born before 1984?

born before 1984?

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it Tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no One actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.

We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mum or dad to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

i thought it was a funny read!!

born in 81 and i agree with everything it says

That is so fucking true.

Shame i was born in 86...

that is so true. My sons life is so restricted compared to mine as a child. I had to sign a consent form yesterday to allow him to eat fruit at school ffs

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i was made to wear a helmet as i once stoved my face in riding my BMX

the BMX tho, was one of those black ones with red writing, it also had a hi-tec sound affects unit on the handle bars which made Gun, Lazer and bomb noises

i wish i could remember the name of it

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GRIFTER

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hmmm.

for some reason i thought it had summit to do with a Wolf

It makes me glad I'm old.

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Did it have 3 gears where you move the handle grip to change gear and if you put it on the blue one (middle) it used to make your chain come off and then you'd crack your nuts off the bar and fall off

Mine was mint until i got hit by a car and the cunt ran over it and flattened it

RIP

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I had something very similar but it was certainly not a BMX.

ditto!!!

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Raleigh Vektar ??

http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com/2006/08/raleigh-vektar.html

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I had a grifter but it was old school, loads of gears and went REALLY fast!!

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can you remember what it was called ?

si - mine wasn't a grifter

lol , i had a chopper before i got a grifter like ( if u tried to peddle backwards on a grifter did it force the bike to brake :spangled: )

i hada Raleigh burner!! it was class

i had a Boxer first - the yellow jobbie, then the striker - pedal back brake for maximum shin-destruction - my mate had a grifter, but i went to an old 2nd hand chopper - which didn't last long, till i got my Raleigh Burner it weighted a ton with yellow leather pads




once i was older (re:11) a got a diamond back - cost loads

Urban: Raleigh Street Wolf- http://www.cykelgalleri.dk/html/gal_visbil.asp?ID=878

I would've fucking killed for one of them when I was little.

I had a Mustang 5speed mountain bike though

mine had the spokes (poor) my mate has the blue/yellow with mags (super cool)

i had a black and red one with mags, thought i was so good when i drove about on it!!