Did anyone else?

Snapper1

Used to ram a used drinks can between your bike tyre and the bike frame and when you cycled it used to sound like a motorbike!

Best idea ever!

limerick_man

Ya, i used to do that actually

Naos

Yes .. Yes I did.

But was it a can or a bottle? Didnt the can rip the tyres or some crap..
Im pretty sure it was a bottle. Need to think about this.

Either way, twas funkeh.

Snapper1

Yeah maybe the bottle would have more durability but i think the can got th ebetter noise level! It was a catch 22 situation!

monkeyfudge

I always wondered what that was all about.

And now I know. And knowing is half the battle.

jimmytango

hope you guys did got go round on BMX's
they were the worst bike ever

i had a raleigh burner
red frame with yellow tyres could outskid a bmx by about 3 foot
and was very good or wheelies and tricks

i did the whole can thing it rocked or what about a couple of block and a board and ramp yer brothers and sister

TerrorFirmer

/Snapper1 cyclying along with can in bike, making motorbike sounds

/can bursts, spraying coke into his eyes. he screams in pain, takes his hands off the handlebars to rub his eyes, bike flies out of control and careers into a passing bus.

4Xcut

that was the coolest ever. I remember when i found out about that. Ace

seo-ireland

Yeah I remember the moment I stumbled across that little gem. I used a cardboard box that I wedged into my BMX just below and behind the seat and atop the back tyre. Such fun.

Actually these days I am considering purchasing a motorcycle in the not too distant future. Maybe it is because of this!

entropi

Aye, used to do that also, but not with a drinks can , but a plastic bottle as the can tended to try slash your tyres

Citizen_Erased

We got bits of plastic and taped them to the forks - it had the same effect only it did less damage.

Bamboozled

Did ye ever do it and then wear ye're coats by the hoods with the rest of the jacket flying out the back like a cape

me and the biz

hahaha i love this retro forum!

Femelade

Bamboozled wrote:

Did ye ever do it and then wear ye're coats by the hoods with the rest of the jacket flying out the back like a cape

ha ha, no
i used to use those plastic pint milk bottles, de=rove all the neighbours mad as there were gangs of us a time,
i remember one time one of the boys told me to lie down on the road and he'd jump over me on the bmx
so i did....he didnt.....it hurt.

Dizzyblabla

I had spokey dokey's on my raleigh... I think I got them free in a box of cornflakes....

NotMe

Ah the free kellogs reflector things that you stick on the spokes. They were in the shape of the Kellogs rooster.


I used a plastic yoghurt carton for making the motorbike noises.

irishgeo

I had a bike where you have to pedal backwards to brake. It was the best bike ever. The skids you could to on it where mad. We used to have to get tyres every couple of months. I lso remenber buying speedometers and haveing comptetions to see who could go the fastest.

Bamboozled

irishgeo wrote:

I had a bike where you have to pedal backwards to brake. It was the best bike ever. The skids you could to on it where mad. We used to have to get tyres every couple of months.

I had one of them too. But mine folded in the middle Great to take on car journeys to the beach.
All the boys used take it off me though - they thought htey were the kings of skids and a chick couldnt do them any justice. :rolleyes:

Tomohawk

Was it an Eska folding "stunt" bike, all the way from behind the Iron Curtain somewhere...

Bamboozled

I dunno. It just appeared from Santy. I was a little girl, it was a looong time ago.