Silly things that you used to believe when you first started riding

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dmanG

Cannon Fodder
whiteman said:
haha my friends dad did the exact same thing to his son's bike.
and i used to wear my full face to school in year 5. damn that was a long time ago.


haha....remember the old bright yellow Stak Hats of the 80's. hahaha even then none of us thought they were cool. you looked like a storm trooper with tho's on.
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24alpha

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dmanG said:
whiteman said:
haha my friends dad did the exact same thing to his son's bike.
and i used to wear my full face to school in year 5. damn that was a long time ago.


haha....remember the old bright yellow Stak Hats of the 80's. hahaha even then none of us thought they were cool. you looked like a storm trooper with tho's on.
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And then came those fluro lycra covered foamies that were soooo uncool. No wonder they had a hard time getting kids to wear helmets.

When I first started riding, I was told I could ride down hill without training wheels. It was a pretty steep hill.:eek: Very technical and obsticles everywhere. :eek: It was 1977 and I was 5......I think!:D
But apparently you can ride without training wheels. I'm putting them back on this season!
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Futile

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GEOFF DOOM said:
haha, i know a guy who put his forks into the bike shop to be sreviced and on the slip he wrote, " foulcks need to be fixed "

why do we (the human race) spell thing weird :confused:
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how did you spell serviced and write things without the S in a sentence explaining how other people are crap at writing in english?
 
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Master Nick

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My friend once told me not to get hydraulic brakes because he thought they would run out of fluid and the brakes would stop working.
Good times.
 
scblack

scblack

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MY first DH bike was a 2002 Stinky Deelux, which had single crown forks back then. It was August I think, so near new season models coming out. The shop said maybe you want to wait for the new model which has triple crown forks. I said no, with them I could never turn the bars far enough in a tight corner. They were going to be 7inch travel rather than 5inch, much stronger of course, but I didn't properly realise all this back then.

Oh well I upgraded it soon enough, and would never have met the good crew I rode with back then. Silly of me in hindsight though.
 
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elliotdhmcgeary

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Booost said:
Please don't tell me you just spelt 'include' inqulood...
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Heh. Yeah, i was actually thinking that he was talking about an entirely different word, that was shit, even by his standards. I don't know how anyone can actually spell it like that :confused:

Anyways ... what i used to believe, and still believe is, Red bikes go faster ;) Even though i ride a blue bike! (; Actually come to think of it ... it's just not red bikes, anything that's red goes faster.
 
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norco4l

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so many good things like putting playing cards in you wheels was the coolest thing to do, and a mate saying his stem an steerer tube was a little motor and thats why he was so fast
 
Rampage Ripper

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not on pushies, but i used to think 2nd gear on a moto was faster than 3rd

my mate used to think his big ass external headset nut was a speed boost, now he drinks rockstar

that big sprockets were for gay kids

that the chrome plated frame on my bike made it weigh a whole metric tonne ( not literally )
 
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