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Remember the time you cut the forks off those
old bikes and jammed them onto your forks to give
your Sting-Ray that 'Easy Rider' chopper look? And the first time
you popped a wheelie they fell off? Or what about those stupid fake
gas tanks with the horns inside that you tossed in the trash to
make your bike lighter?
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Hooboy, nice topic! Back when I was a 14-15 year old kid in love with derailleur bikes, my riding cronies and I all acquired "clunkers." Mine was a 50's era Murray Ohio with 26x2 1/8-in gangster whitewalls, full fenders, chromed shocks up front and really bad brakes. I paid the princely sum of $5, American, for the bike in it's refinished in institutional green housepaint glory. Out came the model aircraft paints to daub on camouflage in a couple of shades of green and brown.
This was a great woods bike for the mountains of Virginia, if you didn't mind walking much of the time. But the really dumb thing I did was go ICE RIDING on it.
Remember, ballooner, 50 odd pounds, bad brakes? Well, the thing was to rev up some speed on the thing and charge down the hill to the pond and roar out over the ice. Halfway across one stood on the bike and locked the brakes on for a skid. Done right, one skated upright across the pond to the other side. Bear in mind, I couldn't swim at the time (I'm still rotten at it!), plus the dangers of shock in icy waters, the weight of bike, etc., etc... As someone phrased it in Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls, this was "a great stupidity."
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i got this girls bike for free and
desided to try rideing double with
my neighbor. he would pedial
and i would sit on the seat and
stear.it worked fine so we tried
rideing down a hill, the first time
we crashed in to a thorny bush.
soon we got good and desided
to switch, so i pedialed and he
steared we made it Down the hill
fine and we would have been fine
if he wouldnt have steped back
on the pedials so hard and stoped
us so quickley .as you asume i landed
on the bar verry hard and i walked
with a limp for a couple days .
we never tried it again and i
used the bike minimal till a year
later when i changed it to a boys
bike and put a 24 inch rhoad tire
on the front and painted it abougt
4 times to get rid of the pink original paint.
just a year ago i trashed it cause i
got a real bike, boy did that feel good!
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I used to really impress everyone with my "Backwards Wheelies". I'd get up some speed and then jam my foot between the frame and the back of the front wheel. This in turn caused the rear of the bike to rise into the air, at which time I'd quickly remove my foot and ride on the front wheel for a few feet.
Very impressive except for the times I'd accidentally jam my foot into the spokes instead of the back of the wheel. I never really got hurt, but the crashes were usually pretty spectacular and my friends hated it when I did that.
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I'd hate to know how many Sting-Ray parts we threw away while turning old
Sting-Rays into lighter 'Off Road' bikes. I know we tossed out springers,
banana seats, sissy bar shocks, Krate mag sprockets (gotta have a small sprocket to go with that in single speed rear-end we just put on) and took apart Krate front drums just to see how they worked.
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Currently have a '61 Sears...about 2 weeks ago my dad gave me some junk from his antique buisness. Among the goodies was an old 'Jaws' shark game from the 70's. Its now fastened to my back rack and acts as a tool holder. My wife absolutely refuses to go riding with me lately and keeps demanding I remove it. :)
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Back when I was a young teenager, I used to put the soles of my sneakers agains the moving spokes on the front wheel to clean the sand off. One time, both sneakers got caught between the spokes and the front fork. I was in a large parking lot at the time and I couldn't get either foot unstuck. The bike came to a stop, I balanced for a few seconds, and then toppled over on my side. Ouch! That was not fun. It was also not fun explaining to the other kids *how* I got all those bruises on one side of my body.
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I read somewhere on the web, not too long ago, where somebody
said when they were a kid they remember using a Schwinn Deluxe chainguard to chop
wood!
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mmm yes. Went out for a training ride one winter in Woodstock NY.
Got some snow and slush on the rims. Reached down to scrape
it off. Heavy, fingered gloves caught in spokes and got
dragged around where they stopped against the fork crown. At
training pace. Did the most balletic header into a snowbank,
feet still strapped into the clips ('member those days?).
Looked a proper fool upside down in a snowbank with a bike
strapped to my feet.
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Do NOT practice wheelies on the street when clipped in to your pedals while you're waiting for your riding buddy to finish screwing around with his stupid seat adjustment (unless you have a finger on the rear brake)!! "Whoaa *THUD* Aaaaargh, I think I broke my [stinkin'] pelvis!!"
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I know I'm late but I will still take credit [blame] for this thread. I destroyed a beautiful Radiant Coppertone Five speed Fastback in my quest for BMX. I found the fork and shifter back plate in my dads attic recently, if any one is interested... Anyway, the Stupid Bike Trick I am most known for is the repeated jumping of a Columbia Beater 195? until the frame decided to let go at the head tube. Just take a concrete block, lay it on its side, lean a 2x12 about three feet long against it. Pump your heavy, high geared bike up the hill, turn around and haul ass downhill , hit the ramp at full speed. Repeat as necessary.
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Lest we think stupidity is strictly a Childish thing, It was only a few years ago when I got my new, supercool clipless pedals for Christmas. Of course, I had to try them out right away, even though the trail was covered in snow. Did you know that you can break your ribs with your own elbow?
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I bought a Swing Bike over a year ago (if you don't know what one of these is, check out the Swing Bike Web Page at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/plains/9338/swing.html ) and was getting pretty adept at riding it in the unlocked position. Thought I would show my kids how we used to pull wheelies on these old Muscle Bikes (bear in mind that I hadn't tried this for over 15 years and have increased my weight by double). The first one was pretty feeble, only got it up a foot or so. The next one was a beauty ... until my bulk crossed the apex and I ended up on my ass in the middle of the street with the bike perched above me. My wife and neighbor fell down laughing. I was laughing. My kids just shook their heads.
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A buddy of mine tried to touch up the paint on his
Schwinn Black Phantom a few weeks ago. It came out ok. He should have
left it. But instead he kept fussing with it, trying to rub down the
newly painted area. But he rubbed too hard and wore through the original paint.
So now he's stripping down the whole bike.. Say "bye bye" to the original paint!
Lesson: leave the paint alone.
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We used to take old Seiss torpedo fender
lights and use them as flashlights. (we also used
to walk to school barefoot in the snow, up hill both ways, using
only barbed wire for traction, but that is another story).
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I`m 15 and I live in norwalk, ohio and there isn`t a thing to do so a few weeks ago me and my friends went to the local car wash ( the ones that you drive into and wash it your self ) . it was wet so we decided to get goin really fast into it and then hit the brakes HARD! you can skid all the way through them
just don`t try to fishtail . i did and my booty still hurts
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We usually have a couple Snow Rides each winter.
Everyone rides 20" muscle bikes. We've found performance
and handling to be like this, in decreasing order of performance: .....1) A fenderless
Sting-Ray with a Schwin nobby fore and aft does the best......2) The same setup without a nobby in front....
3) A nobby on the rear, but with fenders. Your first few hundered feet are ok, but then the snow packs up under the fenders.
.....10000) The worst is a heavy bike with a 16" front wheel and a rear slik, fenders fore and aft. (sound like a familiar bike?).
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My craziest memory is one afternoon a life time ago. I had one of those big old Schwinn's you could haul a ton on. I had my friend Joe sitting between the handle bars, and John was sitting on the rear carrier. We rode across one of the longest bridges in our town, laughing all the way. I never heard the motorcycle policeman behind me. When we reached the end of the bridge he pulled me over. He made us walk the bike home and promise to never ride triple again. Only on a Schwinn could this have been done.
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My first bike was a used Schwinn with all the goodies--
sprung fork, front drum brake, fork lock, etc. I loved
that bike, but nearly castrated myself with it.
What happened was that I thought it would be neat
to ride into the two trees in our yard that rose in a "V"
from the ground. I frequently parked my bike there, and
I reasoned that if I placed a big pile of grass clippings
just beyond the "V", I could ride into the tree at high
speed and go flying to a soft landing in the clippings.
There was just a teeny miscalculation, though, and I stopped
when I hit the stem with my crotch. I wasn't sure I'd sur-
vived until I fathered a couple of kids about 15 years
later.
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recently backed over his Krate. Took out
the springer, front wheel and crushed the head tube. Snaggle-icious!
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Jammin', wasn't you, huh? Suuuuuuuuure....
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Back in the 60s I thought it was neat to
ride my Schwinn Speedster over storm drain
grates, the hard way. There was a grate in the
pavement in a parking lot that had a wider
metal bar in the center of the grate. It was the same width
as my tires. I would get up a lot of speed, aim
the bike just right, and ride over the grate on
that bar. One day I missed and my front wheel
went into the grate, and my bike fell on
top of me. I had a 2nd degree burn on one of
my arms from the hot pavement before I could
get the bike off me!
I think of that whenever I see I storm drain grate.
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Though not on purpose...
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I'm 29, and still ride BMX. back in about 85 or so, I used to be the kid in the neighborhood who would be expected to take the first crack at any new jump or ramp. Well, one day one of my retarded freinds suggested thatI didn't possess the manhood to ride off the roof of my parents' house. I looked up, calculated the distance from the roof to the ground to be 10-12 feet, and decided to put a small ramp just at the gutterlin(one cinderblock and a 2 foot long board. I proceeded to lug my Schwinn predator up on the roof, and ride down the roof towards the ramp. As I hit the ramp, it slid into the gutter, and I pulled up as hard as I could.I managed to land on the wheels, bounce and the I flipped over the bars and rolled about 100 times (it sure seemed like it!) I was only minorly injured (BRUISES and such), but the Skyway Tuff wheels on my bike had cracked the hubs (the older metal hubs..) and my handlebars (WALD) had spun forward almost to the tire. I relinquished my duties as Ramp tester that day....
