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[rsrichie]

My first 20" bike was a MX it was a dragster style frame with all the bells and wistles to make it look like a motor bike, i remember hitting the big table top jump just after the camel at Minto on this bike, I was going way hard and slipped the pedal, cleared the down side of the jump landing on the flat whilst seated. Needless to say that was the last of the long seat, it bent like a bannana. Dad and i searched high and low to find a replacement and i ended up getting a floral one from BBC Hardware at Lumeah, I hated it. LOL

[Phil Kaye]

Cool stuff Richie. Hey you look like that guy off ebay in the second picture LOL 

[HOWIE]

Hey Richie, great topic!
Here is my first 20 inch, it's a "Free Spirit" from Waltons department store bought when I was 8 years old, it cost $110 originally but after every part was replaced with stuff like alloy cranks, kkt pedals, v-bars, mx2 stem, fluted seat post and elina seat, tuffs etc it cost the old man a fortune!!! But it was a lot of fun and I could wheelie that thing the whole length of my street (over 500m!!!!) with just a coaster brake.

[BillyRayDixon]

First bike was a all-steel machine called a "Superstar BumbleBee".  Steel frame, forks, wheels, cranks, 4-bolt gooseneck and V-bars.  That damn thing must have weighed fifty pounds.
I scored a set of Skyway Tuff 1's (with coaster brake) and 2.125 knobbies (front and rear) and replaced the gay-as-Liberace "BumbleBee" stickers for some kaliedoscope gay-as-George-Michael "Torker" stickers, and became "that stocker kid" running around for years in 5th place (when they only had a 5-gate start) at Blacktown club meets.
Helmet was bought from a skate shop - it was candy-apple red metalflake, with plastic sides - more like a cricket helmet than a BMX helmet.  Almost ZERO protection.  Glad I did not start landing on my head till MUCH later in my racing "career"...

[COASTY]

I wish I had a pic of my first bmx bike. I think Mattblack has a pic of it going off the last berm at Blacktown, Ghostrider style. It was a Repco something painted yellow with blue parts. The blue Ukai rims lasted about a week. Used Tuffs ever since. 
After that day at Blacktown I bought a Mongoose frame and transferred all the parts over.
I still have that frame in my shed today. 

[Phil Kaye]

My first was a Sting I think from K-Mart. I didn't have it for long when Jim O'Neil asked me to come and race. I remember after a while, putting some wood in the end of the bars to make my bars wider. Soon got a Diamond Back frame and forks and transferred all the parts onto it. Helmet was an old motorcycle helmet that I found somewhere with homemade stickers and you can see my factory Sting racing top. Don't forget the super grippy desert boots  I had all the top level gear 

[Jarvi]

Great photos guys. Howie I have a Free Spirit frame and forks gathering dust but it has a different gusset to yours.

I'll need to fire up the scanner and other computer to get one of my first 20".  My first bike was a 20", not like these days where you start with a 12" and work you way up a couple of inches at a time. Funny thing is I was about 6 when I got it and still riding 20s nearly 35 years later.

[oldschoolisbetter]

not realy my first 20 inch bike but the first one i got new was a  free agent eluder i think it was a 96 97 model

[Picker]

My first 20"was a red Speedwell all steel thing, got it for Christmas when I was about 8 or 9yo. Upgraded the parts over the next three or so years and sold it to a mate and bought a Repco Cr-Mo which was my first race bike.

Picker

[Mattblack]

I wish I had a pic of my first bmx bike. I think Mattblack has a pic of it going off the last berm at Blacktown, Ghostrider style. It was a Repco something painted yellow with blue parts. The blue Ukai rims lasted about a week. Used Tuffs ever since. 
After that day at Blacktown I bought a Mongoose frame and transferred all the parts over.
I still have that frame in my shed today. 

Here you go

[Mattblack]

My first 20 (bike as well) I think I was 7. Go Australia

[COASTY]

Is that the same green Falcon that we got chauffered around in?
Thanks for the pic too. Love it.

[Jarvi]

Looks like we started off on similar bikes Rohan. This photo was taken a while after I got it because I can remember the seat was as low as possible when I first started riding and the front of it was resting on the top tube.  Dad also had to drill another hole in each side of the sissy bar to get it lower. Yhis bike was later turned into a BMX. Obviously I was going way too fast for Mum or Dad to get the whole bike in the photo but I'm not sure as I wasn't looking down at the VDO speedo. Oh the stupid things you remember, like the brand of speedo on your first bike.

Just over the fence in the background was where I had my first major bike injury. A broken nose.



And another one from the same day when I was riding Mum's 26" BSA. I've shown this one before.

[Mattblack]

Is that the same green Falcon that we got chauffered around in?
Thanks for the pic too. Love it.

No that was a blue wagon, it was a 6. The green one was a 302 dad wanted more power to tow the van. Then came the happy wheels lol

Second bike (hand down) but it was basically new

[HOWIE]

Hey COASTY, that yellow beauty flies like a bird (nice ghosty Mattblack).
I reckon ghost riding someones poor old pushy off a nice steep berm was nearly as fun a water jumping.