And just FYI - I had a blue Murray 20" wheeled "girls" bike hand-me-down from my older sister with a playing card and clothespin. My sister had gotten some sort of pink and white Schwinn with 24" or 26" wheels.
Laing On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 10:06:29 AM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > Of course, if you were really cool (and had money) you would get a Mattel > V-RROOM "engine" (or complete bicycle) that contained batteries and a > speaker to make the noise. One up from having a frame tank with integrated > light and horn. > > [image: V-rroom.JPG] > > Laing > > On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 2:07:25 AM UTC-5 Steven Sweedler wrote: > >> We would use baseball cards, but would only put them on our bikes for >> special events like riding behind a parade. I grew up outside of New >> Haven,Ct and most of my friends and I were Yankee fans, I doubt anyone ever >> put a Mantle card on their bike. Steve >> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:37 AM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Poll: Who clipped playing cards to your fender struts or stays? Even >>> older, who clipped *baseball cards* to them? I recall using baseball >>> cards scrounged from friends about 60 years ago; in fact, in our circle, >>> baseball cards (Mickey Mantle! Probably Ty Cobb, too) were a lot more >>> common than playing cards. IIRC, baseball cards came with those dry, >>> brittle slabs of bubble gum and probably tasted better. >>> >>> Patrick "no annoying ratcheting sounds with a fixed gear" Moore, who in >>> reality likes the slow tick-tick-tick of overdriven pawls in Sturmey Archer >>> epicyclics. >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:01 PM Jim Whorton <jameswh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Aeroperf, yes, I also ruined some baseball cards by clipping them to >>>> chainstays 40-something years ago. Who knows, maybe they would be worth >>>> tens of thousands of dollars now. >>>> >>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvWshyW8W5NwHa7XUf6m95dZQLjuzFT0Xe-YDSWsNyvEw%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvWshyW8W5NwHa7XUf6m95dZQLjuzFT0Xe-YDSWsNyvEw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Steven Sweedler >> Plymouth, New Hampshire >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/53d96c21-269c-4a43-b171-59bf1e74cfe6n%40googlegroups.com.
