Dad always said just rub dirt on it and go play in the road

@@schnoebelen2333 "You can play with your friends after you help me put the asbestos insulation in the garage."

With scabs dents and concussions. Barely, and some of us left long skidmarks on the road while donating a lot of skin.

That’s the way we rolled! Not like nowadays where I have to tell my grandkids to put that phone or controller down and go play outside!

Not to mention riding in the front seat of cars and pickup truck beds.

Me either. You either could do a wheelie or you couldn't.

Yep, I'm from New Zealand and this is the First ive seen them

Same

I never saw one either...I saw "sissy" bars, I even remember a "Swing Bike" back in the '70s, but not wheelie bars. Looks a little too much like training wheels to have been taken seriously in my neighborhood when I was a kid.

@@petermc2183 you didn’t put a wheelie bar on your sheep?

Like my wife says the reason there are so many stupid people in the world is because they came out with the bicycle helmet laws and we didn’t get the thin out the herd when they were young.

@@1dilligaf 😄😂🤣 She ain't wrong! Funny but, not wrong.

the days before product liability suits

@@irvhh143 Freak'n lawyers ruin everyone else's fun, except theirs!!

Back in the day 1.5 litre coke was in a frikin giant glass Coke bottle. Someone had the idea that if you cut it in half, it would be an awesome mug. They sold this plastic gadget with a steel cutting wheel to do the trick. No safety glasses included.

probably with a Hank Aaron rookie card!

Bet wheelie bars taught a lot of kids how to do real wheelies. Just keep setting it higher and try. They cut down on the crashes and donation of skin on the road. I wasn't interested in wheelies, my thing was high speed. I needed body armor. And maybe a parachute.

A friend of mine had balance so good he could ride a 20" bike like a Unicycle!

@@darrellcook8253 !!!!!! Lolol I should have either killed myself or at least seriously injured myself dozens of times on my spider bike! Nothing but luck helped me get through childhood! Ramps made from almost everything imaginable. I made jumps off the roof the garage, across the highway, across the creek, over my friends bodies, over my pets, even several times over burning charcoal and lighter fluid! Seriously should have been hurt! Good times, back in the day with new found freedom on a bicycle!

I put a Mickey Mantle rookie card in the spokes of my bicycle.

Nor shoes, apparently!

or shoes...

I don’t use one

Did not need these

@Auggie survival of the fittest

Thank the food pyramid, low fat foods and fake sugar!

I agree the biggest problem is today kids don't exercise like we did. My wheels were 2 wheels until I got that driver's license. In a way I miss it. No insurance, no tags, no having to pay for gas, I did landscaping for years as my bike being mode of trans. Pull mower behind with tools strapped to it. Rode to and from school. Got home. Grabbed my tools and worked until dark. Saturday out door before 8 am so I could be at hardware store to buy what I needed for next job. Spend most of day delivering stuff to job sight. Then start job. Leave at dark. Next morning back to job sight. Late 70s and early 80s most months made $5,000 . That $5k back then. :D Now I'm a fat, old, and broke man. :p

@@baddog9320 Jesus that was outstanding money back than cutting grass!

No shit .....but my fat ass did okay wheelies on ten speeds finding the right gear ratio....I wasnt that fat but my sense of balance couldn't get that wheelie sweet spot.....I could ride backwards ( sitting on handle bars....shifting my weight to steer .... pedaling )around the friggin block....

That is the most depressing thing about us living today.. everyone is fat

Brilliant statement!

DAMN❗ THATS A GOOD LINE; IM GONNA USE THAT ONE WHEN IT FITS IN WITH SOME SNAPPY CONVERSATION 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤗🤗🤗

The sixties and seventies were a good time to be a kid. You could actually step outside without having to worry about being kidnapped, molested,or murdered. Decent parents today don't dare to let their kids out of their sight

Yes

I always told the wife , not to worry about the kids , after a day or two they'll bring them back...

Helping you become a X Man...

Did you drink from the garden hose when you got home?

