Administrators Eric Posted September 10, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted September 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, janice6 said: But, for a short while it was quick! Look at that bike. Banana seat, sissy bar, ape-hanger handlebars, headlight... He’s got all the boxes checked except handlebar tassels and a couple of playing cards, held on by clothes pins, flapping in his spokes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 My sissy bar was, like, 9' high. You'd better enjoy the crash, because there was no jumping off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 After the ape-hangers, I put mx-style bars on it. Because I needed something to hit my mouth into, too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 10, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted September 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: After the ape-hangers, I put mx-style bars on it. Because I needed something to hit my mouth into, too. When I was ten, I once jumped my bike off a ramp and bounced off the seat when the bike landed. I landed straddling on the rapidly spinning rear tire, as I had no rear fender, while wearing cutoff jean shorts. The spinning tire left blackened friction burns high up on both inner thighs. Until I fell off, the knobs on the rear tire played my cubes like a player piano and I’m here to tell you, I hit some high notes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Me and my buddy once rode a radio flyer down the steepest road around. It was a flat-bed style one, and it didn't have the stake-walls on it. Everyone knows that steering a wagon, at high speed, is only just luck. I was steering. It went dangerously straight. We didn't know, with my perfect middle-of-the road aviation skills, we'd hit the manhole cover, sunken three inches down. The wagon instantly stopped. We kept going, at 50mph. The stake-bed brackets on each side of the wagon ripped our thighs into meat-hanging gore. We never straddled a wagon again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 We used to put on all my hockey equipment, and intentionally jump (probably the sissy-bar bike) down this steep dirt-hill, to see who could make the best crash. One time, Tim won. So we never did that again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 The 'sissy-bar' bike was an English brand I got when I was little. Don't remember, really. Triang-Hornby, is my guess. It had white tyres. Brought it back to America. It was a boy's bike, but looked like a girl's, because, I don't know, that's what the limeys did. This thing had a weird gear-ratio, I could beat 10-speeds uphill. It was a magnificent bike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 I dressed up like a cowboy, which I was wont to do, in London (hey, I was borned in Texas), and decided that my bike should be a horse. So I tied a rope onto each end of the handlebars, and rode it like a horse! For a while. Then, one handlebar came untied and I did a good head-crash. I never did that again, either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 The bike finally died, when most of the swing-arm broke off (probably during Tim's epic episode), and all the local bike-shops declared it an unidentifiable metal, and no one could weld it. The one place tried, and only melted the rest of it away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Eric said: Look at that bike. Banana seat, sissy bar, ape-hanger handlebars, headlight... He’s got all the boxes checked except handlebar tassels and a couple of playing cards, held on by clothes pins, flapping in his spokes. That kid's dad works in an office. The sissy bar is on backwards and the chain guard is missing. Otherwise it looks good. tom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Historian Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 12 hours ago, railfancwb said: Now that camera... it looks like a Hasselblad, but I don’t know when those were first made. Think one or several were left on the moon. About a fine a camera as anyone ever produced. I think they were used at the Nuremberg trials. They were famous for medium format film cameras, excellent glass, and teh camera could take photographs without making noise. Even used ones sell for loot on ebay. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swampfox762 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) No There's a place to make a stand!!! Would love to see Inside that place. Edited September 10, 2020 by Swampfox762 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LostinTexas Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Swampfox762 said: No There's a place to make a stand!!! Would love to see Inside that place. For the time frame, probably very meager. Little maintenance, probably very temperature regulated. I would imagine it a very comfortable setting. Only problem is air flow might be compromised, but the old timers were very ingenuitive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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