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We used to have a kid in our neighborhood who we'd "convince" to
be the first to test our ramps and stuff. But never off a roof. Boy do I wish you had lived on MY block!
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Tomorrow is Christmas and tomorrow afternoon we're going on
our usual Christmas day ride. Probably 5 Middleweights, 1 ballooner and 5 Sting-Rays.
We got 10" of snow last night and are expecting more tomorrow. Hooboy!
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10 years old. Decided to cross my arms while riding my 10 speed for additional challenge. Made it about 50 feet before steering reflexes brought me down to the pavement. Ouch.
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hey papa 20 inch i am 30 and still racing,its not crazy just fun!!!besidesmy kids get a good laugh hahahah
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I tried to ride across a creek near our house when I was about 11 years old with my sister on the cross bar. The current took the bike out from under me and I had to abandon the crossing to save our skins. Later that day we pulled the bike from the creek a little downstream. It was jammed up against a big steel grating where the creek ran under the road. So much for tring to ride on water
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I guess you'll just have to ride a bit faster next time.
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Last night I dropped an S-2 rear wheelset on
my nice original Orange Krate saddle and punched a
big flippin' hole in it. Somebody shoot me.
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When I was in High School I volunteered to
rebuild an old Huffy ten speed for a friend.
I put the bottom bracket bearing rings in
backwards. They disintegrated when he was
fifteen miles from home, and he had to push the
bike all the way back.
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I remember as a kid trying to ride my blue 5 speed schwinn sting-ray with the seatpost raised up as high as it would go, an lowering the back seat brace on the banana seat as low as possible that the seat brace would just about scrape the ground, as a result this would make the banana seat almost veritcal, trying to ride the sting-ray this way was almost impossible, because my body weight was well behind the rear wheel axle making the bike pop wheelies,and me landing on my butt more then once. (really messing up the paintjob with chips & scratchs) dose anyone remember doing things like this to there sting-rays when you were a kid?
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That is called "lowrider style" today. But the lowriders
don't pop wheelies as well as the old sting-rays because the lowriders have
long, low, heavy springer forks, and short pedal cranks so you can't get good leverage.
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A couple months ago i road a 24" three
wheeler down a giant hill and if any of you have
ever road a three wheeler than you know how easy they flip
well I continued down this hill not using any brakes
because therewas some kids at the bottom so i figured
i would show off NOT EXPECTING TO FLIP
but i did and thing is i stayed with the bike and landed back on the wheels WOW WAS THAT A RIDE OR WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Was riding no hands for a block or so when the crank hit the curb bending it enough so i had to push home 5 miles away! Any way anyone have spare parts? Gorgeous bike crash and burn rider
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ive did a few stupid things on my bikes to impresse girls it rarely ever worked the only thing that happend was i usauly got hurt like the time i was doing 360 jumps of a stone pile and there was a building on the other side and i hit the building and had to get stiches because i cut my head open and the time when i was rideing down the street and hit the brakes and was trying to slide side ways and was hit by a car and i broke my leg i ruended my brandnew dyno vfr that i paid 600 dollars for ive did alot of stupid things on my bikes before
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A bike shop is the best place for stupid human tricks. We had brought in a three wheeler for repair, some off brand, Anyway it had a solid rear axle-both rear wheels were driven, and the seat was set way back. I got on it and pulled a wheelie, the front wheel came a bout a foot off the ground. I thought "well I can do better than that" Pushed the hell out of the pedal, and gave the bars a yank. The bike flipped over dumping me on my back. The funny thing was I was laying on my back, feet still on the pedals, hands on the bars, with this three-wheeler perched perfectly upside-down on top of me. My counterparts got a kick out of it and I was the fool of the week. That is until one of the other guys decided to do a little spray painting. He found a can of spray paint that he was going to use to primer his bike. He came downstairs whining that the nozzle was clogged, One of the other guys told him to take a strand of wire from an old brake cable to clean it out. I turned my back and went back to work and heard this pssssst noise, I quickly turned around to see this guy with half of his face spray painted black. Word of warning to all, when cleaning a clogged nozzle on a can of spray paint - they can be removed form the can.
greg
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HaHaHa, That spraypaint one was funny
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After he had painted half of his face, the laughter erupted throughout the back room, he grabbed a can of acetone off of the workbench, and ran in the bathroom. When he came out, the paint was gone, but his face was now half red. I don't know which was worse, using the wire to clean out the tip, or using acetone to clean his face.
greg
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well I've got the wheelie thing down, I can go just about as far as I want, unless theres somthing in the way like a curb while riding at night at night! yep done the drainage grate trick too. did the spray paint in the face trick. Whats really bad though(oh ya I've got all you beat!) I took my bike (at the time a stock aztlan cruiser with the exception ot a bent fork with the spring out)anyways Im riding down the biggest hill in my nighborhood once you get going really fast on a tank of a bike like that with bent forks man one tiny swerve and you cant controll the handlebars as the "wheel wobble" sets in, after that it's a matter of seconds before your tangled up on the sidewalk thinking to yourself what in the hell just happend!?!?
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Yesterday me and a couple of freinds put togather a Quarter pipe for roler blading so we were working on it about 4 hours later we were finished and of course i had to test it so my friends dared me to take my three wheeler up it(oh no)and me being who i am i did it and anyway i go up it the first three times with my three wheeler.heres a description of my three wheeler 24" wheeles on the back 27"forks with a 20" tire. but any way i figured id go to the top and hit the brakes and my front end started lifting and luckely my friend was at the top to grab my front wheel an put it back down ( ONE THING I WONT DO AGAIN!!!)
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The 27" forks And 20"wheel were on the front
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Is it me , or are the stupidest sunts the one's that are done on three-wheelers? I know that after being on enough of them, you can't pull a wheelie on one, you can't do an endo, you can't do a bunny hop. Why is there the urge to try? And better yet, why do I keep trying?
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Man, Thats the same problem i have
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Gregg's recollections of riding triple on a Schwinn reminded me of when we would ride down the gravel road, four on the bike. One on the handlebars, one on the seat, one on the pedals, and one on the rear fender. I don't know if it was actually stupid, 'cause we never hurt ourselve, and actually rarely fell off. Is it only a stupid trick if you fail?
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If you DON'T fall, it is a clever, talented feat. If you DO fall,
it's a stupid trick.
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Thats more than i can say !!
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The first stupidest thing (the fam) did was letting my brother "fix" a pre-World War II Schwin bike. I think my father put the pieces out for the trash for the next 17 years.
The secondest stupid thing was deciding it would be "fun" to turn the handlebars a full 90 degrees while riding *fast* and making the bike come to an abrupt halt. Well, it worked. The bike stopped at once, but I didn't. I did experience the thrill of becoming air borne, as I flew over the handlebars and eventually skidded to a stop on the gravel alleyway. Oops.
Third...(yes, there are three) was riding on the back of a bike without shoes. Fortunately, they were able to reattach that little tiny toe. My three daughters each had to ask "Why don't you let us ride our bike without shoes on?" And I'd tell them my little personal history of barefoot bike riding.
I could go on and on - I had three brothers, several bikes and spent about 7 years riding bikes non-stop.
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How many times have you gone to swing your
leg over the back of your bike and hooked it
on the cool oversized sissy bar. Makes ya look a bit stupid,
standing there struggling to stay upright.
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I bought a Pea Picker brand new in
'72 or '73. I ordered it from Schwinn,
and earned the money from my paper
route. I remember picking it up - I had
never spent anywhere NEAR that much money for anything...I think my
dad thought I was crazy. But up till then, my "banana seats" were all ones I built from going rubbish picking on Sunday nights, and putting bikes together with parts. I had to have a "Krate" bike. Dave Butts had an Orange Krate, his brother Tom had a Pea Picker, Cleve Igoe had a Cotton Picker, and Billie Lykins had a Lemon Peeler. But nobody had one with a DISK BRAKE! When I got home, Johnny Gossett, my neighbor, came right over with his speed bike so we could, "go riding". Off we went, and it became immediately apparent that he was jealous of my bike, and was going to see how fast he could ride and stay ahead of me. Well, I just couldn't keep up with him - I ran out of breath. I found out later when I got it home that the disk brake caliper was not adjusted right, and I was riding with the brake on. The reason I knew was because the disk was so hot I burned my finger when I touched it.
Anyway, I fixed that and decided to
get down to business and see what this bike could do. I was known in my neighborhood for wheelies and ramp jumping (I read in this column
about some guy jumping tires - well I
used to jump the neighbor kids. I'd make a ramp and have them lie down on the ground in front of the ramp, adding another kid after each
successful jump. I never hit any of them. They trusted me for some reason. I don't remember how many
I got up to...but I kept making the ramp higher. I was using inflated car tires and a long piece of
plywood. Finally, I went for 4 car tires high, and the plywood was so steep, I couldn't use the ramp. So I put another tire at the base of the ramp, and another piece of plywood
on it to get me up to the main ramp. Down the sidewalk I came, and hit the first piece of plywood, which was rotton and broke. The bike stopped right there when the front tire hit the first tire, and I went flying over the rest of the ramp, sans bicycle, and did a very artful tuck and roll.) But that isn't the Pea Picker story I wanted to tell. Anyway, I wnated to jump ramps with my Pea Picker so I did. After one particularly high flying landing, I came to a stop and noticed my front end was messed up. After I looked at it more closely, I discovered that the front spring had imploded on itself
(remember they're big in the center, and taper off to a narrow diameter at each end. I thought, "Great. How am I gonna fix this before my dad gets home?" So I took it home, took it apart and got the spring out by itself.