Wow, me too. Most folks think the fogger was insecticide (and some may have been) but it was usually to distribute a thin layer of oil on any standing water so the mosquitoes can't breed in it. The vapor was diesel fuel or heating oil (or even waste oil) just slowly dripped into the hot exhaust of an engine. I think of it every time a diesel truck is "rolling coal".

Jayne Mansfield cured all her ills behind a fogging truck too ..

Yep, decapitated doing wheelies on her stingray bike. I told her she was too top- heavy but she didn't want to listen.

Yes, I lived it too. Way before America went all to crap and hell with constant laws to supposedly falsely keep you safe. All these laws for safety where and are nothing but a money grab. Freedoms disappeared slowly but surely. No seatbelt laws, no mandatory auto insurance laws, no helmet laws, no back of truck bed laws, no gestapo laws but freedom. USA TITANIC is nothing but drones, satellites, cell phones, laptops, desk computers, Smart TV etc.... constantly watching you and tracking you no matter where you are. Socialist, communist, big brother government meddling in your life is all it is now. But my 1969 Schwinn stingray with the sissy bar, banana seat, extended forks, and streamers, metal flake gold color with my 5¢ Topps baseball cards on the spokes ran great! A time 10'of millions alive then and now remember and won't ever be back. Glad I lived it. The wheely bar was alive and well back then, but few kids had them.

Don't forget all the girls that look like Barbie Benton and Linda Ronstadt...

...or play video games

the only "bar" they care about now is the "bar" signal for thier phones!!!

Yep, Kids now days have no imagination everything is thought out for them, just push a button and let the game play for you. Pretty damn sad.

Maybe your kids! “Yardsausage” doesn’t sound like set much of an example lol.

That is their parents fault.. no computers or cell phones in my house.

Ha ha ha ... Every chance we had we would TRY and burn rubber ... mud , loose gravel ... ice was cool(sic) !

Its because people are idiots

Yeah, lawyers, both those who file lawsuits and those who become politicians, have killed freedom.

Some bicycles today even come with WARNING STICKERS on them, I actually saw one! Should say : do NOT ride if you are an IDIOT!🚲

Advertisers are cowards these days.

That have resulted in all those stupid warning labels like "this plastic bag is not a toy" or the classic "do not fold stroller with child inside".

For real. My wheelie bar is the back break.

Showoff

Saw it at CDR Raceway in Castle Rock CO in 1969 1/4 of a mile wheel stand...

I always wondered how the hell he steered that thing.

@@boataxe4605 Two brakes one for each rear wheel a little there and a little there, of course his big balls centered in the middle did most of the work...

@@mikevigil3677 😂 Thanks!

I built a model kit of it.

I had these I'm 65 yrs old now great times back then

You remember our chopped down stingrays too?! I feel like building one just for memory

Hell yes! Chopped Stingrays! I had one made from parts! No fenders. Fenders were not cool.

What nobody talking about cutting up a pair of forks and then using a hammer to beat the ends onto the forks of a stingray to make it a chopper? Mine had 3 forks on each side. My buddy had 4. That was was about the limit.

The first redline bmx bikes were the best

I got an Orange Krate for Christmas when I was 12 (1970). That was THE coolest bike I ever had, hands down! Boy, I miss those days.

Rub some dirt on it you will be fine...

And fixed it ourselves with parts from other bikes.

On Saturdays when Evel Knievel jumped on Wide World of sports, us kids would go outside after the TV show ended, and we jump our bikes. I had broke many frames, stretched front forks beyond fixing, completely broke many back wheels.

The truth spoken right there.👍

Problem being, when you're a kid,you don't realize how good you got it, not until you've grown up,hit middle age,then it's too late

So many times kids aren't allowed to be kids the same way we were. I grew up in the 60's and 70's.

With the red stripe around it

yeah I rode down Queen Anne Hill in Seattle turned a corner and woke up 8 days later, after receiving my last rites, in the hospital...I'm still deaf in my right ear because of it...

Exactly, kids need a few scars like we earned.

@@deedledumb790 Scars, are just Tattoos, with a story.

I crashed or near miss so many times!

