Memories of the 70s-80s-90s

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Pacers :love: minty sweets. Tasty as a tasty thing

Bright red chopper bike The one with the gear change between your legs. Had a fair few bruised nads on that but it was worth it:)

flying saucers.
love hearts
space dust

Ah the memories.:lol:
 
I borrowed my sisters Chopper once as my Grifter had a puncture, went down the dirt track, turned on the bend bike slid to the ground.. A&E 7 injections to numb the gash and remove all the grit and 11 stitches to stitch me back up.. 28 years later I still have a nice scar on my bum cheek.

sherbet fountains
Oric 1 64k computer
boomerangs
breakdancing
 
80's
thinking it was cool to ride around on your racer with the handlebars upside down
raleigh grifters
race and chase/TCR
um-bongo
C64's (and especially Hunchback and Kickstart)
Puma California
Beastie Boys
Highland Toffee bars
Fish and Chip crisps
Star Wars and Crystal Castles arcade machines at the swimming baths :)
 
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I was convinced i was getting a grifter for xmas in 1980 but i got a striker
 
grifters were cool, but had an evil streak....especialy when the gears decided to slip as you were stood up pedalling #ouchmynuts
 
The grifter was an awsome bike. Big thick sadle big thick handlebar pad. The slip gear was a problem though lol
 
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Fatasic bike. looked bigger when i was ten though:(
 
My mate had a grifter, but I much preferred my BMX.
 
A mate of mine had a Grifter though I preferred my Sun GT10 racer...unlike my mate's Grifter the foam seat didn't fall apart :D

Memories from the '70's -

Being bought my first stereo for Christmas so my father didn't have to panic about whether I was going to ruin the stylus on his fancy stereo

Trying to get my Evel Knievil Stunt Cycle to go over the jump I'd made rather than into my father's flowerbeds :D

Terry Wogan doing the Breakfast Show on Radio 1!
Swimming in the river and making rope swings
Abba & Pink Floyd in the charts
Superbazooka bubble gum
Mojo chews (2 for 1/2p)
Spangles


Memories from the '80's (roughly in chronological order)

John Lennon being murdered
Watching the news footage of rioting in '80 & '81 in St Pauls, Brixton & Toxteth as well as others
Watching 18 cert videos whilst underaged (Dawn of the Dead & Quadrophenia stick in my mind)
Falklands war
Getting a fishtail parka and bowling shoes
The miners strike in the news and footage on the news of running battles between the police and strikers
Dreaming of getting a Vespa for my 16th birthday
Joe Dolce's "Shaddup your face" keeping Ultravox's Vienna from #1:gag:
Recording Bruno Brookes doing the Top 40 countdown on Sunday afternoon/evening (I don't know whether kids today care but it really seemed to matter to us)
Trying my first cigarette
Seeing my first dirty magazine
School discos when all the lads would sit in groups at the edge of the dance floor :cuckoo:
Baggy white shirts, pleated jeans, gold spray on hair highlights & white pointy shoes :$
Football Trendies :lol::cuckoo:
Live Aid
First time getting pished in a pub (16th Birthday...I looked older evidently)
My best mate joining the Army
Choosing to get a car rather than a scooter :cuckoo:
Nelson Mandella being freed
My first car (White R reg Vauxhall Chevette)
Sitting in the passenger seat of said car when some loon came round the corner on the wrong side of the road, hitting us and totalling my car before I'd got a chance to drive it on my own:(
My first hot hatch (Renault 5 Gordini in electric blue):love:
Sitting my GCE's :eek:
Going to college and boarding in digs through the week
Going to the pub (legally) with my mates and playing darts and getting pished...I know what you're thinking...we really knew how to live eh?:lol:
Tiananmen Square massacre
The Berlin Wall coming down

Memories from the '90's

Poll Tax Riots
Getting my first job and hating it
Getting my second job and quitting my first job:woot:
Getting my HGV licence
Sega Megadrive & SNES
A few more hot hatches (Scirocco GTI and Renault 11 Turbo being the pick of them)
Atari STFM and Speedball II
Getting my first PC and getting online with Screamin Net
Discovering IRC and ICQ
 
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erm...yeah...They just kept on coming back...I guess I enjoyed the '80's the most. Maybe I spend to much time looking back rather than here and now:help::)
 
I loved my Grifter - you could tuck the bendy bit of the mud guard underneath so it rubbed the tyre and made a motorbike sound.

Slip Gear was a pain though not as bad as the Chopper's ball splitting gear knob.

The Striker was great for skids with the pedal back brake.
 
A couple brothers that lived a few doors down from me had Mustangs...looked a bit like the Chopper. Does anyone remember the Bomber bike?

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Oooh - I so wanted a Bomber.

I remember a Tomahawk too. Like a tiny Chopper so to speak.
 
