They may grow up one day....

[Ned52]

..........not sure what to say about them

 

[JayTee]

Looks great fun, but don’t know if I’d be getting up so quickly, probably fall asleep on the way down.

 

[johnboy]

In my yoof, we used to go to Lasham airfield when it had snowed and tow a tyre behind a car, speeds of 60 MPH plus were acheived before either falling off or clouting the rear of the car when it braked.

 

[andyBeaker]

Haven’t opened the link but we used a car bonnet as a toboggan down a Big Hill one snowy winter c1970.

 

[Cougar377]

In my yoof, we used to go to Lasham airfield when it had snowed and tow a tyre behind a car, speeds of 60 MPH plus were acheived before either falling off or clouting the rear of the car when it braked.

We used to do that at Odiham with a Land Rover towing a pallet, except the section Landy wasn't capable of 60mph.

 

[derek kelly]

We used to slide down a grass bank on cardboard, to makeit more interesting we used to set fire to the cardboard.

 

[Squag1]

There was a sawmill/box factory nearby.
Someone got a diesel tank from a truck and we sat on it a slid down the pile of waste sawdust.
There was a projecting seam on the side of the tank which would rip your ankles if you weren't careful.

They made brush heads as well. We used to get offcuts as kindling and I found reject brush heads which were cylindrical.

Great idea.....wheels for a cart.
Spent ages building cart, ready for wheels....off to the hardware shop, (bar, grocery, hardware and undertaker) for 6" nails to make axle, nailed into timber log.
First lesson in need for high tensile metals.
The nails bent after about 2 turns of the "wheel" - end of project. I suppose it kept us off the street for a day or two.

 

[derek kelly]

Every kid had a home made bogey, a friend of ours was off School with a broken leg, by the time he returned to School he had completely changed his bogey, smaller wheels on the front, large pram wheels on the back, upholstered seat with matching arm rests, a proper steering wheel that he had ingeniously adapted by connecting it to a bar bolted to the axle, he had put front & rear bike lights on it, he was the envy of the School

 

[Cougar377]

Makes you wonder how we survived as kids....

How many of us has got on a bogey with a mate at the top of a hill, kicked off and then half way down and at terminal velocity tried to brake with our feet, failed and ended up either in a hedge or lying several yards from the bogey, having rolled it more than once.

Was it any wonder my mum restricted me to wellies or old gym pumps....

 

[derek kelly]

That’s something else he added, a brake operated by a lever fixed to the side

 

[andyBeaker]

One of my vivid childhood memories was sitting on my bike at the top of a relatively large chalk quarry and agreeing with my mate Nick I would go over the edge down a track that must have been around 30 or 40 degrees incline if he did it first.

Two things stand out:

1. the visual of him going flying over the handlebars, somersaulting and ending up on his back in the middle of a massive bush while his bike careered on down the quarry
2. my continuing disbelief that he actually thought I was going to do it

Scarily he ended up in the marines and eventually got chucked out. Don’t know the specifics - All I knows is in one occasion he went on shore leave in Norway and didn’t get back to the ship before it sailed, and on another occasion someone discharged his firearm in barracks (his fault apparently as it was his firearm). Last I heard he was an estate agent. Great junior tennis player, sponsored by BP. Made the rest of us realise we really weren’t anything like as good as we thought we were.