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Ah yes, good ole monkey blood. I know that burn/sting all to well also.
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Nighttrain wrote:
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to...
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to the old ways, though, and always pulled out this bottle with the glass stick of burning hell to treat small scrapes.


My first real skateboard was a Torger Johnson, Logan earth ski.
Bennett trucks, and road rider 4 wheels.

Then my own 40" long board with trackers and those big ass road rider 6's.
That things was, scary as shit, fast.

Back then, road rash was a way of life.
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Absolutely. Schwinn stingrays all being ridden around like we were Steve McQueen, Malcolm Smith, etc.... And nobody wore helmets. Neighborhood hide and seek games with, "that...
Absolutely.
Schwinn stingrays all being ridden around like we were Steve McQueen, Malcolm Smith, etc....
And nobody wore helmets.

Neighborhood hide and seek games with, "that house way down there, to, that house way up there" as the boundaries.

Skateboarding downhill in the streets on those old clay wheels.

Walking to school, not this minivan armada these kids ride in today.

Nobody had fences in our neighborhood.
Everyone's parents knew each other, and their kids.
And they could all yell at us for causing trouble.

And when one mom yelled for their kid at dinnertime, we all knew it was time to go home.

And then we got old enough for dirt bikes !!!!
Nighttrain wrote:
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to...
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to the old ways, though, and always pulled out this bottle with the glass stick of burning hell to treat small scrapes.


I actually shivered when I saw that pic!

Do they still make that shit???
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Absolutely. Schwinn stingrays all being ridden around like we were Steve McQueen, Malcolm Smith, etc.... And nobody wore helmets. Neighborhood hide and seek games with, "that...
Absolutely.
Schwinn stingrays all being ridden around like we were Steve McQueen, Malcolm Smith, etc....
And nobody wore helmets.

Neighborhood hide and seek games with, "that house way down there, to, that house way up there" as the boundaries.

Skateboarding downhill in the streets on those old clay wheels.

Walking to school, not this minivan armada these kids ride in today.

Nobody had fences in our neighborhood.
Everyone's parents knew each other, and their kids.
And they could all yell at us for causing trouble.

And when one mom yelled for their kid at dinnertime, we all knew it was time to go home.

And then we got old enough for dirt bikes !!!!
Nighttrain wrote:
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to...
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to the old ways, though, and always pulled out this bottle with the glass stick of burning hell to treat small scrapes.


indy_maico wrote:
I actually shivered when I saw that pic!

Do they still make that shit???
Good times!

Edit: I’m in week 3 of recovering/healing from serious road rash from getting thrown on the ground at 60mph…
On the street…when one of my KLRs “locked up”.

So, life goes on!
(As sung by Tupac. LOL)
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Nighttrain wrote:
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to...
Close to my experience. I might be a little younger, though, because I had a Tony Alva skateboard with Kryptonics wheels. My Mother held on to the old ways, though, and always pulled out this bottle with the glass stick of burning hell to treat small scrapes.


indy_maico wrote:
I actually shivered when I saw that pic!

Do they still make that shit???
TeamGreen wrote:
Good times! Edit: I’m in week 3 of recovering/healing from serious road rash from getting thrown on the ground at 60mph… On the street…when one of...
Good times!

Edit: I’m in week 3 of recovering/healing from serious road rash from getting thrown on the ground at 60mph…
On the street…when one of my KLRs “locked up”.

So, life goes on!
(As sung by Tupac. LOL)
You'd be all healed up by now if you used mercurochrome on day 1

Laughing
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JAFO92
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My first real skateboard was a Torger Johnson, Logan earth ski. Bennett trucks, and road rider 4 wheels. Then my own 40" long board with trackers...
My first real skateboard was a Torger Johnson, Logan earth ski.
Bennett trucks, and road rider 4 wheels.

Then my own 40" long board with trackers and those big ass road rider 6's.
That things was, scary as shit, fast.

Back then, road rash was a way of life.
I didnt get the skateboard bug until late '76 going into '77. We all wanted to be Alva. I saw him like the Marty Smith of the half pipe.

I had one of those Banzai aluminum decks. Put grip tape on it and added California slalom trucks and Pure Juice wheels. (like any of that helped) I donated my fair share of epidermis to the concrete-rash gods in '77 & '78.
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Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the dunk tank during Battle of the Network stars.


