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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: warhawk on April 10, 2008, 08:20:50 AM
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hello fellow chrome domes: just wondering...when was the last time U rode a bicycle? also... who taught U how 2 ride a bicycle? and also... do U remember your 1st 2 wheel bike and its description? i'll start: the last time i rode a bicycle was sooo long ago that i can't even remember. :/O my dad was the one that taught me how 2 ride a bike. i still remember it like it was yesterday. it's probablly one of my fondest memories that i have w/ my dad. my bike was orange in color and had a black banana seat. remember those banana seats? ;D
anyways... how 'bout U? when was the last time U rode a bicycle? who taught U how 2 ride? and did U own a banana seat bike? what's your story?
WARHAWK O0
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I have a mountain bike... it hasn't had a lot of use but it's in the shop for a tune up as I type. With gas prices going through the ionosphere, I'm thinking I may be biking this summer to and from work! :(
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My dad taught me how to ride my first bike. I remember it was blue and it had just a regular black seat on it. I do remember getting one of those decals that you rub with a coin to make it transfer. It was of frankenstein...lol I think one of those saturday morning cartoon characters. I remember lots of wrecks...lol
The last time I rode one...well matter of fact ..it was last night. My daughter left her Barbie bike over at the neighbors and I went to get it ...i rode it home...and my damn knees kept knocking on the handle bars..lol.....i got yelled at cause I wasgoing to bend the frame or pop the tires! LOL...
Timmay!
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Riding a bike to work wouldnt be a bad idea....cause I only live about 5 blocks from work...so even at that I could even walk to work if I wanted....
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Mel, This topic brings back a lot of memories. Yes, I remember those banana seats. I had one of those. And the little streamers we used to attach to the ends of our handle bars. I think I got my first bike when I was 4 or 5.
I still ride bikes with my kids. I have a mountain bike. There are a lot of bike trails around my neighborhood. One thing my sons love to do is to ride our bikes to the Sonic Drive-In that’s less than a mile from our house to get ice-cream. And if you ride your bike, it makes the guilt from ice cream seem not as bad.
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AWESOME stories guys... did U ever place a playing card in your spokes 2 make it "click" and pretend that it was a motorcycle?!? ;D the neigborhood kids and i used 2 have a "jumping" contest on a ramp and pretend 2 B evel knievel. O0
WARHAWK O0
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Another "aussie" story...
2nd trip to Perth...went to Rottnest Island and rented bikes to go view and travel the whole island...
awesome day and memory...it was about 4-5 yrs ago...
d@mn, seems like I did all the fun stuff down there...
gotta go back to Australia to start "livin' again! ;)
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Yes I use to put the playing card in the spokes but we also would take an aluminum can and run over it wiht our tire...it would get caught between the tire and the forks and would make a motor sound too. I can also remember we would tie a wagon to the back and have someone ridign it in and go over ramps. Man to be a kid again. Sounds liek fun.
Timmay!
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My first bike was called the wheeler dealer it was red with poker hand decals all over it. My dad taught me how to ride a bike. It has been forever since I rode a bike, I'd probably kill myself if i tried now, i don't care what they say about forgeting how, LOL
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Oh now come on Nomad.....ya know they make thoe threewheelers with the baskets on teh back. You can load that up with some brewskies and have alot of fun.
When I was growing up I was the envy of all the kids at school. My dad use to own a bicycle shop. I had all the latest in bikes..like the mongoose and the alloy wheels. I remember going to the factory and my dad bought one of the first designs of mongoose bikes. I think I rode a different bike to school everyweek. My dad would get so mad at me because he said I was never satisfied. But dude....you have a whole store full of bikes and you expect me to pick just one! I even remember riding one of those three wheelers to school one day just like the one I just mentioned to Nomad. I got laughed at ..but it was cool letting two of my friends sit int eh basket as we went down main street! LOL
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Another "aussie" story...
2nd trip to Perth...went to Rottnest Island and rented bikes to go view and travel the whole island...
awesome day and memory...it was about 4-5 yrs ago...
d@mn, seems like I did all the fun stuff down there...
gotta go back to Australia to start "livin' again! ;)
BA I hear Rottnest Island is a pretty rad place. I havent been to WA yet(nearly 8 years here,go figure eh). Back in Ohio I rode my bike everywhere and I do mean everywhere as I lost my drivers license for a year due to teenage stupidity(DUI).
I recently borrowed a friends Mongoose BMX bike that I have been riding around everywhere.
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Oh now come on Nomad.....ya know they make thoe threewheelers with the baskets on teh back. You can load that up with some brewskies and have alot of fun.
When I was growing up I was the envy of all the kids at school. My dad use to own a bicycle shop. I had all the latest in bikes..like the mongoose and the alloy wheels. I remember going to the factory and my dad bought one of the first designs of mongoose bikes. I think I rode a different bike to school everyweek. My dad would get so mad at me because he said I was never satisfied. But dude....you have a whole store full of bikes and you expect me to pick just one! I even remember riding one of those three wheelers to school one day just like the one I just mentioned to Nomad. I got laughed at ..but it was cool letting two of my friends sit int eh basket as we went down main street! LOL
thats funny you mention the 3 wheelers, i used to work as a bicycle mechanic at a bike shop when I was younger and we used to rebuild trade ins and sell them real cheap to the old folks in FL and when i was done i would test drive them all over the Island, I had a blast cruising around on those things
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Gee, I'm glad you guys mentioned bikes. I've been lamenting the fact that my motorcycle C#)P is in the shop and today is suppose to be a really nice day; in fact the first good warm day in many days. I think I will get my mountain bike, knock off the cob-webs, and give it a spin. I had it tuned up late last fall and only got a couple of good rides on it, before the weather went south.