I tried pulling it with pliers (are you kidding?) I quickly realized that it would take more than my strengh to fix it. So I took two long bolts. I put one through one end of the spring and attached a nut to it from the inside of the spring. Then I did the same to the other end. Then I put one of the bolt ends in my dad's vise
(these bolts were probably six inches long or so). The bolt on the bottom had an eye on the end of it, and I slipped a bike locking chain through it. (It was about 2 feet of chain covered with plastic, and was locked into a loop with a combination lock). Then I had this 110 pound barbell which I put through the bike chain. I figured that weight would be enough to do it.....it wasn't. So I grabbed the barbell and started bouncing it up and down. It was making a heck of a noise, and everything my dad had on the workbench was vibrating off. "What are you doing, honey?" , (mom's voice from upstairs.) "Nothin mom." It worked . Finally after a huge slam, the spring went back in shape. I ended up having to do that again several times, but it was always much quicker since I had the hang of it.
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A friend in England got a new pair of SPD pedals for his mountain bike this winter. His first day off work he installed them, and went out for a long ride on the locals dirt paths. About an hour into the ride he came upon a fallen tree, and had to stop to move it, except his cleats wouldn't release. Down he went! and try as he might, niether cleat would release at all. Turns-out he'd installed the plates backwards, and the shoes were permanently stuck on the pedals. He had to take his feet out of the shoes, hop back on, and ride carefully home with his feet resting on top of the shoes. That must've looked way- cool!
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A few years ago while very bored I took a hacksaw and cut the seat tube out of a Team Raleigh (Chinese chro-mo) frame. My thought was to make the bike springy, light, and so dangerous and undesirable that no one would steal it and I wouldn't even have to lock it. I weigh about 185, and I actually rode it a lot during the summer. I was very lucky it didn't break. I recently retired it. I think I was inspired to do this by the Kestrel no-seat-tube frames. Anyone else ever butcher a frame like this? The ride was truly springy. VH
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Yesterday I took my lowrider out for its first cruse around the neighborhood and people around my neighborhood dont get to see many cool bikes so im cruseing around with my freind on his wannabe lowrider and we stop at his friends house and his freind and his friends mom and dad come out and say holey shi* thats a cool bike and in 30 seconds more than one hundred people were in the street looking at my cool bike everyone was asking questions i almost had to tell them to raise their hands. Just another day in the neighborhood
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I USED TO RIDE MY BUDDY ON THE HANDLE BARS OF MY OLD SCHWINN AND WHILE HAULING ACROSS THE GRASS FEILD AT THE PARK I WOULD JUMP OFF TO SEE HOW FAR HE AND THE BIKE WOULD GO BEFORE THEY FINALLY FELL OVER .LUCKY HE NEVER GOT HURT.MY SCHWINN I MEAN.
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I RAN INTO A TELEPHONE POLE AND TOTALED A STINGRAY (AND MY HEAD)
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a recent flood had deposited a boatload of sand in the arroyos in our favorite trail complex. Three of our foursome had sucessfully raged across about 15yards of deep sand and were waiting for another guy (not me I swear) to get across. He lined up the run, geared down and blasted through the sand. He didn't see that he had veered off toward a foot-and-a-half ledge. At the last moment this guy (which was NOT me) saw that he was about to crash and tried to wheelie up onto the ledge. The sand was at least seven feet deep underneaeth him. When his face hit the ledge, it made a splat you could hear in the next county. We call this guy (who doesn't even look like me) Johnny Faceplant
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Well, I'd just be glad it wasn't you. You're sure it wasn't you, right?
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About 10 years ago my brother and
I took all the good stuff off of a
stingray to make a bmx bike out of
it. After we got bored of bunny
hopping the bike we took it as fast
as we could go then slammed on the
brakes to skid the rear tire. We
destroyed the tire and the hub.
we got a regular rear wheel and tire.
then we would go as fast as we could
go and would ghost ride it across
jumps, streams curbs, and whatever
else we could find. we decided to
repaint the bike because it had a
couple scratches. we probably
dropped te value to a third of
what it was when we got it.
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That SPD pedal story gave me the chills.
I was riding my bike to a bike shop, and
I came to a stop light. I had my pedals
set way too tight. I stopped said oh shoot
and fell over. another story, I was riding
to school, It's a miracle I got there with
no stoplights. When I did get there I soon
realized that the plates on my shoes had
vibrated loose. I spent a good 15 minuets
trying to get off my bike.
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When I was just a Squid on a Bmx bike I did some stupid tricks. This one tops em....... Here it was ....on a nice warm day, my buddi and I are cruising the street lookin cool. My chain felt sorta loose so I got this notion to check the tension while still lookin cool on da bike. Well everything was cool tell I pedaled once and hung on to long and yep you can guess... muh finger went around the nice sharp Sugino chainring which now was a cool RED ANODIZED color. Never in my life I have felt so much pain then that of chain and sprocket squeezing every drop of blood from my finger. Now here's the dumb part. I stuck my finger in there one more time just to prove I could take it like a Real Man! Real DUMB. Ive got many more Horror stories for I once was on a freestyle team and when a bunch of dumb idiots get together they get hurt. see ya.
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When I was a teenager, many years ago, I had a paper route and not much cash. As a result my bike was usually in serious disrepair. At one point the back tire had a leak I couldn't seem to get rid of. No matter how many times I patched it, the tire would be flat by the time I got about half way through the paper route. One day I decided to pump the tire full of water, figuring the tube wouldn't leak as fast with water as air. I put the pump in a bucket of water and filled the tube. After a couple of times of letting the residual air out and adding more water, I had a water inner tube. It rode a bit hard, but it worked. No more leak, no more riding home on a flat.
Everything was fine until the first cold day of winter. The tire froze solid except for a little pocket at the top. Ka Thump Ka Thump until I rode a few blocks and the ice broke up, then it was just the usual hard ride.
The tire stayed that way for several years until it finally wore out.
I also rode that bike for several years with a broken front axle and no bearings. When riding one day, the bike started getting harder and harder to pedal, like the brakes were on. All of a sudden, there was a big bang, and it went smoothly, except, ball bearings started falling out of the front axle. I got off and discovered the wheel now just flopped back and forth between the forks.
Since I was some miles from home, I just got back on and kept riding. It actually rode OK. When stopped, the wheel would flop around, but as soon as you got going it would center itself and ride OK.
From time to time, it would start to screech, and I would give it several squirts of oil, it would be OK for a month or so. I never bothered to replace the axle. The bike got me where I needed to go.
It's amazing how messed up a bike can be and still be rideable, if you are too lazy/broke to fix it and need to ride it. I've seen bikes ridden on flat tires or without tubes for months and still survive. In the late '70s when everyone was riding alot, I saw a kid near here who rode a BMX bike without a back tire, on the rim for several months. I've also seen bikes with broken or cut frames ridden for long periods of time without disintegrating.
One of the two bikes I have now has a badly bent frame, the head tube is essentially vertical, the 27" frame won't take a front tire bigger than 24" without hitting the frame, and the rim hits the pedals if you try to turn sharp. The bike can still be ridden, and I do from time to time, mostly when my other bike gets a flat.
What's the most messed up bike you've ridden regularly?
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I have a great "sleeper" bike. It is an old rusty (original paint) girl's Western flyer. It looks rough, but I've greased and tuned up the bike, put a larger rear cog on the one-speed rear end to give it a super low gearing. It is actually pretty quick off the line. It makes an EXCELLENT city bike, and I love to beat the friggin'
bike messenger geeks away from a traffic light!
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Sounds cool
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Just wanted to say to the bicycles couriers out there that Phil's recent characterization of you as "friggin' geeks" is not shared by all of us. In principle, I'm grateful for just about every bicycle on public streets or roadways, and I definitely support the women and men who make their livings in traffic and on bicycles.
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The first post by Menatomy hit the nail on the head or the forks on the forks. I guess I was 12 when I made my chopper. I had 3 additional sets of forks pounded on a 26" bike frame. I had a 16" tire on the front, then I tried a shopping cart wheel. No bolt and nut, just good old fashioned elbow grease and a hammer. Yup, they fell off more than once, but man was I the talk of the neighborhood. My folks couldn't afford to buy me a Krate, so this was my Stingray Krate.
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Ha ha ha! That is great. The ULTIMATE
chopper: Superlong forks and the smallest wheel possible.
