If the sight of this pic....

I wasn't nearly as cool as you guys.
I had a 3-speed SuperCycle street-racer, I bought from my paper route money. I wore out alotta lotta tires on that bike. Come home after school, and ride 'til bedtime. Probably three or four years of that, then I got me a 57 BelAire.

The thing that left a floating bone-chip in my right leg was a kickstarter on a 750 Dukati. Jumping Jimminy that hurt, and it was blue-black, and green for a loooooong time. That was 1983, and it still hurts.lol