This how we rolled!!

[GON]

 

[MRC01]

Hey, I resemble that! (or once did, years ago)

 

[ripcord]

Or at least that's how the cool kids rolled.

 

[ripcord]

 

[buster]

It's amazing how much things have changed. Over coddled kids these days. My parents had a hard time getting us to come back inside. We were always outside playing and getting dirty. Exploring.

 

[Barkleymut]

I would not trade my childhood for anything. Loved my bike, wore out 2 sets of tires on it. Played football, wiffle ball, built snow forts, smear the #$%^%, riding my friends go kart, the swimming pool, my mom did not see me from sunup until dinner time. Living in a small town was the best, and I really regret not pushing my wife harder to move to a small town when our kids were born.

 

[4WD]

Get your motor running … Head out to the spillway …
(has to be how they got the name, LoL)

 

[ragtoplvr]

I used to wear out a rear tire (skid off the rubber) at lest every month in the summer. Had inner tubes with more patches than tube.

Loved the smell of the hot patches, banned by the epa now.

You can still the the scars on one knee. And I have a deformed big toenail.

When they went to the rat rap petals, and the old rubber block ones disappeared, I cut out tire sidewalls to put over them.

Rod

 

[manicrodder]

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BIL was given a stingray without the seat. He had to stand up to use it. He forgot one day and sat down. His sack was caught on the mount. Priceless.

 

[mrsilv04]

I had one very similar to the light blue one. Mine was bright royal blue, and was a Schwinn Sting Ray.

 

[Kira]

The bicycle shop in my hometown was truly a one-of-a-kind.

 

[spasm3]

I had a Sears Gremlin. Must have been about 1973.

Not mine, but looked exactly like this one. Loved that bike.

 

[GON]

I had a Sears Gremlin. Must have been about 1973.

Not mine, but looked exactly like this one. Loved that bike.
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Love those raised white letters!!!

 

[aquariuscsm]

Had inner tubes with more patches than tube.

These kind were the best!!

 

[MRC01]

I still use those even today. There's one in my camelback and another in my workshop.

 

[y_p_w]

I still use those even today. There's one in my camelback and another in my workshop.

The company is actually bigger in automotive tire repair than anything else. Especially plug-patch combos. I believe their "vulcanising fluid" is the same for automotive and bicycle applications other than the size and containers used.

 

[Egg_Head]

Viva banana seats, slicks and "sissy bars"!

 

[Malo83]

Viva banana seats, slicks and "sissy bars"!

And those ape hanger handle bars.

 

[OldCowboy]

Being one of the earlier Baby Boomers, I grew up in the 50s and early 60s. In the summer, our moms would shove us out the back door right after breakfast and would not be surprised if we didn't show up until supper.

There was no molly-coddling either. If you fell out of a tree and broke your arm; no sympathy. You shouldn't have been up there, idiot.

We didn't have grief counselors either. I remember when I was in 6th grade, one of my classmates went "swimming" in a pond and drowned. The grief counseling I got from my parents was simple: "If you do stupid things you can die." That's pretty much what all the other kids heard from their parents.

 

[spasm3]

Being one of the earlier Baby Boomers, I grew up in the 50s and early 60s. In the summer, our moms would shove us out the back door right after breakfast and would not be surprised if we didn't show up until supper.

There was no molly-coddling either. If you fell out of a tree and broke your arm; no sympathy. You shouldn't have been up there, idiot.

We didn't have grief counselors either. I remember when I was in 6th grade, one of my classmates went "swimming" in a pond and drowned. The grief counseling I got from my parents was simple: "If you do stupid things you can die." That's pretty much what all the other kids heard from their parents.

My safe space was outside away from my parents!