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I wanted those x-ray glasses. There was a hot chick in my 2nd-grade class that I had some questions about.
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The only saving grace of being taken to the dentist .
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Chance1216 wrote:
I had Sea Monkeys as a kid years ago. Turned out they were brine shrimp. Now, I raise them to feed to my fish. 😄

JAFO92 wrote:
I bought 'em too. They did indeed hatch and swim, I was let down they didnt look like monkeys.
I was pissed to. The advertisement made them look like people with fins. All I saw were a bunch of damn bugs 😂
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[img]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ULcAAOSw4w9fR9ob/s-l300.jpg[/img] The only saving grace of being taken to the dentist .


The only saving grace of being taken to the dentist .
Don’t forget Ranger Rick. 😉

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ATKpilot99 wrote:
[img]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ULcAAOSw4w9fR9ob/s-l300.jpg[/img] The only saving grace of being taken to the dentist .


The only saving grace of being taken to the dentist .
Had a subscription.
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I had a subscription to Boy's Life for a couple of years when I was 10-12 years old.
JAFO92 wrote:
Got Boys Life too, loved it as a kid. Can you believe I was only 2 badges and a project away from Eagle and we moved...
Got Boys Life too, loved it as a kid. Can you believe I was only 2 badges and a project away from Eagle and we moved and I never finished. (had already did Order of the Arrow as well)
I was close too.
Order of the arrow, Philmont, etc.
Politics caused our troop to be joined with a big troop that had connections.
We were small, but badass. We could camp, survive, sail, climb and rappel, build survival shelters, shoot rifles and bows, the important stuff.

There weren't a lot of library or basket weaving merit badges in our troop.

The one we merged with was full of wankers some of whom had reached Eagle.
Our first big camporee was at Rocky Mt. National Forrest, and "qualified" scouts got to summit a mountain.
We ended up carrying half their shit. There were criers when they discovered that boiling water at altitude doesn't mean it's hot.

Squids telling me I needed a "Tote and chip" to use my knife to make sure his shit wouldn't blow away.
"Da fuk is a tote and chip? If I had one, I'd stuff it down your pussy ass throat."

Me and 4 other guys bailed when we got back home. Dad was disappointed but understood.
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Nighttrain wrote:
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the...
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the dunk tank during Battle of the Network stars.


Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the lid to lock it in place) family.

Suburban San Diego in the late 70s/early 80s was probably the best time/place to grow up. The cul-de-sac my house was on backed up to open land that stretched from my garage door to the 5/805 merge, so my buddies and I (including Vital member TonyD) could ride our motorcycles or bicycles as far as we wanted, pretty much any day of the week.
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Yep that's how my childhood in Eagle Rock Calif. was with a culdesac.
Awesome mountain with tracks and trails for bicycles then motorcycles but it wasn't endless.

Then they moved a mountain and all I had was a small but fun track.



Wouldn't trade it for nothing. Cool
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TeamGreen wrote:
Great thread. It was a good time to be a kid. Did anyone-else get up on Saturday... Down some Cheerios.. Get on your bicycle... Go to...
Great thread.
It was a good time to be a kid.

Did anyone-else get up on Saturday...
Down some Cheerios..
Get on your bicycle...
Go to the hills and ride or go on any sort of adventure..
And not come back 'til dark?
indy_maico wrote:
I grew up a couple miles from Sharon Speedway, which was a dirt half-mile dirt track in NE Ohio. (The NASCAR Blaneys own it now and...
I grew up a couple miles from Sharon Speedway, which was a dirt half-mile dirt track in NE Ohio. (The NASCAR Blaneys own it now and I think it is paved)
My buddies and I used to ride out there on a Saturday morning and slide our bicycles under the fence and ride around the track until someone came and threw us out.

Not far from there was a place I later worked at called C&J Cycle. They sold Yamaha, Kawasaki, Norton, CZ and Montesa. We'd hang out there the rest of the day.
My Dad raced stock cars at Sharon Speedway in the 1950s. I went back to Ohio with him to visit family and we went to Sharon during the week when they were doing some maintenance. We walked around the track and my old man told me a bunch of stories about racing all over Ohio and PA.
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BMSOBx2 wrote:
I had a subscription to Boy's Life for a couple of years when I was 10-12 years old.
JAFO92 wrote:
Got Boys Life too, loved it as a kid. Can you believe I was only 2 badges and a project away from Eagle and we moved...
Got Boys Life too, loved it as a kid. Can you believe I was only 2 badges and a project away from Eagle and we moved and I never finished. (had already did Order of the Arrow as well)
SEEMEFIRST wrote:
I was close too. Order of the arrow, Philmont, etc. Politics caused our troop to be joined with a big troop that had connections. We were...
I was close too.
Order of the arrow, Philmont, etc.
Politics caused our troop to be joined with a big troop that had connections.
We were small, but badass. We could camp, survive, sail, climb and rappel, build survival shelters, shoot rifles and bows, the important stuff.

