silver boys bike. Back then it was stylish to have a boys bike with the bar across (don’t ask me why). I remember me and my brother getting one at the same time.
My first tricycle was red, but my first bicycle was turquoise blue and white and was awesome! It even had a white basket on the front, plastic white & blue streamer type things that came out of the handlebars, and a really cool bell on the handlebar that drove my brothers nuts…great memories! :0)
I don’t remember what it looked like, but I remember how I learned to ride it!. My dad stood beside me as I got the hang of it and then let go – I proceeded to crash into the mailbox! Now that, I remember!!
I had a cute pink bike with a white basket on the front. I got the bike in kindergarten, but didn’t learn how to ride it until third grade. I was so excited about my bike though, that I pushed it all over the neighborhood for three years until I could ride it! Lol!
My younger sister and I received matching pink and white bikes (with tassles on the handles) for christmas one year and boy were we thrilled!
My first bike wasa green Schwinn. Full size. I had a hard time learning to ride it since Mom andDad wouldn’t let me go to the front of the house with it until I knew how to ride. I had “maybe” 25 ft of sidewalk from alley to house to learn. By the time I got it going I had to stop it or run into porch. More than once I ended up on the ground with the bike on top of me.
My first real bike bought only for me was actually as an adult!
A bright orange beach cruiser! That changed the way our family
spends time together and all my kids rode at 2 years old! No
training wheels! Bikes are awesome and I’m so thrilled for this set!
My first bike was black with a banana seat. It had large handlebars.
My first bicycle was a blue Schwinn with streamers and a basket and a bell on the handlebars. I LOVED it!
As far as I can remember, it looks just like the stamp in your stamp set. It was red with a basket on the handle bars. Love your stamp set!!! Val from IL.
My first bicycle was purple & I remember at first I fell a lot! But once I got the hang of it I then became somewhat of a daredevil riding down the road saying “Look! No Hands!” Lol.
Oh how I remember my first bike – a blue and white 1962 Schwinn. My brother sister and I all got bikes for Christmas. We thought Santa had really smiled on us for being such good kids.
My first bike was a beautiful blue and silver Huffy. I thought it was great cause it was a big girl bike not a baby bike!
fun question! When I was in 4th grade and my brother was in 1st grade, we sold Swipe (a cleaning product) door to door to earn money for our first bike. It was a girl’s bike and it was my size (poor brother!) and it had brakes on the handlebars. We lived on a short block near the top of the hill. On my first ride, I didn’t know how to use the hand brakes, so the crash at the bottom of the hill was quite dramatic! In looks, it was pretty boring, but so much fun!
My first ‘real’ bike was a teal-ish colored girl’s bike that I named ‘Black Mariah’. I put a lot of miles on that bike. Funny how my kids were never allowed to be so adventurous.
Oh my goodness !! My red and white tricycle that my parents convicted me was strawberry shortcake!! It had streamers and a basket and I was in heaven….
It was my first big thing that I didn’t have to share with my brothers…I loved it!
Thanks for the walk down memory lane
Interestingly enough, I can’t remember. But today I’d like a bike with a nicely padded seat and a bell I could ring….brring!
My first bike was a blue and white Schwinn….I was 12 years old and the last one of the neighborhood girls to finally get my bike. I thought it was the most beautiful bike in the world, as I no longer had to sit alone on my front porch steps, watching the other girls ride off without me.
My first bike was red and black and I think was a boys’ bike. I only got to ride it 1 day before I ran over something and popped a tire. 🙁
I know I had tricycles but the first bike that sticks in my mind is was a green SWINN with big fat tires. No glam and no bling but it got me where I needed to go. hugs
This was right after World War II and so I got a used bike. It was blue and I used it until I went to college many years later. Loved my bike.
I think that I had a small red bike with training wheels, but the bike I remember was a lemony-lime green color girls bike with high rise handle bars and a banana seat! I kind of always hated the color. It was geared in really weird way that made it so darn hard to turn the pedals that it is amazing that I ever went anywhere on it and I had it until I got my powder blue Schwinn 10 speed. Counter to that green thing, I loved my 10 speed. Everything about it I loved!
My first bike was red and my knees where full of bruises!!!! I loved it though!!!
My first bike was a red tricycle with streamers on the handles and a step in the back by the 2 wheels. I frequently would stand on the step and push the tricycle along the road. We didn’t worry about traffic running us over in those days. People watched out for each other. Love the memories.
I’m not sure if it was my first but the bike in my memories was yellow with a small basket in the front where I put my dog!!!
Sorry, I don`t know exactly what the bike looked like, think it was blue. But I remember how I learned to ride it.
My one year older brother was my teacher!!
He held the bike first and when I was sitting on it he gave a push and called :”Keep on pedaling!” I shouted: “And how can I stop?” His remarkable answer was:
“Embrace the next latern!”
However, I learned to ride a bike and enjoy it most in the summertime.
My first bike was pink with a big giant banana seat. I insisted on no training wheels!
My first bike was certainly the same shape as the new pedal pusher bike minus the basket. I remember the seat was shiny, glittering red and my father running behind me as I tried to ride it on our rocky farm. Oh I just loved it! After so many years of use that seat became battered and torn, but I love that the memory of it still brings me a smile.
My first bike was a hand me down from my siblings. It had a basket in front, a rear rack behind, and a bell to warn people to get out of my way! That was a long time ago. Now that knee problems prevent me from cycling, my dream bike would the one in PTI’s Pedal Pusher stampset!
I honestly don’t remember what my first bike looks like, which makes me sad! 🙁 BUT, on a more positive note, my daughter just got her first “big girl bike” for her 5th birthday..which is purple and white and sparkly. However, it came with training wheels attached, and she refused to ride it…preferring to ride the old, dirty, beaten up “boy bike” that was in the garage after her older brothers outgrew it…because she wanted nothing to do with the training wheels! She’s a gem! And riding her sparkly new bike without training wheels like a champ!
