Are you getting old?
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Back2Bikes
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Getting old? Nah,
I've been old for years & years! My kids are older than most of you lot. Your retro bikes look efff'in modern to me. I was putting sprung girder forks, a sprung Brooks saddle & bent down Cowhorn bars on my Hercules 3-speed bike in 1960 to ride over bomb sites, gun emplacements & sandstone cliffs. Harrumph, kids these days!
I've been old for years & years! My kids are older than most of you lot. Your retro bikes look efff'in modern to me. I was putting sprung girder forks, a sprung Brooks saddle & bent down Cowhorn bars on my Hercules 3-speed bike in 1960 to ride over bomb sites, gun emplacements & sandstone cliffs. Harrumph, kids these days!
38 here too 
REMEMBER
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.
"Jim'll Fix It" seemed like a Normal bloke
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space.
Friday nights would mean Roller Disco!!!!
You remember when the Spectrum 48K was a state of the art video game system.
You remember typing in BASIC on said Spectrum for about 3 days only to make a matchstick man jump up and down
You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
You recorded songs off the radio onto cassette
You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
You wore legwarmers and tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.
You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank AND why no one ever died.
You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word "Exterminate!".
Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go. Team Murray and Ultra Burners ruled. Griffters were so yesterday!!
White Socks with everything
You held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.
You had a Soda Stream
When your Dads car had electric windows and you would drive him insane with UP and DOWN.
You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.
You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of the Capri so it looked like Mr Hasselhoffs car KITT.
Your Video Player had a remote control that was attached by cable to the player!!!
Your telephone number was only FOUR numbers long.
OH GOD I'M GETTING OLD
REMEMBER
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.
"Jim'll Fix It" seemed like a Normal bloke
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space.
Friday nights would mean Roller Disco!!!!
You remember when the Spectrum 48K was a state of the art video game system.
You remember typing in BASIC on said Spectrum for about 3 days only to make a matchstick man jump up and down
You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
You recorded songs off the radio onto cassette
You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
You wore legwarmers and tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.
You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank AND why no one ever died.
You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word "Exterminate!".
Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go. Team Murray and Ultra Burners ruled. Griffters were so yesterday!!
White Socks with everything
You held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.
You had a Soda Stream
When your Dads car had electric windows and you would drive him insane with UP and DOWN.
You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.
You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of the Capri so it looked like Mr Hasselhoffs car KITT.
Your Video Player had a remote control that was attached by cable to the player!!!
Your telephone number was only FOUR numbers long.
OH GOD I'M GETTING OLD
Iwasgoodonce
Old School Grand Master
I too am starting to fell the accumulation of years. My body is feeling pretty tadgered as a result of trying to get fit in my yoof. If I'm honest, I reckon cycling has knocked at least 10 years off my life.
I am thinking of getting an Iriver B30 though, (anyone have one?) and the current stoopid fashion of wandering around with your trousers around your knees is perfect for me. Being quite tall but having only stumpy legs, I look bang up to date without having to trip up over me trousers all day.
I am thinking of getting an Iriver B30 though, (anyone have one?) and the current stoopid fashion of wandering around with your trousers around your knees is perfect for me. Being quite tall but having only stumpy legs, I look bang up to date without having to trip up over me trousers all day.
J i m s t e r
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They wouldn't sell me alcohol in Sainsburys a few weeks ago. The wife laughed and told them how old I was. The till bird wouldn't have it. The wife, who is older than me (by an undisclosed amount, Petal), said "OK, I'll buy it."
They wouldn't have it that she was 25 either.
I am 42 next month.
I only started riding a few years ago to stop getting any heavier but I think it's helped take 10 years OFF
When I'm 50 I hope to be able to do wheelies and trackstands.
They wouldn't have it that she was 25 either.
I am 42 next month.
I only started riding a few years ago to stop getting any heavier but I think it's helped take 10 years OFF
When I'm 50 I hope to be able to do wheelies and trackstands.
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