Around here the Huffy bikes where sold in the OK tire stores, and yes they were heavy.

My first lightweight bike was and english raleigh with a 3 speed trans built into the hub. Those things were dangerous. Cranking hard standing up to go up a hill and the trans would slip a gear, god that hurt, fall over and lay there like a dead man while your buddies laughed their a$$ off. Still hurts to think about it.

 

I had a Raleigh also.

If you had taken the time to look int he saddle bag [the first thing to get tossed] you would have seen the tool to keep the thing from slipping.Weren't those ole hand pumps handy [for clubbing your neighbors and that's about it]

I still have a scar on my big toe where I got it caught in the front spoke OUCH

 

Citcapp.... those were awesome!!! I'm not older than dirt yet ( my sister Jean is... she's 72!) but I remember a lot of those things. I try to tell my daughter and her friends about those things and they just laugh! Or give me the old deer in the headlights look! Kind of like when my nephew and I look through Jean's yearbook... we laugh like crazy!!

Thanks for posting those. Brought a smile to my heart!

 

Yep - mine was about 65lbs. Most reliable mountain bike I ever had. Bought it in '92 and put about 1000 miles on it over 15 years, never an issue, not even a flat! I won a few off road races with it with friends, them having Giant and Cannondales. One guy learned the hard way not to wear a floppy loose tank top while riding int he woods - he literally got hung in a tree and his bike went out from under him. It hit the ground and I ran over it...
I gave the Huff to my sister when i bought an expensive "real" lightweight mountain bike. Had two flats on it on its first ride into the boonies, 5 miles from the car. Stupid lightweight tires are as thin as condoms - I had to buy tire liners to keep sandburs from getting the tube. Sometimes the added weight is better durability!

 

I had a Raleigh, English Racing Bike was the cool term.

I thought mine was the only one that slipped like that.
Your foot slipping off a pedal did that too, I tried to jump a ditch once and I can still see stars.
Funny how you can remember every one of those those moments vividly??
I guess it was meant to be that way, once bitten twice shy.

Why the boy bikes had the bar up high and the girl's low has always baffled me, not a good safety design. (I know it was for girl's skirts and dress clearance)

I think the early balloon tired and iron framed Huffys equipped with all accessories that were powered by 18 D cells, rear seat, full fenders, coil spring dampened forks and front drum brake weighed 1.768 tons.

They were great to make motorbikes out of.
A piece of angle iron, a centrifugal clutch, the big pulley deal that scewed to the spokes, a fan belt and a liberated Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine is all you needed.
We did a tandem bike motorbike once, the back seat guy had to control the engine, freaked you out when you were driving.

 

My sis had a big bike like this and it had a sissy bar, too - fitting, huh?

When me and my friends were in our early teens, they rode 20 inchers and I had a 26" beach cruiser. It got its nickname "bigfoot" by earning it - I ran over lots of the other guys bikes and just kept going.

Geez - I did not even try that back then... Sounds like you were a couple o' peels short of a banana seat...
I did however put a YZ80 engine on a Sears minibike before - It was a good 2-wheel tractor. It pulled the big dump trailer in the background... This was over 20 years ago.

 

....I thought mine was the only one that slipped like that.
Your foot slipping off a pedal did that too, I tried to jump a ditch once and I can still see stars.


How Redgoat came to be!!!


....Sounds like you were a couple o' peels short of a banana seat...


That's a funny one!!!

 

Sissy bars were for hooking your parachute to, you had to throw it far or it would go in the spokes and you would crash and burn.

The Schwinn Krates and real Stingrays/Banana Bikes were for rich kids, we just bought the stingray handlebars and banana seat at the Giant Tiger and modified ours, size or type of bike didn't matter.

Now Redgoat wants an orange metalflake banana seat and a six foot sissy bar with a Maltese cross on it for his lawn tractor, mine stays factory stock.


That cow? skull on your utililty minibike is about the coolest thing I've ever seen Rob.

There's a bird skull with skeleton trapped behind a brake line inside the frame of my GTO.
It's factory and I'm leaving it, they're only original once.

I had a balloon tire Schwinn I stripped down then put thick spoke tandem bike wheels on.
I was mountain bike when mountain bike wasn't cool.
You could throw it off a mountain and it wouldn't hurt it, may scuff the wide whitewalls a little but that's about it.


Did you take apart to see how it worked or modify everything you owned too Rob???

 

...Now Redgoat wants an orange metalflake banana seat and a six foot sissy bar with a Maltese cross on it for his lawn tractor, mine stays factory stock.


Oh Lord......

 

Like "a couple a quarts short of an oil change"?

