When you were a kid.......

[TC]

Bring back memories??

For me it's putting a 4x8 sheet of plywood on the bush in the front of my friends house and jumping our BMX bikes.......

[Barry Donovan]

yep, did alot of that..woburn mass mid 80s.
skateboards and scooters too.

last of long haired growing kids, 4 inch wide nash boards. Alot of brand names leaped out at us to put that stuff from the 70s in the past.

guys my age today are superstars in that realm, known as pioneers.

seeing three wheels in the photo.. I had a 110 honda, crazy bouncy machine. my first wreck ever. it is actually part of my hip.

[Scott Liggett]

Either someone was looking out for, or I was really lucky how I survived the Big Wheel and BMX riding days.

[nesabo]

knocked the wind out of me many times jumping my bike.

[Grumpy]

When I was a kid there was a Dry Cleaners a couple of blocks away, they had a drive up window with an oval shaped drive going up and around past the window, usually after dark when they were closed a bunch of us neighborhood brats would ride our bikes up there and have 50 & 100 lap races, bump & grind and plenty of concrete abrasions & Band Aids, what fun, what memories!

[pdub]

All I remember from the Big Wheel days was trying to sleep in an apartment after 3rd shift. It was on the bottom of a BIG hill, and the rug rats would run down that hill on Big Wheels and slide them sideways to stop behind my apartment before they went into Big Dutchman Creek a ten-foot drop into the ditch. Talk about thunder, the noise those big plastic wheels made on pavement? Let alone the hollering and carrying on. They were having big fun at the expense of my rest time.

But I didn't go outside and Redneck the kids, I just crammed another pillow over my head and tried to go back to sleep. Working shifts is hard enough already. Dang, whatta racket.

[1988montecarloss 2]

2 years ago i had one of my friends pull me behind his truck on a power wheels i bought for $5 at a yard sale, power wheels get really hairy over 25mph

[mlcraven]

Memories?? Heck yeah -- no pain quite so exquisite as unexpected crossbar-gonad contact. And dang did we laugh when it happened to some other poor sap.

[68 Valiant]

http://www.wimp.com/trikedrifting/

[DanStokes]

Hell, when I was a boy........

It was balloon-tired bikes. I had a "restored" Rollfast - no, Dad didn't buy it for me and I had to figure out how to get tires, etc. Brush painted with remnants of paint from several fathers' shops - I wonder if they ever figured out where that can of (fill in the blank color) went. I quickly learned to only mix enamel with enamel - ruined a couple of cans of paint before I sorted that out.

There was no jumping. The ramp hadn't been invented yet. The dudes building the pyramids may have used them but none of our dads were on that work crew so none of us knew about a stinkin' ramp. Plenty of races, though - I rarely won. Some things never change.

One of the kids at school had a Schwinn Black Phantom - rich kid with a bamboozled father. I would DROOL! I tried to convince myself that mine was better because I built it myself. 'T'other night I realized that most of the stuff on American Restoration I USED in my youth!

Dan

[pdub]

Dan, I had to walk to school barefooted in the snow, uphill and against the wind both ways.

They hadn't even invented bicycles yet, I had to discover that mechanized miracle later.

Asphalt was the term the local doctor used to describe a butt problem. Paved roads weren't even invented yet.

We got our water from a creek that ran uphill when the wind blew hard, and we had to...

Well, there were no computers, either.

[Monk]

Like Dan.........all we had were used bikes and had to
work like hell to keep 'em running.

The big deal back then was Perryville Hill.
You cycled to the bottom......then tried to ride your
bike back to the top without stopping.

Once you accomplished this.........you were big stuff.

[pdub]

Like Dan.........all we had were used bikes and had to
work like hell to keep 'em running.

The big deal back then was Perryville Hill.
You cycled to the bottom......then tried to ride your
bike back to the top without stopping.


Once you accomplished this.........you were big stuff.

I'm lying a little bit, if you can tell. Yes we did have bananna seat bikes back in my day.

And hills...I was 31 years old on a radical touring bicycle when I rode far enough to get to a hill. Cameron Pass in CO. 10,600 feet. I thought there were hills in our neighborhood when I was a kid...no. Those weren't hills.

The trees are dead up there on the pass, not enough oxygen. I mean, day-um. I asked for it, I did it. That's Juan helluva hill right there. Everything's down from there, the whole rest of the continent is down from there. Day-um. What a Juan helluva hill on a bicycle. No wonder I can't walk most mornings, on these creaky knees.

[Grumpy]

Dan, I had to walk to school barefooted in the snow, uphill and against the wind both ways.

They hadn't even invented bicycles yet, I had to discover that mechanized miracle later.

Asphalt was the term the local doctor used to describe a butt problem. Paved roads weren't even invented yet.

We got our water from a creek that ran uphill when the wind blew hard, and we had to...

Well, there were no computers, either.

Pee Wee, I've told you 100 Million times not to exagerate!

[pdub]

Well, that's a hundred million and one....