Compo 10,326 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Limey was saying that "...if you were lucky enough to get (or inherit) a bicycle - the world was your playground." Which reminds me of a bike I once had. I had 'Double headlights'; one lamp on the fixed fork bracket and one on a clamped-on fork bracket. One night as I was tearing down Gedling Lane from Mapperley top towards Arnold, the clamped-on bracket worked loose and spun into the front wheel. The wheel locked and I decelerated from about 30MPH to zero in less time than it takes to shout Geronimo! I went head first over the handlebars and did something like a somersault as I flew through the air like a trapeze artist. I came to my senses a short while after hitting the ground and my mate was laughing like a drain. That was better than a Charlie Chaplin stunt he laughed. Boy was I sore - the amazing thing was that I was relatively undamaged apart from my street cred as a great cyclist. :o)))))))) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I went head first over the handlebars and did something like a somersault as I flew through the air like a trapeze artist. I came to my senses a short while after hitting the ground and my mate was laughing like a drain. Very reminiscent of what happened to one of our 'gang' on one of our regular Sunday afternoon bike rides. This was descending a similar hill - George's Lane down into Calverton from Dorket Head - just at the point of the ominous-looking right-hand bend near the bottom. Said pal went flying over the handlebars - finally coming to rest in...a large bed of nettles... We didn't laugh much. 'The youth of today' etc etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Blazing hot day on my bike wearing plimsoles and shorts...nowt else.Flew off my bike into a ditch in Kegworth six foot deep in nettles.I had hundreds of stings and a local farmers wife smeared them in butter....no it doesn't work. Amongst the most painful couple of days of my life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Limey is right about bikes back then, we went riding far and wide, Wysall woods, Fishing to Radcliffe on Soar, wouldn't like to try it now though down the A453. If I still had young kids I would probably not allow it, too much traffic and too many creeps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Date...................................................Jan 16th (Approx) Time....................................................6.30am (Ish) Scene,............................................... Walton Crescent, Carlton. Weather..............................................Icy Lighting condition...............................Pitch Black, 1973 power cut during winter of discontent Mode of transport...............................Raleigh Wayfarer Reason for being in area....................Paper Round Result.................................................Lost control on steep decent on ice, collided with wall and somersaulted onto back, clearing the wall in the process!! Injury .................................................Dented pride, buckled front wheel. Red Crosses on Photo. Date...................................................Jan 17th (Approx) Time....................................................6.30 am (Ish) Scene.................................................Walton Crescent, Carlton Weather..............................................Icy Lighting Condition..............................Neon Street lights (No power cut ) Mode of transport ..............................A borrowed sisters (girls) bike !! Reason for being in area....................Paper Round Result................................................ Couldn't stop, decided to "Bale out" ie jumped off before reaching 'busy' road at bottom (Station Road) carried on skidding on bottom alongside bike straight through all the traffic without colliding with anything!!! Injury..................................................Needed new underpants and decided to walk the paper round till the weather got better !!!! Green Crosses on Photo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Now I know how that No Waiting sign got knocked over! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 'One potato, two potato, three potato, four...' Dodgeball - kind of dobby (or ticky as we called it) using a rubber ball or tennis ball. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 British Bulldog!! There's a real boys game......................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Eeny Meeny Miny Mo...Catch a politically correct ethnic minority of either gender and sexual preference disabled or mentally disadvantaged person by the toe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Hope you don't mind - I've nicked that one :o) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Are we an incompetent lot of bikers on here? I was forever falling off my motor scooter as well as my pushbike. The best was on my way to Southend one day. Got as far as , IIRC, near Old Dalby (a steep downhill going south, can't remember the name of the village but on A606; don't have map to hand ). Close to the top of the hill I had cause to brake and the scooter went from beneath me trapping my steel toecap between the running board and road. It dragged me a way down the hill, breaking the steering column top plate. I tidied myself up, thumbed a lift into Melton Mowbray but couldn't get a spare part so I used the mirror clamp to hold the plates together and continued my journey to Southend - there was a bird waiting for me so I had to continue, come what may! That bodge repair lasted ages. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 By Golly Poohbear! You should be smeared with Robertsons jam for that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Eeny Meeny Miny Mo...Catch a politically correct ethnic minority of either gender and sexual preference disabled or mentally disadvantaged person by the toe. You forgot persons of restricted growth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Anybody remember their mum saying: "go on then, out and get some fresh air." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Eeny Meeny Miny Mo...Catch a politically correct ethnic minority of either gender and sexual preference disabled or mentally disadvantaged person by the toe. I discussed this down the pub last night and left my Afro-Caribean aquaintance "Toeless Terrence" feeling decidedly discriminated against....So perhaps we could add a rider to that well known phrase or saying to the effect that the person should be caught "....by the toe or in the advent of the toes being non-existent, any suitable part of the anatomy to be decided upon at the time of catching." And just in case the ethnic majority are also offended maybe we should include them too - "Catch an ethnic minority, or majority, of either etcetera..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 "If he squeels put him in a safe house till after the trial, then put him in witness protection for the rest of his life , which ( Judging by just about every telly programme you see where 'witness protection' is used ) won't be very long any way !! " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2easyco 41 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 My dad made ‘Winter warmers' to keep us warm in winter, a paint tin stuffed with rags, long wire handle added, swung around with a great whooshing sound-great fun! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I never saw these but I had them described to me in about 1974 by a chap who used to live in the Meadows. He said they were very popular down there in the 1950s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 And the 40s! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2easyco 41 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 In the sub-zero winters at Wm. Crane the ice slides would be made, dozens of kids hurtling toward the school wall at incredible speed, each slider getting braver by the minute, until the dreaded time when a Master would declare an end to the proceedings and ceremoniously poor salt on our creation! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I recall one particular vicious winter: February, 1956: we kids had made a magnificent ice slide stretching halfway down Watford Road, Aspley - right outside my grandmas. In class - William Crane Juniors - I prayed during lessons that the slide hadn't melted. When the school bell rang for dinner I dashed to meet the other kids from off the road queuing up for some more fantastic rides on the giant slide. Even grandma calling us in for dinner was boring, all we wanted to do was slide and hope the freezing cold weather lasted forever - also hope no cruel neighbour chucked ashes or salt on our prize possession. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 2easyco - did you go to Crane infants? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I remember one particularly snowy night in the Nags Head on Carlton hill. That bad nothing could get up the hill, we were all out pushing buses etc , after a bit of a lock in , me and my mate Alan then spent a good hour builing a slide down the middle of Chesterfield Street !!! ( Yes we were both around 21 at the time too , he says with head bent in shame drawing an imaginary line in the floor with his toes !!) It was a good 300 foot long down the middle of the road. We woke the next day covered in bruises where we had fallen over the night before , but neither of us felt 'owt at the time as we had "Liquid courage" inside of us See that red line ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2easyco 41 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 2easyco - did you go to Crane infants? No, I went to Player infants, Junior and then Crane Secondary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 I just thought with you being 3 months younger than me, there was a chance we were in the infants together. Never mind! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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