are you a kid from the 60's -70's - Page 2

dave g · #21 14-02-2008

i remember my dad smashing my even knievel bike and starter up because id managed to wear the skin away away so much on my knuckles i couldnt close my hand to hold a pen and do my homework

rcracer · #22 14-02-2008

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Originally Posted by GRIFF55

That had to be done, and the can on the rear wheel so it sounded like a motorbike!

ye kool..what about the lolly stick trick so it rattled on the spokes or the little plastic things you got on the bread bag to reseal them we use to put them on your brake cables

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GRIFF55 · #23 14-02-2008

Sh## i feel old now, and i'm only 18

The bread sealing thing were good, might have to dig some of my old bmx's out now!! Got a brand new puch frame somewhere

. how about them awful pedal back brakes!!
HEDGE HOPPING, still do that accidentally on the way home from the pub

dave g · #24 14-02-2008

i just thought of an old 70s toy i used to have and shuddered from the pain and bruising it caused..can anyone guess what it was?

telboy · #25 14-02-2008

hedge hopping was fun until you landed in someones pond in the middle of winter ( because it was a winter sport due to the nights drawing in). Or if you landed in a rose bush. ooohhh.

...haha, or if the hedge was high....for a reason ......like a big bloody dog!!

Hmm old 70's toy, bruising and pain.

Can't think?

Wraggy · #26 14-02-2008

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Originally Posted by dave g

i just thought of an old 70s toy i used to have and shuddered from the pain and bruising it caused..can anyone guess what it was?

Klackers???

GRIFF55 · #27 14-02-2008

give us a clue, most caused pain and bruising with my brother and me
Deck of cards, wrapps?

rcracer · #28 14-02-2008

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Originally Posted by Wraggy

Klackers???

ye my sisters had those real knuckle bruisers those things

Spencer Mulcahy · #29 15-02-2008

An air riffle we used to play army in the woods near my mums house, all armed with an air riffle and it bloody hurt when you got shot. I had a mongoose BMX loved it had the pegs on the front and the back the little brakes that you only used two fingers to operate. I think we bounced more in those days must have been all the lead we where eating.

SiR_Dave · #30 15-02-2008

Good reading guys

.... kind of puts things into prespective

telboy · #31 15-02-2008

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An air riffle we used to play army in the woods near my mums house

Nowadays, someomne would've report it to police and they'd send the armed response unit out to shoot you.

Mongoose bmx's. that was my first propper bmx, everything was annodised golden yellow, with the two finger brake levers in annodised blue. Did you have the handle bars that curved down across the top (like the racing ones)? we had the ones that went in a straight line from grip to grip.

What about the mag wheels that you could put in the freezer to 'un-buckle' them....if you had a freezer big enough.

Adam Skelding · #32 15-02-2008

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Originally Posted by telboy

Nowadays, someomne would've report it to police and they'd send the armed response unit out to shoot you.

Mongoose bmx's. that was my first propper bmx, everything was annodised golden yellow, with the two finger brake levers in annodised blue. Did you have the handle bars that curved down across the top (like the racing ones)? we had the ones that went in a straight line from grip to grip.

What about the mag wheels that you could put in the freezer to 'un-buckle' them....if you had a freezer big enough.

Mongoose - You posh git. I had a Raleigh Super Tuff Burner. Gold with pimping Black MAG 5 spokes. Looked the shiznit with my race number on the front. Never actually raced as I was crap. My dad made me some trick nuts at work, all they ever got used for was when I was giving multiple backies or 4's up at once...

telboy · #33 15-02-2008

Yep trick nuts front and back, with 3 mates on cadjing a lift.....then we wondered why the bearings were knackered.

couldn't see where you were going but it was ace....but knackering trying to ride a bike with 4 people on. and it got a bit scary when you got to the bottom of a hill and the brakes wouldn't work.

Don't worry it wasn't a new one. (like we could ever afford a new one!)
I think I bought it for £30 off a rich mate who got a new one for xmas.

GRIFF55 · #34 15-02-2008

I upgraded from raleigh to mongoose when i got into racing, all chrome and black bits mine was. Red line used to be the business racing!!
I always felt sorry for the poor bugger who sat on the handlebars(fool).
Adam you posh git, only ever saw one super tuff where i live, they looked the nuts didn't they.
What are klackers, don't remember them?

dave g · #35 15-02-2008

yes they were clackers..effectively 2 pieces of shoe string with 2 rock hard solid plastic balls on the end that would try and break your wrist everytime you got it wrong,when you did get it right you darent stop because of the ensuing pain and tears that were sure to follow on slowing down

i remember sat in the kitchen with a large wet towel round my wrist to take the bruising down...while still trying to master them

bikewise i had a raleigh grifter,chopper and a raleigh team banana mile race bike for my road racing.

just found out they have brought the evel knieval bikes back out!!!! yay

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?di...t=wnw&aff=1272

J_WOODY · #36 15-02-2008

bmx racing..... that brings back memories, i started with a raleigh burner, then quickly moved over to a robinson, wich all the top guys were racing, i ended up swapping it for 3 other bmx's a couple of years later..... my dad went ballistic, and tried to make me swap back..... haha, them were the days, and hedge hopping... we used to call that the grand national.