My first (& last!) bicycle was a metallic purple tricycle with a trailer that could carry around lots of my soft toys when I was about 4 years old.
Thanks for all the great release inspiration!
Our first bike was a little pink Huffy… a gift from our local pastor. The four of us girls had to share it. Oh, how we loved that bike! Then one night it was stolen… We were heartbroken. Amazingly, a couple of weeks later, the police found it and we were overjoyed! We rode it until we outgrew it. I have had several more bicycles since then, but that one will always be my favorite!
The first bike that I can remember was an English 3 speed bike that I earned as a prize by selling cards. That was many years ago. At that time having a bike with 3 speeds was something special! It was black and because I earned it all by myself I was very proud of it. I kept it well into my married life.
My first bike looked like a chopper. It was the biggest wish I had for my 10th birthday. It was poppy orange. I really loved it.
The earliest bike that I can remember is the one I bought myself when I was 8 or 9. It cost $60. A lot of money for a little kid. I was so proud of it. It was blue with white clouds. It had a banana seat and the words blue angel on it. I loved that bike!
For me, it was a ‘big’ bike 😉
Pink with a banana seat covered with flowers.
I can still remember going to pick it up with my mom.
I LOVED riding my bike when I was a kid. My first bike was green, and of course had a banana seat, and handle streamers!
WOW thanks for taking a ride down memory lane!
Schwinn, blue with flappers in the spokes to make that clicking sound and a silver sparkle banana seat! I haven’t thought about that bike since I was a kid.
Thanks Papertrey for all the great products!
My first bike was a red trike when I was 3 or 4. Then came a two wheeler with training wheels!
My sister and I were given hand-me-down bikes when I was in kindergarten. They were huge! I couldn’t sit on the seat unless I was coasting down hill, but I rode that bike everywhere. It was a tealish green color and I loved it because it was all mine!
Never had one but if I have a choice, I’d love to have the bike from a wonderful book called Boy’s Life by Robert McGammon… with all seeing eye.
My first bicycle was a blue Schwinn, much like the bicycle in the new stamp set. I remember lots of rides with my brothers and friends. On occasion, we decorated our bikes and clipped playing cards onto the spokes for “great sound.”
My first bicycle was pink, it had training wells too.
My first bike was sky blue with a white seat. I crashed so many times on that bike, but it always kept on rollin’!
I am blessed to have a twin sister, so we fought a bit over our first bike since we inherited our older sister’s pale blue one. Most days we managed the sharing without bodily harm (tee hee)
We woke up Christmas morning to shiny new 10 speeds! We rode our bikes everywhere!
My first REAL bicycle was a 10 speed Schwinn – pink with white taped handlebars and I got it on my 10th birthday. Road that bike everywhere!
My first two wheeler bike was a tiny bike that my mom and dad got second hand, and my dad spray painted it pink (this was in the 60s). I remember learning to ride it when I was five (and no training wheels for me!).
The first bike I remember, was a shiny turquoise schwinn. It was a two wheeler, with training wheels and a bell with streamers on the handle bars. But we also had a tandem bike, with was a blast with friends!!
My first bicycle was green with a banana seat. I remember wishing I had a smaller seat like everyone else, lol.
I had a blue framed, big ole banana seat bicycle in the 70’s with a white wicker basket and three daisies on it…. Of course it also had the streamers on the handles and the noise makers on the spokes of the wheels!!! Ha.. Gotta love the 70’s… Thanks for joggin my memory!!!
I didn’t have a bicycle until I was an adult. It was a red Schwinn.
My very first bike was a tricycle. It didn’t have ribbons on the handles like some others that you see, but I think it would have been real cool, blowin in the wind as I sped down the sidewalk. LOL!
I think my first bicycle was turquoise.
I think my first bicycle was turquoise.
Strollin’ down Memory Lane…My first bike was small… I called her “Baby Blue”. When my younger brother got it (when I got the 2nd hand Sting Ray with a banana seat), he refered to the bike as “Baby Blue”. I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but now I think that is so cute!
We just stored the skis away and we are getting bikes ready. I can’t remember my first bike but my adult bike is white with pink roses and the tire trim is mint green. I live it, and love to ride with my boy and neice. I knew I wanted Pedal Pusher as soon as I saw it.
Oops—didn’t mean to submit this twice.
My first bike after the red trike, was yellow & white. Big yellow banana seat, little white basket on the front and streamers coming from the handlebars! What a fun bicycle stamp & die set!
My first bike was gold and had a brown leather banana seat. Boy, I thought I was pretty cool! I was on it all of the time. I loved being outside!
My first bicycle was a red Schwinn, It had a white basket that I used to put my piano music into when I rode 5 miles to take piano lessons each week. Before I got my own bike I had to ride my brothers hand me down bikes so this was so special to me, my first very own girl bike. I was one happy girl when my parents gave it to me for my birthday!
My first two-wheeler was green and so loved! I had no interest in training wheels, but I did not want anyone to see me lose my balance. So I got up earlier than anyone else the next morning and went back and forth on the sidewalk until I could do it.
My first ‘big girl’ bike was turquoise blue with a white banana seat and streamers on the handlebars. It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about that bike but oh how I loved it back in the day. 🙂
Oh my….a blue Schwinn. I can still remember coming home from school and there it was, parked on the sidewalk for my birthday. i didn’t have to share it with anyone else in the family….my very own!
Ruby red Schwinn with tassles on the hand grips and training wheels.