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In our neighborhood we use to play this stupid bike game,where we would get a bunch of sticks together and go to the mud puddles in the back yard.Then get a bike (usually your sisters bike or a frends sisters bike) and we'd get a victom to get on and go as fast as they could through the mud puddle. Then we'd try to throw the sticks into the spokes as they crused through .At first this was a pretty cool game because we only threw the sticks into the rear wheel and you'd usually skid to a stop. But as kids will always think as they do, it became more of a challange to throw sticks into the front wheel. I lost at this game once, did a face plant in the middle of that mud puddle, prior to that i did'nt know that mud could go that far up your nose.Not to mention when my sister saw what we did to her bike, she was'nt to pleased. Another cool thing we did with bikes when we were kids. In the winter we'd let out the air in our tires, get a chain add a couple of links to it and wrap it the long ways on the tires,get it snug then pump the tire back up and presto instant traction.Did i mention that we raced these bikes on the frosen over pond (not mud puddle i mentioned earler) way up in the woods. This was a pretty neat thing to do and usually got to be pretty challenging .But like i said earler kids will always think as they do, it soon was obvious that my frend Mike was really cool because he was popping wheelies on the ice.And it was cool untill he rode that wheelie over to the side of the pond that had just frozen a day before.He put the front wheel down and went right through the ice.Thankfully this was the shallow part of the pond where a stream ran in,Mike no sooner dissapeared in the ice he came flying out like a rocket and booked it home.So needles to say our days of frozen pond riding came to a end.Thankfully Mike was alright and we fished his bike out of the pond come early spring.This all happened back in the mid 70's glad to have made it through. That's my story and i'm sticking to it. Hope you enjoyed it.
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one day in the late 60's i was swimming at my friends house, and got out to play with my crackerjack magnifying glass, burning ants leaves and other things a 9 year old does. i tried it on the shoelaces of my supermarket sneakers, but they wouldnt burn. i jumped on my bike to go home and because i was late, i pedaled furiously, fanning the embers on the end of my shoelaces. i almost made it all the way home when the conflagration erupted, smoke billowing from my sneaker tops! do you know how sensitive your insteps are to heat? i do!
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Have any of you had a dog jump up and bite your but when you were rideing a bike
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Back around 1970 I had an import stingray-style bike (5-speed t-bar shifter, SunTour I *think*) that I'd customized a bit. I had recently added a nice HIGH sissy bar (I think it *may* have projected 2' above the seat--it was the tallest I could get).
One day while out riding on the street, I slid back in the bannan seat so my back was up against the bar. Next thing I knew, I was sliding down the bar onto the street.
Being young, I hadn't tightened things up quite enough, and the seatpost clamp had let go.
Holy ejection seat, Batman!
The bike was still going when I sat up! Fortunately, the car behind me had good brakes...
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Hi,
I am 15 so I haven't had much time to do enough stupid things-yet!
The stupidest things i can remember are: I rode my bike to school on day, and there is a very steep,fast hill there. Being a "cool" guy, my backpack had one of the straps hanging down, and when I went down the hill, the strap got caught in the spokes and the bike and I did a full flip in the air, and separated. I landed harder than the bike; I was out for 5 minutes. The other was when i rode down a bike path with my friend side-by-side. I said to turn left, and he decided to go right. That was what happened to the front fender on my '52 Murray. It'll live!!!!!
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My cousin Debbie was riding me on the back of my pink sting ray knock off complete with flowered banana seat and huge sissy bar (at least 10 feet tall! - I was seven). She got to close to the curb and I screamed "DDDeeeeeeeebbbbbbbiiiiieeeeeeee!!!!! MMMMyyyyyyy FFFooooooooooooootttttttt!!!!! She thought I was laughing and kept riding. I still have a huge white scar where the skin was sanded off of my ankle and it was over 20 years ago.
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1975. 16 years old. Schwinn Continental. It was a hot day, and I decided to take off my T-shirt while riding down the road. I sat up and rode with no hands, crossed my arms and grabbed the bottom edge of the shirt, and pulled the shirt inside out over my head. Except that the neck opening was smaller than I expected and the shirt got stuck around my head, with my arms stuck in the sleeves over my head. I tugged and tugged, weaving wildly around the road, and as the shirt collar finally came over my chin, I realized that it was so tight that it would probably pull my glasses off with it. That just wouldn't do, so I gave up trying to get the shirt off of my head and concentrated on getting my arms out so that I could at least reach my handlebars and brakes. I finally got one hand out just as I went off of the road into some soft sand. Amazingly, I was able to stop without falling over. The first thing that I did when I finally got the shirt off was to look all around to see if anyone was watching. To my relief, no one was, but after all these years, it would be nice if there had been a witness. It would have made a more interesting story, and I would also have a witness of the authenticity of my tale. Since then, I only take off loosely fitting windbreakers, one arm at a time, while riding!
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Stupid thing with a bike: Back in 1972 when I was 12, I had the idea to make L shaped brackets (metal shop was good for making something besides a dustpan) with a hole in the short side of the L (precursor to the trick pegs on today’s bikes, had I only known...). I’d nut them to the rear axle of my Fastback and a couple of my friends Stingrays. We used to ride with one person on back holding the sissy bar and standing on the L’s (this also allowed quadruple riding). We would ride fast down hill into my yard, and the person on the back would jump off and roll on the grass like Joe Manix would dive and roll under the closing door on the show’s intro. This was a blast for weeks until my friend jumped too late and hit my house on the roll. Ouch. Mom said “no more!”
We still got to do ramp jumps though (no double riders). Had a moodiest hill and a 6’ piece of 2’ wide plywood on a chair base stood 18” high at takeoff. Nailed the plywood to the street (for safety). Longest jump: 19 feet 5 inches by Donald Sterling (he had some kind of blue bike (huffy?) with a steering wheel for handle bars). Big area news. Destroyed his front wheel, but his name goes down in the record books. There are nails in the street to this day marking the takeoff and landing. How do you beat that?
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have any of you ever tried the jumping people method sometimes it works but sometimes it dont
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Back when I first started riding with my friends they were doing all these tight tricks that I didn't know how to do and they wanted me to do some so like a show off I thought I'd try a 180. Big mistake just as I went to whip it around I caught my back tire on the ledge and the bike flew out fromunderneath me and I landed on my back. It didn't hurt but I was very embarrased. Now I can do em easy I'm working on a 360 now.
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My first bike was a heavy cruiser purchased used in 1961.
I left it at my grandma's house when we moved from Long Beach, CA to Hawthorne some 25 miles away.
In 1970, I decided to ride it that distance but only after I did that chopper extension thing.
With the front wheel now almost 3 ft. in front of me and the majority of the weight over the back wheel,
it was a ride I was not willing to repeat.
During that same period, my riding buddy, Carl, and I would practice falling by taking our Schwinn Varsity's
full bore into playground sand pits. Actually we never needed the skill but it did sort of pay off 10 years later
when I dumped my Honda 350 in a road turnout near Bakersfield...the only time I ever fell off a motorcycle.
Not exactly exciting but we were pretty careful.
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MY STORY ISN'T REALLY A TRIKE BUT REALLY STUPID
I HAVE RAN INTO 6 PARKED CARS. 1 MOVEING CAR
4 TRUCKS 2 HOUSES 1 LAMP POST AND 3 STREET SIGNS
ALL ON MY BIKE
IF YOU BEAT ME ON ACCIDENTS THEN E-MAIL ME AT
BIGBILL03@HOTMAIL.COM
P.S. DON'T EVAN GET ME STARTED ON HOW MANY TREES
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Stay off of two wheels, ok?
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Just read all the stories on this page, laughed real hard, and was brought back to some great memories, steering-wheel handlebars, hammered on forks...I grew up in a very hilly section of Staten Island , NY. I lived at the top of a long steep street & all my friends lived down the hill. My street was dead end, had a flat part & a steep short hill, perfect for ramp antics. After an afternoon of ramp jumping my buddy Steve broke the chain on his coaster brake sting ray - therefore no brakes. Steve, always looking for the easy way, came up with tieing a rope between his bike & mine, him in front, so I could slow him down as he coasted down the street to his house. About halfway down the hill, the knot pulled out, Steve kept calling for me to slow down, but I was already laughing to hard to answer, he didn't realize we were disconnected, and when he turned around and saw me way up the hill, he panicked, lost control, and went off the road into a row of hedges which grabbed his bike perfectly upright and launched him about ten feet further into the hedge. Steve, if you should be out there and reading this, I feel bad about your broken wrist even after 20+years, but that's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen !
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This happened about 5 yrs ago: My friend and I were riding down this street fairly fast one day,he decided to slam on his brakes on an ashphalt shingle!, He skidded about 40 feet and came to an abrupt halt,on a curb! OUTCH!!! Any one here into freestyle/BMX? Write me if you are!!
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Playing chicken at 35 MPH is always great fun. as for doing stupid things to a bike, I've got a 6o's Grant that is covered compleatly in duct tape with a 16 inch front wheel (thats my favorite). I also have an 89 ralley imitation chopper that kicks a lot. I also have this THING with a 27 inch back tire a 20 inch front wheel and fork and no crank set or chain (needless to say, you can only go down hills).
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Playing chicken at 35 MPH is always great fun. as for doing stupid things to a bike, I've got a 6o's Grant that is covered compleatly in duct tape with a 16 inch front wheel (thats my favorite). I also have an 89 ralley imitation chopper that kicks a lot. I also have this THING with a 27 inch back tire a 20 inch front wheel and fork and no crank set or chain (needless to say, you can only go down hills).
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Now that the balmy weather we've been having in the midwest is coming to an end, I can't wait for some snow so I can have some winter fun on my Typhoon Middleweight!!
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I destroyed the first coil spring in my Pea Picker's springer
front end by riding it off a two foot drop. Dad was mad but also
proud that I bought the part and did the repair myself.
Later on, I received a skate-board and had a friend tow me behind
my Pea Picker like a water skier (25 ft rope). Remember, krates had
5 speed rear ends and were capable of pretty high speeds. I lost control
of the skate board just before my friend shifted to 5th. We were on the
concrete street in front of my house. I lost soooo much skin from my
knees and elbows. My other friends were doubled up on the lawn holding
their sides and laughing from the sight of me trying to run to keep from
falling after I lost control and tried the 'step-off and stop' manuever.
