Bike stunts (bear in mind this is before JACKASS)

[vanhelsing]

Forget:-
climbing trees
playing conkers without goggles
the ULTIME health and safety violation for kids now HAS to be that old favourite,
Doing your ownEDDIE KIDD/EVEL KENEIVEL style ramp jumps on bikes. Did anybody do this?

[Heather74]

Re: Bike stunts (bear in mind this is before JACKASS)

yeah we built our own ramps out of bits of wood and house bricks mainly then took it in turns to lay on the pavement while someone jumped over you!

[Sly]

Re: Bike stunts (bear in mind this is before JACKASS)

We used to do the same. What I want to know is where did these house bricks come from? They always seemed to be in plentiful supply when I was a kid. I never see them now.

[HG]

Re: Bike stunts (bear in mind this is before JACKASS)

We made jumps in the park from old pieces of wood too, we also built a quarterpipe against the side of a fence although the council came and removed it

We used to have races around the park using the jumps we made as obstacles.

[Richard1978]

Re: Bike stunts (bear in mind this is before JACKASS)

Me & my brother often made a ramp out of a board just the right size & some bricks.

Often we would had a few friends round to try it out.

I can only remember 2 times things went wrong, Once when one boy decided to put his brakes on at the top of the ramp for some reason & come of his bike.

The other was when someone burst their back tyre when landing & tried to blame my brother for it.