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RE: What Did You Want To Do When You Were A Kid?
that's a cool list... My cousins and I LOOOOVED Evel Kneivel... we had the wind up motorcycle and spend hours playing with it and making him jump crazy stunts... as a pre-teen I couldn't wait to get a dirtbike.. build a massive ramp at the bottom of a long hill.... I got amazing air!! - I also dropped the front tire too soon , hit it on huge rock and fly head first over the handlebars and knocked all the air out of my chest and weedeated the field with my face... first day I had the bike and the front tire went bent out of shape as well as my handlebars - was fun explaining that one...
I did enjoy compiling the list here. Hadn't really thought about all of those things in a long while.
I rode down the hillside on my bike once, but there wasn't a ramp at the bottom of it. Problem was, you had to walk back up the hill pushing the bike because the hill was way too steep to pedal back up.
Sounds like your bike wreck was similar experience to the one I shared, except it had the thrill of victory before the agony of defeat.
I've shared elsewhere about Evil Knievel and its amazing just how much a following he had among us 6-12 year olds. I had a couple of girl cousins that immediately follow me in age, with their brothers coming a few years after that, so I don't remember either of the boy cousins even knowing about Knievel, let alone liking them. I had to carry the mantle alone.
thats cool .... thinking back to it .. we had a gutted mini bike with no engine that we would ride down about a 1/4 mile winding hill ... was it was fun and there was no ramp .... but as you say .. we had to walk it back up the hill again .. good times though............