All of us 50+ guys remember those days. I know we all sat here watching this video with a big grin on our faces. Awesome!!!

Hats off to the parent that captured this footage.

Back when a piece of wood and some bricks would provide hours of fun.

This was the best time to grow up in. Ever.

I used to jump my friends, we took turns jumping over each other.. A couple of bricks, some plywood and we had a ramp. Somehow we all survived.

Evel Knievel, KISS, and the Harlem Globetrotters we’re all I cared about.

If you had a Sting Ray/ Chopper bike in the 70's you thought you were Evel Knievel

I'm 58 years old. When I was younger, I jumped over 55 Hotwheels! I got to meet Evel Knievel years later. I shared this story with him. He looked at me as if I was odd. :(

This video brought tears to my eyes , seeing how free we were and having so much fun in the 70's ...I love this video❤❤❤

My Grama had one rule,......"Don't come cryin' to me unless there's a bone stikin' out or you're bleedin' to death" and we jumped our bikes until the sun went down......I miss the late 70's early 80's!!!!

Those were the days. No cell phones, no video games, no internet and almost every car was V8 rear wheel drive. I used to ride my bike all day and night as there was really nothing much to do indoors once bored of listening to records.

One of the BEST personal video I have ever seen on youtube. This brings back memories in a way I never thought I could ever see again! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

Grandmas now: What in the world are you thinking trying to do that on your bike you could end up in the hospital or worse. Grandmas in the 70's: Here let me help you hit this jump

My new favorite video on the Internet. Especially mom out there helping.

OH i remember back in the day doing this with the boys in the neighborhood. we would all get in line and jump jumps and on gravel roads ride as fast as we could then lock those back tires up with the awesome coaster brakes and see who could skid the farthest...oh I love being a gen x'r and I miss those days. Summer in the 70's..oh i miss those days. thank you for reminding me of the best memories

You made this 62 year old man smile. Me and my buddies did the same stuff on our bikes.

Bless the family that kept this! No goofy names of tricks, just sweet ass AIR!

Best Napoleon Dynamite quote."You take that baby off any sweet jumps?"Luckee!

Man I wish I grew up in the 70 instead of this generation ugh we can't all be so lucky

Dude, you hit the nail on the head. Evil Knievel was our hero and we strived to reach higher and further on those bikes. Some of us like me became life long bikers because of it. Great video. We were to poor to own such technology back in those days but the experiences were unforgettable.

WOW!!! This video triggered memories that made me feel pre-teen years old. I love it! Thank you.

wow you brought me way back i was born in 68 and me and my friends that's exactly what we use to do in our back allay thank's man

Those were the Days my friend, we thought they’d never End!

That’s how we rolled! You need a 5 foot long sissy bar on that Schwinn to be really cool!👍🤣👍

Killer, totally cool man. I was there, lol I had a sears clone though not quite as cool but walked wheelies, jumped ramps, dirt hills and definitely did the power slide as often as I could.

And don’t forget, we literally invented BMX when our seats broke and we took the 10 speed seats and put them on like that third boy in the video did.

Aw the best time's ever! And we had Evel Knievel to look up to

That was totally us except we had the ramp on the sidewalk and came screaming at that ramp. Barefoot, in shorts. amazing looking back.

Back when kids actually played outside, miss the good old days

I was born in 1963 and this brings back such good memories of that world. I look at the world now and weep. 😢

Wish kids today knew that feeling of setting up Ramps and going big. I lived for that shit in the 90s. All day all night riding bmx and learning new tricks.

love it , im 50 years old and wish i coud go back to these great days, my lil sister was always somewhere crying just like in this video lol

"Born to be wild"Steppenwolf 60's 70's wonderful time.....I miss my bicycle Schwinn Sting Ray beautiful desig.

Bicycles were fun back then, still are. Started riding again a few years ago. Started with road bikes, picked up a mountain bike so I could start doing wheelies, and jumps!

I remember doing the same thing!

Yep thats how we did it in Oz too. Awesome old clips.

Thank you for sharing this. It brought me back! Wish I had vid of my escapades...

LOL, we thought we were so cool back then. Good video.

Ahhh man ! Does that ever bring back memories when my Brothers and me also used to jump our bikes on home made ramps,,we,d jump over used tires and had our bumps and bruises trying to be like Evel Knievel, haha, great video !

