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the past will always  be missed. but move on......................

In the 70s gettin my Graco MX full suspention bike!!Beautiful day indeed.Ive got a pic of me up north with it.Im gonna have to find the pic to post.

70's - Probably Christmas 1979; Star Wars toys, Lite BRITE, Spider-Man big wheel ... This was the last "happy holiday season" in my mom's house.

80's - June 10, 1987 ... The day I discovered my "special purpose" ... If you don't know the reference, then the close 2nd from the 80s was when I bought my 1st bike @ 4 years earlier.

Man, just reading these posts puts a smile on my face.

I had a reverse mullet trying to be just like Ron Wilkerson, except riding a master. Coming home from school, watching transformers before heading out to the local basketball court to bust out some decades and California hoppers with my friends.  We'd take a brake once in a while and talk about all the chicks we wanted to "go out with"

Simpler times....

         Rector rot was the WORST!!!!Got to smell that summer day last summer.me and my wife went up by mammoth where I spent alot of my younger childhood.We went on a bike ride on a pretty hot day and out of the blue it started to rain.But not dumping but the drops were freakin huge.That smell of fresh rain on the hot asphalt always snaps me instantly back to some very rad days.

so  ummm?.....what do you think that kid...from the 70s-80s.. would think of YOU now????

my best memory from the 80s is every friday me and a couple of my good friends would gather at my place and work on our bikes, grease the bearings, clean everything, and switch out some parts, and usually my friend would bring a frame set every couple weeks that we would work on. we would have music playing, like metallica , iron maiden, scorpions, metal church, all diff music.  these were some of the best times and my friends would help me a whole lot with building my bikes. they were very good at building bikes, Im good too but i get stuck on brakes and 3 pc cranks sometimes. rotors and  stuff like that gets me sometimes. they would always do that stuff for me.

Def Leapard, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, The Police, Vans, BMX, parachute pants, Levis 501 Button Flies shrink to fit, Boom Boxes, cassette tapes, Nike Air Force Ones (Canvas w/ankle strap), Glacier Glasses......

91GT347 wrote:

Dirty Habits wrote:

In 1989 I Rode My Haro Invert Like 30 Miles To Lose My Virginity To A 30 Year Old Busty Hottie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I rode that far once just for the hell of it. You make me feel like I robbed myself. lmao

i wonder where's that whore now?

Dirty Habits wrote:

91GT347 wrote:

Dirty Habits wrote:

In 1989 I Rode My Haro Invert Like 30 Miles To Lose My Virginity To A 30 Year Old Busty Hottie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I rode that far once just for the hell of it. You make me feel like I robbed myself. lmao

i wonder where's that whore now?

Cuz Dirty wants to Offer Her a JOB!

I miss kids spending most of their free time outside and actually getting upset to be told its time to come in.  I miss when society had a sense of humor and didnt get offended by things like manhole covers.  I miss when the school system didnt try to convince my son it was "brave" to dress like a girl and we actually stopped and said a prayer on the school bus before field trips.  I miss the GOOD Saturday Night Live when every single skit wasnt a political rant.  I miss when moms in school would bring treats for birthdays and holidays to the entire class without the threat of killing 4 with a peanut and wounding 2 with gluten.  I miss when our troops were hailed as heroes and treated as such.  I miss when a kid would act up they would get spanked by just about everybody.  I miss when college professors werent turning kids into America-hating communists.  I miss the 80's so damn much it hurts......they were good times and we didnt even realize it.

And 92 octane regular gas