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When I was a kid I had a buddy who was bigger than the rest of us, so of course
he was the leader of our little pack. He lived in a mobile home that had a big dirt pile next to it, so you know what that meant, big time jump contest. So one day we decided to dig out the center of this dirt pile for a fire pit, (Evel Knievel influenced). We got some old wood and gasoline and made a huge fire. We couldn't see the other side of the pile from the rampside cuz the flames were that high. We kept daring each other to make the first jump but nobody would. Finally my big bully buddy decided that we were all chicken's and he was going to show us. He came flying towards the ramp so fast we couldn't believe it. He flew way over the fire pit and over the landing ramp too. When he landed he wiped out and slid all the way under the skirting of the mobile home. He skinned both elbows, one knee, and had major road rash on his shoulder. His sissy bar was toast along with his front rim and handlebars. Most of the damage to the bike occured when he went under the trailer. When he crawled out from out from under the trailer one of the other kid's said, "we might be chickens but we ain't stupid." We couldn't stop laughing after that.
To this day we still laugh about that story.
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one day, only a week or so after I started BMXing, my friendsteve busted out his makeshift ramp and we were all doing some crazy stuff( i was doing the craziest), so my friend dared me to do a barspin to no footer. I was hesitant but ended up doing it. Well I shouldn't have. In midair I messed up and tried to bail but couldn't get off my bike in time and did a face plant right into the ground. (Good thing it was grass.)
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About 1973 I had a regular 20" stingray style frame which I popped on about 3 extra sets of forks to chop it out. The forks being slightly curved rolled out in front of me and looked pretty cool. Most kids in my area would use only one extra set so I was the center of attention with my triple fork chopper. One day I rode this bike up to the gas station to get gas for my mini bike at home. I had a gallon or so in the can and was riding along just fine with one hand holding the can and one on the handlebars. Suddenly I hit a small rock,( and it was a small rock), right in the center of my front wheel and the front of the bike just went straight up in the air! The bike flipped over ( I was on concrete, OUCH!), I hit the pavement and somewhere in this mess the gas can hit the ground and splashed gas right in my face and eyes. I sat there with my eyes burning for some time before I could ride home. Also picked up a scrape or two.
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I was about 14 and had a schwinn 20" stingray. Me and my friends were always looking for something to jump over. We made the usual ramps which would shoot us maybe a couple feet off the ground if you were good. If not you bit the pavement or came down on your back. Takes awhile to catch your breath after that one. We found this hill by my house which was about 20' high and at the bottom was a smaller hill about 4' high. Boy a 14 year old could really get some air there. I managed some nice jumps at around 5' to 7' feet off the ground coming off the small hill and for a 14 yr old that was scary but great. We would always try to out do each other with the highest jump or best crash without knocking yourself out. This hill was surrounded by trees so you had to fly right to be safe. We had a small crowd of kids come by to watch us jump. They would not try because it was to much for them they said. So here was my chance to impress everyone with the mega jump. I started down the main hill peddling like mad to get top speed. At the very bottom I was hauling butt and heading up the second hill at lightining speed. I'm not sure what happened next because I was going right down the middle of the hill but when I launched ( which I was at least 7' up), I shot over to the left in the air. Next thing I was looking down at the 4 or 5 kids that I was about to come down on top of. Talk about some wide eyes, these kids were terrified and I was'nt to happy about it either. I did come down on top of a couple of the kids but lucky enough the only injury was a girls pink jacket that had a grease mark down the back where my sprocket hit her as I came crashing down. I was banged up slightly but still managed a couple more lower jumps before we went home.
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To: 1951, '52 or so on a Schwinn Phantom I think. Had a black triangular tank and spring fork.
On: How many people could ride it? Must have been at least 5. We were OK going down the test hill. So far so good! Then the hill flattened out quickly but the bike didn't notice and just kept going down.
THAT finished it with the entire wheel and fork parts wrecked.
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There I was, detailing my vintage 72 Schwinn Continental. STP had just come out with this new product and sent me a sample in the mail. The package bragged about making rubber and vinyl shiney and new looking! Who reads those fine print warning lables, anyway??? That stuff is slippery! I should have bathed in it before I took the turn at the bottom of that hill at high speed. Maybe I would have retained some skin on the left side of my body after the bike slid out from under me. Luckily, my body took on most of the fall and the only damage to the bike was a ground down left pedal.
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The product was STP, Son Of A Gun, in case someone else is brave enough to try it.
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Stupid, try jumping off a 2 1/2 foot high skatebroad ramp over pavement, the object was to jump from one ramp to the other with about 6 foot distance between them, go at top speed make the distance and get some air at the same time. Well a friend of mine tried this(first I must say he had successfully did this a coulpe times early)hit the ramp a top speed got some air( I say about 8 feet high) and missed the second ramp, hit the pavement so hard that the bike just stopped and sent him flying, when he hit the ground he skided a coulpe feet.OUCH!!!
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Stupid, try jumping off a 2 1/2 foot high skatebroad ramp over pavement, the object was to jump from one ramp to the other with about 6 foot distance between them, go at top speed make the distance and get some air at the same time. Well a friend of mine tried this(first I must say he had successfully did this a coulpe times early)hit the ramp a top speed got some air( I say about 8 feet high) and missed the second ramp, hit the pavement so hard that the bike just stopped and sent him flying, when he hit the ground he skided a coulpe feet.OUCH!!!Before anybody says "ya right",I must add that the bike used was one of those state of the art, light, stunt bikes.
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One moonlit night I was sprinting on my '71 Varsity. My brother and another kid were throwing pieces of old innertubes at me OUCH. I flew up on the sidewalk to get away and didn't see the pale yellow '67 Impala parked across the sidewalk. The car was invisible in the moomlight. Anyway I was hauling butt when I hit its right rear fender. I was launched through the air and landed on my chest in the grass, unhurt! The bike followed me partway and crashed behind the car. I drug the bile hone and my brother went back and washed the tire mark of the Chevy.
Bike damage: slightly bend headtube, compressed top tube and everything got out of adjustment. My dad fixed tne bike but he never figured out why the front wheel would hit your foot. That sas confessed after I got married.
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I was trying to bust out a PHAT superman
when my grips twisted (since i just put
them on yesterday) and my hands slipped off.
Out of confusion I did a backflip and landed
backwards with my fet on the peddals. Then I
rode off into the sunset naked!
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I remember WAY back in the early 70's my friend and I decided to tie our Schwinn Fastbacks together with an old bicycle inner tube we cut. The logical place to tie it to, we theorized, was at the rear of the sissy bar. It was great fun as we experimented with the laws of physics, taking turns rocketing past each other down the street in what seemed like an endless supply of "Bike Bungee" energy. I remember wondering why nobody else thought of this before just as the tube broke at Dan's end.....
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Came out of hospital feb 97 after hitting a pavement on (or coming Off) a BMX sprinter. Barreling Down one of those Arch Footbridges In town, Then the chain decided to disengage at that moment as i got the revs Up. Tore the base of my chin open 2". Yeah, hell. Two weeks later, Working on my Malvern Star Dragstar Project,
Decided to reassemble it as is and test the Sturmey (sometimes theres no first- Knowwhatimean?). Made it barely rideable by throwing a 26" set of forks bare through the steering column, no bearings, all loose but workable, 16" front and locked on the original headset. off i went. Stood up to get those revs up and the thing locked
on me (the bottom race jammed in the column as i was about to turn. I'm one way, the malvie the other, just don't work. Landed on my chin, ripped it open again, Stitches and all. Too embarrassed to go back too the hospital, So i crawled home and threw on a lot of bandaids, bathed it in dettol every few hours , and prayed.
It healed, after turning some wild colours and smells. A big red external Scar sits there now, still very touchy, making shaving there hell. Think i'll keep a gody there for good. Please, people, play it safe and use bearings and tightened races. Thanks.
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why don't you just go and blow your self off cause this site sux
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Hi,
I guess this doesn't really belong here, but it does involve stupidity.
Just in case any of the old engineers who designed the generator light are still around, think about this concept: You are riding through unknown terrain, lets say a park, at night. You turn on your light, and slow down. As you slow down, your light becomes dimmer, until it is nothing but a faint golden shimmer on your chrome. Now, you are in the middle of and unknown park, in the dark, with no light to guide you. Why did you buy that light again? I boggles my mind.
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1 month after I started riding me and my friends went dirt jumping.They convinced me to try a superman. Stupidly enough i tried it. I couldn't get my feet back on and I cracked my nads on my back tire. I ended up in hospital with one testicle missing.
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One bright Sunday morning, I hung a saddlebag on my '73 Varsity. I then put my Living Bible in and pedaled off to Sunday School. On my way home I kept hearing this curious whine. I stopped to investigate and found that the saddlebag was riding on the tire. Not only that, there was a hole burned in it and even worse there was a hole burned in the cover of the Living Bible. I think I rode fendered bikes to church afterwards.
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The following will not happen again these days!
I was too new in the hobby to know better.
I messed up, big time.
I had met the heir of MR. DEBATES and the RED DEVILS RACING TEAM
and had bought his personal track bike with prototype early Campy hubs and silk tires.The bike was a masterpiece worthy of display in the best museaums!
Also had a set of rollars, three rod brake bikes, and all his bike building tools!