My first set of wheels was one of those little red and white tricycles but my first two-wheeler was green with nice big fat tires. I remember biking everywhere, leaving the house at 9am and not returning until dinner time! Those were the good ol’ days 🙂
I remember it being pink with long tassels hanging from the handle bars!
My parents bought me my first bike when I went to college! It was a bright pink cruiser with a basket and I rode it everywhere. Wish I’d kept it!
The first bicycle I remember getting was a pink Scwinn with a wide banana seat. I loved that thing!
I have no clue what my first bike looked like – LOL – it’s been WAY too long! I’m sure I had one – I can kind of remember riding up and down our street – but nothing specifically about what the bike looked like. I have the perfect bike for me now though – a big comfy seat – blue – with a cross stitch pattern on it. Now if I would just get out there and ride it! 🙂
I don’t actually remember my first bike but my I think that my ideal bike is very close to the one that I have. It’s a Schwinn with a spot in back for a basket. The only thing that I would change is the colour.
My first bike was purple with a banana seat and high handle bars. I love it and rode it everywhere!
Mine was a ten speed I got for Christmas. I rode that bike everywhere!
My first bicycle was lilac – and I still have it. However it is not an old bicycle, I bought it last year through a ‘cycle to work’ scheme. When we were children we lived on a very busy main road & our Mum wouldn’t let us have a bike. I learned to ride on a friend’s bike in the school summer holidays when I was about 12 but that was the last time I rode a bike…until last year! (I am now considerably older!!)
I am very proud of my bicycle – it has some flowers painted on the frame & a lovely basket just like the one in the new set. I think that is the best feature as you can fill it with so many different things – the possibilities are endless! I am sure it is going to be a very popular set.
It was baby blue with a big ole’ white banana seat and white handle covers on the handelbars! early 1980’s at their best! And I rode it EVERYDAY. =)
I saved forever to purchase my first bike at 12 years old. It was beautiful and I was in love! It was pale blue and had a denim fabric seat. Exactly one month after purchasing my bike, I flipped over the handle bars and face planted onto the road. I dislocated my jaw and tore up my arm pretty badly. I remember walking my beloved bike home, crying, not for myself, but because my frame was bent and my seat was torn!
My first bike was bright lime green with a banana seat and Big Handle Bars and a big sissy bar. I loved that bike.
Mine was a blue Shwinn, a true girls bike basket and everything!I rode it everywhere.
My first bike of memory was a used bike, silver and looked similar to the one in the stamp set. It was given to me from friends of my parents. The bike I recall the most was the one I won in a skate-a-thon (roller skating)in 1979 when I was only 12 years old. We went around with pledge sheets and raise money for Cerebral Palsy. People donated money for every hour I skated or they could make a straight donation. I don’t think anyone thought I would make it the whole 12 hours or they were just being generous but I skated the whole 12 hours and I had the most pledges. I raised $632(that was a lot of money, almost 25 years ago-heck that’s a lot of money now, lol)and I did it by myself. My parents didn’t take the sheet with them to work or anything like they do now. I grew up out in the country where you couldn’t see your neighbors house and I rode all over the country side going house to house getting pledges. I worked my butt off but it paid off because I took 1st place. I won a cherry red Schwinn 10-speed bike. I was so proud. I was even on the front page of the newspaper:-) I look back now and realize those were some of the best times of my life. Thanks for the walk down memory lane and for making such a cute stamp set. I will be able to relive those bike memories each time I use it.
I had the best rusted pass me down “Banana Bike” ever!! It was great for Pop A Wheelies…thus the scar on my elbow from my sister and I doubling down the lane when my Dad told us not too….sooo much fun!!!
Only thing better… Banana Bike with a BELL =)
My first bike was blue so my little brother could use it too. I did get pink streamers to make it a tiny bit girly. Now I have an awesome purple bike and I love it!
My first two wheeler was an old green bike made from various bicycle parts. No basket, no streamers, certainly not fancy, but it ran well.
Awww such great memories! I used to have a sefongreen bike with a white banana seat and long handle bars. I remember riding for ours and hours and giving my friends rides on the handlebars! So much fun! Oh to be a kid again 🙂
My first bicycle was red and robust. It was inherited from my sister and very old but it was a real bicycle. Before that I had a blue tricyle with a white plastic sadle.
Well, honestly I didn’t get my first bike until I was 32 or 33. My husband taught me how to ride (OMG it’s SO much harder when you’re an adult!) – I was determined to learn before my son did! So that bike is a basic navy blue adult-size bike. I still think my legs are too short for it, but I did conquer the darn thing!
my hometown in Japan has alot of steep hills so I didn’t have a bicycle in my childhood.
the first time I got a bicycle was the time when I went college.
it was silver coler and had a basket. it was fan.
it’s a good memory.
it was hot pink and purple and had training wheels. i was disappointed because it did not have a kickstand like my older brothers.
It was a blue second hand bike that I loved, and I was thrilled to have. I could fly like the wind on that bike!
In my 7 year old mind, my first bicycle was the most beautiful bike ever. It was shiny and aqua blue, with a banana seat, hand grip streamers, and white basket with pink plastic rose decorations. I’ve had several bikes since, but nothing can compare to my joy and memry of that first bike. Ahhhh…
I received my first and only bike when I was 10. It was a bright perfect red and I didn’t have company when I rode it but I loved biking around my neighborhood. Unfortunately, I only had for two years because shortly after we moved, it was stolen. I’m hoping to save up soon so I could buy one now that I’m an adult!
It was a hand me down bike from my older sibblings…with training wheels and it was a spider man bike.
My first bike was bright pink with a white banana seat. I loved that bike! I rode it all the time as a kid. My current bike is a silver one similar to the one in the new stamp set. 🙂 Thanks for a chance to win!
I had a shiny blue schwinn with white walled tires and a white basket with white streamers. It was very cool!Thanks for a fun countdown Nicole.
