Best Christmas gift you ever got as a kid?
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Got this thing for my 7th back in '76. Rode it up and down the road with no parental supervision for a couple years until one day I tried jumping it off a wooden box downhill and broke the front wheel.
Parents brought home a Great Pyrennes puppy when I was 4. That dog was awesome.
Either that or the time they got a Super Nintendo.
Either that or the time they got a Super Nintendo.
-a full NES with gun and the robot when I was in 4th grade.
-brother and I also loved this 7ft tall Dr J nerf basketball goal. The house we grew up in was 200 years old with 10 foot ceilings. Made for awesome indoor basketball.
-brother and I also loved this 7ft tall Dr J nerf basketball goal. The house we grew up in was 200 years old with 10 foot ceilings. Made for awesome indoor basketball.
Another vote for the SNES. In a close second would be the Jordan XI’s; still my favorite sneakers of all time.
My older brother had that because I remember finding it in hand me down toys. Pretty dope find.
AND the wind up Evel Knievel wind up motorcycle.
Actually, my youth model single shot 20 ga. I loved that thing.
Evel taught me that breaking every bone in my body was a realistic goal in the ‘70’s. MFer popped wheelies like a boss.
Got this thing for my 7th back in '76. Rode it up and down the road with no parental supervision for a couple years until one day I tried jumping it off a wooden box downhill and broke the front wheel.
The Green Machine kicked the Big Wheels *** back in the day and yes I am getting old.
Got a bike like this when I was 7 years old. 3 speed Sears made in Austria. My dad must have figured I would grow into it. Thankfully by summer I was big enough to ride it, but still could only sit on the top tube when I pedaled for a couple of years. Everybody else had those banana bikes and I would blow their doors off racing until a rich kid got a 10 speed. Continued to ride it until I got my drivers license.
1980 Honda ATC185 Three Wheeler
Had to share it with my older brother...which was a challenge...but well worth the beatings I took for riding it out of turn.
Had to share it with my older brother...which was a challenge...but well worth the beatings I took for riding it out of turn.
If you are from Louisville, you can never forget Childrens Palace in St Matthews where Best Buy is now. Legit best toy store ever. Will never forget going there as a kid, especially around Christmas time.
Mine was a split bar Torker BMX. Sometime around 84/85... first bike I ever saw with a skinny rear and fat front tire.
Schwinn 36/36 Srambler allowed me to be the aforementioned Evel Knieval.
Just like this one, sans the gold and that hardass Uni seat.
Same thing happened to me. A got a red J.C. Higgins 26" one speed. Santa forgot to tighten the handle bars, and I wrecked first thing on a gravel street. Skinned up and bent one pedal so that it always clicked when I pedaled. The only bike I ever had. No BB gun for me. They were afraid I would shoot my eye out, so at age 10 I got a real bolt action .410, but I hated hunting. Didn't like making critters bleed.
Got a bike like this when I was 7 years old. 3 speed Sears made in Austria. My dad must have figured I would grow into it. Thankfully by summer I was big enough to ride it, but still could only sit on the top tube when I pedaled for a couple of years. Everybody else had those banana bikes and I would blow their doors off racing until a rich kid got a 10 speed. Continued to ride it until I got my drivers license.
Wrecked mine similarly with the same result. Didn’t want to tell my Dad, so after I walked it home, I took a hammer and beat on the pedal to straighten it out. Sort of.