Children of the 60's & 70's: Did your tricycle/bicycle have these?

[Zomby Woof]

Check out the bling hanging from our handlebars, back in 1971. :D

Lil'Zomby and ZombySister:

[Saphire]

1. you bet, and dont forget the banana seat!!!

[lildreamer316]

2. Yep.

Red and white as I recall. Those were the days.

[jane_pippin]

3. As a late 70's baby, yes but...

one of you older kids ripped the plastic fringe off before selling it to us at your rummage sale.

:shakesfist: :P

[Zomby Woof]

9. hehe

Yeah, those fringes never lasted long. I think this pic is a RARE occurrence! :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Those, and the playing card clothespinned so it hit the spokes

and made that cool sound.

[nini]

11. I remember that!

were they supposed to be 'muffler' sounds or something?
ha

[nini]

5. hey.. what's wrong with your horn there?

LOL


too cute.

And yes, I had a horn AND the streamers on my stringray bike!

[Zomby Woof]

7. LOL

:blush:

Later on, my first bicycle had a BELL, with an American Flag emblem... :patriot:

[nini]

10. I can't believe how light your hair was

Everytime I see pics of you with such light hair it still amazes me.

:hug:

[Zomby Woof]

14. I am still a ditzy blonde underneath!

:D (Just wait 'til it's gray!)

Emailed Jimmy already. :bounce:

[nini]

29. bald, gray.... no biggie

:D

let me know if Jimmy replies. I've got my fingers crossed!

[Deep13]

6. yep

nice shorts, junior

[Zomby Woof]

8. I was stylin'

That could be the subject of another thread: Striped pants of the 70's!

[kick-ass-bob]

12. Hell Yeah!!

streamers and a horn that never stayed pointed in the right direction!!

:woohoo:

[NYYFan]

13. Trike nothing, I had the bling on my real bike !

thanks for the memories !

[Zomby Woof]

15. My sister did too!

:D Ah, memories... back in the day we could drive a crooked president from the White House.

[Texasgal]

16. Heck yeah!

Mine were Blue and red sparkles! And don't forget the little "clipper" things that you could put in your spokes to make that "clipping" noise! Use to win those in the cereal boxes!

[Zomby Woof]

19. I remember those clippers!

And then we'd add playing cards (like Rabrrrrrr mentioned), or baseball cards.

We'd get so many things jammed in the spokes, the damn bikes couldn't be pedaled! :D

[Fox Mulder]

17. I had those...

and I was born in the early '80s.

[Zomby Woof]

21. I missed the comeback!

They were gone by the early 80's, but must have made a comeback... admittedly, I was in college by the late 80's and not up on bike trends. :-)

[flamingyouth]

18. Oh definitely!

[xmas74]

20. fringe streamers, banana seat,

a basket w/ a plastic flower, a horn and playing cards clothespinned to the spokes.
I loved my bike. Someone stole it and I never had a nice bike like that again.

[-..__...]

27. It's in the basement...

"Someone stole it and I never had a nice bike like that again"

of the Alamo!

[xmas74]

28. My cousin found it at a garage sale years later.

It was there w/ ten other bikes that went missing in the neighborhood.

[Pithlet]

22. That looks exactly like the tricycle I had

Complete with red and white streamers on the handlebars.

[Zomby Woof]

25. Shiny red seat too?

Sparkling in the sunshine. :-)

[Pithlet]

32. Yep!

There was a later version that had a plastic white seat, but I had the original.

[jus_the_facts]

23. awwww....yeah I remember those....then a few years later.....

...wreckin' on the blacktop because your bellbottoms got chewed up in the chain...then havin' to drag your bike behind you...with your favorite HUGE flaired jeans ruined...lookin' just tooo cool...to get scissors to cut 'em out. x(

:hi:

[Left_Winger]

24. Yep, sure did

and, not to forget the playing cards attached with clothespins to make the bikes sound like motorcycles as they ran over the spokes.

[bleedingheart]

26. I had a big wheel....with hand brake!!!! I would peel out on that baby..

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[Pithlet]

33. Oh how I wanted one of those.

But my mom refused to buy me one as I already had the metal tricycle and I think she felt they were superior. My explanation that I needed one because my metal tricycle didn't have that handbreak and couldn't spin fell on deaf ears.

[noonwitch]

30. Mine didn't, but my friends had them on their bikes

My parents hated to put things like that on our bikes. They also thought that training wheels were bad and developed a sense of false confidence in children. My dad even called them "sissy wheels".

Of course, no one wore helmuts then.

[johnnie]

31. I don't think I had those

My first tricycle looked like this:




It was 1968-68 or so. It had a chain on it, it was red and was brand new! I even had a bell. You have to understand that we really didn't have money at that time. I lived on an old red brick street, our house was 100 years old with a dirt basement. We had 4 children in one bedroom and mom and dad in the other room. So getting a flashy bike like this one was pretty cool. I thought I was special..LOL

[Tom Kitten]

34. my bike had these on them....

remember ugly stickers?