It was a green older bike, my brother’s old bike. Nothing fancy but it sure was fun to ride.
My first bike was HOT PINK with a flowered banana seat. It was my first bike, that was not a hammydown from one of my siblings, for my birthday. I was very excited to have my very own, that I told my mom “if it’s not hot pink I don’t want one”….being the youngest I didn’t get a lot of brand new things, so I was specific on this one, this time.
My twin sister and I got bikes for our 10th birthday–Mine was Red and my sister had a Blue bike. We had a FAB banana seat, basket, a bell and streamers on the handlebars!! We practised for hours in our back lane and proudly rode to school every day from then on! We still love to ride bikes! Very fond memories for sure..
I never truly had my own bike as I had to share everything with my twin sister and older sibblings. My dream bike would be a “comfort” bike.
The bike I can remember was blue with a cushy banana seat!
My first bicycle was so pretty – light yellow with a white banana seat (SO comfortable! They need to bring those things BACK!) with light yellow & light green flowers on it and a white basket in the front with matching flowers, and a bell of course (what bike is complete without a bell?). Thanks so much for the chance to win! My Papertrey Ink wishlist is getting SO loooong….
My first bike was a red two wheeler with training wheels, and I received it for my 5th birthday. We lived in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco at the time, and I loved riding around on the very wide sidewalks and driveways with my friend, Becky, who lived upstairs. The bike in the new set looks just like my current Trek “sidewalk bike” I guess I’ve never really outgrown that first bike!
The first bike I really remember was a royal blue Schwinn. It had a white basket on the front handlebars. I rode that bike all over and even to the neighborhood pool….all by myself! I was young. I can’t believe my parents let me do that, but it was a different time.
My first bike was powder blue with a white banana seat. It had streamers coming out of the handlebars. I loved that bike!
If my memory is correct, it had a long white seat and high handle bars and streamers coming out the ends of the grips! Such good times riding around the neighborhood.
Imagine a cool banana seat, bright tassels hanging from the u-shaped handlebars and a wicker basket with big daisies on the front. It was the latest style for about 1967 and now there is an American Girl doll that celebrates the era and her bike is almost an exact replica of mine!
I can’t remember. But it was so big we had to fall against a tree to stop. LOL
My first bike was very pink and purple and VERY girly. 🙂
my first bike and every bike since then has been blue because it’s my favorite color!
My first tricycle was red and white, I remember it still! My first bicycle was a purple banana boat seat style!
Loooove all the projects featured in this post! So inspiring!
I don’t remember what my first bike looked like – only that I was badly injured riding it without shoes!! In any case, I can’t WAIT to pick up the new bike stamp and die set!!!
It was red and it was a present I got in France.
Mine was a wonderful 10 speed blue hand me down. Loved that bike!
I remember my first bike as pink with a basket and training wheels. I also remember streamers hanging off the handle bars. I learned to ride without the training wheels down the small hill in the back yard. Such great memories. Thanks!
Gosh, I don’t remember what my first bike looked like except it was waiting for me under the Christmas tree one year! It did have streamers coming out of the handles! Thanks for the chance!
Oh my goodness. I didn’t have a bicycle when I was growing up so I used my aunt’s bike. It was way to large for me and I couldn’t sit and peddle at the same time. I spend alot of time slipping off the peddles and running with my feet. It was very difficult but I loved riding it and going fast. If I had a bike it would be an old fashion Schwinn with a basket in the front!
I don’t remember what my first bike looked like, but the bike I had in Junior High School was blue. I rode it to school a lot weather permitting. Bike-riding was a favorite summer evening activity in my neighborhood. We would stay out until 9 PM! It seemed so late.
I had a beautiful cherry red Schwinn. I rode many miles on that bike and I sure wish I still had it.
My first bike was a navy blue 20″ girl’s bike with nothing special about it other than it was mine. I loved it and with a little imagination and lots of pedaling I traveled around the world on that bike.
My first bike was yellow with a banana seat (remember those!) and lots of streamers!
I don’t remember my first bike. I do remember the bike I pretty much grew up with until just last year, when I got a new bike. I got my mom’s bike when I was in 3rd grade. I had that bike for 30 years. Wow!
Wow – that was a really long time ago LOL! I’m pretty sure my first was a banana seat bike that was so popular back in the 70’s!
My first bike was blue. It was a used bike, but I loved it! My dad added a white basket to the front and I was stylin’!
It was a bubblegum pink huffy bike. It was beautiful! Still wish I had it today 🙂
Thanks for a chance to win awesome goodies! My first bike was grey and white and red. It had those big old fashioned balloon tires. Oooops, did I just date myself?!
My first bike was a Schwinn cruiser, and I felt so nerdy on it, so I saved up baby-sitting money to buy a 10-speed. I didn’t know my father was going to do this, but when I told him I thought I had enough for a new bike, and I’d like to get one, he told me that he would match how much I had saved, because he wanted to reward me for saving so diligently.
My bike was blue with streamers coming out of the handles and a pretty white basket with flowers on it! I remember the training wheels at first, and later my dad teaching me how to ride it without them. Funny thing because my dad never learned how to ride a two-wheel bike. The Depression and all…he never had one!
I don’t remember what color my 1st bike was but I do remember it had a banana seat and high handle bars. Now I have a cool red cruiser that I don’t get to ride enough.
I don’t know if my first one went through. Pink with tassels on the handles. The handles also had those rubber grips.
After the shiny red trike! My first bike I remember was a golden yellow color with a basket on the front! My bike now is purple!! ha ha!!
ANOTHER GREAT release, such BEAUTIFUL work from the PTI team!!!
The only thing I remember about my first bike is that it had handbrakes. My dream bike would blue.
