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Originally Posted by patteeu
I learned when I was 6 or 7 on a giant girl's single speed bike while on vacation. My uncle taught me on the streets of the trailer park he owned and once I learned, I spent the rest of that vacation riding all over that park.
When I was about 12, I got my first brand new (as opposed to hand-me-down) bike for Christmas. It was a yellow 3-speed Statostreak bike from the Sears catalog. It looked so cool in the pictures, but it turned out to be kind of crappy and too heavy. It was my second most disappointing Christmas present behind the wooden toy train I got when I asked for an electric train.
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A 3-speed would still seem cool, though. Did you have a banana seat and a sissy bar?
My first new bike was a red, white, and blue single speed Huffy Free Spirit, which I later retrofitted with a mirror and a speedometer/odometer. It looked a little like this, but more red and the handlebars weren't as dorky.
I was mortified a couple of years after I got it when Playtex came out with the Free Spirit bra, but none of the kids in the neighborhood ever made the connection.