I can't even tell you how awesome this is, why's I got dust in my eye all of a sudden. Man this brings me back, we use get two buddies to lay down and we'd take turns jumping over each other. Yellow bike guy got er done!, he's know how to do it. There were certain kids ain't know way I'd let them jump me.

Man thank you for this. You just put a big smile on my face. I'm 52 years young and remember like it was yesterday. A 1 foot high ramp then seemed to be 5 to 6 feet tall back then. Thanks again man for a memory. This is why I love KZfaq. You can find anything. Your vid was shared to me from my childhood neighbor who we all jumped and rode bikes together. Thanks man. Happy Independence Day. Atlanta Georgia

OOOMYGOSH. Been there and done that. Wish i could just go back and do it all over again. Thanks for posting this priceless gem.

Is it crazy that I’m 12 and want these bikes so badly

Evel Knievel. Kiss Army, Queen and the Stones. Glitter and Playboy magazine everywhere. Endless summers... Nothing will ever beat being a kid in the 70s.

Awesome! Had that same childhood and same Sting-Ray bike. We all did it!! Thanks for sharing.

I love the old times even though I wasn’t born yet and the bikes from 70,80,90 are awesome I’m collecting them and fixing them with my dad

Mine was metallic green and had a flat surface rear "slick" tire at one point. I remember the handle bars splitting on a jump landing. Thanks for the nostalgia! Ironically, I'm watching this while waiting for my Yamaha XT1200ZE to get the ecu reflashed at the dyno shop. I'm 58 years old, things don't always change. 😎

I remember my friend Tony and I used to jump ramps in front of his house . He at one time got the neighbors and family members to lay down and jump over them 14 to be exact. His Grandmother was the 14th and cleared her by a long shot! Ok the good old days

I still got that yellow 68 Stingray, and I am still riding it!

Greatest decade to be a kid. I loved the 70's.

Child of the 80s here. Well done. Can confirm this way still going on in 86.

I cleared 13 trash cans on a downhill street with my 10-speed back in the 70s. Good thing we didn't have any Karen's back in those days around our neighborhood. 😆 🚲 LOL I still have gravel scars on my knees, shins, shoulder and elbows.

I feel sad right now, I want to go back to those times the old gang of about 15 guys in my neighbourhood, everyday was an adventurer and everyone was up for it there was alot of trips to the accident and emergency department and alot of plaster paris, 😂👍

So Great Watching Those Kids Having Fun. And The Nostalgia Of Seeing The Big American Cars On The Street..

Love seeing old footage like this!

Thanks for this, Skip, and I was jumping my Sting-Ray in the Seventies, too. And I got to be a lucky duck who actually saw Evel wheelie and jump his Harley at the Ontario Motor Speedway in '71. And afterwards, I suppose I was under the influence of Evel, me and every other kid with a Sting-Ray :)

This is great! Today, kids would get tickets for doing this at a public property. The 21st century sucks.

Bro - I had that Honda shirt and a Grey Ghost 5 speed Schwinn and and we spent every day in summer making wood ramp jumps, longest skid contests and farthest wheelie contests. Grew up in Sunny Hills Fullerton Cal and once we got a little older I started riding an XR75 Honda and never stopped and I am 56 now and still ride a Pro-circuit CR250 only now we jump big gaps at Beaumont in the lovely hills. Thank you Schwinn...

Jumpin ramps n cards in the spokes. The best days ever!!

I had the Ross Barracuda with the old school speedometer. Good times. 😎

Thank you. Had a big grin on my face too. Those were the days. We would keep building them bigger and bigger. That got boring and we started building them all rickety and called them death ramps. Wheres the time machine?

That's the America I remember. Kids being kids and having a blast. Great video!

Driveways have built in ramps on each side at the curb. I could spend all day riding around finding the best ones to get the best lift.

really enjoyed this video.. use to do the same thing on the same kind of bike back then.. oh good times!

that is gold

I was born 1970 and I remember those bicycles and the 70s. What a time to be alive man!

Thanks for the flashback and the great vibes it brought along with it. Smiled the whole way through.

When life was simple and your dollar was worth 95 cents.

…and BB gun wars. As you can see, I never did grow up and still a kid at heart at 62.😂

It's like I'm watching a video of myself! What a great time to grow up.