My first bicycle was a purple Schwinn. I loved that bike and rode it everywhere. On Saturdays I’d even ride along with the mailman on his route. I wish I still had it today 🙂
I must be too old to remember! Lol – I vaguely remember streamers and a basket!
red with a banana seat, streamers hanging from the handlebars…oh the memories
I’ve never had a bike and, since I don’t know how to ride one, I don’t have any dreams for one, either. 🙂
I had a red Schwinn with training wheels. It was the old matte finish with shiny handlebars. I had streamers too. I remember my first try at no training wheels. We had a part of the sidewalk that went around a rose bush. Of course my first spill was into that rose bush.
My first bike was white and purple, complete with training wheels and streamers on the handles!
I really can’t remember what color my first bike was!! I’m guessing either red or pink. I do remember having lots of fun in the summer riding around the neighborhood with friends!
I am not sure if it was my first bicycle but I remember my gorgeous brand new white and pink 2 wheel bicycle. I learned to ride it all by myself by practicing on the sidewalk. I was so proud when I could ride “all by myself.” Thanks for reminding me.
Ahh—My 1st bike was a second hand, blue, girls Schwinn. It must have weighed 50lbs!! My older brother received a used, red, boys Schwinn. We rode everywhere. What fun memories.
It was pink and purple and awesome. Love the bikes this month!!
My first bike was a stunning, sleek, brilliant blue two wheeler…with a few dents and bruises as it was a hand-me-down from my cousin! But the few wee blemishes did nothing to take away from the exhilarating joy of flying down a hill at break neck speed on my very own set of wheels!!!
All I remember is the Bell and the Pink Streamers!
My first “real” bicycle was purple with a white “banana” seat on it. It was a LONG time ago. LOL Before that I had a little red tricycle and a bigger black and white tricycle that had a big front wheel. I also had a nice red wagon. 😀 Thanks for the memories AND a chance to win a fabulous prize.
My first bike was an old 1960’s model-maroon and white- that my brother out-grew and I “borrowed” a lot.
Not sure about my first bike, but the first one I can remember was a junk bike my dad took apart and painted bright yellow with a new seat and a basket. It meant alot to me that he would go through all that trouble:)
My first bike was the classic 70’s banana seat with a sparkling turquoise frame, large flowers on the seat and long streamers on the handles! I loved that bike! When my Dad brought it home from Sears he added blocks to the pedals with electrical tape since I was so short! Loved, loved that bike! I think I rode it for 10 years! Fabulous memories and smiles while riding that bike! Thankfully it has stood the test of time, both of our kids have used it while visiting Nonny and Poppa 🙂
………my first bicycle was a bright, shiny medium blue one. My parents surprised me with this bicycle when I was released from the hospital after a brief illness. I was so surprised and happy…..I can still remember the excitement of getting on and riding it for the very first time!
I can’t remember the color but I believe it was blue. I do remember that it had long tassels and a bell…
It was blue and white with chrome wheels and of course I totally loved it!!! I cannot say I remember the brand name though; I doubt any five year old really cares and I certainly didn’t! All that mattered was that I learned how to ride it and that meant a whole new world had just opened up to me!!! I love biking to this day and will til I leave this mortal realm!
My first bicycle was powder blue! and perfect! that’s what I remember anyway LOL!
I can’t remember the colour of my first bike but it had a basket hanging from the handle bars and streamers coming from each of the grips.
I honestly don’t remember what my 1st bike looked like. I’m sure there’s a photo hidden well at my parents’ house though!
Hmmmmm… that was over 40+ years ago so i’m going to guess a red tricycle as I saw that in a photo way back when. A great release with so many fun stamps and dies to purchase.
This is a great release! I love the stamps and the dies.
My first bike was blue and had streamers on the handlebars. Oh, how I loved it!
My first bike I remember was a boys bike that I bought myself when I was 12. It had skinny tires and was bright red. I thought it was the greatest.. I rode it for 15 or more years.
My first bike was a hand-me-down from older siblings….blue in color….well used! I really had to dig deep to remember that little bit of info…. Another great release PTI!
My first bike was a dull red color with 2 tires and it had a wire basket. It had hard tires on it. I have this memory of riding around on it with hard boiled eggs in the basket. It was Easter. I remember riding up to the front porch with the eggs in the basket and sitting on the steps to peel and eat an egg. Pretty random, but for some reason this memory has stuck with me!!
The first bike that I had was a small red trike. I then graduated to a larger red trike. The first “bigger” bike I had was a used 10 speed bike. I thought I died and went to heaven! Thanks for a great release.
A bright red coaster bike with a wire basket attached to the handlebars. I rode that bike for years as it was sturdy and I could go so many places!
My first bicycle was yellow with one of those banana seats. I loved riding it with my sister on the back seat … great memories 🙂 Thanks for another great release and chance to win!
I remember getting a blue 10 speed bike for my 8th birthday.
My first two wheel bike was pink and white with a banana seat and streamers coming out of the handle bars…I loved it! 🙂
My first bike was lavender because at age 5 I loved all things purple! I had purple clogs, purple pants, purple barrettes, etc. I wanted a purple bedroon but it didn’t go too well with my wedgewood blue bedroom set. Oh, did I mention my bike had a banana seat and a flowery basket up front?
I was 11 when I received my first second-hand bike. I
can’t remember the color since that was 60 years ago. Roaming the neighborhood was my daily adventure. what a thrill it was!
My first bike was dark green with a silver bell.
It was a boys bike and blue because that was my favorite color and they didn’t make a girls bike in blue. I even put blue streamers on the handle bars. Loved that bike- in fact I recently instagrammed a pic of me putting it together! good times!
