Mere...

[ifihadahifi]

With your mad big wheel skills, have you ever considered putting together a training & safety video?

There are kids out there that could use it.

[mere1975]

Twitchy laugh:

That kids needs to start with the basics -- Suspenders are not considered proper safety gear!

Of course, when I was the champ (back in '79) we wore sundresses or tanks and running shorts on our big wheels and didn't concern ourselves with "safety."

- Mere "skinned knees = initiation rites, bruised chins = par for the course" 1975

[aquaphase]

Mere "skinned knees = initiation rites, bruised chins = par for the course" 1975

Initiation!?!?!?!?!! This still happens to me on a regular basis.

(I do realize that I'm recklessly clumsy)

[Irock]

I just had a flashback to the third grade. Except it was a skateboard. And my face plant was onto concrete, not a nice thick lawn.

Mom said I looked like a poster child for Child Protective Services.

[sam]

I got in repeated trouble for Big Wheeling without shoes on. I would use my feet as auxillary brakes, thus ruining another pair of socks. This drove my mom nuts, especially when I was wearing mismatched socks and two pairs, in her view, were ruined simultaneously.

[ifihadahifi]

I remember the first time I tried jumping a ramp. My blue huffy sported a banana seat and ape-hanger handlebars. Not the ideal bike for a six year old to attempt a launch. My results were similar to this girls.

I think my best "I meant to do that" moment was the time I attempted to set a land speed record on the cul de sac. I rounded the circle at top speed but didn't take into account the 90 degree turn at the end of the side walk. Or the tree planted there.

I hit the tree in high gear. Well, more precisely, my bike did. I[/i} went flying into the street wearing nothing but cut-off blue jeans and flip-flops.
I landed on my back and slid-scraped several feet across the concrete.

I sported a shoulders-t-hips road rash that summer and had to skip swimming lessons until the following year.

[ifihadahifi]

and two pairs, in her view, were ruined simultaneously.

[ree-ree]

We tried the homemade bike ramp at my cousin's farm with the whole banana seat type bike too. The ramp was made with plywood and cinder blocks,etc. We were trying to jump over stuff evil knievel style.

What was funny was all the adults came out with their lawn chairs to view the event.
My aunt said,"Should we let them do this?" and everyone's like "SURE!"

So brother went and made it. Then my cousin went and missed. That was the end of that.

I didn't even get a turn.

[roach]

Mere "skinned knees = initiation rites, bruised chins = par for the course" 1975

(I do realize that I'm recklessly clumsy)

says the man who just walks out into traffic in front of the frisco cops.

[sam]

I remember the first time I tried jumping a ramp. My blue huffy sported a banana seat and ape-hanger handlebars. Not the ideal bike for a six year old to attempt a launch. My results were similar to this girls.

I think my best "I meant to do that" moment was the time I attempted to set a land speed record on the cul de sac. I rounded the circle at top speed but didn't take into account the 90 degree turn at the end of the side walk. Or the tree planted there.

I hit the tree in high gear. Well, more precisely, my bike did. I[/i} went flying into the street wearing nothing but cut-off blue jeans and flip-flops.
I landed on my back and slid-scraped several feet across the concrete.

I sported a shoulders-t-hips road rash that summer and had to skip swimming lessons until the following year.

I had an Incredible Hulk bike with hard plastic instead of tires. I wore the "tread" off of it locking up the back with the coaster brake and laying "rubber." Multiple attempts at jumping anything, even of the smallest size, with that bike were a total failure.

[mere1975]

slid-scraped

OWEEEEE.

[aquaphase]

says the man who just walks out into traffic in front of the frisco cops.

that's just how I roll

[zenmomma]

I loved the big wheel with the extra skid break that would make you spin out.

[sam]

I loved the big wheel with the extra skid break that would make you spin out.

That was truly the best, every vehicle should have a similar lever. I broke mine off from so much hard-core braking, which reminds me of how I got into the sock-related trouble mentioned above.

[kip]

There was a kid on my street who had the sweet Evel Knievel
bike with the red, white, & blue stars n stripes banana seat..he was always bragging that he could jump like Evel...until he almost lost a nut trying to prove himself while trying to jump a garbage can. What a dumb-ass! But the bike was sweet! Do you guys remember the ten-speed version of the EK bike?