Nottingham Post published Tim Bladon: Grifters, BMXs and racers

Tim Bladon from Mapperley, who rides with Velo Club Bread and Bitter, looks back at what he should consider to be his first 'real' bike.My first bicycle. I mean, I've grown up with bicycles. I measure the timeline of my life thus far by aligning it with which bicycle I was pedalling at any given point in time. But which bicycle do I count as my first real bike? The purple and yellow, 18inch-wheeled Christmas present that soon shed its stabilisers must surely be recognised as a pivotal moment in.