Those bikes were awesome. They were heavy, so you had to work a lot harder to use them, and they almost never broke down.
I learned how to take them apart and repair them when I was in grade school. Not that they really fit me. I hurt myself plenty of times since they were not my size but fuck it. You do you, right?
One even had one of those little "bike light generators" that you flipped down and it would power a small light bulb (before LED's were common or a thing) while you were peddling.
We had bring your bike to school day and they had one of the teachers show us how to do minor repairs (get the chain back on, replace an inner tube, adjust the seat etc), we were probably 8. Damn kids are coddled these days.
God damn. I could have been the teacher at that age. Too many people are too unwilling to get their hands dirty or work on something. They are afraid of something they dont understand (which at this point is everything).
This is sad. About the only thing I don't know how to do is weld but you know what? Maybe ill buy a fucking welder this week and figure that shit out. I would do better with a teacher but I don't need one.
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