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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I don't notice any around these days but when I was a kid every kid had one in the years where push bikes were a luxury.
Anyways it is nice to see in some places they have evolved and live on...check this out ..one of many but I like wa t thing these.
https://youtu.be/Eugc2tdoKMw
Alex |
PFFF...helmets and roll bars.....carts made of metal....
Bleedin' soft if you ask me.
My dad was a carpenter so we had access to many a cheap offcut. The neighbour was a mechanic who brought us used race bearings. Yep none of your rubber wheels with grip for us.
My parents house is on a steep, straight road ending in a t-intersection, so if you could not turn, the gutter or signpost would arrest most of the carts forward progress, if not your own.
Brakes were a late innovation - and consisted of a lever that impacted directly to the road. this was more often than not spiked with nails so it would spark more than slow you down.
The one attempt a little bloke made with rubber wheels only resulted in so much grip he just rolled it and skinned himself.
BUT....(to provide some balance)
In my day sonny, shops didn't open on sunday, and no-one really drove anywhere. All Single car households so no-one parked on the street either.
So accidents were usually single-vehicle - worst injury i ever got was a skinned toe.
Imagine my distress when dad (who had inexplicably kept my old deathtrap) offered to let my then 10yo loose with it.
