First Wheels

Unlike K-star I don't have a fantastic picture of me on my first bike (Unless you count, uh, the rest of this blog- 'cause, you know, Florence is close enough to being my first bike...) Anyway, while digging through old photos I came across this fantastic picture of my mum, my aunty, their cousin, and their superb bike and scooters.

From a time before the "slip-slop-slap" rap...

I was once told by my mum of a time when the three kids decided to take the bike, a scooter, and a billie cart up to the top of the massive hill their street was on. They tied the three vehicles together with a bungee cord and took off down the hill. The billie cart, without brakes, soon flew ahead of the scooter and bike, and managed to overturn- onto the rough gravel road! Somehow they escaped with their skins intact...

Do you remember adventures on your first bike? Were you reckless and fearless? Have any accidents? Did you live at the top of a hill and feel tempted to race down? Share your photos and stories, we'd love to hear them...

j.xoxo

Look what I found today!

I found this photo today in a dusty storeroom, in a suitcase, while looking for last years tax return. Not fun but oh my god.. LOOK AT MY BIKE! I had tassels.. I had the coolest bike ever...!!
And I had forgotten all about it. Forgot how much I had loved riding it, forgot what the bike looked like. Forgot because we grow up and things like tax returns become more important than the simple things.. Like riding a bike on a summer's day on freshly mowed lawn.

So if you are reading this.. dig up your old photos of you on your first bikes, and share the nostalgia with us. We would love to blog them. And if you haven't been on a bike in a while why not have another go...borrow a friends and try it out at the park or if in Sydney join us and Sydney Cycle Chic on Cockatoo Island for an event this Sunday.

It could be something good that you had just forgotten about...


Pish tosh xx