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

[Wraggy]

Originally Posted by dave g

dont forget the budgie,chipper and striker.

LOl !!! i used to have a budgie , bloody thing was lethal ..
i used to pull wheelies and because it as so light on the front i used to flip backwards all the time . think i went down A&E 3 times due to cracking my head open with that bloody bike ....

[bigred5765]

and most with the revolutionary 3 speed rear hub OMG three gears ya awsome

[b4rs]

used to do hedge hopping, car jumping (walking over cars ha ha ha lol), canal jumping, lining 5 mates up at the end of a ramp and jumping them with my bmx. sitting on skateboards and going down huge steep hilss, wearing the ankles of our shoes and ripping the skin of our palms.

its was good beign younger, i know im only 16 but its better younger.

[Wraggy]

Originally Posted by b4rs

car jumping (walking over cars ha ha ha lol

not entirely sure that's very funny at all !!
you wait till you start trying to run a car a pay the insurance premiums .... and then having to claim off your own insurance because some kid wanted a laugh and put dents all over your car !!!!!

[b4rs]

well i rarely did it tbh anyway, but we never ruined any car jus walked over them to see how many they could do in a chain,

i will tell my mate that it isnt a very funny thing to do at all.

[Spencer Mulcahy]

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.

Bars straight across the top with mushroom grips. Was watching some bloke on you tube the other week doing some free style it was ace would like to say I was as good as that but I was shit. The mag wheels where those with the little holes in wearnt they.

[GRIFF55]

I had some sykway tuffmags, they could go in the freezer to straighten them. As for walking/running over cars, i'd have loved to see you do that to my old mans car back in the day, your legs certainly wouldn't be doing much for a while.
Anybody for a good old fashioned game of conkers, NO HELMETS of coarse.

[rcracer]

i had a raleigh bomber it was ace my mam got me it on tick from the bike shop £1 a week ..remember cow horn handle bars no good for going down allyways them things ...when i got to 16 thing progressed to jumping fires on my honda xl 125

[niggs98]

Originally Posted by GRIFF55

Surely you chewed them a bit, i know i did!!!(might explain some things)
Nice find, and all very true

certainly explains ya orange offroader lollollol

and i had a chrome raleigh styler complete with black mags when my bro had his burner

[Gnarly Old Dog]

Originally Posted by Spencer Mulcahy

Bars straight across the top with mushroom grips. :

CW bars I seem to recall. They were the nuts. Good choice of grips too - mushrooms were way comfy. Always wanted a Mongoose but had to settle for some cheap steel copy with OGK Mags.

My best mate had a Curtis Freestyler complete with Tuff 3s (alloy hubbed) with the coaster rear brake. Way cool at night to lock the rear wheel without having to use any finger brakes but a right nightmare to camel hop on cos you ended up locking the brake as you tried to weight shift to flick the rear end up. Looked v. silly on a number of occasions crashing into a kerb that I was trying to hop up

Andy Ruffell - that's a blast from the past...

BTW - Bear traps or platforms? DX platforms all the way for me

[niggs98]

Originally Posted by Gnarly Old Dog

CW bars I seem to recall. They were the nuts. Good choice of grips too - mushrooms were way comfy.
BTW - Bear traps or platforms? DX platforms all the way for me

god i remember mushrooms lol and for street i always used platforms as they were way more comfy but when jumpin it was beartraps all the way and a good set of shinpads just incase

[gramey]

Originally Posted by telboy

In the 70's I used to climb up sign posts on the way home from school....now I'd have been arrested for damage to council property.


Bu then again, now its ok for kids to smash your car up, and then kill you for going and shouting at them. God, if we killed everyone that shouted at us when we were kids, ther'd be no old people around now.


Can you remember hedge hopping?

So your the one's responsible for all the old gits on the roads these day's that impede my progress doddering along in their Rovers & Micra's?
Shame on you.

[Gnarly Old Dog]

Platforms all the way.

Still use them today on my MTBs - a C'dale Prophet with more suspension travel than an E-maxx on steroids and an Orange P7 for those old Skool 'steel is real' moments

Can't abide the thought of clipless pedals - need to get as far away from the bike as possible when you trash it. Sod the pedalling inefficiencies when going uphill - who wants to pedal uphill anyway - that's why God invented chairlifts.

Mind you - there are no hills in Essex anyway...