I was ahead of you then. I had (and still have in the attic) a Krate frame with all sorts of other parts making up the bike part. The heavy mags from a Huffy, a crank from a roadmaster, etc... I had the big seat with triple spring action from a beach cruiser, too. When the wheels turned egg shaped from running into things, the ride was nauseating...
About the only parts that never broke were the frame and wheels.
I broke seat posts and handle bars the most.

Thats what I thought - still have the skull (and minibike, too). I now have a coyote skull on it...
I wanted the "Ice Pirates" vehicle look. I liked crashing through stuff like they did...

I have a Maltese cross taillight on the minibike - would look great on your tractor!

Good thinking. I have a mouse sketeton in the garage... Musta fell off the Olds.

Both. Imagine my mom's reaction when she came home one night when I was 5 years old and found my tricycle in about 20 pieces... (true story!)

Mini bikes and go carts were my thing when I was 15. Note the non-factory options I added...

I now think i want to take the YZ80 motor and but it on this old recliner i have...

 

I wonder if Rob's too young to use a clothes pin to hold a playing card to the spokes of his Bike?


MY dad gave me his pocket knife to so I could take apart the drum my aunt gave me for Christmas [Just to see how it worked of course.]

Come to think of it, It was never quite the same

 

Did the go kart have a heated seat too Rob?

You were/are a double devil dog gearhead Rob, I'm impressed.

Was the go-kart stereo for you or to warn people you were coming with the speakers pointed that direction?

The motorized armchair thread may be coming back from the ashes.
Heated and massaging seat.

I would say Rob would of had a V-rroom motor Jamesbo, or he built one from an old TV he found in the trash.

 

I remember that quite well. The generator from the lights made a more distinct "whirring" noise though.
I had enjoyed turning the bike over, cranked the wheel as fast as I could, and fed in sticks... HEY - maybe I can still do that now and make mulch out of my tree branches! Beats buying a mulcher...

Nice job I bet you were disappointed when you found the drum was empty...
My old motto was "unbreakable toys break others that aren't"...

 

Only when i was sitting on it...

Hey, I even had the house to go with it (see picture below)...

It was for me to enjoy my heavy metal music with (Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, etc.) The car horn was used to warn / scare people...
I remember losing a lot of cassettes while driving.

I did not have one of those, BUT I did have one of those sirens withthe microphones on it. I once installed a set of banana walkie talkies on my bike and used them for a CB with my friend. Pocket radio and tape recorder taped to the handle bar and a dim headlight and horn that took D batteries. The neighbors got sick of us quick...

The TVs i found in the trash I took home, fixed, and used. I once had one for picture and one for sound...
Some I fixed and traded with my friends for bike parts.

I once tried power steering on the go cart using a car wiper motor. After running though a neighbor's gate on the first test drive, I went back to manual.

 

.....I now think i want to take the YZ80 motor and but it on this old recliner i have....


...The motorized armchair thread may be coming back from the ashes.
Heated and massaging seat.



You caught that too, huh???? Scary! Where's the bear?? LOL!

 

.....MY dad gave me his pocket knife to so I could take apart the drum my aunt gave me for Christmas [Just to see how it worked of course.]


Jamesbo.... did ya ever think your parents didn't want to hear the noise?? LOL!!!

 

Yep, probably because i started that thread months ago...
Still want to make one, also.

 

Did you do the Mr. Microphone TV commercial deal and tell the babes you would be back later to pick them up Rob??


The bear will be driving the chair with Rob on his lap as engineer because nobody will be able to figure out all the accessories but him.

Flying Monkeys and Mounties are on alert, I'll have to contact Arnold "The Pig" Ziffel, he's on hiatus in the south of France.


Power stering with a wiper motor?.

It just keep turning side to side Rob??

All the drum notes fell out of that drum when you opened it Jamesbo.
That hole in the middle of a guitar is to shake the bad notes out.

 

And we're off!!!!


Rob... Did you ever read that thread you started months ago, and see how it progressed??? I just wanted to get the chair for Citcapp. *innocent face*

 

I'm supprised you haven't tried those wood bumpers on your Olds Rob. You could do a Oak motif. Then you would have an upgraded copy of your kart.

I don't have pictures of my go kart. I used twin chain saw motors on mine. direct drive not clutch push to start jump in hang on. To stop throttle down and grind the tires up against the curb. My mom thought it was a little unsafe. My dad said to her let him go when he gets hurt he'll learn. Never did (learn that is)

 

I was down Texas way a while back and was most impressed with the oak motif they use on their go karts. Don't need no bumpers on these. You could run right over a rock crawler and never know it. (kinda like ridin in that big mech spider on Wild Wild West) These are great for hunting in or just getting ripped. Rob, you guys in Texas just don't know when to quit when it comes to size do ya?

