It's The Weekend - Ride Safe!!! Growing Up In Rural America, I Flipped MANY Of These Bad Boys!!! And It Was FUN!
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being a god dad meant you did wheelies with your kids barely hanging on
Dad tied a 30ft rope to a sled attached to a tractor after a good snow.
He'd put enough turtlewax on thay thing to make it float.
Then open up on the gas and you'd have to grab on the sides of that sled or you'd bet your ass you'd fly off.
My dad had a 3 wheeler. He did wheelies with me on the back but we had to be out if site of my mother first.
During the winter we would get in his fox body mustang and do donuts in snow filled parking lots. Have fun with your kids.
My ATC 110 was my ride for years
When I was about twelve a buddy and I made a motorcycle out of a bike and a lawnmower engine. We were tired of being run down by Bullet, a local German Shepherd.
surprised he doesn't have a cigarette in his mouth!
*As well as all the kids!! Start em young....
I was riding one of these on some "chat piles" as we call them (abandoned mining areas with mountains of tailings) and was really cruising around a banked turn when I found myself going over the top of the berm. I remember thinking "I wonder what's on the other side?" Turns out, nothing other than a 40-foot shear drop-off. I landed it on all three wheels nice and pancake-like. Bent the rear axle so bad we had to drag it to the pickups. My friend was not happy with me, it was his three-wheeler. I also bent the axle on it again when I clipped a tree with the left handlebar, turning me right into it at speed. Again, not happy with me. Both times he got it straightened out without having to totally replace it, even though I offered both times.
Back in the 70s my family had a Tri-Sport, man I loved to ride that thing.
Nice, I have a 1984 big red atc 200 in the garage
One of my great-nephews (age 16) in my hometown in Nebraska was out at a farm friend's screwing around with their Odyssey (I think?) 4-wheeler which are all over the place around that community a couple summers back and - shocker with kids!! - one of the friends decided to FLOOR it up a ridiculous incline, wasn't strapped in, it fell BACK on him (age 13 at the time) crushing his pelvis and femur. His parents sued the shit out of the farmers though it was CLEARLY his fault - I mean seriously, are they going to lock up all their equipment?
That's my pops and my brothers in a rusty old Jeep
They are leaving after playing lawn darts.
Here Jethro, hold my Milwaukees Best and watch THIS!
I remember these, I used to love riding them before they banned them. My uncle owned a campground in the White Mountains when I was a kid and he had a few of these. I remember always wanting to ride that huge red Suzuki that everyone called "Big Red" except we were never allowed to because my uncle was disabled and he used it to get around. The first time I got a chance to ride it, however, I somehow got it stuck in a huge mud wallow and had to have my uncle come and tow it out. In my defense I was only like 11 so I was pretty stupid.
As a kid, my folks had a Subaru Brat...
For those that have never heard of it, think Subaru Baja, but with awesome little seats with handlebars in the back so you can ride along while holding on for dear life. My dad would run it along rivers and gravel beaches with us white knuckling it in the back all the time.
It was a blast!
The youth of today will never know the excitement of dad yelling through the back window:
"Hey kids, I'm gonna try and jump this berm! HANG ON!"
Far out!!! I got out of the Army in 1994 RIGHT when they were phasing out the JEEPS and phasing IN the shitty HumVees. I've been searching for a jeep to buy ever since as I absolutely LOVED those things but the majority of them, if I understand correctly - as only the oxymoronic Military Intelligence would have it - were DESTROYED rather than sold on the open market. Those little bastards would literally go through EVERYTHING.