I had the Formula 3
 
Yay!
I could never find a decent piccie of it :)
It was tiny compared to a chopper. Actually, i think it might have been the wheels that made it different to a Tomahawk :thinking:
 
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My mate up until recently used to by and do up Choppers. You wouldn't believe how much he could sell them for, one made just under £800.I didn't realise there were so many different types. Mk1, Mk2, 5 gear ones, American ones etc
 
All this talk of Choppers and accidents has reminded me of a lad I used to hang out with that following an accident involving the handlebars of his racer got the nickname of Uno by the other kids in his class...aren't kids lovely?:) Didn't put him off cycling though
 
We used to pole vault with bamboo canes from carpet shops or allotments,it was great fun even 6ft fences topped with barbed wire were easy meat
 
Chris L said:
All this talk of Choppers and accidents has reminded me of a lad I used to hang out with that following an accident involving the handlebars of his racer got the nickname of Uno by the other kids in his class...aren't kids lovely?:) Didn't put him off cycling though
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lol same here, although our mate got nicknamed "Orinoco" after the Womble (think about it)...:lol:
 
I remember the strike at GMTV (I think) meaning Batman all morning. We used to get dressed for school in front of the fire and watch it. I think their ratings went up!
 
Creamola foam .....I miss it so much lol
 
Memories of the 70s-80s-90s --- they were not as good as the 60s. :lol: :exit:
 
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Culture club
Howard jones
Tears For fears
Space dust (that fizzy stuff)
Cans of top deck after school
Zx81 and zx spectrum
Elite on my mates bbc micro
Death of elvis
Rubik's cubes
Discos
The adventure game with Uncle the pot plant
Mr T and the A team
Mrs T kicking ass or ruining the country (opinion divided)
Adrian Mole
The Falklands
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy on the radio

Many more but they sum most of it up for me. Plus school and girls of course

Edit: plus danger mouse. How could I forget that!?
 
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I loved my Grifter - you could tuck the bendy bit of the mud guard underneath so it rubbed the tyre and made a motorbike sound.
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I used to do that with a squashed Kwenchy Kup jammed between the fork and brake cailiper on my BMX :lol:
 
Does anyone remember the heatwave we had in the 70s about 76 i think. It lasted weeks and weeks it was like living in greece it was so hot.

Ah the best days of my life. That was when summer came in june not august. Riding around on my chopper wearing an actionman t shirt and patch pockets drinking a jubilee frozen drink.

Then playing with your T.C.R race tracks and your evel knievel stunt bike scuffing your knuckles on the pavement as you turned the handle as fast as you could:lol:
 
Scott that was the year of my last school summer holidays, there wasn't a green blade of grass anywhere to be seen. :)

Anyone remember Space Dust?

Platform shoes and flares that were so big you took three steps before they started to move :lol:

Hair! - no not the musical, I just remember having some back then!
 
:lol: Hair yes i had some of that too. Now space dust was fabo it used to pop in your mouth hehe loved it.

Platform shoes haha walking around pretending to be starsky and hutch:D
Do you remember the shoes with the little peice of gold plastic that was on the tip of the toe? :gag: Was made to wear them for school hehe.
 
luckily missed all that 70s stuff (platforms, bay city rollers, donny osmond)

Lots of Madness/Bad Manners, Harrington jackets, Parkers and mod stuff around at school. I was too geeky and uncool to get into any of that (phew!)

Another thing for me, now I am trawling the memory banks was Coe, Ovett, Steve Cramm and Daley Thompson. Kevin Keegan. Brian jacks
 
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I remember seeing this in the 70s and even then i asked why are three men hanging around on a beach in vest and pants :lol:
 
Warm school milk in those small bottles with the thin straws..

Spectrum 48K with Hungry Horace, Daley Thompson's Decathlon..

Formula 1 with Alain Prost, Kiki Rosberg, Niki Lauda, Nigel Mansell running out of fuel and pushing his Williams across the finish line, Ayrton Senna totalling his car on the last lap of qualifying because crossing the line sideways was the quickest lap, two engine choices for teams (normally apirated vs variable boost turbo)..
 
pepi1967 said:
Does anyone remember the heatwave we had in the 70s about 76 i think. It lasted weeks and weeks it was like living in greece it was so hot.

Ah the best days of my life. That was when summer came in june not august. Riding around on my chopper wearing an actionman t shirt and patch pockets drinking a jubilee frozen drink.

Then playing with your T.C.R race tracks and your evel knievel stunt bike scuffing your knuckles on the pavement as you turned the handle as fast as you could:lol:
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I remember the heat wave then ,our spring ran dry for the first time
 
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Does anyone remember the Bomber bike?


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I do! And even owned one until I sold it about five years ago. For the likes of me, I cannot remember why on Earth I have ever done that and still am regretting it to this day.

I took this photo for advertising purposes - the bike was gone the next day. :(

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It was a bike with real character but at least my current one isn't that far off the Bomber in looks and feel as it's one of those chunky American style things (big cow-horn handlebars, fat wheels and . . . most importantly, a seat that resembles my living room sofa - I just don't know how ANYONE can sit on those razor-blade sharp things that has the effect of slicing into your buttocks).
 
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AHHHH the bomber. The thug of the bike world left all others standing. The only bike i never got my hands on. Fantastic bike.
 
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Warm school milk in those small bottles with the thin straws..

Spectrum 48K with Hungry Horace, Daley Thompson's Decathlon..

Formula 1 with Alain Prost, Kiki Rosberg, Niki Lauda, Nigel Mansell running out of fuel and pushing his Williams across the finish line, Ayrton Senna totalling his car on the last lap of qualifying because crossing the line sideways was the quickest lap, two engine choices for teams (normally apirated vs variable boost turbo)..
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Wasn't she a green frog that lived next door to Hector.:lol:
I remember Keke Rosberg.:thumbs:
 
Atlantic 252 on Long Wave.
 
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