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So now you must feel really good riding around on your new go kart right? I'm with you, I'll never learn (some things anyway). But if you ever get the hankering to do another streetlegal go kart, here are some inspirations for you. These are old go carts that have been re-cycled and are road licensed. Honest, if I'm lying may the flying monkeys beat Redgoat to a green pulp.....

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Yep, did that a lot. Ironically they disappeared when i returned...

It was a bit challenging to the "average bear"... The TV never worked too good as it was...

C'mon, silly - you have to modify the gearbox to limit the arm's travel and use polarity reversal to make it change directions.
The motor i used preferred to go in its original direction. Reversal did not work too well. After having crashed through a gate, i almost had to turn the wheels with my hands...

No wonder the head bangers shake their guitars so much...

Oh Geez.... No I had not seen that. What did you all do to it? I need to find it and see if it was butchered...

I was amazed at how easily they broke... I ended up using 4x4 posts before it was all over...

Wow - the product safety council would have had a fit. At least you lived to tell about it! At least you did not have to worry about clutched wearing out. I went through them quickly.

I want one of those Texas carts for sure... Maybe a bumper car, too??

 

Redgoat can take any Flying Monkey with his Emenee Monkey Patrol machine gun and accessories.
I was more of a secret agent guy and have my 1965 Topper Multi-Pistol 09 Spy Gun hanging on the wall of my rumpus room in it's briefcase waiting and ready.
It's also anti-aircraft/flying monkey missile equipped.




The name is Vista...Blue Vista.



No luck with the Mr. Microphone technique Rob?

I had a speaker hanging off the antenna of my '64 Chebby and used the monitor on my Panasonic cassette recorder and the microphone to yell out stuff.
It had to be on record so it taped stuff and I still have a cassette in my vault, Backstabber by the O'Jays was playing on the radio in the background and I wont say if me and my buddy were singing along.
We did the Bohemian Rhapsody singing deal with a car load of guys way before Wayne's World.
What's a skadamoosh mama-mia beelzebub anyway??
I also took one on those plastic alligator head deals on a stick with the lever to open and close it's mouth you get at the amusement park and lashed it to the antenna. I ran a string from the lever thing to inside the car then you could talk through the speaker and move the 'gator's mouth, "Hiya, Hiya, hiya, wanna' go for a ride in my car?... hiya, hiya, hiya"
In the Little Rascals Froggie voice of course.
The girls would run away??
Do you think the bare female mannequin legs sticking out the back window may have had something to do with that??

I like that woodie bumper car, the camouflage Texas cart deal looks like a Schaper Stomper.


"They smile in your face and all they wanna' do is take your place...."

 

"What they do"!!!

You're on a roll this morning!!!! Emenee Monkey Patrol Machine gun and accessories?? LOL! Plastic alligator head and a speaker on your antenna!!! God, you crack me up!!!!! Hiya Hiya Hiya???? I'd have run too!!!

Those plastic alligator heads were pretty cool, though!


Vista... Blue Vista....

"They've given you a number and taken away your name..."

 

Yoohoo! I scored 23!!

Ralph

 

I'm a 23 too.

I wouldn't have it any other way though, that stuff was all too much fun to have missed.

Always remember it's just a cumulative age... if you can remember to.

The Blackjack gum, and newsreels are the only ones I don't remember. I sorta' remember the milk bottle stoppers, had a milk chute on our house and Ralph the milkman came, bread guy too.
I've torn out a million of those milk chutes and coal chute doors.
The little glass cream bottles with the carboard stopper at the dime store soda fountain were cool.

My grandma was the only one with a party line I knew of, and she had a candlestick telephone and wringer washing machine too.
I've heard of the gas engine powered ones but never witnessed one in use, they may have made good motorbike or go-kart engines is all I know.

The Star Spangled Banner always played loudly before the sign-off and test pattern, film of the flag waving during it then the test pattern with the Indian chief.
The pattern did eventually go off after awhile and then the ant races started here.
In the 70's those were a a major form of entertainment at overnight parents-out-of-town basement parties along with Black Sabbath music blasting.

I M IRONMAN!

We went to the drive-in or the kid's saturday matinee so no newsreels way back when, did get to see the rare and in-color new cartoons before the movies.
It was ten cents and a nickel for popcorn at the theater, door prizes, birthday club with prizes, announcer guy on stage, the whole nine yards.
My big brother and sister would take me and a pillow to hide my face in during monster movies, especially during Reptilicus, Mothra, and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
I also needed a pillow so I could take my needed afternoon nap.
Think I'm turning back into a 4 year old more everyday?...don't say it Sandy....