@@mikeadams2351 That is badass! 😏

Cool, but I hope that you eventually learned how to ride out wheelies without them. You get more respect that way.

@@boataxe4605 Well yeah ..I was 6 years old when my dad installed it..by 8 we were free styling wheelies...

did he rock the boat ?

@@stevedeleon8775 thought you said "pre teen"? Lol I smell bullshit

@@TheJoshA Uh... 6 is pre-teen. Your nose ain't that sharp.

I can still ride backwards on a bicycle at 57.I show what few kids still ride so they can pass it on.

What ever happened to that truck? I believe I saw it recently, but maybe it was a replica.

I met Bill at Carlisle, super nice guy!

SCOTT GOLDEN Always one of our favorites. Must have been awesome for you!

@@johncotter1600 There's one in the Garlits museum in Ocala. Don't know about originality.

I met him in 1996 clay city drag strip in Kentucky he started his wheelie in the staging lanes way before you got to the Christmas tree blew us away 2 wheels all the way down the track got autographs posters decals shirts all kinds of stuff from him a great guy he was a showman

skid contest!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wheelies would not cause the front wheel bearing to go out, in fact they should make it last longer.

@@boataxe4605 slamming down on the front wheel would be a bit hard on them.

We bought slicks for the back tire. Oh they would lay some rubber with those coaster breaks! I wore my slick out and my Dad stopped my allowance till I had paid for the replacement.

@@boataxe4605 It's when you slammed back down on the front tire that did the damage. We had the same issue. If you did a real jump (airborne) and landed on the rear tire then the front slammed down.

That was a ton of money! When I was 10 years old I worked all winter shoveling snow and bought a twist-grip 3-speed bike from Firestone in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Cost around $50. It even had a headlight!

@@MrTruckerf This was in 69' and I was 16, summer of the moon landing. Yeah it was a lot of money for sure.

@@gehlen52 I was 10 in 1965 when I bought my bike. In '69 I sold a 4-H club calf and bought a Rupp Roadster minibike. No more pedaling for me! $300. Unfortunately, it was a complete pile of junk.

Awesome ! I wanna go back to those days. ‘ Sniff ‘ . 😢

$79 was a small fortune at that time. Very cool of your uncle.

And sunscreen wasn’t a thing yet.

I went 2 months wearing the same shirt!

@@Austin18025 I guess you weren’t interested in getting a girlfriend.

Why are a few people just now responding to this?

@@boataxe4605 No, too young for that.

When you say The DODGE LADY, I think of Pamela Austin; The Dodge Revolution Wants You! Va Va Va Voom!

Exactly... I'm 59 yrs old. I saw only one guy who had one (and he was still lousy at it). I practiced wheelies for a long time until I finally rode one down the street on my blue Stingray. Bike riding was never the same after that.

Found one in the dump, looked brand new. Put it on my bike and yup sure enough all the big kids made fun of it. It was returned to the dump on the next trip.

True! But the wheelie bar still looked cool!

@@dietersmythe9649 Not to me. Meant you didn't learn balance. But I'm fine with their thinking.

It was like the short school bus, most kids did not ride in it but knew the kids that did and understood why it was used!

Goofy fashion over utility. How much protection does spandex provide? And IMO those foam helmets look stupid, like a tennis shoe worn on the head. Don't get me started on suits and military uniforms worn by the officers. North Korean hats for instance. Skyscrapers.

@@darrellcook8253 Spandex isn't for protection. It's meant to make the rider more aerodynamic. The people who wear that stuff are focused on speed. I don't personally care for it but I'm not looking for KOMs in Strava or riding in the Tour de France. And there's more going on than styrofoam in their helmets these days.

As far as could pedal

Your dad saved you from being a wimp!

@@boataxe4605 HAHA GOOD one I think your right but I didn't see it that way. And I know that wasn't his intention. His excuse for just the act of doing a wheelie was I would wreck and ruin my bike.LOL

Lol !

I wonder how many engineers worked on designing it.

I’m heading out to my shop to build one for my kid to put on his bmx bike. This is going to be fun.

