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I don't remember these but it is from my childhood era; Nick posted on my facebook and I have to share it - Neat-O stuff from a simpler age of innocence (like barefoot riding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDprSdH2xQ

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

You know I figure Im one of the younger guys on this board, and when stuff like this is posted it takes me back to being very very young. I remember I thought those were the coolest things, my older cousin had one, and that was before I could ride a bike!!

Well I may be one of the "older" crew and my favorite "Whamo" product was the

"Whamo Air Blaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZu_Y_m8i4

Amazing how many common household objects, you could turn into deadly projectiles with it ........

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Bad decisions make the best stories.

hahahahahaha:

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

"Remember, you can't do a real wheelie without a wheelie bar."

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

We have a couple Airzookas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_vortex_cannon

They work great, and if you look around you can get them pretty cheap.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

I used to get the front wheel up on my Schwinn Sting Ray and peddle around the block 2-3 times to amuse the neighbourhood kids.
Never had any wheelie bar though....
Must be why I always get the urge to do a wheelie on any bike I ride now.

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Bad decisions make the best stories.

As for Whamo, who can forget the Frisbee, or Slip & Slide.
How about the ageless, "Hula Hoop" ?

Wish I could remember the name of the toy that was a pump with a plastic rocket shaped toy on the end that you filled with water.
Then you pumped the thing up to build pressure in the rocket and when you hit the release, the freakin things shot 100's of feet into the air with a water vapor trail behind it.

Cool stuff huh?


Its like Greg Kin said about songs............

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Bad decisions make the best stories.

Steve, I suppose these will never return to the market, but I had one in the mid '60s that was a 2-stage rocket powered by a garden hose. Our pressure was about 70 psi in Bethesda, MD. The small top part would become a tiny dot every time. The nose cone had a place to put a cap-gun type cap so it would bang when it hit the ground. Eventually it hit the street in front of my house one too many times. I fired it in my back yard, but all it took was a little breeze and it might land 100 feet away or more.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Toys of a different era, today some of them would be unsafe or politically/socially incorrect - but they were FUN!
I remember these favorites:

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...