You guys are an inspiration! ;) O0 O0
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GOR FOR IT DAT!....work those leg muscles out. LOL...make sure your path is all uphill! LOL
Timmay!
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These BMX dudes got nothin' on this ol' fart...
Back in the early 60's we used to ride the canyons of Southern Calif. with our 20" Stingrays doing jumps and bustin' frames. Mine had been welded back together by a neighbor with an auto body shop countless times until he reinforced it with a piece of tube steel.
I saved money from my paper route and bought a springer set of forks for it... man I was cool! O:O At least, I thought so! :*))
Remember these? (https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.tinypic.com%2F2ezoj01.jpg&hash=eabe393c9f55eb18e5209de784fae4f3a83e9343)
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:*)) :*)) :*)) I don't know which was worse, the Ape Hanger bars or the Banana seat! Wait, did I just date myself :/O :/O
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I liked the Ape Hanger bars....felt like you were riding around in style...like those yellow cadillacs with the gold rims on them and the little fringe haning from the top of the windshield..
LOL
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My dad taught me how to ride a bike. I had an old bike that my father got somewhere. basic black bike. All my friends were getting bikes with the banana seats, sissy bars and the high chopper handle bars. I wanted one so bad, I kept bugging my parents to get me one. I am not sure how long it was but one day my father and I were in the hardware store and he took me over to the paint section and told me to pick the color I wanted my bike...Fire engine red... then over the next couple of weeks we took it apart, painted it, and rebuilt it with everything I wanted on it. Hey, Thanks for bringing up the father/son memory!
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I tried riding a bike the other day..Note..I tried...I couldnt get very far...my thighs were rubbing togethere...
LOL
Timmay
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my dad taught me to ride a bike. It was my sister's old bike painted red and we had lost the training wheels. Last time i rode a bike was friday, I did a 15 mile ride around the town, getting ready to start biking 30- 40 miles a day to work and back. I love it it is a great workout.
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my dad helped me learn when i was 4 years old, been ridin all sorts of bikes since. Recently in the last 5 years i been doing the Downhill Mountain biking thing, started racing, raced national championships twice now, and ride dirt jumps just about everyday bicycles are a fun invention
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where are you riding basik?
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My road bike, yesterday (47 miles in the Santa Cruz Mountains).
My mountain bike, Monday.
It makes me sad that so many of you guys don't have bicycles. It's just as much fun when you're an adult. It's like riding a bicycle...
My question is why do people stop riding bicycles? (Good starter question, though, Warhawk!)
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where are you riding basik?
That picture is right next to my driveway at my house In Mariposa, California.
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i rode alot in colorado when i was there. but not since i moved back to lousyana. too damn flat here.
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In the early 80's was the last time I rode--I had gotten a Bottecchia, when they were made in Italy, and got into serious riding when I was clerking for the Courts after law school in the 70's. That really helped me get rid of some serious weight problems and led me to running which eclipsed the bike w/in about 6 months bc it was even better for melting off the fat, for anything but an occcasional spin. I took it to our place in Waveland, and the salt air and the bike didn't get along at all. Among the activities the neurosurgeon said were no no's after my two back surgeries in 2001 was the bike. In any event, it went when Katrina tore the whole place down anyway. I learned to ride from my Dad, who bought me what was called and English Racer--no matter who made them--geared bikes--yes long ago there were bikes w/o gears.
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First bike was a blue and white Bobcat bmx, use to pound the ground on a daily basis with that thing. Last time I went biking was probably about 2 years ago with my mountain bike.
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The last time I rode a bike was a couple months ago, it didnt have breaks and I was being pulled by a border collie that was chasing the car, it ended in a bloody tangle. The last 2 years I rode my bike to work when I lived in the sticks. It was 6 1/2 miles to the cow dairy, 9 miles to the goat dairy, and 5 miles to the hardware store and they were all pretty straight roads, I went up 1/2 mile then down 6 for the cow dairy but the others were all down the same road. Now that I have the new job that is only 6 miles away I thought about riding a bike but 6 miles in town seems way longer than 6 miles in the sticks.
My brother taught me how to ride a 2 wheel bike. I started on a little bitty one but it broke so the next bike was my brothers 10 speed. I was only 6 when I rode the 10 speed and it was so high in the air, I crashed many times.
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I rode my bike last night. :) Me and the kids ride all the time.
I just taught my five year old daughter (the middle child) how to ride a 2 wheeler. What a rewarding chore. When she finally got it, she bragged to everyone that Daddy taught her.
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i havent ridden a bike in prolly about 5-8 yrs. pretty bad considering im only 20 lol.
to be honest i believe i taught myself how to ride a bike. i remember the day like yesterday. i spent ALLLLLL day one summer, trying over and over again to ride without my training wheels on.