Cycling tips from the 1930s..

[Ern1e]

What era was that in?

Early sixties as a very stupid 8 year old if any of my kids had done the same I would most likly have blown ones top lol, I also remember being able to play footie in the middle of the only road through the village until either the factory closed at 5:30 or the last bus at 7:0 and apart form the odd car we used to make matches last hours.

 

[cd365]

I'm a 70s era kid and I remember the road I grew up with very few cars,come late 80s when myself and all my mates could drive parking turned into a nightmare, but by this time a lot of the wives could drive and there was quite a few two car families, which was still quite rare

 

[Ern1e]

I'm a 70s era kid and I remember the road I grew up with very few cars,come late 80s when myself and all my mates could drive parking turned into a nightmare, but by this time a lot of the wives could drive and there was quite a few two car families, which was still quite rare

Ah yes the "good old days" a time before all the "nasty" things that could happen to us, like the bottle (yes the glass ones) which one would take a drink out if wipe your hand accross the top and pass it around ! by todays standards we should all have some form of incurable double death do da's lol.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Or maybe we are just made of stronger stuff ! (from that bottle being passed around, of course)

 

[cd365]

Ah yes the "good old days" a time before all the "nasty" things that could happen to us, like the bottle (yes the glass ones) which one would take a drink out if wipe your hand across the top and pass it around ! by todays standards we should all have some form of incurable double death do da's lol.

I remember doing that, even did it with cans of pop!

 

[Ern1e]

I remember doing that, even did it with cans of pop!

And not to mention the old bits of rope used for swings towing your mate on his bike with your bike etc how did we ever survive !

 

[cd365]

I was in A&E every summer having my head stitched up!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Greatest thing ever to happen in my neighborhood was this. We saw an Air Force cargo plane fly over, and drop a crate out. A parachute blossomed, and the crate came down a few miles away. We rode out there and found the army opening the crate. A sergeant gave us the drogue chute from the parachute. First, of course, many GI Joes had to be thrown off the roof of a few different houses with it, then we realized we could be like drag racers and use this parachute for bicycling shenanigans.
This was the plane (Picture courtesy Strategic Air Command)

 

[Ern1e]

I was in A&E every summer having my head stitched up!

Know what you mean I think it was my 12th visit when the nurse say to my mother you do know this is his 12 th visit with the same thing is he just a clumsy little boy ? no my mam replies just stupid !!!!

 

[cd365]

no my mam replies just stupid !!!!

hahaha, love it

I remember being 14 or 15 and having seriously split my head open (resulting in 12 stitches), my mum was driving me to hospital and I was in bits, crying like a big girl but in my defence there was blood pishing into my eyes, she told me to stop crying so I did, a minute later she was like, are you OK? I said yes, why, she said you've stopped crying so I was just making sure you hadn't passed out. My reply "you told me to shut up", mums hey!

Oh and then at the hospital I apparently farted in the nurses face, not that I remember this, but my sister stills dines out on that story!

 

[Ern1e]

They sure can milk things like this @cd365 she (my mother) up until the day she passed on always reminded me and any one else just how STUPID I was and how my skull must be thicker than any body else's and not to mention all the stitches etc lol, so guess I should be glad I'am still here,still riding a bike,and still stupid !!! enough said thankyou very much.