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Post by mekon on Jun 2, 2021 9:53:58 GMT
Don't wan to ruin the brexit thread so here it is. I always wanted one of these during the entire BMX 'craze' era. Must have been the 3 piece cranks. I wasn't great at BMXing and only entered 2 races and came 2nd in one of them but by fuck did I want this bike  I also wanted this bad boy. The Action Man command centre.  |
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Post by beefus on Jun 2, 2021 11:46:19 GMT
Raleigh Grifter, one of the kids on our estate had one...circa 1976-ish....
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Jun 2, 2021 12:27:32 GMT
A wank off my dad.
Fortunately my uncle was available...
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Post by beefus on Jun 2, 2021 13:53:10 GMT
A wank off my dad. Fortunately my uncle was available... Uncle Jimmy? ;-) |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Jun 2, 2021 16:22:58 GMT
You knew him too?
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Post by armstrongracer on Jun 2, 2021 17:03:04 GMT
Bitty!
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Jun 2, 2021 17:22:18 GMT
We didnt have a car when I were a lad so I had to cycle everywhere for part time school holiday jobs, recreation, canoeing, fishing and the like.
Living in rural Herefordshire what I wanted most of all was not to live on top of a fuckin hill. Long slog home.
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Post by spentcase on Jun 2, 2021 17:42:26 GMT
I wanted a 'Race and Chase' Scalextric so bad.
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Post by armstrongracer on Jun 2, 2021 18:22:40 GMT
This  |
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Post by mekon on Jun 2, 2021 18:45:52 GMT
The american cunt down the road had this. Then again that cunt had everything. I used to think America must be the best place on earth when I looked through a Sears catalogue. They had so much more compared to soviet Britain about 1980.  |
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Post by spuu on Jun 2, 2021 19:50:34 GMT
Bigwig radio controlled car
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Jun 9, 2021 21:39:10 GMT
A motorbike. I had to blag rides from mates whose dad's had bought them shitty old 50s or something to ride around the woods on.
I had to wait till I was 16 before I could get a 50, all road legal and insured and with my own money.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Jun 9, 2021 21:42:17 GMT
The american cunt down the road had this. Then again that cunt had everything. I used to think America must be the best place on earth when I looked through a Sears catalogue. They had so much more compared to soviet Britain about 1980. To be fair, it looks shite. I used to go to school with a guy whose dad used to go to Japan as a buyer for Debenhams electronics department. He had some of the coolest Walkman you could imagine, way ahead of the plastic Saisho shite we could get from Dixon's for 15 quid. |
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Post by mekon on Jun 9, 2021 21:50:31 GMT
Everything probably was shite. Even that Diamondback is shite compared to modern bikes but the time it was fucking fantastic.
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Post by spentcase on Jun 9, 2021 21:52:05 GMT
I think the Millennium Falcon toy would still be off the hook
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