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....makes your shins hurt, then you couldn't ride your big brother's bike worth a damn you old fart. You should have stuck with your sister's Barbies instead,...............:poke:
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My shins still have dents in them from those damned things, I cringe every time I see them on a bicycle.
 
"When I was a kid" so we are talking roughly 58ish to 72is here, I had a bike made up of parts that had belonged to my Dad and who knows. This was a full size frame with a HUGE long stroke crank, and originally had TWO RED balloon tires. I didn't ride it very long---perhaps a month--when one red tire blew. So now I only had ONE red tire.

But the story is "that crank".. One day I was pedaling like mad, don't remember why, went around a corner and got that big stroker crank in the wrong spot, and got my toe down, AND IT WADDED MY TOE UP UNDER THE PEDAL AND TRIPPED it and the bike and every God Damn thing in my world. And there I lay, a big bloody pile of a mess in the middle of the street. It hurt a lot. In fact it bled some.

I'd post a picture but I don't think they'd been invented yet.
 
My shins have been in fights with those dang things, usually from attempting to ride a bike made for a much taller person (average height).

There were rarely teeny tot sized bikes around so I always rode bigger bikes and that made stopping a challenge because my feet didn't reach the ground.
As long as I was going, no problem but the stopping part was an issue.

I'm not a tomboy but I have a lot of scars and dents from stuff like that because gravity happens and is cruel.
 
I can top that-

KKT Lightning BMX pedals with the cage spikes sharpened on a rat-tail file.

Stuck in shoe soles like nothin' else, but that 1% of the time when they did slip out.....


Looked like a knife attack scene.

...and there was a chance they'd actually stay stuck in your leg and have to be pulled out.
 
"Rat-trapped" is the term for the aftermath.
 
YY1 said:
I can top that-

KKT Lightning BMX pedals with the cage spikes sharpened on a rat-tail file.

Stuck in shoe soles like nothin' else, but that 1% of the time when they did slip out.....


Looked like a knife attack scene.

...and there was a chance they'd actually stay stuck in your leg and have to be pulled out.
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OUCH!!! Back the day we had those BMX pegs that you would put on the studs on the rims to TRY and do stupid little tricks. I have a pretty nasty scar from one of those attempting to go through my ankle....
 
You kids. Let me tell you some banana bike stories. Thank god never had to deal with those evil pedals. Now My preferred ride is my 53 Schwinn.
 
KKT - yep. Had those on my Fuji BMX bike in the early 80's

Tore the neighborhood and my shins up on those. Those were the days. Leave the house about 9am, ride all day, home at 5 for dinner, head back out til dark. There were 7 of us that rode together.
 
I had Shimano DX's on a factory rider Huffy (yeah, they made about 5 good bikes for their team (teardrop tubes) and I managed to get an old one from my Dad who delivered uniforms to their west coast shop, still caught hell when I showed up on it as Huffy's were the Yugo of BMX bikes) more of a platform with little posts on them, still hurt like hell when you slipped and they freewheeled back at you. I'm amazed I never thought of wearing soccer shin guards under my pants. I still have a '98 Dyno Bazooka, components by GT, frame by Dyno! Red Line was thee bike to get...and "getting" was quite common when I was growing up...;-) Check out those rotted tires!

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pishta said:
I had Shimano DX's on a factory rider Huffy (yeah, they made about 5 good bikes for their team (teardrop tubes) and I managed to get an old one from my Dad who delivered uniforms to their west coast shop, still caught hell when I showed up on it as Huffy's were the Yugo of BMX bikes) more of a platform with little posts on them, still hurt like hell when you slipped and they freewheeled back at you. I'm amazed I never thought of wearing soccer shin guards under my pants. I still have a '98 Dyno Bazooka, components by GT, frame by Dyno! Red Line was thee bike to get...and "getting" was quite common when I was growing up...;-) Check out those rotted tires!

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Very cool man!

Speaking of Redline being the bike to "get", I once got chased down by 4 cholos and a rottweiler who were trying to jump me and steal my bike...

Not sure how the hell I out ran them, but I did!!!

Scary as **** being 12 years old at the time haha
 
My buddy got jumped and got his GT stolen from under him. Cops found it stripped about a week later as it had a small bottom bracket that was kinda rare back then for 3 piece cranks.
 
my5thmopar said:
What ya mean? I thought a sissy bar with our banana seat was cool
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Ya me too and high handle bars the ones that curled around I think we called them billy bars don’t forget the stick shift that took your last name off when you were peddling standing up and the chain came off. Or adjusting front brake up then using it at a stupid speed locking front wheel sending u into an explosive crash complete with gravel stones pushed up under your skin. Ah the good ole days makes me smile
 
My ride of choice was a Team Mongoose stripped of it's epoxy coating.

I was 6'2" and 175" at 14 and had to have a full chro-molly frame.

I broke steel frames and bent aluminum ones.

Couldn't run three piece or steel cranks, couldn't run an aluminum bottom stem or bars either.


Interestingly, without knowing it- I rode that bike on Huffman Prairie, where the Wright brothers did their early flight testing.

Huffy is from the Huffman of that same name and was based in Dayton OH.

No connection to the Wright cycle co that I am aware of though.
 
YY1 said:
My ride of choice was a Team Mongoose stripped of it's epoxy coating.

I was 6'2" and 175" at 14 and had to have a full chro-molly frame.

I broke steel frames and bent aluminum ones.

Couldn't run three piece or steel cranks, couldn't run an aluminum bottom stem or bars either.


Interestingly, without knowing it- I rode that bike on Huffman Prairie, where the Wright brothers did their early flight testing.

Huffy is from the Huffman of that same name and was based in Dayton OH.

No connection to the Wright cycle co that I am aware of though.
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Raced a rampar 77 cyc Ames stormer 78 scwinn sx 1000 79 redline proline 1/2 79-80 pk ripper 80-81 se quad angle 82-83...(still have it)...Swingn’
 
I have my son’s early 90s GT Chrome Performer and Hoffman Condor. I wish he would take them to his home. He is 37 and still rides mostly down hill. He has won a few races and has the record at a one trail. He likes the expensive bikes. I have a old Diamond Back road bike and current bike is a Trek Dual Sport 4.
 
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
 
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