Mundane Thoughts or Comments

[Rich Cohen]

Both!

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

On a hot dog?
No, no, no!
Mustard, and relish only.
We are not Barbarians here!
RBSinTo

Barbarian here!





Don't do mustard!

 

[Opsimath]

The guy across the road is revving his Harley. It sure is loud.

 

[walrus]

There are 4 people with Teslas on my street - can't hear a thing!

walrus

 

[davidbeinct]

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The guy across the road is revving his Harley. It sure is loud.

Gear and defensive riding saves lives, but loud pipes sure make everyone look at you.

 

[Opsimath]

Never Armorall your motorcycle seat.

 

[Opsimath]

Both!

Or the longer version.

 

[Opsimath]

Remember riding your bicycle while wearing bell bottoms and getting your pants leg caught in the chain?

 

[davidbeinct]

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Remember riding your bicycle while wearing bell bottoms and getting your pants leg caught in tne chain?

I remember that. I also remember my Sting-Ray style bike had a shifter made to look like a ball end car shifter, mounted on the top bar. On a boy’s bike! Ah, the seventies.

 

[GGJaguar]

Remember riding your bicycle while wearing bell bottoms and getting your pants leg caught in tne chain?

Yeah, then I got smart and used a rubber band, but the other kids laughed at me so I got proper pant clip. The other kids still laughed.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Yeah, then I got smart and used a rubber band, but the other kids laughed at me so I got proper pant clip. The other kids still laughed.

Either of those solutions is better than the "stuff it all into the top of your sock" option that makes you look like you have a goiter above your ankle.

 

[Midnight Toker]

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I remember that. I also remember my Sting-Ray style bike had a shifter made to look like a ball end car shifter, mounted on the top bar. On a boy’s bike! Ah, the seventies.

Same w/ the Raleigh Chopper, which had a slap stick style 3 gear shifter on the top bar. I think that bike was spawned from all the mods kids did in the 70's where they'd saw off the forks from one bike and insert the forks from another inside of them to make a homemade "chopper". I distinctly remember seeing a kid pop a wheelie on one of those and the extended forks/wheel came off mid air. It didn't end well.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

I remember that. I also remember my Sting-Ray style bike had a shifter made to look like a ball end car shifter, mounted on the top bar. On a boy’s bike! Ah, the seventies.

Those were the ""Krate" series of bikes by Schwinn.

My friend had a Cotton Picker. You had to slap the shift lever sideways to disengage it to move it forward and backwards to change gears. If you came to a sudden stop it could be painful. Therefore we used to call it "The Nut Cracker"!

 

[walrus]

Those were the ""Krate" series of bikes by Schwinn.

My friend had a Cotton Picker. You had to slap the shift lever sideways to disengage it to move it forward and backwards to change gears. If you came for a sudden stop it could be painful. We used to call it "The Nut Cracker"!

Such a great advertisement of simpler times!

walrus

 

[GGJaguar]

Such a great advertisement of simpler times!

I'll bet when those kids grew up they rode their Harleys to the Schooner Bay General Store.

 

[walrus]

I'll bet when those kids grew up they rode their Harleys to the Schooner Bay General Store.

Ha! I thought they probably all work at Microsoft!

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Those were the ""Krate" series of bikes by Schwinn.

My friend had a Cotton Picker. You had to slap the shift lever sideways to disengage it to move it forward and backwards to change gears. If you came to a sudden stop it could be painful. Therefore we used to call it "The Nut Cracker"!

Yup!! What he ^^^ said. That was my bike and I remember goofing around with my friends and wasn't looking and ran into the back of a parked car!! I ran in the house holding my junk and screaming. My dad looked and said, it's okay but you're gonna be bruised. Stop being so stupid.

I was bruised. And I didn't stop being stupid. I just did it on horses after that!!

 

[GGJaguar]

Therefore we used to call it "The Nut Cracker"!

When I worked in a Schwinn shop, we'd get the Krates in for servicing and I couldn't understand why Schwinn stopped making them because they were so cool. That's when the manager told me about Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations for product safety. The CPSC deemed top tube shifters on bikes to be too dangerous and Schwinn discontinued making them in 1974.

 

[5thumbs]

Same w/ the Raleigh Chopper, which had a slap stick style 3 gear shifter on the top bar. I think that bike was spawned from all the mods kids did in the 70's where they'd saw off the forks from one bike and insert the forks from another inside of them to make a homemade "chopper". I distinctly remember seeing a kid pop a wheelie on one of those and the extended forks/wheel came off mid air. It didn't end well.

Crap! You were there?

 

[davismanLV]

And as I've already alluded above, by the time "bell bottoms" came around I only did my really stupid stuff on horses, and left my huge high waisted landlubber elephant bells for more casual times.