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05-07-2012, 08:52 PM
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Thought it would be a good ideal to ride my bike under the monkey bars at a high rate of speed, let go of the bike and then grab onto the monkey bars. Instantly lost my grip and landed on my face in the dirt. Still have the scar on the inside of my lower lip.
Another time we had gale-force winds and my bike had a speedometer. Got it up to 45 mph. Fortunately did not crash.
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05-07-2012, 09:04 PM
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My buddies and I loved cobbling up make shift ramps for jumping. One of my buddies broke the ramp as he hit it, flipped over the handle bars and got a nasty road rash on his arm. Good times!!!
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05-07-2012, 09:15 PM
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Yep, riding BMX was all we did from the age of 10-15 or so. It was a daily occurence to have 30-40 kids jumping ramps in my old neighborhood. There was always tons of wrecks, and a few hospital visits. Then the movie RAD came out and all hell broke loose, even the kids that werent into BMX got the latest redline or hutch. The good ole days before I had bills, drinking water from the nearest houses hose and coming home for dinner and right back out again. I'm gonna make my kids watch that movie.
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05-07-2012, 09:31 PM
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When i was a kid I had the same kind of big wheel thats in the picture. I also had a green machine which was the best big wheel that was ever made.When i finally got a bike I would race everyone and anyone i could. I also used to take old bike parts and build one bike.I wanted a jacked up looking bike. So i took a 10 speed and put a small tire on the front and left the big tire in the back. Every kid loved the look of it!
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05-07-2012, 10:14 PM
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it's funny reading these stories.
I am sure I as most of you at that time thought we had the ONLY ONE LIKE IT, 26in with a small front tire,road the farthest wheelie, could make the loudest skid sound on that fresh tard road that summer. When in fact we kids from all over were doing the same thing. We were all on our own planet.....it was fun and it was good  )
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05-07-2012, 10:14 PM
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Wow, that Green Machine has honeycomb wheels....
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05-09-2012, 02:35 PM
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05-07-2012, 10:57 PM
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I had a Big Wheel, my sister had something similar, it was green and black and better built than a Big Wheel (not a Green Machine). The neighbor boys who were at least 5 years older than us would drag race my sister and I by running while pushing us down the cul-de-sac. Later we had bumper big wheels until my Big Wheel was so busted up the front wheel was in two and the bottom was dragging w/o me on it. Remember when we could shoot cap guns until our fingers were ready to fall off. We didn't go thru rolls, we went thru boxes of rolls. Jumping off the roof with Hefty chutes was common as well.
It was funny but last week my oldest (6 yr old) wanted to ride home in the back of the truck with our new tree and I told him nope, the 70's are long gone...
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05-07-2012, 11:02 PM
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how many guys came home with permanent CHAIN marks on their jean bottoms? hehe
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05-07-2012, 11:22 PM
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I'm still stuck back in time, this pic is of me doing a warm up lap two days ago (SAT).
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Johnny US Army Retired1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 300CFM D-ports, Howard's custom SFT, Nash Intake,QFT 950 E85 carb, TCI TH-350, 4200 converter 3.73 12 bolt [email protected] 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac H/S Drags project Last edited by Johnny406; 05-08-2012 at 12:06 AM. |
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05-07-2012, 11:45 PM
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ahh the 70s..
( I still have nightmares of purple corduroy pants ) for those of you who want to stroll down memory lane.. heres an archive of 70s fashion and toys.. I remember playing with a bunch of those toys.. my best bud back then had almost all of the Fisher Price adventure people sets hadnt thought of them in 20 years til I found this site. http://www.plaidstallions.com/psindex.html
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05-08-2012, 08:38 AM
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05-07-2012, 11:55 PM
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All of my bikes were hand made in one way or another, what drove me nuts were the 3 early Shwinn 3 speeds my friends had, they sat there for 15 years or so. I seen those parents every day, I never had the guff to ask them if they were for sale. One guy lost his life, one lost a leg both in the 'Nam and the other turned to drugs.
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05-08-2012, 08:28 AM
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We took my buddy's Schwinn and took the mast off their TV antenna (cable had just come to our neighborhood) and extended his forks 4' each! Flattened out the ends with a hammer, drilled a hole and put on his front tire. Then each of us had to learn how to ride it, but by the end of the day we had all done it!
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05-08-2012, 12:07 PM
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I think we ALL had blue corduroy pants!!! My youngest sister and I used to sneak out of the house in our most faded jeans. Dad REFUSED to let us wear " those DAMNED dungarees" to school.
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05-08-2012, 01:47 PM
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Sears Toughskins... The jeans with the plastic knees.
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05-08-2012, 03:02 PM
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great thread. i went back and bought EVERYTHING i had ever wanted as a child; chopper 5 speed bikes,(i have two for sale); slot cars; sizzlers, tin metal robots with the guns in the chest (super astronaut); and a GTO. |
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05-10-2012, 07:30 AM
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05-08-2012, 03:13 PM
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A few years ago I picked up a second TCR Racing track to go with my original one. In the basement I still have my vibrating football game with the Steelers and LA Rams. I also have many of my model rockets and line control Cox .049 airplane. IIRC, that only landed on the wheels once (LOL)... I wish I knew what happened to all my Stompers, those were great. What is really fun is watching my two boys playing with my original (and rather busted up) Star Wars toys.
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05-08-2012, 03:20 PM
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I would jump over the back of my big wheel just like Speed Racer did, one day it broke in half and I was sitting on the ground with the handlebars in my hands. We did the chopper bicycles with forks of another bike too. Our favorite was building ramps and trying to outjump the last guy. Then we got mini bikes and go carts, what a hoot. And who hasn't had a good rock fight, or shot with a bb gun?
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