I haven't laughed so much in ages
It's that innocence of youth without thought for safety that makes me
Thanks for sharing that one!!!!!!!!
Slightly off topic but bike related nonetheless. I'll share it with you:-
My brother Nick found an old Raleigh Runabout (see
http://www.classic-wheels.co.uk/old_ral ... mopeds.htm ) in the
ederley lady next doors garage when clearing it out. It had been hers sons
and she gave it to Nick as a thankyou for all the clearing work. He was
about 11 or 12. My brother wanted to work on it but Dad took on the project
of restoring it; actually it needed very little work and almost ran straight
away. It had new lights put on it by him and front brake blocks (it has
pushbike front brakes and a drum rear) and he got an MOT for it!!!
It then went downhill from there, literally! We lived on an unadopted road
that was just dust and dirt (and was only tarmaced about three years ago!).
Nick used to go bombing up the slight hill around the windy bends and just
enjoy flying back down raising as much dust as he could! He always wore the
same jacket and wellies; lived in 'em!
He was showing off to me one day doing 'broadies'. Ya know, kinda foot out,
rear end out like speedway riders. I said I could do better than that
(sibling rivalry and all that).
I came down the road and then outside our house did a superb slide. On the
limits a bit but a real cracker.
Nick had to go one better of course. He went way up the road past a slightly
tricky 'S' bend and then lost from sight.
I heard him though!!!! Winding it up he came down the road flat out. With
his light weight I suspect about 30-35mph. He threw it into a broadie. Now
you've seen the cartoon fights with a dust ball and arms and legs punching
out at all directions? This is where they got the idea for it!!!!! Laugh or
what? I couldn't move. Hysterical. He might have hurt himself or something
but I just couldn't move at all. In fact I'm laughing now at the memory.
Needless to say the mopeds lights went for a burton etc,
On another occasion he had dug a large dip in the garden (it was a fair size
garden) and was riding it through the dip etc. Trying to pop wheelies on a
Raleigh Runabout was only really possible with an induced bump to help lift
it and a good pull back! I was watching and he got cocky and decided for the
first time to ride ACROSS the dip. Front wheel dropped in and just stuck!
Nick sailing oh so gracefully over the handlebars made me LOVL again.
The worst though was when Mum asked if I could find Nick as he'd "been gone
for hours" up the road. I wasn't about to walk it (no change there then) so
got on my beloved GT250M and with jeans and shirt & no helmet; unadopted
road ya see, rode up the road to see where he was. I could hear him. The
sound was getting closer. Where is
he...............................................only to be confronted with
this suicidal, welly wearing speed demon coming through the 'S' bends flat
out on the wrong side of the road (thank g*d I wasn't in a car). Whack! He
actually knocked me off!!! The thing is the s*d stayed on his Runabout and
thought once he'd come to a stop it was very funny. There's me laying flat
out in the dust wondering if my gorgeous bike has any damage at all &
there's this grinning idiot doubling up!!!!
Revenge for all the other times I guess. No real bike damage for mine. Just
a slight mark on the indicator if IRC.
Wonder what happened to that Runabout?