I do vividly remember peeking during Mothra and seeing cars being blown through the windows of a new car dealer by Mothra's hurricane-like wing downdraft and flattened popcorn boxes flying through the air trying to hit the huge bug on the screen.
I recall how much it cost to get in because I swallowed my admission and popcorn money once.

 

Yup!

I remember my grandma's phone: party line, case was a wall-mounted wood, earpiece hung on a "fork" on the left side, you picked it up (had a flexible cord/ cable), to go "off hook" (now I know where the term comes from!), mouthpiece on the front, you could adjust it for height(WOW!). Her party line # was 2 longs & 3 shorts!. You "dialed" by turning a crank on the right side- that's where the longs & shorts came from!

Couple years later we had an improvement on the milk. It was called "Maisy the Mechanical Cow"! Put in the correct change for either QT or 1/2 gal & you got a waxed carton of milk!

Don't remember a gas engine wringer/washer, but we had an electric one 'till I was about 7.

Studebaker? My dad had used '53, then bought the only new car he ever had- a '57 Studebaker station wagon w/ 3-spd shift & a 285 cu in V8! Believe it or not, that thing could keep up w/ a 57/58 283 Chebbie! I know- did it- several times! Hoooo!!!!

Ralph

 

I can't count the # of times I got in trouble stealing mom's clothespins so I could attach hockey cards to the spokes. As a matter of fact i think I destroted a Bobby Orr rookie card that way. My first bike was a 26' boys 3 speed that I could not reach the pedals on. I taught myself to ride putting one leg under the crossbar. My next bike was a mustang with banana seat and sissy bar. I was 10 and the wheelie king Meadowvale raceway offered up ramps that were used for the stunt cars to get up on 2 wheels and we turned into jumps to see who could fly the furthest on our bikes. I had the record but the spot I landed was where I landed on the ground not the bike.

 

.....Think I'm turning back into a 4 year old more everyday?...don't say it Sandy....


Moi??? *innocent face* Don't say what???? It's ok... life was much easier then! I think we all revert a little!! I think we need to, just to stay sane! Well, some of us anyhow!

You don't remember Blackjack gum? I loved that stuff. What was the other one... Teaberry? In a pink and white package, I think. It was good too!! I remember the milkman and the breadman. The milkman always spent a LOT of time at our neighbor Midge's house???? Hmmmmmm?

We had a party line phone.... I used to eavesdrop on the 2 neighbor ladies!! Seems like they were always on the phone, and we would have to interrupt them to make a call! I used to love helping mom put the S&H greenstamps in the books!

Those were good times and good memories! As Kenny Chesney would say.... I Go Back....

 

Well, I finally found that thread this morning - my, oh my, oh my...
I go away on vacation and the party officially starts - go ahead, party without me!!
Talk about one heck of a butchering though. It did bring some good laughter - better than the guff on TV. Just about as confusing too.

Bears drinking potato vodka driving motorized chairs pulling sofa trailers full of service station girls wielding shotguns chasing big tractors driven by girls in nurse costumes, both being chased by the Canadian Mounties, at the same time cows are washing away rocks as they **** on them cause they are being bit by killer ladybugs and aniversaries should be celebrated by "supersizing" the fries and staring at antenna towers behind walmart?

Wow - it did go in the ditch with class! I do hope to see the movie some time.

So after 3 pages, it was never said what happened to the chair.... Will Citcapp get it for Christmas??

And where is that thread where you all were talking behind my back when i was gone?? I need to search for that, too.

 

We'll never tell, have fun with the search.

 

I protest! This cannot be an accurate test. The older you are, the less you remember and you get a low score.....I'm a 10...if I remember correctly......

 

In a recent news broadcast, it was announced that Lorena Bobbitt's sister Louella was arrested for an alleged attempt to perform the same act on her husband as her famous sister had done several years ago. Sources reveal the sister was not as accurate as Lorena.

She allegedly missed the target and stabbed her husband in the upper thigh causing severe muscle and tendon damage. The husband is reported to be in serious, but stable condition, and Louella has been charged with
... A Misdewiener!

 

Oh my God... that's hysterical!!!!!!! The new year is off to a good start!!!!! I love it!!!

 

Just for you Sandy, something I wouldn't dream of giving my wife....


She already knows how to push my buttons!!!

 

That's a good one!!!!

 

Here's one for you guys to keep in mind......

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Good one Sandy, but I always thought women could not pass gas because they never stop talking long enough to build up back pressure

 

You're funny Citcapp!