AWESOME! I tried a stand on set wheelie on my Schwinn. Brke my thumb. Lol. Great times. I'm 60 now and love the video. Thank you.

that was groovy man,,,...,,,.. far out,,,...,,, totally boss............. in 1968 I was 10

That's how it was in the 70's I know i grew up threw the 70's. CARE FREE TIMES

Watched this on my 53rd birthday. Smiled the entire time. What a time to grow up. Nostalgia overload for me !

Brings back a lot of memories , thank you . I’m a little bit older but by the early 70s we were ditching the ape hangers and banana seats with sissy bars and replacing them with mx bars and seats off a 10 speed that we got from the swap meet because we realized there’s no way to bale when you’re jumping a 20’ wide rainwash cavern 8’ deep off a dirt ramp that we built with shovels . A lot of teeth / bones / feelings got hurt at that spot . And yes we built plywood ramps but they were 4’ tall , might be the record for how far a qa50 landed successfully. We weren’t evil , just having fun.

It looks kinda silly now, but at the time, this was as exciting as the x-games is now.

Great! That is how i remember it...

RHODE ISLAND HERE SO GREAT TO SEE THIS I WAS ONE OF THESE KIDS IN THE 70 60 YEARS OLD NOW HAD THE SAME BIKE LOVE YOU GUYS GOD BLESS BROUGHT BACK GREAT MEMORIES THANSKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING

I wanna go back to those days.This video captures the 70s perfectly

BOSS

Nice Sting Ray. I had a 5-spd in Green metallic with the silver/white metallic banana seat. That puppy was so nice I never jumped with it (like I had with my previous Woolworth single-speed special). IIRC that Schwinn cost around $90.00 after taxes back in 1971/72 - and I helped pay for it.

Nice pickup truck! Before the extended cabs, when working men drove them for a reason...now everyone owns them!

Thank you sir, at 55 now I remember these days. Without cable, internet, and cell phones, we seemed more social and happy then. I really enjoyed watching this, thank you again.

And here at 50+ years, we didn’t think anything about how cool our bikes were back then. Cheers for capturing/posting this. 🇨🇦👍🏼

Awesome video! I did the exact same thing. I have a photo of me with my bike wearing a plastic helmet my mom got me at Goodwill complete with the added stars and bars applied with markers.....wearing bell bottoms. Those were the times!

Wonderful video. 👍👍👍 It reminds me of the days before pussification took over.

Love it. Thx. I had one of those 5 speed Schwinns with a banana seat and huge gearshift lever. We built ramps and jumped over stuff non stop.

Man that was awesome! I lived on a Culdisac In Palo Alto, CA in the early 70’s. We could set up our ramps in the street without worries about traffic. All the neighbor kids taking turns. I had a custom bike my brother built for me. Schwinn frame, real motorcycle handlebars, and get this a custom front fork suspension! Someone my brother knew was custom building these suspension forks and he did some trading to get them for me. Of course I was the only kid that had them. Super heavy though, all steel. Aluminum wasn’t a thing in the bike world back then. Moved to a farm in Idaho in 1975. My dad asked me if I would rather have a horse or motorcycle for Christmas. I thought for a minute, pictured myself running the horse along the canal bank, then I pictured myself on the motorcycle JUMPING the canal! Motorcycle won out over the horse and dad bought me a Yamaha 80, that was the end of bicycles for a while.

Hell yeah! The kid with the sun visor jumping his Stingray might be the most 70's thing ever. I'm a mid 70's kid, but from Indiana so our 70's lasted through a good part of the 80's too.

This is pure gold. Thanks for recording and preserving it.

Thanks for posting! Totally brought back memories!!!!

I had a 5 speed swinn, that shifter really sucked when you crashed, but growing up in the 70s is one of my favorite memories.

Thank You For This!. Brings Back Many Memories.

Awesome video! Thanks for bringin' back some great memories. Had a green Columbia back then and would jump the biggest hardest dirt jumps we could find.

Hell yes! Random piece of wood and some bricks, no helmet, me and my pals and our Stingray bikes!

AMEN! Such wonderful Memories.....I wanna fly Again!

Awe man, this is great, I’m 62 and this brings back so many jump memories.. I had a 24 “ bike with thick tires ..

I had yellow bike with yellow striped black banana seat......Even was my hero.....the scars are still visible at age 55

So rad! Such a cool thing to see all you kids kickin it with your bikes! The jumps are gnarly (mentally) for kids, and that one jump the baby did was super special. Thanks for sharing!!