My first bike was a pretty shade of blue. It had training wheels and a basket. It didn’t take me long to learn to ride without the training wheels. I think I was about 6 years old.
That’s going back a long way. Hmm, I’m pretty sure it was purple with a pink seat, pink handle bar grips and pink streamers coming out of the handles. It had training wheels but I know they didn’t stay on for long because I was determined to ride a two wheeler all by myself.
Pretty sure I had a red trike, pictures are black and white, so who knows? Love this release!
Myfirst bicycle was a baby blue banana seat. Oh how I loved it 🙂
Baby blue banana seat. 🙂
Ohhhh so long ago, maybe blue and white BUT it did have an awesome basket I remember!! and maybe a bell, or horn…
I got a green 21 inch bike for my 7th birthday. It came from the Montgomery Ward store and I thought it was the best bike ever. The only speed was as fast as I could peddle and it didn’t even have a bell, but I felt like the luckiest girl on our block!
I had a beautiful blue Schwinn,ah.
Such a long time ago…I remember it had a basket on the front and streamer on the handle bars. 🙂
I don’t remember my first bike, but I bought my dream bike last month. It’s a black cruiser with pink cherry blossoms on it and it has white tires with Raspberry colored rims. I added a vintage looking headlight, pink bell, black rear rack and a black wire basket.
My first bike was a second hand adult size bike (I was about 10) and it was red, with brakes that you had to back pedal. My younger brother used to ride it and crash into something to stop, because he couldn’t properly reach the pedals!
The bike I learned to ride on was red and white. Not sure what kind other than it was not a banana seat bike that was popular way back then. It didn’t even belong to usbut was borrowed.
My first 2-wheeler was a white huffy, with a bright pink & orange floral banana seat. Plastic fringe hung off the handle bars, and a woven basket with flowers was attached on the front. Oh, those were the days!
A lovely purple number complete with a glittered banana seat and tasseled handlebars.
Pink with a white banana seat and white basket with plastic flowers. I wasn’t a girly girl, so I was so excited when I got a mountain bike that was blue and yellow for my 12th birthday! lol
My first bicycle was orange with a banana set that had orange flames on it. I rode it everywhere!
My first bike was pink with a white wicker basket in the front with 3 big colorful flowers! For my sweet sixteen I ask for a 10 speed yellow bike, I got it!
I have ride so many routes by bike around the world Napa Valley, Rhine Valley, Atacama desert, VOA park, just to name a few! This bike set is a must for me!
My first big bike was a red Schwinn, with the curly handlebars instead of the wide, higher ones like my “little girl” bike had. I helped my dad put a generator headlight on it, and I got a lot of miles on it.
Well, this is the first bicycle I remember…banana style handlebars and seat all in sparkly purple. I loved it!
My first bike I paid for was a basic 10-speed, light blue, white-wrapped handlebars, circa 1975 — I loved that bike! Enjoyed it for about 15 years, then traded it in for a more “comfortable” bike. Still love to bike, and can’t wait to get the bike dies/set!!!
My first bicycle was purple sparkles with high handlebars and a banana seat — lots of fun!
Oh so long ago… my first bicycle was red, white, and blue, with a “banana” seat and tall curved handlebars! I didn’t think I’d ever learn to ride it, but loved it once I did. Thanks for a fabulous release this month!
Loved my first bike. It was pink and white and said Thunder Rose on it. In fact, my parents still have it.
My first bike was a nifty little blue girls two-wheeler that lasted through me and then my sister. My Dad fancied it up for her, adding the banana seat and butterfly handlebars that were popular then!
My first bicycle was such a typical girly bike in pink and green. My brother had a red and white one, and they were pretty much identical! I did, however, wish mine had streamers and a basket, but once I saw how cool my brother looked on his, I was content!
I don’t remember the details of my first bike as well as I remember my father running next to me as I learned to ride a two wheeler. He continued to run next to me all my life, the lessons were just different. How I miss him, but he will always be right next to me.
No bicycle for me when I was young. But I would LOVE a grown up tricycle with a big basket on the back!
My first bike was an orangy red color. It was very basic, but oh so fun to ride !
My first bike was I believe red and white. I had a B&W photo of me on the bike…newer got beyond a tricycle or a bike with training wheels. My parents laughed as I rode my bike with the training wheels on the boardwalk slanted LOL
At the top of my wish list for this month is the bike stamp and die along with the triangle die
My first bike was bright red car that peddled. I couldn’t get a bike during WWII!
Pink bicycle with white streams on the handlebars. Oh such memories.
I got my first bike for Xmas when I was 7….in Wyo. there was no chance of riding it in the winter so my dad rigged up a stand for it so I could learn to balance on it all winter…..when spring and summer came, I was always on that bike, ranging far and wide around my little town. I don’t remember the color but it was probably blue or red….no pink stuff for tomboy me!
My first bike was a two wheel bike with a yelllow and orange sunburst design and a cream colored seat with orange and yellow streamers from the handles. I also love my green Schwinn mountain bike and all the memories Ive made biking on trails with my hubby!
My first bike was pink, had a white basket on the front, and a white banana seat. I thought it was rather cool!
Tried to comment and not sure if it took….
I rode many bikes because I have 6 siblings…I remember a blue or purple bike and the lovely handlebars with fringe to run my fingers through. And of course a bell to ring and ring and ring!
Thanks for another wonderful release! Incredible inspiration from everyone! And thanks for the chance to win a gift certificate to add to my stamping collection!
🙂 Jill
Such a long time ago but it sure brings back good memories. I do remember that it was black with red flames on the side.
My first bike was pink with a little white basket. How I loved that bike.