There weren't a lot of library or basket weaving merit badges in our troop.

The one we merged with was full of wankers some of whom had reached Eagle.
Our first big camporee was at Rocky Mt. National Forrest, and "qualified" scouts got to summit a mountain.
We ended up carrying half their shit. There were criers when they discovered that boiling water at altitude doesn't mean it's hot.

Squids telling me I needed a "Tote and chip" to use my knife to make sure his shit wouldn't blow away.
"Da fuk is a tote and chip? If I had one, I'd stuff it down your pussy ass throat."

Me and 4 other guys bailed when we got back home. Dad was disappointed but understood.
Never made it to Philmont although sure wanted to. Had to smile about the Tote'n Chip thing. They enforced that thing at summers camps at Camp Karankawa, but most regular campouts and camporees wasnt brought up. Funny, I cant remember what I was doing 2 hours ago, but can still do most all them knots we hadda learn.
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TeamGreen wrote:
Great thread. It was a good time to be a kid. Did anyone-else get up on Saturday... Down some Cheerios.. Get on your bicycle... Go to...
Great thread.
It was a good time to be a kid.

Did anyone-else get up on Saturday...
Down some Cheerios..
Get on your bicycle...
Go to the hills and ride or go on any sort of adventure..
And not come back 'til dark?
whyZ wrote:
Oh ya, If my ole' man caught you sitting around watching the boob-tube, you'd better be sick or he'd be picking from his catalog of chores...
Oh ya, If my ole' man caught you sitting around watching the boob-tube, you'd better be sick or he'd be picking from his catalog of chores needing to be done. So Saturday mornings was a combination of camouflage and stealth moves to get to your bike.

I lived close to a canal, dirt bank sides, and drained a couple times a year for debris removal. The big thing was to convert your 20" Schwinn BMX into what was called a big wheel. Meaning you took the threaded fork rod and front wheel of a ten speed and put it on the 20" BMX. And for reasons only understood by an 8 year old, this was the set-up. As the day wore on, so did the speed guys were sending it off the side. Only a matter of time before the collective echoes of ewwwss was ringing out after the thud of someone pile-driving it into the bottom. Damn those were good time.
Exactly what my old man did. If I was watching TV Sat morning I got put to work and he never had a shortage of projects and things to repair. If we were racing on Sunday there was almost always a job to do first on Sat.
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This is great!
was Maybe 8-10 I'm the runt of the Family wanting to grow. Seen this MAG
.

So did 14 of my neighborhood buddy's. We all grew up lifting, running and eating right.
We all did very well in HS Sports and today we are all about health.

If this MAG did anything
it brought us together to help one another as we went through HS.
NO telling what a simple MAG will do for your future.

Thank-you MR. Atlas for me going 50-0 (Guessing) with the headlock now known as the Rear naked choke.

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Nighttrain wrote:
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the...
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the dunk tank during Battle of the Network stars.


Sully wrote:
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the...
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the lid to lock it in place) family.

Suburban San Diego in the late 70s/early 80s was probably the best time/place to grow up. The cul-de-sac my house was on backed up to open land that stretched from my garage door to the 5/805 merge, so my buddies and I (including Vital member TonyD) could ride our motorcycles or bicycles as far as we wanted, pretty much any day of the week.
Do you remember Strawberry Falls Kool-Aid? It was like heaven the first time I ever tried it. Yes, we had the Tupperware pitcher with a plunger as well lol. My grandmother sold Tupperware to all the moms in the neighborhood.
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My first real skateboard was a Torger Johnson, Logan earth ski. Bennett trucks, and road rider 4 wheels. Then my own 40" long board with trackers...
My first real skateboard was a Torger Johnson, Logan earth ski.
Bennett trucks, and road rider 4 wheels.

Then my own 40" long board with trackers and those big ass road rider 6's.
That things was, scary as shit, fast.

