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I need to talk about this, not sure and don't care if it warrants a thread.
What was your fist proper bike? I don't mean kiddie bikes. I'll start:
>be me
>level around 10
>grandpa says he's gonna get me a bike
>oh boy MTB here I come
>it's a semi-road bike
>disappointed
>it's got a steel frame made of gas-pipes
>steel rims
>drop bars with what seems to be electric tape on them
>tires are commie-country-tier standard, maybe 25mm
>drive is a 1x5 with a downtube shifter made of plastic
>no indexing
>first thing that broke
>replaced with a steel one that needed tightening every 50km
>color is light green, the worst kind
>fuck it, still gonna ride it with MTB friends
>holy shit, it actually rides kinda ok
>go on roads, forest paths, dirt and gravel
>faster on roads than MTB bros
>learned to do mad skids on it
>had the time of my life
No idea what happened to it, likely it got sold when I got my first MTB in 1996. It was a trash-tier bike made by Romet and even now I can't find a picture of the exact model. For some reason I miss it. I miss my grandpa the most though.