My first new bike was turquoise. I always got hand me downs from my older sister. I was 12 years old and cried all the way to pick it up, because I was afraid my dad could not afford it.
my first bicycle was a maroon and cream colored bike with a cute basket… and frillies off the handle bars… I loved it.. but only had it for about a couple weeks when my friend’s dad pulled in the driveway and ran it over. It was destroyed. =(
Hugs,
Jo
It was red with green, blue and yellow streamers, a white banana seat and basket…and an awesome bell. 🙂
My first bike was blue and had a banana seat and high bar handles. I had so much fun riding that bike.
The first bike I remember was a pink Schwinn two wheeler with a bell on the handle bars and pink and white streamers attached to the hand grips.
I can’t remember much about the specifics, just that when i was about 5 y/o I awoke on Christmas morn and there it was in front of the Christmas tree from Santa! Somewhere there is 16mm film, and now I am curious to dig it out and see exactly what that bike looked like!
The first bike I remember was white with a banana seat that was covered with various colored flowers. I specifically remember purple flowers. Thanks for the chance to win!
Tricycles count…right?
It was shiny red…with a white seat…
and it still resides at my moms house…
though not as shiny as it once was.
And I remember teaching myself to ride without training wheels by pushing off the front porch on my cousins bike…
and zooming straight down a hill…
crashing into the back yard…
many, many times until I finally got it.
I can’t believe my mom allowed me to do that…
but then she usually found me hiding in trees. 🙂
My bike was red. I still love red today. Can’t wait to get the bicycle stamps and die.
Carol b
It was purple with a flowered banana seat. It was my older sisters hand me down and old fashioned at the time. What I really wanted was a box like all the boys had because I was a Tom boy!
My first bike was blue schwin with a silver bell
My first bike was a hand-me-down that was red and white. It was perfect for the training wheels. My first bike of my own was a pink Huffy with tassels from the handle bars and a very puffy pink seat. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and thanks for the chance to win! Papertrey is the best!
The first bike that I really remember riding was yellow and had a banana seat. I thought it was such a cool bike. Of course it was yellow so that it could be handed over to my brother when he was ready for it. Mom was too practical to get me anything pink or purple since it would reduce it’s value by half.
My first bike was baby blue with a white plastic wicker basket on the front. Pretty sure there were plastic flowers on the basket also. Still remember learning to ride it without training wheels in the cul-de-sac we lived on at the time.
Never had a bike as a child but got one later on. It was white, a girl’s bike with a great wicker basket. Cheers.
bright red with a banana seat, a basket w/ plastic flowers on it, and plastic-y streamers from the ends of the handlebars. I remember riding it all over the neighborhood 🙂
i remember my 1st red & white tricycle more than my 1st bike.. but i think it was a murray and was white & had a basket. i rode bikes alot as i got older. it gave me some independence in my neighborhood. i could bike to the pool or to play tennis or a friend’s house. it was def. my friend!
My first bike was apple green, with a white banana seat and white handles with sparkly streamers! How I loved that bike! I taught myself how to ride it by pulling it up my long driveway, climbing on, and pedaling as fast as I could as the bike hurdled towards our garage door, which was at the bottom of a hill.
Many a scraped knee that summer 🙂
My first bike was my brother’s hand-me-down. It was a sweet metallic orange with a rusty banana seat. I loved that bike and had many exciting adventures on it!
My first bike was a lime green schwinn with a banana seat. I had it all of 1 week when my younger brother took it for a ride and it was stolen. I was so broken hearted!
It was yellow with a big banana seat. Boy do I missed the comfort of the banana seat!
I would have had a tricycle but don’t really remember it. Then came my much loved scooter but the first proper bike was an orange dragster with a flower pattern on the seat! That bike and I travelled miles….
The first bike I remember was purple with a white banana seat and white tassels from the handle bars. It was a sweet ride, and was named “Silver”. Funny the things that were important then. My bike was. Very.
Ha Ha! My first bicycle was royal blue with whitewall tires. I can still see my Dad running behind me when I was learning to ride. He would run for blocks to catch me if I started to fall. Such a wonderful Dad!
Pink and white with streamers on the handlebars! It didn’t have a basket but I wished it had one.
I already know what I want! There are a lot of really neat new products for May. Thanks for the giveaway!
I remember my first bike was green with training wheels. It took me awhile before I was brave enough to go without training wheels but once I did…. We use to put a clothespin and a playing card on the spokes so it would sound like a “motorcycle” as we rode. At least we thought that was cool. I wouldn’t mind having a bike like that with a basket (minus the training wheels and noisemaker).
My first bicycle was a 7th birthday gift. I was so surprised and happy!! It was black and silver adult sized bike, and the kick-stand was so stiff that I had to pull it down with my hands, but that thing lasted till I graduated from college! My parents paid 50 dollars for it, and in 1965 that was a very expensive bicycle, so I guess that is why it held up so well!! I loved that bike!
Wow…wish I could remember what it looked like. I do remember it had “tassels” on the handlebar ends. I loved bike riding!
My first bicycle was a blue and silver second hand girl’s 2 wheeler that was too tall for me. If I sat on the seat my feet wouldn’t touch the pedals let alone touch ground so I was scared to death to ride it (I was only 6) My grandpa attached wood blocks to the pedals thinking I would be able to reach but he forgot that I still couldn’t touch the ground. Then he even attached a basket to the front handle bars so I could put my dolls in it but still I wouldn’t ride that bike! One day when I turned 7 and no one was around to help me, I hopped on it and rode off!!
My first bike was pink and purple. It had a basket on the front with matching daisy flowers. Oh, and matching streamers on the handle bars! It was the best girly bike ever!
Oh, I remember my first two-wheeled bicycle. My grandfather built it for me from old parts he used to collect. It needed a new seat and I was very excited when I got a big red and silver striped ‘banana seat’ for my birthday. I have fond memories of my grandfather teaching me how to ride.