OMG Western Auto! Yes!!!

@@leahwhiteley5164 remember Yellow Front stores?

From Ohio here too and can honestly say that's the first time I saw a wheelie bar we would have loved those

I have vague memories of something like this and I was born in '72.

Ditto

Okay boomer

My favorite toy was my Swiss Army knife.

@@Oracle492 okay Zoomer.

Go, Granny, Go, Granny, Go Granny Go!

The little old lady from Pasadena!

My butt.

@@darrellcook8253 lol. If you were lucky. Used both many times. Now I was a 70s kid. And don't remember a wheels bar for bikes. But I do remember the Evil Kinvel, hand reverse. Vroom vroom. Lol.

My older cousin, about 12 when I was 10 in 1965, could squeal his rear tire when taking off. Coolest thing EVER!

Well, it's a bicycle, Ira. ...not many bikes *had* a slant 6...

Could you imagine this being marketed to kids today? I'm so glad I grew up in the 70s.

We were idiots. Just like today. It was literally survival of the fittest. We really could have used BMX bikes then, instead of those things with slicks on the back. When BMX came out, Schwinn still had a lifetime warranty. Kids would ride off the roof of the house, bend the pedals, and go get new ones. Schwinn put a no BMX/racing clause in the warranty.

With peelings, concussions and bruises. And the occasional visit to the emergency room. Barely.

Skin cancer and a lot of moles removed, concussions, dead friends.

I had the Green Stingray 3 speed. The Little Red Truck is in the Don Garlits Museum in Ocala Florida. Just down the road from where I live.

You must be too young, we used playing cards to make the sound on our spokes.

Yeah, those of us who had mini bikes laughed at those.

I had one. It was called a Veroom!

It was really loud!

Yes. Born in 68. We always found something to do. When the streetlights came on, it was time to throw rocks at the bats flying around. Now it's all Xbox and hot pockets

@@kepler240 our parents didn’t want us to play inside. Hell, we didn’t want to play inside.

I had the first Alva skate deck when they came out.

I had to take the reflector bracket off mine to do it.

YES ! Lawn Darts !!!

My brothers and I went to a deal at the Iowa State Fair in around '65 or '66 called "The Joey Chitwood Thrill Show'. It featured daredevil car and motorcycle stunts. We went home and promptly destroyed our bikes trying to duplicate them. My little brother got a concussion and I sprained both wrists. Man, those were the days!

Did you upload it? I got some Mopar vids in the Cars playlist bro!

A Varoom Engine! Those were much cooler than playing cards through the spokes!

@@MrTruckerf I did the baseball cards in the spokes too, my mom ran out of clothes pins!!

@@stovepipe1015 Haha! We're pretty old, when you think about it.

@@MrTruckerf I'm 67, we grew up in a great time, good music, good food, no big tech, it was an innocent time, now it's so serious, our marker plates are being scanned, our communications are monitored, imagine as a kid, someone monitoring and storing the phone calls you made to a girlfriend, or your grandmother? I don't like it Dale, I want my Varoom Engine back! (Banana seat & Monkey handlebars)

We used cards

And rode old rusty car hoods from the '50s in the snow. Fetch the Mercurochrome!

Me either.I guess this wasn't as popular as the good old frisbee...from Wham-O!

@@richardmorris7063 😂❤️

Put the pipe down

Good story.

I knew a kid that had a ten speed without a front tire back in my youth. That dude was proud of his neighborhood wheelie travels and would shove a stick in a passer by front spokes to get his point across. Complete bastard he was but dam it made no sense and was never forgotten!

Disneyfan1955 it was lawsuits that probably pushed companies to make sendintary toys for kids...and wonder why child obesity is at an all time high

Oh yeah. Us kids would tell mom "we're going out to play" she'd say " Ok, be back for dinner" that's all.

When I was 16 my boyfriend had a Sears 125 dirt bike. We rode in the traffic on that thing! He did insist on helmets. I took one of my cousins helmets. I wanted to go to the pool!

We never went to the doctor unless a bone was poking through the skin. Losing blood was a common occurrence.