This was the old masters personal stash!
I sold everything at a good price, like a fool! the guy I sold it to did the same, and he did the same and on and on until God only knows where it is now.I failed
in getting the book of newspaper clippings because it was "family history" and she moved away and passed away.
This was a big thing in the hobby to me and I blew it!
Sorry people! Clarence Kokkinis, P.O. Box 725428 Berkley, Mich 48072-5428
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I had a 28 inch wheel roadster with Sturmey-Archer
4 speed, rod brakes, and the enclosed chainguard. It was a 24 in frame
bike. A unique English roadster with ALLOY 28 X 1 1/2 Westwood RIMS !! Yes I know very well the rims and the bike and these babies were Alloy!
I had taken the badge off for some insane reason and lost it! Then I sold the bike instead of keeping it! My pal still has the bike and never fails to harass me unmercifully over the lost badge.
I am told that the URANIA was a British battleship.
Bike was unbelievably fast with those crazy rims that were origonal without a doubt. I have not seen them since and nobody believes me saying these were never made.
Thats what is so cool about British bikes, all the neat quirks that turn up. You never stop learning.
Sorry about that one too.
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I picked up a B.S.A.paratrooper bike through
some horsetrading and sold it instead of keeping the thing.
I wish I had kept it, and pals say it was one of the best bikes they ever saw me find in all my hunting.
The bike folded in half, and had 26 X 1 3/8 wheels.
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I was pleased to find a Sturmey flat glass head light
that was in great shape. All the others are found with dented chrome bezils.
I held it up to admire it and droped it on the cement floor! It bounced and smashed the glass lens
and of course the bezil was dented. I destroyed a nice piece that took a lot of bother to find.
I have 4 flatglass headlamps all with dented bezils. Can't seem to find one N.O.S. and get it on the bike!
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OOH BOY! The bike shop has those N.O.S. cottered English Raleigh spindles for DL1 TOURIST!! I have been hunting.
Only they wont send them, so I had to drive for them.
The highway was salted and I was careful and everything was going fine until I hit a patch of unsalted ice and lost control
and spun out and hit a tree! I still do not have the spindles, and they will not ship them. Lucky I was not killed. Damage was extensive to vehicle.
The tow company said people buy the farm all the time in the area in winter. They hit deer, spin out and hit stalled cars. They pointed out the deer graveyard and told stories.
I am glad I did not go into the lake and drown. It was cold out. Lucky I did not hit another car and was unhurt.
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I can't believe I havent seen this yet. I can't be the only one. I had a newspaper route so, had to have the beach cruiser w/rack and basket. Well after the route I slowly built it up to a bike I could race. Turned out to be a pretty decent CyclePro cruiser in the end. I ran out of things to do to it and in my boredom would turn the forks and bars around (upside-down) and ride the thing standing up. Difficult to explain but picture this. Cranks on the top of the bike, seat and post almost dragging the ground. Oh well, thats my contribution.
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Yesterday I was tightening my star nut, and I went of a double in it snapped in half because i tightened it too much!
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I sold my schwinn corrvette for 175 and now I have a Jaguar mark 2 But the gears are all screwed up! heres another once my brother stole my valve covers and rode away with them I was enraged chased after him he had a sting ray and was faster than the crap tyhoon I was on so I did the logical thing place my foot in the front rim of the tyhoon and catapalt myself onto his bike knocking him off (it worked) and I only broke my ankle and 1 toe to get my valve covers back from my brother...dont mess with my bike or ill bust your legs off and feed them to a shredder while you watch...(I worked for 4 years on a measly paper route for that bike and aint no one gonna touch it but me 19 years old and in love with a 45 year old bike whats wrong with me? respond if ya like...
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many years ago, I had what I call a paperboy special (had a paper route too). Riding home one day I was pulling wheelies off the rounded curbs in Phoenix. This was the only way to get the front wheel up. On the las one, I jerked the bars up as I hit the top of the curb. The bike came up and balanced fine but the front wheel kept rolling along the ground. Held the bile up for about 50 yards. It was the week after school got out so I spent the summer with my arm in a cast.
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How in tarnation did that manhole cover
get open like that?Aren't they supposed to stay put in the recessed lid?
This is not good, people! I put it back slowly,the blasted thing was heavy!! This can really mess up your day, and here I thought storm drain grates and loose gravel were bad.
Take a broom and clean up that gravel you see, the cyclist you see wipe out might be you!
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When I was a young lad the age of five (57 years ago!), our family moved into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of Wickliffe, Ohio. Up in the attic were about a dozen assorted old bikes. The ones that left the biggest impression on my young mind were two high wheelers (a.k.a "ordinaries"). I was too young to ride 'em. My dad didn't want 'em. They didn't have any value at the time. So I helped him throw the whole lot out the upstairs window onto a flatbed truck to be hauled to the dump. Most likely they remain there today, in the Wickliffe dump, waiting to be dug up. What treasures lie buried in landfills.
Mike
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When the cycle shop in England got my
requests for some old parts he said"
Come over here,and after lunch I will
hand you a shovel and tell you where to dig"
"When some shop owner dies leaving old parts
the blokes come in and it all gets carted to the dump, the parts
still wrapped up in the origonal boxes.
I don't know, I think I will stick to trashpicking and yard sales.
This can be hazardous, be careful and good luck!
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When the cycle shop in England got my
requests for some old parts he said"
Come over here,and after lunch I will
hand you a shovel and tell you where to dig"
"When some shop owner dies leaving old parts
the blokes come in and it all gets carted to the dump, the parts
still wrapped up in the origonal boxes.
I don't know, I think I will stick to trashpicking and yard sales.
This can be hazardous, be careful and good luck!
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We use to ride down to the creek with a rope tied to the sissy bar on our bikes. there was a perfect natural ramp on the bank of the river. Here's the technique hit the ramp [bank] at as high a rate of speed as possible often recreating the famous crash at ceasers palace without the broken bones of course. swimm to the bank and reel in the bike with the rope that's tied to the sissy bar.[repeat as many times as possible before it gets dark] P.S. don't tell your mother what you've been up to!!!
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my best friend's dad was a welder and when we cut the forks off of sting rays ouch! we would hammer them on to the forks of our good sting rays and then he would weld the the joints it was good for about a month or two unless you rode them off a ramp ! once again ceasers palace. follow up with plenty of band aids. my friends father also helped us make what we called an upside down bike. step 1 take 2 stingray frames and weld them together at thecrank tubes and the drop outs cut the head tube off of the top frame . weld a long peice of oil feild tie rod to the bottom of the goose neck so that it will reach the head tube of the bottom frame replace the crank in the top frame get a long chain to reach the rear sproket on the bottom frame. re asemble the bike and youl good to go. to get started run down the street pushing the bike as fast as possible then climb to the top of the bike and start to peddle as fast as you can to regain your balance. not dangerous at all{once again ceasers palace} also once again DON'T tell mom what you've been up to!!!!
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"NEXT TIME, YOU IDIOT! LEAVE THE HUB IN THE WHEEL!!
THESE ARE REALLY RARE, AND YOU MESS IT ALL UP."
wHERE DID YOU FIND THIS HUB?ANSWER ME YOU IDIOT!!
BRING THESE TO ME IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS!!!!
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I’m a 12 year old kid and I collect old bikes and build chopper bikes. On Jun 4 (the last day of school) I got my finger cot in the sprocket on my bike and I had to get stitches. Then a week later I was riding my chopper bike and I started to fall so I put my left lag down to stop me from falling and I pushed my lag out of socket and broke my hip. I had to go to surgery and get a pen put in my hip. Now my hole summer is ruined.
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My winter home in Florida is a milee away from a bit of old Florida named Terra Ceia Island on the gulf coast. Its a great place for bike riding with but one flaw; dogs-big, vicious, sometimes unrestained dogs. Every home on the island has at least one. 2 years ago my friend and I were attacked by a couple of hound like mutts and saved from injury by a women who was working on flower beds at a small church nearby. She apparently had some knowledge of the dogs and came running and screaming at them which caused them to retreat. Vowing not to have this happen again, I sent away for a few cans of Halt pepper spray. A week or so later we once again invaded these dog's domain but this time I gave one of the beasts a good shot in the face with Pepper spray and did it ever work.
The dog turned around without a sound and high tailed it behind the house taking its mate with it. On subsequent rides we even tried to entice them out but they refused to play. By and by they dissapeared, probably run over or shot. This past winter a new threat arose in the form of 3 dogs, one of which was undoubtedly a pit bull. These dogs were fenced but would charge the fence with such viciousness that it was still frightening to pass by. We tried many times to sneak quietly by but to no avail. One sunday while riding with my friend, his wife, and my wife, I had had enough. I lagged behind and vowed to hit the pit bull with a good shot of pepper spray. Did you ever approach a ravening dog to within a foot? I didn't mean to come so close but in my excitement lost control of the bike and bumped into the fence. There I was face-to-face with this raging beast. I got away a good shot somehow and the dog turned as did the earlier mutt and streaked for the house taking the other two dogs with him. Success, I thought, but on subsequent rides they came out again. Apparently pit bulls don't learn. I never attempted to repeat the adventure but depended on speed to limit the duration of the ordeal. Maybe this coming winter I will try again but this time I will try not to get so close.
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Oh, Terry!! Do be careful you really
got hurt good and will need to take it easy and listen to your doctor!!
I shuddered to read that you injured yourself.
