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Me too..

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 2:44 pm

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 2:57 pm, in reply to "Me too.."

Great fun in the 50s building your own cart

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 3:11 pm, in reply to "Me too.."

100% agree.
Den

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 4:15 pm, in reply to "Me too.."

Been there done that, great fun until the spoked pram wheels collapsed

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Posted by calidavid <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=calidavid' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 4:36 pm, in reply to "Me too.."

At the age about ten I cobbled together a kart with a peddle car front end and a tricycle back end and a rotovator engine with a bicycle sprocket hammered onto the shaft with a chain drive.
Put my five year old brother in as test pilot. Happy Daze.

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I made a 3 wheeled cart fitted with a Power Pack engine friction drive on the rear wheel all great fun until one of our mob drove into a lorry wheel and modified his face.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 5:09 pm, in reply to "Me too.."

I never understood where people got the wheels from.

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Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Me too.."

For us, it was rusted out wheelbarrows and garden carts....

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

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Here, it was always pram (perambulator) and child pushchair wheels.

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Same here

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Here as in UK. ;-)

I was always dead envious of boys who had a go-cart. Where did they get those wheels from???

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Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 7:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Me too.."

Local to where I was, you could scavenge all sorts at the council tip over the weekend, when it wasn't staffed.

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Dad and me often used to go to the local rubbish dump - something like 50 - 55 years ago (jeez how time flies).

At that time it was just a rubbish dump, no one ever there, we used to scavenge anything brass, copper, aluminium - all the non ferrous stuff.

Used to save it up for a couple of months and take it to the local scrapyard, used to easily make around £100 or more on every visit.

I still have the habit of hanging onto bits of non ferrous scrap, car / bike batteries and taking them to the local scrapyard, these days I dont get the quantity, but might clear £50 - £70 on my annual visit.

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 9:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Me too.."

We could never find good wheels. The ones we saw were on prams and Mother would not let us tip baby out. Sledging was better as we had a lot of old plastic sacks

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 19, 2024, 10:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Me too.."

Yep spot on Chaz.

The oldest rocker in town!

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. Sledging was better as we had a lot of old plastic sacks

We used to sledge downhill on, believe it or not, old bits of corrugated iron. Gawd knows how we didn't do ourselves nasty injuries.

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