Bike Radio Decisions

Bee Gees or Battlestar Galactica? Ooooooooh i can't decide, why must life be so hard?

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Ideal R-R-R-Raw Power

I've mentioned it before but my parent's denying me this toy for "safety issues" never ceases to amuse me. Think I'll call them up and bug them about it again.

I would have probably broken it in an hour though...

Battle of the Planets Tricycle

Well, my pal Dave over at ToyNerd (go check it out, I'll wait) succeeded in two things 1) Showing me something I've never seen before and 2) Totally making me want a girl's bicycle!

Follow me after the jump for this awesome Battle of the Planets piece.

AMF presents Evel Knievel bikes

Evel Knievel Bikes: the leading cause of skinned knees in 1976!

Star Streak Dragster Bike

You can almost feel the skinned knees...

R-R-R-R-AW Power

I can remember the exact moment I saw this, it was pretty important afterall, it was a device that made your bike sound like a motorcycle. Screw want, I needed this dammit, it was important.

My parents reviewed my case and shot it down claiming "Safety issues" when pressed further I pretty much got some sort of goofy answer like "People might think you're a motorcycle" it made zero sense.

Fortunately for me, none of the neighbourhood kids got one either, so I didn't have a constant reminder. The odd kid would cruise by the cul-de-sac I grew up on with one but it was rare.

Dirt Bikes!

Looking through a Western Auto Catalog today, I was reminded of how important a dirt bike was when I was growing up. It seemed to give you street cred, although in my case that "small town middle class suburbs" street cred.. The kids with the dirtbikes were the ones people flocked to, an early version of the muscle car, I guess.

I had a conservative model from Sears for much of my childhood, it was yellow and I often worried it would be branded a "Girl's Bike", a shame that I could not recover from. One kid in my school called me on it but he wore pajama shirts to class and wasn't exactly a big threat to my name.

I eventually bought a BMX when I was 13. I still sometimes hit the same trails I did as a kid, I find the "Monkey trails" a lot harder now.

Ayyy It's the Fonz Bike!

Toy Fair 1977 :I would pay a million dollars to see Henry Winkler on that Big Wheel nowadays.....