When I was a kid me and my mates used to attach cardboard flickers to our bikes' tyre spokes. Why did we do this? To make a load of noise of course!
The flickers were bits of folded card usually from an old cereal box. The easiest way of attaching them to the wheels were clothes pegs nicked off the line. Thinking about it I'm now unsure exactly where we attached our flicker units. I think it may have been the front and rear wheel forks pictured below?
Do you remember attaching flickers and other stuff to your pushbikes readers?
Absolutely Mr Woods.
ReplyDeleteExcept in our case we had the spokes hit half a clothes peg attached to an empty matchbox with a stout rubber band. Two pegs on the other side would attach it to the forks of the bike. Similar to the acoustic box on a guitar, the matchbox would amplify the noise no end!
Thanks for reminding me of that! :)
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Paul
As a kid I think I destroyed a Bobby Orr Rookie card doing that :/
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