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StumpGrnder t1_ixmn4ay wrote

Did you make ramps with bricks and boards and jump it? That was our neighborhood sport around 10-11 years old. Some insane jumps and crashes.

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ArtVice OP t1_ixmqpu2 wrote

Yes! Until I came down hard once and felt like I'd broke my tailbone. Evil Knieval I was not.

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Fire_Mission t1_ixmsffb wrote

Holy crap. This could be my picture, but would have been 77.

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ArtVice OP t1_ixmsvqb wrote

I moved from there in '72 so that's my top limit for possible year.

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Fire_Mission t1_ixmupds wrote

I had the same (or similar) bike and the same haircut.

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mwardent t1_ixmk2qh wrote

I had a gold stingray just like that one, greatest bike ever for a 12 yr old

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ArtVice OP t1_ixml5d1 wrote

A year or so later I was riding on the sidewalk and the front wheel came off and the forks dug 3 foot grooves in the concrete. I moved away but years later came back and found the faint remains of those grooves.

tl;dr Kids maintain your rides!

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calguy1955 t1_ixmujdc wrote

Nice ride! What was it, Huffy? It doesn’t look like my Schwinn.

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ArtVice OP t1_ixmuz5g wrote

Not positive, but probably was a Huffy. I think my 1st Schwinn was my 10 speed.

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Playful-Ad6556 t1_ixndcdx wrote

Had one of these in red, white and blue for the 1976 anniversary. Great memories!

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TLstewart t1_ixokhp3 wrote

Used to have a Schwinn Apple Krate myself in the early 70s

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FreidaFreak t1_ixp7l09 wrote

Dude: That’s a picture of me in 1970. #stolenvalor

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ArtVice OP t1_ixmkhdz wrote

Not long after this I was perched up in the 2nd story back window of our house shooting my Daisy BB gun "in the proximity" of the nice old lady next door kneeling in her yard working. My sights must have been off bc I hit her in the leg. She jumped up and I tried to cover my tracks. Minutes later the not so nice owners of that garage were prying BBs out of the wood to show my parents. Dad whalloped me good. Me outstanding example of law abiding citizen ever since (ahem).

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LastMughal t1_ixmutbf wrote

You'd have got prison nowadays, a wallopin was a good let off.

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ArtVice OP t1_ixmve9k wrote

I felt horrible about it. I liked her, but shooting at regular targets had grown stale.

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Trick_Donkey_4993 t1_ixmms7u wrote

Omg my first bike was just like that. I wish I still had it.

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Qirawee54 t1_ixmqzuh wrote

Nice a friend could ride on the back and one on the front!

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lhurker t1_ixobqvt wrote

I had a "British Green" one of those Raleigh Choppers.

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