My first bike, my dad made from bike parts. I was one of six kids so we didn’t get new bikes. It was blue with a white stripes. I rode it for years.
My first bike was red and I got it for Christmas when I was 7 years old. It rained that Christmas morning so I was unable to get out and ride it. I was so upset but I did ride the day after Christmas and did not want to come inside that evening.
It was bright pink!! Had plastic streamers in the handle bars and a white basket in front with 3 large plastic flowers: pink, purple and yellow! Oh, wow…what a sweet memory!!! 🙂
Ha! I can’t even remember my fist bike… it was soooo long ago! But I do remember riding my step brother’s bike that was too big for me, and that darned bar on a boy’s bike….
Well, I don’t remember my first bike, but I had one that was metallic blue and had a basket & a bell. And a few scuffs after I rode down a steep hill and ended up under a bush! Good times!! 😀
My trusty steed was a blue
bike with a flowered banana
seat, big handlebars with
streamers in the handle.
I rode it everywhere!
Carla from Utah
My first bike I remember had a banana seat and was an olive green which back then for a young girl was awful!
If I remember correctly, my first bike was a huffy with the tassels on the handle bars!! I would love to ride a bike for two though. I think that would be fun.
My first bike was a two wheeler from Montgomery Ward or Sears. It was blue and I remember washing the dirt off every day!!! We decorated it with crepe paper wound through the spokes, and a playing card attatched with a close pin that made noise. I thought I had arrived!!!
A purple bike with a banana seat and handle bar streamers.
I got a powder blue Huffy 10 speed with rainbow pin stripes. Thought it was the coolest bike ever!
My first bicycle was dark blue and had streamers off the grips on the handle bars! woo hoo! I thought I was so cool pedaling away with the streamers flowing in the breeze!
It was candy apple red, with a white seat And a white basket on the front, and it had red and white tassels hanging from the handle bars! I have a picture of me on it in front of the Christmas tree?
As the oldest of 12 children, my first bike was shared with my sister & 2 brothers. It was an old blue boys bike & hard to ride but we all learned how to ride on it. (Not witout lots of skinned knees & elbows!). We had such fun learning!
I had a red bike with a banana seat. I can still remember that birthday! I loved the projects this month. You girls are amazing!
My first bike was a little red tricycle, the best i can remember!!!!
My first bike was yellow with a banana seat and those tassles coming out of the handle bars. What fond memories!
My first bike was an aqua Schwinn with training wheels.
My first bike had been my aunt’s bike. It was blue and had holes in the back fender to run string over the wheel to keep skirts from twisting up in the spokes. Did anyone else have a bike like that?
My first bike was red, white and blue and I received it for Christmas.
I shared an old rusty bicycle with 8 other siblings. THose were the good old days!
I loved my strawberry shortcake bike!
My first bicycle was red! It had a red and white seat, and white covers on the ends of the handlebars. I rode that bike until my knees hit the handlebars, then I finally was upgraded to a 10-speed ;).
I don’t remember the color of my first bike (blue, I think), but I do remember that it had a basket on it and it was sitting the the kitchen for me the morning of my 6th birthday.
My older sister always got the new stuff and I got the hand-me-downs. However, my first bike was navy blue and my parents bought it just for me from a neighbor. It was a big deal even though it was second-hand it was only mine which made it extra special.
I do not actually remember what my first bike looked like, but I do remember it had the coolest white basket on the front with a few flowers weaved into it. I think that was the only reason I wanted a bike. I rode that thing eveywhere!
I believe my first bicycle was yellow, and I distinctly remember the training wheels. But now that I think of that I am remembering my Dad teaching and helping me to ride without training wheels. Thanks for helping me to remember such a special moment.
I remember it well–pink with a white basket with a large pink flower.
My first bike was purple with a white wicker basket! I loved it. 🙂
My first bicycle was a hand me down from my mother that was navy blue and old as the hills. I always wanted a new bike with a banana seat but never got one.
A White Swinn with Pink trim which I shared with my sister…Road it everywhere!
I don’t remember my first…but I know I have pictures on a silver bike with a white banana seat!
Not sure my reply took…I remember my first bike I purchased at 10 years old…a beautiful black 3 speed English racer! Loved it and had it way beyond college!
The first bike that I remember was glittery pink with a white basket with flowers on the front.
The first bike that I remember was a pink Schwinn with a banana seat that had white flowers on it. Can you tell I was little in the 80’s? 🙂
I had a blue J.C. Higgins with streamers and a bell. Loved riding that bike.
My first bike was a beautiful blue Huffy and I loved it!!!
It was a long time ago, but I remember my first bike being blue with a basket in front.
I have a little red tricycle. Though I am guessing since the photos were black and white.
Thanks
Josiane
My first bicycle was on old faded blue hand me down from my aunt. It was 1960 and I was 10 years old. Within a week I was riding up and down those dirt roads. I had to pedal standing up because if I sat on the seat my feet didn’t reach the pedals. That bicycle might have been old and faded, but I was so proud of my bike. Ahhh….good memories!
I cannot buy, order or reach a cart . It is gone 10 pm EST. and there is no way to leave a wish list. Read the instructions an none the wiser. Help want the pedal pusher die and stamps
My first one was a red trike, but I remember my favorite one was orange and black.
Oh my goodness I can’t believe this!!! THANK you so much, I’m off to send my email now!!!
I was five years old and had just got out of hospital with rheumatic fever. I had to stay in my Mum and Dad’s bed during the day. Dad brought this small two wheeled bike with faded blue paint up to the bedroom window. I didn’t see that it was secondhand and faded at the time all I saw was this fantastic bike. Dad said when I got better I could have it. As you can imagine I couldn’t wait to get my hot little hands on it. I first had to learn to ride it.