You know you are getting older when....2

[tallyho8]

When you remember everyone having taps on their leather shoes.

I think I could only afford one pair of horseshoe taps when I was a kid and then I quickly wore them out as I loved watching the spark shower as I dragged them on the concrete while riding my bike.

 

[/pine]

When you remember everyone having taps on their leather shoes.

I think I could only afford one pair of horseshoe taps when I was a kid and then I quickly wore them out as I loved watching the spark shower as I dragged them on the concrete while riding my bike.

Before aluminum was the norm for drink cans they were made of steel...we would step on them sideways so they would bend around and stick on our shoes...great for making sparks when riding bikes...
...Another thing we did was flatten out the cans and ride over them and hit the brake when the rear wheel was on top of the flattened can and go skidding...

 

[Jstpssng]

Before aluminum was the norm for drink cans they were made of steel...we would step on them sideways so they would bend around and stick on our shoes...great for making sparks when riding bikes...
...Another thing we did was flatten out the cans and ride over them and hit the brake when the rear wheel was on top of the flattened can and go skidding...

I had never heard of that until now. Drat, I really did lead a sheltered life.

 

[JethroB]

...Clothes pinning playing cards to your bicycle forks to where they hit the spokes and went bbrrrrrrr.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^
My BIL tells of doing that with baseball cards. He had a couple which would be worth more than a few dollars now, if he'd kept them in a box instead.

 

[MoKelly]

^^^^^^
My BIL tells of doing that with baseball cards. He had a couple which would be worth more than a few dollars now, if he'd kept them in a box instead.

OMG. I remember doing that in 1967/1968. We all had zillions of baseball cards and had no clue what they would be worth in the future. So, if you had 2 of a card you’d use it on the bike.

I bet I used 10’s of Johnny Bench and Nolan Ryan rookie cards this way. Don’t even look at what they would be worth today.

MoKelly

 

[user.69169]

Yall must be bunch of city kids. Didn't have no dang bikes when we was growin up, no road to ride on either. Closest ever came was some silly flatbottom wid padles floated downstream one year. We wanted ragboat was up to us to collect up cloth & paint and cut & split sapling too. Learned de sewing pullin needle on boats. Learned to bend & lash saplings too.

 

[the old grind]

I had two bikes when living at home. Both were bought new with my own $ and broke my bank for years. We lived comfortably 'middle class', but our parents grew up during the depression.

Cousin's Husband's Mom didn't toss his stuff when he went off to college. He had two Mickey Mantle rookies cards when in pristine shape they might have sold for $5k each. But one was obviously handled a bit, and one had a 1/4" dog-ear on a corner. He was advised to expect $1,500 or so for either at auction in a 'peak' market. As far as I know he still has all his cards.

We preferred old playing cards in our spokes. They'd outlast baseball cards.

btw, I only ever collected 'car' cards (sports cars) in Jr High and the days of Group 7 racing and my subs to Sports Car Graphic and Pop Sci. I still have 1/32 scales slot cars and Aurora cars & trac, along with my ever-expanding 11' x 12' Lionel train setup.

 

[goeduck]

OMG. I remember doing that in 1967/1968. We all had zillions of baseball cards and had no clue what they would be worth in the future. So, if you had 2 of a card you壇 use it on the bike.

I bet I used 10痴 of Johnny Bench and Nolan Ryan rookie cards this way. Don稚 even look at what they would be worth today.

MoKelly

That was back when baseball cards were not mass produced and they were worth something. I think the mass production started in maybe the 80s?

 

[Dftodd]

I was trail riding before mountain biking became a thing. We got bicycles and had a couple miles of old gravel logging roads behind the house.

Between water bars, pot holes, and erosion, the bicycles saw quite a bit of air time

Did learn real fast that an old 10 speed road bike wasn't really meant for that stuff. Had a 3/4 mile hike out of the woods with a major case of road rash and a bent rim