Back then, road rash was a way of life.
Great minds think alike. 44" Sims, Tracker trucks & Road Rider 6's


Kind of funny motorcycles were "Too Dangerous" when I was growing up but I got clocked doing 45 on that board in surf trunks and that was ok...Cheerful
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Nighttrain wrote:
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the...
Go inside the house to grab a glass of ice cold Hi-C poured outta some big can and Dad would be watching Wonder Woman in the dunk tank during Battle of the Network stars.


Sully wrote:
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the...
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the lid to lock it in place) family.

Suburban San Diego in the late 70s/early 80s was probably the best time/place to grow up. The cul-de-sac my house was on backed up to open land that stretched from my garage door to the 5/805 merge, so my buddies and I (including Vital member TonyD) could ride our motorcycles or bicycles as far as we wanted, pretty much any day of the week.
Chance1216 wrote:
Do you remember Strawberry Falls Kool-Aid? It was like heaven the first time I ever tried it. Yes, we had the Tupperware pitcher with a plunger...
Do you remember Strawberry Falls Kool-Aid? It was like heaven the first time I ever tried it. Yes, we had the Tupperware pitcher with a plunger as well lol. My grandmother sold Tupperware to all the moms in the neighborhood.
I vaguely remember that one, but we were mostly cherry and grape with the previously mentioned half bag of sugar. It’s a wonder I don’t have diabeetus from drinking that crap.
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G-man wrote:
Yep that's how my childhood in Eagle Rock Calif. was with a culdesac. Awesome mountain with tracks and trails for bicycles then motorcycles but it wasn't...
Yep that's how my childhood in Eagle Rock Calif. was with a culdesac.
Awesome mountain with tracks and trails for bicycles then motorcycles but it wasn't endless.

Then they moved a mountain and all I had was a small but fun track.



Wouldn't trade it for nothing. Cool
That VW squareback in the background !!!
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Sully wrote:
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the...
Hi-C? Ya rich bastard! We were a Kool-Aid packet (with half a bag of sugar) in a Tupperware pitcher (the one with the plunger in the lid to lock it in place) family.

Suburban San Diego in the late 70s/early 80s was probably the best time/place to grow up. The cul-de-sac my house was on backed up to open land that stretched from my garage door to the 5/805 merge, so my buddies and I (including Vital member TonyD) could ride our motorcycles or bicycles as far as we wanted, pretty much any day of the week.
Same here.
Santee California.
We would ride out to the end of our street, strathmore dr, and it was endless miles of trails all the way to ramona and poway.
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I was definitely raised by the "kids should be seen and not heard" crowd. My brother and I hit the woods at the crack of dawn and came home at dark. We were basically feral. I bought the instructions for installing an engine into yer bicycle outta the back of Boys Life or Grit...I don't remember. I had to collect a lot of pop bottles to buy an old lawn mower only to find out I needed a horizontal shaft to make the damn thing work.
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plowboy wrote:
I was definitely raised by the "kids should be seen and not heard" crowd. My brother and I hit the woods at the crack of dawn...
I was definitely raised by the "kids should be seen and not heard" crowd. My brother and I hit the woods at the crack of dawn and came home at dark. We were basically feral. I bought the instructions for installing an engine into yer bicycle outta the back of Boys Life or Grit...I don't remember. I had to collect a lot of pop bottles to buy an old lawn mower only to find out I needed a horizontal shaft to make the damn thing work.
Wake up.
Bowl or 2 of frosted flakes.
Hit the woods.
Home 1/2 hour after street lights came on.
Repeat.
That was if the lawn was mowed, or we weren't at the ranch working cattle.
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When grape Tang came out that stuff was the shit. Get home from school, chow a twinkie and a bag of fritos, a couple spoonfulls of grape Tang shoveled straight into my mouth and come home for dinner when the church bells ring at 6pm.
No wonder I'm freakin fat
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sumdood wrote:
When grape Tang came out that stuff was the shit. Get home from school, chow a twinkie and a bag of fritos, a couple spoonfulls of...
When grape Tang came out that stuff was the shit. Get home from school, chow a twinkie and a bag of fritos, a couple spoonfulls of grape Tang shoveled straight into my mouth and come home for dinner when the church bells ring at 6pm.
No wonder I'm freakin fat
Main lining grape tang !!!!
We do the same these days with those packets of emergenC on mt bike rides.

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