When you know your old...

[scaryjim]

I had a chopper when I was about 6 or 7, but it was way to big and heavy for me, so we sold it to a family friend and I got a tommahawk instead, which was basically a smaller version without the gears

[melon]

I had a chopper when I was about 6 or 7, but it was way to big and heavy for me, so we sold it to a family friend and I got a tommahawk instead, which was basically a smaller version without the gears

Those things looked like Harelys ... always wanted one

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[Larkspeed]

And there were those 'snappers' or something - basically little paper balls with a cap in them , you could throw at the floor.

You can still get those. My 4 year old daughter loves them.

They are classed as children's fireworks here

[[GSV]Trig]

I had a Chopper, reddy/orange colour iirc, stick shift bikes ftw

I also remember having to hand write games from magazines into an old rubber keyed spectrum, dad has upgraded it to 48k and I was for ever poking and stuff (not in the facebook way, we were poking way before the internet)..

Remember I had scratched the little windows in tapes that I used to put into my +2 so I knew where level's started so instead of rewinding all the way and then just waiting I could rewind to more or less the right place.

Was well impressed with my walkman that would automatically start playing the otherside of the tape without having to be manually taken out and turned round.

Remember making airfix planes, putting some weight in the front (lead weight from Warhammer figures!!) a picture hook in the front undercarriage hole, lots of super glue and then firing them up and down the field near where I live, think it was the CFIR-C2, mate fired it up the field, it went high, I ran off up the field after it, it rolled over and came back at me, I hit the deck and it burried itself into the ground, that would of hurt lots

Shooting at eachother with 22 air rifles.

Kids these days dont know what they are missing, worse thing that ever happened to me was an 8 inch scar down the back of my leg after failing to jump over a barbed wire fence, being shot in the right ball with a paint ball gun and getting a barbed hook stuck down the side of my finger under the nail..

[mycarsavw]

not sure if this will work, cant access site from work

Smacking a whole roll with the old man's lump hammer was always good for a laugh. I can still remember the smell too.

Spud guns, cap guns, pea shooters, catapults & slingshots, happy days

That takes me back! Loading up our rucksacks with dried peas, pea shooters and Black Widow catapults - with the arm brace that would leave a massive bruise by the end of the day - a bag of crisps and a massive bottle of squash and then heading out to the woods on our Raleigh 'Ultra' Burners (I <3 the internet - like this) and not coming home for ~10 hours.

<sigh>

[rox0r]

My family couldn't afford a Raleigh Chopper when I were a lad I had to have a sodding great big second-hand Grifter that weighed a ton! I swear they made those things out of disused Russian tanks.

It was one of those jobbies that the pedals carried on going when you let go so you either had to resist them like a maniac or get your shins the hell out of the way before it shredded them!

I hated that bike.

[kopite]

My family couldn't afford a Raleigh Chopper when I were a lad I had to have a sodding great big second-hand Grifter that weighed a ton! I swear they made those things out of disused Russian tanks.

It was one of those jobbies that the pedals carried on going when you let go so you either had to resist them like a maniac or get your shins the hell out of the way before it shredded them!

I hated that bike.

I had a grifter it was my first new bike before that i`d had hand me downs.
I remember the first time I took it out I was too small for it and crashed into a wall

[Phage]

I still rather fancy a DeLorean...

[pollaxe]

Ooh, the nostalgia.. I'm 40 and remember caps with great fondness (I was particularly fond of my toy Kojak revolver, complete with rotating cylinder, though the paper caps fed straight up through the hammer.) I also remember the plastic ring caps - I used to use those for killing ants. The latter was something of a hobby of mine when I were a lad and all this - especially the internet - was just a field.

How the hell I survived childhood I sometimes wonder. I once got hold of some Chinese bangers which were subsequently banned as it turned out that they contained small amounts of some very powerful explosive. I subsequently developed a command-wire detonation system using batteries, speaker wire and old-fashioned flash bulbs which worked very well with all kinds of stuff. I also did some amusing experiments, replacing the innards of party poppers with other stuff that went bang, too.

One of my earliest memories at school is making stickle-brick guns and the two female teachers chasing after us, trying to stop us. Damned hippies!

[htid]

I work for a toy company and we have a rocket that works similarly to a cap gun. You just put a piece of paper (any, not that cap paper) in it, throw it in the air and it makes a louder bang than a cap when it lands. I love it, but I'm probably not allowed to post it here as it'd be advertising! Still, shows you can still have good old fashioned fun these days

[watercooled]

Aww go on.

[Jonj1611]

Lol, the snappers, Fun Snaps -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000KFW68O

65p a box, might get some to bring back old memories lol

[Steve]

I know what a cap gun is. But I'm northern, so I guess we're still in the late 70s in many respects.

[uber_cookie]

I have no idea what you are talking about, but I know I am old, or getting there

It's when you start using "back in the days" you know you are old

[finlay666]

I know what a cap gun is. But I'm northern, so I guess we're still in the late 70s in many respects.

Bristol? Northern?

[Smudger]

I had a Grifter. Grifters were better than Choppers, because a) they just were, and b) you kept hold of your nuts if you came off front ways. Laters, Chopper Eunuchs!
Mine Grifter was a red one, which was the best of all the grifters.