Best Wishes pal, we want you to be with us for a long time you can learn a lot about antique, vintage, and all types of bike collecting and customizing here in these pages! You have a lot to learn as I did at 12 and this will take time. You could have killed yourself! You need to retire from stunts and do something else for awhile.
Take care, bicycle pal Chris.
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PLEASE LOOK IN BICYCLE BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY OR BOOKSTORE AND READ ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE DOGS. What if you drop your can of pepper spray, smarty? A Pit Bull CAN KILL YOU!!!!! It happens all the time!
Same with a Rotweiler,German Shepard, and a host of other dogs.
The Pit Bull never learns and can tear you to ribbons.
I dated a lady who had a Doberman named Mangus. One day he got out and before she could stop him with a command he had bit a guy in the hand. He fainted from the pain, shock, and trauma as so would you. Now tell me what would have happened if she was not there to stop that dog from killing him?? He was unconscious and WOULD HAVE BEEN MAIMED OR KILLED!!The dog was trained to kill tresspasers!!
It seems to me that you are bothering dogs with this pepper spray without proper cause. You may be breaking the law here too. The dog is trained to look out for the owners property and will bark and chase you if you come around where you have no right to. It is what dogs do, they protect property and the owner.The dogs owner could come after you. The pepper spray is only supposed to be used if you are really being chased by a dangerous dog in an emergency.It is smart to try and avoid the dog.
You are supposed to be commuting or enjoying a ride and not getting into trouble with something that can kill you.Do you remember what happened im the movie "JAWS"? Brody got eaten!! He should have not gone messing with sharks! Same thing with dogs! A little girl was killed by three dogs that pulled her down off her bike.
A MATURE CYCLIST DOES NOT MESS WITH A DOG UNLESS HE/SHE NEEDS TO PUT UP A DEFENSE.
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Thanks for your carson Chris.
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I would have to say that the most stupid thing that I have done on a bike was not very original. I am sure that there is more than one person out there that has been raceing on his stingray, pedeling standing up for max power and had the chain come off of the sprocket.
You can guess the resuts. As for the most stupid thing that I have done with a bicycle. In 1992 I started getting into old bicycles. I managed to collect a couple of them. in 1993 I was injured at work and told that I would never walk without a cain and never ride a bicycle again. In a bout of depression I sold (gave away) my bicycles. Now for the most stupid part. I moved from my home town to start re-training for a new career, when I did I left a Good Humer ice cream bicycle (needing restored) in the shed. Now six years later I am back into bikes and regret the loss of the ice cream bike. But I am branching out from the balloon tire bikes and getting into custom bikes.
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Well, I'm only 14--But, I've still topped most 40 year olds with scars!! One time, when I was about 8, me and my friend decided we'd ride over his ditch on our bikes. So, we got oging really fast and I went first--I made it. He went next and he flipped 3 times nd stayed with te bike. Another time was about a month ago. I was riding with my friends and we rode by a 4-foot ledg. I had ridden off of it before, so I decided I would try it. But, the difference here was: I had done it on my bike. I was riding my brother's. And his handlebars were already bent back from landing on the back wheel so many times. Anyway..I rode off of it. I didn't pull up enough on the handlebars. I fell straight to the concrete face-first. The handlebars spun around and the brake lever went ll the way into the back of my thigh. Then I had to ride 3 miles home with flesh hanging out of my leg. And, just to prove to my friends that Iwasn't chicken, I jumped 2 jumps on the way home. I have a lot more but, we'd be here forever so, I'll end this. bye y'all!! Keep bikin'
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Tyrone:
You make some very good points and I will follow your advice. In the first encounter I described, I was being threatened on a public road and feel justified to act. The second episode, I was reacting to the several times I was scared s---less by the brute and wanted to get even-not smart. All I can think of though, is what will happen if the dog gets under the fence or for some other reason has access to passersby? I know a fellow who knows a fellow who was hiking in Yellowstone and was approached by a grizzly with intent. Even though he had a bear bomb it didn't stop the bear. He was saved by a ranger who fired shots and scared the bear off. Nuff said but I will continue to carry my pepper spray.
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Fred, I am sorry that I came down too hard on you.
You are entirely justified i using the pepper spray If threatened. Especially so if the beast scares you S-less. Spray him good then.
Another thing to do (if it gets ahold of you) is to KICK IT IN THE B---S! Give it something to bite down on such as the bike pump that fits onto the bike with pegs. Or you can carry some kind of cane and wack it.
The fence needs the attention of the owner IMMEDIATLY! I suggest writing a letter or a polite visit.This is tragedy waiting to happen.
The bear story is something else! A miracle he was there to save him.You need a gun in that case I suppose.I have never heard of a bear Bomb.I suggest having the pepper spray cliped onto the bars ready for use. Can you go another route? The whole ride is ruined if you get terrified.You might want to look and see how you can go faster on your bike.
I had a large white truck dematerilize out of the 4 th dimension and almost run me over. Dogs, cars, loose gravel,sewer grating,opening car doors,pedestrians that are exiting buisnesses,oil on the pavement,gangs comming after my butt for going thru sacred territory. Yes, we do need to be careful.Ride careful and carry a big stick (or a cell phone) I have been having flashbacks of this german sheperd who's growling noises had me repenting my sins. Hey! I could market St. Christopher medals for bicyclists!!
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I am going to keep a first aid kit in my bike bag. In case something should happen.I look like a geek but I wear the yellow reflective safety vest always on my bike.
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Well you could do what tom cat does carry a nice steak with you (rat poisoning)
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Tyrone it.,al.
I guess the best thing to do is keep doing what I have been doing when I ride by this particular property, i.e., go like hell. It is typical of most homes on Terra Ceia Is. to be fenced in with dogs. properties are expensive and secluded in the semi tropical jungle and would be easy to rob as happens in FL all too often. I can't blame the owners for keeping dogs but pit bulls are a lethal weapon and should be outlawed in my opinion. For protection I have pepper spray on all my bikes in FL. In addition I carry a cell phone in case of accidents. I have seen a couple of people who carry a heavy cudgel on their bikes. I should say however that it is not all that bad but it is the possibility of this brute getting loose that worries me. I may do as you suggest and call the property owner up and discuss it with him. He will probably tell me that its his right to protect his property
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anybody know of a web site with good tricks and beginner tricks if so e-mail me at drsha@aol.com
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While waiting for an estimate at a collision shop, I asked why they had a picture of a corvette with a chunk torn out of the rear bodywork over the right rear wheel.
He told me that a dog was chasing this car and that the dog bit the car and tore a chunk of fiberglass out of the car. He said that this particular dog must have had really powerful jaws to be able to do that. The bill on the bodywork on the vette was not cheap.
Some of these dogs are really something.
I had to go pull out all of the stops and go into supersonic speed to avoid this one dog and had a very hard time manuvering the path because I was going too fast to steer properly. My only thought was to just get away. I went thru a pricker bush and kept going, my leg bleeding and sock torn. I just managed to beat it and it gave up, some of them do not and I have to keep up this high speed flee for some time and I get tired.
MANGUS, THE MANGLER(the doberman was later poisoned by someone with a doctored steak)
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While sitting on a porch my pal told me that he informed his neighbor that if his pit bull ever gets near his newborn daughter, he would kill it. He has to worry for his two daughters safety in his new house and isn't happy about it! I think the dog is a stupid looking, clownish, freak of a dog.
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Do not leave your bike unlocked, even for a minute!
I only left it for a minute to go into the store for a gallon of milk. It was gone when I came out!
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One time i was at the local bike shop i had rode up on my stingray that i had just got all finished went into the store saw someone looking at it i didnt really think much of it the next minute i turn around the guy was riding it out of the parking lot so i grabbed my buddies bike took off after him he stopped threw the bike down and ran into the woods i couldnt catch him and hes darn lucky i didnt
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When I was younger, I rode a 75 Honda 750 dressed up with a Vetter Windjammer Fairing and Bates King Size bags. Altogether the bike and I weighed almost 800 pounds and presented a fairly lethal profile to any dog that would be so foolish as to attack. My technique was to turn the motorcycle toward the dog and accelerate. In all cases the dog would back off, I believe because it sensed that it was being attacked by a bigger animal. Clearly, an advantage of the motorcycle was that I COULD outrun the beast should it not back down. At 6' and 220 pounds, I suspect that the same technique would work while riding any of my bicycles. I hope so, because there's no chance that I could go fast enough on any of my old Schwinn or British 3-speeds to outrun a good sized dog. I used to have a hound that would run along with me while I rode, and pedaling as hard as I could in top gear on my Schwinn Varsity, I could never go faster that he could. It was quite a sport, and living in the country, no one cared that he would run loose. Maybe I'll get some pepper spray, just in case.
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Back in '84 all my buddies and I were at this stupid festival wreaking havoc on our bikes. Well, It was hot as hell that day. We saw an ice cream truck and decided to pursue. There was a flight of about 40 steps to conquer, no problem.
After the steps I darted into the street. There is this damn median strip about 4 feet wide, to cross. Done it a million times, but not that day. I approached for the bunny hop over the median, pulled up , sailing nicely, next thing I know my back tire catches the other side while landing and it bounces me over the handlebars. Landed straight down on top o' my head.
After coming to on the side of the road all my friends are looking over me.
Are you alright ?
AHHHHH.....
That's when I started to spit up blood.
The sight of me spitting blood made this guy we used to call boner nose puke on me.
