For the rest of you 70s kids,,,remember how we rolled?!

[Revhendo]

Does anyone remember if Big Wheels had a hand brake on one side for doing power slides? I'ld swear by it.

 

[Divenut]

And don't forget how we'd wear flat spots through the front wheel by "locking it up"...LOL!

Annnnd...In the winter we'd "Skitch" on anything with a bumper when it snowed. That is, hang out at an intersection, sneak up behind a car truck, bus when they stopped, grab on the underside of the bumper and hold on! Every once in awhile you'd get someone that was onto you and would try to shake you off!!! Good time...good times. And we lived to tell you about it :cheers:

 

[cannucky]

We called it bumper shagging and it was both our major form of winter transportation and a team effort -one guy would pretend to stumble towards the passing cars to get one to stop and the rest would line up on the bumper , man good times , I will always remeber the smirk on the high school principals face when we I had to get permission to drive my buddy home in his car to get a new pair of pants after I dragged him through a deep long puddle of melted ice-slush and he shredded his pant-knees on the aspalt under the water , it was a priceless moment when you knew he couldn`t be mad because he had done the same when he was our age lol

 

[Muad'Dib15]

Now I have an idea for what to do with my bro and his new long board. Think Marty Mc Fly in Back to the Future.

 

[pishta]

I rode my bike everywhere, if I found a quarter, I would ride for about 2 miles to my burger joint with the video game "Space Firebird" to play it. We would play basketball until we couldnt see the ball anymore, over the line until it was dark too. Atari had just come out and one fat kid had it. I lived is a large condo complex so there were kids everywhere, 5 on 5 basketball games were like clockwork, girls would watch and giggle, no one smoked or drank at that age. Innocence lost......

 

[TrailBeast]

I didn't have streets or street lights.
I had national forest, guns, motorcycles, tractors, caterpillars, jeeps, and the Wolfman Jack show on the radio.

Gas was 23 cents a gallon.

 

[cannucky]

we used to ride our bikes around to the 4 gas stations in the neighborhood and drain the trickle out of the hoses every night to save up a half gallon or so every couple of weeks to ride my buddy's z50 mini trail around the ravine in the middle of the night , we would sneak out and push the thing to the ravine and get chased by the cops all over the neighborhood lol his dad used to whip us good for burning holes in our Tshirts covering the tail pipe to muffle the sound as we made our get away . Then we would hear him laughing about it to his buddys after eh ! We also used to go to one of the stations and drive their old 4speed jeep around in circles on their lot on the push button starter till they figured out why the battery was always dead in the mornings and started locking it up at night .

 

[65Val]

70's?...how about 60's kids!!!...Remember playing cards clothes-pinned in the spokes of your bike to make that motor sound???....penny candy @ the local confectionary...hell, 3 or 5 for a penny candy!!..Dairy Queen cones on a HOT summer day?...the ice cream truck cruisin' your neighborhood...Flying those rubber band wind-up balsa planes???...Spending the summer holidays @ your cousin's place in another town??? Stop me before I start cryin'!!!:cry::cry:

 

[cannucky]

70's?...how about 60's kids!!!...Remember playing cards clothes-pinned in the spokes of your bike to make that motor sound???....penny candy @ the local confectionary...hell, 3 or 5 for a penny candy!!..Dairy Queen cones on a HOT summer day?...the ice cream truck cruisin' your neighborhood...Flying those rubber band wind-up balsa planes???...Spending the summer holidays @ your cousin's place in another town??? Stop me before I start cryin'!!!:cry::cry:

x2 buddy born in 62 , how about MiniPops ? little 6 oz bottles in all sorts of flavours that cost a nickle with a 2 cent deposit that the shop keeper would wave if you drank em in the store and gave back the bottle.we also had the popcorn wagon and the knife sharpener guy ringing their bells once a week in our neighbourhood .