Throw Back Thursday!

[Glenn Kennedy]

Used to ride without a helmet and that was ok back then...had a red Honda xl 100, like the one on the pic...w/ regular tires only, couldn't afford off-road tires for the longest time...lol

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[user name]

Bikes. That brings back memories. Friend at a near by farm got a Honda SL-70. Kid down the road got a Honda trail 70, then another one got a Rupp Black Widow. I was so jealous. My dad wouldn't help me out. Grrr

 

[2thm8kr]

Bikes. That brings back memories. Friend at a near by farm got a Honda SL-70. Kid down the road got a Honda trail 70, then another one got a Rupp Black Widow. I was so jealous. My dad wouldn't help me out. Grrr

Did he say, "get a job kid!"?

 

[rc75]

Used to ride without a helmet and that was ok back then...had a red Honda xl 100, like the one on the pic...w/ regular tires only, couldn't afford off-road tires for the longest time...lol

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I learned to ride on a dirt bike exactly like this one when I was 12!

 

[2thm8kr]

I learned to ride on a dirt bike exactly like this one when I was 12!

Did it have training wheels?

 

[Car 54]

Love those! I built and destroyed several of them. Estes is based in Penrose Colorado. Just a wide spot in the road with a tiny lobby and several fortified structures on the property to make the engines (think fireworks manufacturing facility). No actual rocket kit production that I saw on site. That is all done overseas. You can use Google Maps to see the facility: 1295 H St, Penrose, CO 81240 warning, the rockets are much more interesting than the company HQ.

"built and destroyed"

Some memories of the rockets.

They had the ones with the clear plastic payloads so you could put bugs, grasshoppers etc and blast them off. If you got a F- engine cluster you could launch, sheep, cats and dogs into space...well, maybe not.
Did you see where with those engines at least, you have to pay a hazardous material shipping charge that is more than the engines All the things we used to be able to send through the mail back then without a 2nd thought. Those days are gone. http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets/engines/e-and-f-29mm

The 2-3 stage rockets that would ignite one engine after the other.

Parachute powder, which I replaced with baby powder, that would give you a reading of where your rocket was when the shoot deployed.

The Camerock(?) the one that had a a cheap mirror reflex camera in the nosecone that would take a picture when the nose cone was ejected.

One of the companies had the white with sticky silver backing strip to loop your parachute cord into to stick to the inside of the body tube. Those were the ones that would come unstuck and your rocket would go one way, and the parachute drifting the other way. It had to be reinforced. The other company made you cut it out from their instruction sheet, a paper cord fastener that you folded over a couple times gluing at each fold, then gluing to the inside. Those worked better.

Sanding and rounding off the leading fin edge for better aerodynamics.

 

[Car 54]

Bikes. That brings back memories. Friend at a near by farm got a Honda SL-70. Kid down the road got a Honda trail 70, then another one got a Rupp Black Widow. I was so jealous. My dad wouldn't help me out. Grrr

Same thing happened to me. My friends were getting the bikes you were talking about, and I was stuck with my JC Penny El Tigre, a frame with a motor the size of my hand-piece motor on it.

 

[Glenn Kennedy]

Yes, yes and YES! All the above. I wanted the "Camrock" so bad but could not afford it. So now you can buy a tiny MP3 video camera on ebay for about 5 bucks! Guess what? I finally got my Camrock:

 

[Car 54]

Very nice Much better than the Camrock. Today's technology does have its advantages

 

[rc75]

Did it have training wheels?

I've always been short but seesh cut me some slack 2th!

 

[2thm8kr]

I've always been short but seesh cut me some slack 2th!

Are you sure you are Mexican and not Guatemalan?

 

[zero_zero]

Are you sure you are Mexican and not Guatemalan?

Costeños are short too...not just Guatemalans.

 

[2thm8kr]

Costeños are short too...not just Guatemalans.

Yea, but Mexicanos seem to take offense when you confuse them with Guats.

 

[Glenn Kennedy]

Back on topic...

Not just a train set but an ARMY train set! The best!

 

[zero_zero]

My very first PC, a Commodore PC10-II...it had a huge 10Mb hard drive and 640kb RAM...

 

[RileyS]

Got these bad boys brand new when I was about 13 years old!! The K2 Merlin V! Skiing went from a severe addiction to a psychotic love for me!

 

[GarryB]

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16bit 3.0mhz LOL

I love the foresight they had to build a Starbuks cup holder into this "computer"

 

[2thm8kr]

I love the foresight they had to build a Starbuks cup holder into this "computer"

Served as a coffee warmer as well.

 

[Tom Moore]

Wanted one of these so bad when I was about 14.

 

[2thm8kr]

Wanted one of these so bad when I was about 14.

Didn't know that the wheel had been invented when you were 14?