Dirt Bikes!

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Looking through a Western Auto Catalog today, I was reminded of how important a dirt bike was when I was growing up. It seemed to give you street cred, although in my case that "small town middle class suburbs" street cred.. The kids with the dirtbikes were the ones people flocked to, an early version of the muscle car, I guess.

I had a conservative model from Sears for much of my childhood, it was yellow and I often worried it would be branded a "Girl's Bike", a shame that I could not recover from. One kid in my school called me on it but he wore pajama shirts to class and wasn't exactly a big threat to my name.
I eventually bought a BMX when I was 13. I still sometimes hit the same trails I did as a kid, I find the "Monkey trails" a lot harder now.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Of my childhood "possee" we all had dirt bikes but one of us. In 1984 he still had a chopper style bike with a banana seat. He was the group jerk anyway, so we'd often go "off road" and leave him behind. Dirt bikes were indeed the shiz-nit back in the day.

My old one still resides in my dad's basement, gathering dust.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

My old friends Donald and JJ had dirt bikes, and I was always bumming rides!

[Wee67]

I've searched high and low, but still can not find the bike that I equated with freedom and manhood. In 1976 I got a metallic black Huffy with a rectangular seat and one of those cheap, plastic oval attached to the handle bars. It was about as low-end dirt bike as you could get, but I absolutely loved it.

[toys2cool]

whoa!! those bikes are bad

[sauce]

sweeeeetness!

[littlewink]

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