Experienced yutes

[richw]

Just had a thought about crashing youngins

When me and Howdy Doody were young, kids especially boys traveled by bicycles.

Today for safety and kidnapping bicycling is reduced to an activity like skating etc.

There is no way for me to know but I would bet I had near 10000 miles of 2 wheel experience in traffic before I ever got on a real motorcycle.

I am sure my son would be lucky to have 1000 mostly paths and trails

What's your experience ?

[mzdagrl]

I was hit by a car at 16 and haven't been on a bicycle since. except once on a trail behind my hotel on vacation.

before that, i rode my bicycle everywhere, all my friends were a 10 min (or less) ride away, and it was way easier than walking.

[marshdrummer]

I was on my bicycle sun up to sunset. everyday. I didn't go anywhere without my bike. It was my daily transportation AND my hobby to go in the woods - and this was a bmx bike. Mountain bikes weren't even around yet!

[mikeb]

i rode everywhere. riding bmx long distance sucked but it was worth it once i got down town to raise hell on the sidewalks. i was one of the first kids around to get a mountain bike and i rode the shit out of that to. trying to find time and desire to get back into it.

[Doc]

I was on my bicycle sun up to sunset. everyday. I didn't go anywhere without my bike. It was my daily transportation AND my hobby to go in the woods - and this was a bmx bike. Mountain bikes weren't even around yet!

+1 and I used to race BMX and do tricks back in the day.

I too got hit by a car when I was 12, got my cast and was back on my bike.

No helmets back then either

[brady]

When me and Farrah Fawcett were young, I used to ride my bicycle everywhere on the road, and didn't know what a bicycle helmet was. It was all in the country, though, so I didn't have much of a clue about traffic laws except riding on the right and stopping at the occasional stop sign.

When I got older and smarter I rode in the city with a helmet. A best friend refused to wear a helmet or stop for lights, got hit twice and still thought she had the right of way.

[mzdagrl]

I too got hit by a car when I was 12, got my cast and was back on my bike.

No helmets back then either

I fortunately made it out with no cast, but i lost all the skin on one arm and was not wearing my helmet...because of the short blackout, my eyewitness account wasn't given the time of day by the police, and no one ever caught the guy.

It's amazing I ever got on a motorcycle without a lid, but I did...fortunately i smartened up real fast.

I'm very glad I live int he kind of neighborhood that I do - hardly any traffic and lots and lots of residential streets for my baby to ride a bike on. Guess I need to get that brandy-new bike in basement out, and get myself a helmet.

[BluGixxer]

Mountain bikes wern't around yet when i was that age ,,,we had bmx bikes.. I had a Torker 280 freestyle with yellow tuffwheels and orange knobby tires..rode it every where till I was 16.. I remember the first mountain dew commercial where the guy rides down hill,, hits a ramp, does a 360 into a pond.. Yes I tried it..on dry land ,,didn't make it.. it hurt alot.. never did it again..
I guess that was the begining of x-games..

No helmet laws back then..and Farrah Fawcett was HOT..!!

[JRide]

I rode my BMX bike everywhere. I tried skateboarding and rollerblading but I also went back to my BMX bike.

[GixerJockey]

I grew up racing BMX and riding freestyle vert. Had a half-pipe in the back yard and everything. What were my parents thinking? Man, we spent alot of time in the emergency room...

[McBiggity]

I grew up racing BMX and riding freestyle vert. Had a half-pipe in the back yard and everything. What were my parents thinking? Man, we spent alot of time in the emergency room...

your parents were letting you be a kid. I wish things were like that now.
I remember having new cuts and bruises every week because of stupid crap I'd try on the bicycle. too much fun!

[richw]

MY point was , was it good motorcycle training that today's kids don't have.

skidding , hockey stops, wheelies, brakeys and low speed crashes

[Evil_Weasel]

i lived in FL. started out with BMX style stuff, tried the road race bike thing (went through a shit ton of tubes) finally settled on a big fat tired beach cruiser (white walls). i rode it every where as a teen...till i turned 16 and could finally buy a bike i didn't need to petal.

like rich said i bet i had 1000 miles over the years...easy.

[DucDave]

Excellent observation...

I rode a one speed schwinn with a coaster brake when I was 4 or 5....eventually I had a 3 speed raleigh and finally a 10 speed Kabuki? Point is, I rode all the time...

and my kids ...hardly at all...

but then...thank God (just an expression folks) they don't ride motorcycles.

I also remember that I learned to drive a car at 12 and from 13 on I would steal my parents car and drive all over Hunterdon County, NJ...at 13...

...times were different then...