martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
It's the 10s and I still have never had a family car, went on holiday every year in the 70s just never abroad and those glasses are now fashion items!
The 70's
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martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
classic33
Leg End Member
Did you place suitable washers either side of the wheel, when you splayed the ends out?
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I think we took the fabric and wood bit off the pram, and attached the seat to the springs. I believe it was one of those discarded fiberglass chairs . We then dubbed it X-15, and shot it off down a hill. Steered by slowing the wheels with friction from your shoe. I don't seem to recall us using any such washers, here in the States . That carriage was still around when I went to Uni, then shoved on the recycling truck when my nephew left it in front of the house one day, I was told in a letter. I've had a carriage undercarriage shaped hole in my life ever since.
classic33
Leg End Member
The washers were used to prevent the splayed axle ends from damaging the wheel hub.
Professional footballers didn't get anywhere near as much money as they do now. I've just read David Fairclough's autobiography and he writes that he came on as a sub and broke the deadlock in a game headed for a draw by scoring the winner and a team-mate ran up to him and told him that the goal meant he'd now be able to pay his gas bill from the win bonus the players would get!
I can't imagine Wayne Rooney worrying where the money's going to come from to pay his gas bill this month, can you?
I can't imagine Wayne Rooney worrying where the money's going to come from to pay his gas bill this month, can you?
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martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
If some were available possibly but I don't actually remembering looking around for any. And damaging the hubs wasn't exactly top of my list!! Head first, skeleton bob style, with your hands steering the front plank of wood. Jeez I wish I could down a hill that fast on a bike now!!!!
markharry66
Über Member
Enough said
Dave the Smeghead
Über Member
I stand corrected.
But I wasn't far out and the memory isn't as good as it used to be given my life so far and the amount of alcohol and amount of diesel fumes that have combined to pickle my brain
- Location
- London
[QUOTE 3894013, member: 259"]The 70s were by many measures the happiest decade ever for the people of the UK..[/QUOTE]yep, i read a social history of the period a while ago and despite a lot of well known issues in the decade, it made a pretty convincing case for your point. First group i saw, Slade at Blackburn King George's Hall (is it still used fir gigs?), later saw the Buzzckcocks at the same place.
- Location
- London
great gag
all your own work?
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Not mine, can't remember where I heard it first, but it stuck in my mind in case I ever needed it, which I did 
Dave the Smeghead
Über Member
And I didn't until 5 minutes agoI didn't aged 6
Cyclechat certainly broadens the mind - or maybe it just proves how well read I am really not.....