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i had a 1997 lowrider bike [now since stolen]i used to ride it everywhere i used to hop it too one day i was hopping so high that the front wheel sliped out the fork stabbed a crack in the street flipping me over the handle bars i still think is funny but i learned i own 2 a sting ray and a low collection my ray is still og with lowrider add ons DONT HOP A LOWRIDER UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT THE FRONT WHEEL IS ON TIGHTLY
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I was just a kid is my only defence. As a child I thougt I was the best cyclist ever, I rode around no hands constantly and a wheelie was kid stuff. One day to prove my greatness to the neighborhood I bet I could ride down our street (one I'd been down a million times) with my eyes shut. Well I made it down the rather large hill at the top of the street and even through the intersection. I was about three quarters of the way when I got to the only curve on our road, I knew it was my last hurdle... It was a small miscalculation that sent me into that drainage ditch and finally into a rock pile. Don't worry, I was fine but as long as I live I'll never forget the feeling of crashing eyes closed. It was quite a ride!
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You all are pussys i have rode sents i have been 4 i now have a CR 125 and i could out ride all of you if you think not just Email me and we will find a time if not just sit there be hind your computer and shut up but if you want to be and man just come forth and mail me i and all was ready so bring it on!!!
CR
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Hi, My name is Craig Kelchen, and I am a graphic Design student at the University of Northern Iowa. For one of my classes, I have been assigned to design a 'zine. 'Zines being defined as low-budget, special interest, limited quantity magazines. I am interested in doing a zine about old bikes, which I am very interested in. I have 2 Schwinn middleweights and an AMF middleweight from the mid '60's.
I am asking for your help in this endeavor. I would like to request any stories, essays, anecdotes, etc. that you folks would be willing to submit about old bikes. Any old bikes - musclebikes, ballooners, middleweights, etc. Any good material will be included in the final print. Tell us what you ride, and why. Stories about your first bikes. What you love (or hate) about old bikes. Anything that would be interesting. I will also consider putting in a few photos of bikes, provided you can e-mail me a high-resolution photo of your bike.
The format for this project will probably be about 20 5.5 x 8.5 pages, so I don't have a whole lot of space for exceedingly long stories. The ideal length would be between 1-4 paragraphs for stories. I would also love to have a few 1 or 2-liners for some filler or margin material, so send any good quotes or observations.
If I get enough good material, and if I enjoy doing the first, I may do a second issue, and possibly keep going beyond that. It just depends on how much good stuff I can come up with and I can get from other collectors.
I would appreciate any help you can provide. Please send only stuff that you have written personally, instead of other people's stuff you have copied from forums such as this. This way I can credit the material to you, which by the way, I plan to do. So if you do send material, please include your name and city. If I use your material, I will send a copy of the 'zine to you, so also include your mailing address.
If you are interested in contributing material to this 'zine, which as of now I have settled on the name "headbadge" (if you have any better ideas, please let me know), please e-mail me at:
headbadge@yahoo.com
Also if you have any questions direct them to the same address. Thank you very much for any help you can give me.
Craig Kelchen
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Dateline with Stone Phillips just did a
great show on bicycle theft. I never knew about a sucker- pole before. I will avoid them now! I have gone and bought a Kryptonite New York lock thanks to the show. I thought the part about the bikes on bardges going out of the country was interesting. I am glad the bike thief was caught and got hurt jumping out of the 4 storey window! I wanted to get my hands on him!!
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Hiya,
I was racing around today on my Zipper powered '63 Schwinn Typhoon. You know just cruzin'; when suddenly I got the brilliant idea to go into a gated community and show it off some. Well to begin with, When I left I thought about putting on my riding gear (leather jacket and gloves) but decided it was so warm that I'd enjoy the ride more without. So I'm doing around 25 M.P.H. in these cul-de-sacs. I mean I had that bike laid over almost on its side going arond these! When all of a sudden, I feel the bike sliding away, out from under me; (In real time this all happened in about 3 seconds) but i see myself slowly losing the bike. My Schwinn is driftring away and I see myselfgoing past the bike. Suddenly the sensation of burning is on my palms and arms and i can see myself slowly sliding along belly down along the asphalt.
to me this took minutes. it was all in slow motion...
Of course I get up and look around to see if anyone saw,
Oh yeah! this guy is starting to come to see if I'm ok while laughing his a$$ off!
Now the stinging starts, so I go to start the motor and realize the cap had flown off and 90% of my gas mix is spreading out across the blacktop. well, I just wanted to get home to clean and dress my now stinging, extremely painful road rash. I start it up, take off full bore yelling "WOOOO-HOOOO" at the top of my lungs.\
BlAHP.
Out of gas.
I peddaled 1 1/2 miles home.
I don't know which is worse; the hurt or the humility... :-}
thanks for listenin'
Rif "the creature from the black leather lagoon" Addams
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My friend Sue is practicing backing the car into the garage, so she can just drive straight out in the morning. I think I'll move all the bikes out of the garage and into storage until I'm sure she has this down pat. TURN THE WHEEL THE OTHER WAY!! OH MY,LOOK OUT!!!! SLOW DOWN, SUE!!
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Rif, sorry to hear about our crash... but I needed a good chuckle today and you provided it. Thanks
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I saw the show on Dateline about bike theft in New York City. The pole is only held in place by a bolt and nut making it easy as pie for scum sucking bike thieves to steal bikes. I never knew about a sucker pole before and I am the kind of nitwit who would fall into this trap believing that it is safe. I thought to myself the other day, "Why does'nt someone just weld the pole together so the thief cannot slide the pole up and steal the bike?" If the pole is fixed like this the pole is safe to use with a Kryptonite lock! You can buy a portable welder, but this should be only done by a city maintence worker not the common Joe.The pole is city property so lets get the city to weld these wherever you live!
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Hello again! I've gotten a pretty good response to my original post. I'm still compiling stories, etc for this old bike 'zine I'm working on, and planning on getting it all put together in the near future. I'd love to have more stuff from even more people interested in old bikes, so I can fill out the first issue, and even possibly do a second! (or more) So again, here's my original post. Again, if you submit stuff that I use, I'll gladly send you a copy free of charge. It's a low-budget publication, laser printed and photocopied, but I hope to have a good time doing it, and if I get enough interesting stuff, hopefully people will have a good time reading it.. Thanks again,
Craig Kelchen
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ORIGINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES.....
Hi, My name is Craig Kelchen, and I am a graphic Design student at the University of Northern Iowa. For one of my classes, I have been assigned to design a 'zine. 'Zines being defined as low-budget, special interest, limited quantity magazines. I am interested in doing a zine about old bikes, which I am very interested in. I have 2 Schwinn middleweights and an AMF middleweight from the mid '60's.
I am asking for your help in this endeavor. I would like to request any stories, essays, anecdotes, etc. that you folks would be willing to submit about old bikes. Any old bikes - musclebikes, ballooners, middleweights, etc. Any good material will be included in the final print. Tell us what you ride, and why. Stories about your first bikes. What you love (or hate) about old bikes. Anything that would be interesting. I will also consider putting in a few photos of bikes,
provided you can e-mail me a high-resolution photo of your bike.
The format for this project will probably be about 20 5.5 x 8.5 pages, so I don't have a whole lot of space for exceedingly long stories. The ideal length would be between 1-4 paragraphs for stories. I would also
love to have a few 1 or 2-liners for some filler or margin material, so send any good quotes or observations.
If I get enough good material, and if I enjoy doing the first, I may do a second issue, and possibly keep going beyond that. It just depends on how much good stuff I can come up with and I can get from other collectors.
I would appreciate any help you can provide. Please send only stuff that you have written personally, instead of other people's stuff you have copied from forums such as this. This way I can credit the material to you, which by the way, I plan to do. So if you do send material, please include your name and city. If I use your material, I will send a copy of the 'zine to you, so also include your mailing address.
If you are interested in contributing material to this 'zine, which as of now I have settled on the name "headbadge" (if you have any better ideas, please let me know), please e-mail me at:
headbadge@yahoo.com
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Headbadge! I like the name!
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My only excuse for a SECOND stupid bike trick is that the first one was a long time ago--more than fifty years!
Last summer, I decided to move to clipless pedals, so I installed some on my touring bike. My first test ride convinced me that I'd better adjust them to release a bit easier, so I headed back to the garage--AND I COULDN'T GET MY FEET OUT OF THE PEDALS! No sweat, I thought, I'll just roll up to the garage and catch myself. I put my hand out, I stopped, and the bike decided to roll backwards. I watched my arm make a new joint just below the shoulder. I've had broken bones before, but nothing like this. It took six weeks to heal, but I'm still riding with old-fashioned toeclips.
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Sorry to hear about your accident. Get well soon, friend! What brand of pedals?
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A friend of my Dad's gave me a home-made motor bike when I was 15. It ran, but the rear tire tube was shot. Not having any resources of my own, and in those days we didn't think of asking our folks for any thing-I don't know why, thats just the way it was. Anyway I had to think of some solution to the problem. What do you think we had plenty of on the farm? we had corncobs. That object that was used to make smoking pipes, to use in place of Charmin in the old outhouse. You don't believe me? Its true. Man were they rough. Back to the motorbike. I stuffed that back tire full of cobs and took off. It was a lumpy ride for a little while, then it got smoother, then it got dusty. Soon, I was laying down a cloud of cob dust until there wunt' no more cobs in the tire. Bad Idea. That was the end of the motorbike. Now, I can't imagine letting such a thing as not having a tube spoil my fun but that was in the old days when parents didn't buy every thing that a kid wanted.
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