bit of nostalgia…

[alecstilleyedye]

fitted (club penguin) cards to the chainstays of the two lads' bikes to make them sound like motorbikes.

used to do that myself, back in the day

plus ça change…

 

[biggs682]

me too cant remember what we used but it worked

 

[Maz]

Used to put those clip-on coat-hanger garmet size thingies on the spokes of my bike.

 

[blade1889]

I had to make do with lollipop sticks

 

[TVC]

Takes me back. Milometers that fitted to your wheel nut, or if you were loaded, the speedo with the wheel that rubbed on your tyre.

 

[Black Country Ste]

Takes me back. Milometers that fitted to your wheel nut, or if you were loaded, the speedo with the wheel that rubbed on your tyre.

I had one of those speedos that rubbed on the tyre in the early 90s. Cost me thirty quid out of my tenth birthday money, had it a few weeks before my mate had a go on my bike, crashed and it never worked again.

 

[Shaun]

Hundreds of plastic bread bag clips on your brake cables!!

And what about wooden lolly sticks poked through the spare bit of space in the rear brake arm where the brake block goes? Ratatatatatatatat ...

 

[Alex H]

I had to make do with lollipop sticks

Me too, much louder than cards

 

[ASC1951]

fitted (club penguin) cards to the chainstays of the two lads' bikes to make them sound like motorbikes....

When I was that age it was also cool to remove mudguards (heavy, steel - we're talking 1960). I unbolted mine but had to leave the stays on because the eyebolts at the front hub were seized. Then off down the road at full pelt! 200 yards later the stay slipped slowly towards the tarmac, so Master Impatient grabbed it between metal and tyre, where there isn't really room, and ....

... ran home howling and wailing, with a pocketfull of fingers for my Mum to sew back on.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

52 seconds in: some serious old steel mudguard problem. also, some quality riding one-handed on an old racer with 'suicide' levers…

 

[MontyVeda]

I remember being impressed seeing the bread bag thingies on a bike and decided to do the same to mine.... but only having about three or four, it didn't really work.

as for the card and peg on the chain-stay giving the essential motorbike sound... the Grifter had one built in if you folded the plastic end of the mudguard under so it rubbed against the tyre.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

the boys' pal had found a method whereby a squashed water bottle (as in evian etc., not a bidon) is wedged between back brake and rear wheel.

i told ours not to do that, is it stopped the rear brake from working properly…