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Quoted: My first streetbike was a 1979 CB750F with the twin cam motor. I got my learners permit at 15 years and one day old, at 15.5 I took my riding test and had my motorcyle license a full 6 months before my my automobile license. Then in 1984, about a month before high school graduation, I used money earned from my job and a commercial mowing company myself and my Brothers had started, I bought a leftover 1983 GPZ750. I have been on motorcycles since I was 6 or 7. Had an endorsement for almost 40 years. Christ...there was a three year span in Socal that my only transport was an FZR1000. I have something like 250K on a motorcycle just during the time I lived in Socal (10 years).... The current Hot rod is a Ducati 1299.... View Quote I do miss them, sold the Suzuki picked up a Honda Sabre VF700, much more comfortable on longer cruses. I gave them up in the early 90s, but miss riding. I get my fix on my quad now. |
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I blew off school to see Ozzy and Metallica in May, 1986. That was a good day.
I blew off work on a Thursday (7 Aug 1986) to go see queensryche open for AC/DC. It was a good gen-x day too. |
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Quoted: 1978 Yamaha 175 Enduro https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/9749/Yamaha_DT175_78__2-2329043.jpg 2 stroke... I had to carry around a bottle of 2-cycle oil to put in the little tank on the side. Always topped it off when I stopped and got gas View Quote I had that exact same bike,got it on my 16th Bday. I rode that thing all winter regardless of weather snow on the roads. Oil pump failed and it seized up,I rebuilt the top and just started running mix. |
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I remember riding around on my Honda Express moped at 12. I was a dirty poor, so I could not afford a Honda Spree scooter.
Gen-X rules |
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Boomers: We were really cool, we all listened to a band named after a dildo!
Millennials: OMG, chicks hair was huge! GenX: At least our chicks had huge hair and not huge dicks. Ugly Kid Joe will always be high school in the 90s to me. Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You (Official Music Video) Let us not forget when talk show hosts were somewhat respectable and made the mistake of calling 2 Live Crew on the show. Even the Boomer dudes be like dat ass. Donahue - 2 Live Crew, The Funk Shop Anyone remember Green Jelly? Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs (Official Video) |
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78' here, what a different (better) world it was. I wanted the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier so damn bad. My parents couldn't afford one so my dad made one out of wood for me. He was the man.
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I graduated in '83 and spent the rest of that decade dirt poor, stressed out with college, busting my ass for the $3.25 bus ticket home to work all weekend, find a ride back 12 miles too the bus stop just to get back to school and hope my friends would pick me up 9 miles from the bus station back to school.
After that, I was homeless for a while, living in a camper shell in the back of my truck and showering at a sewage treatment plant I worked at. Pretty much summed up the 90's too working 3 jobs to stay afloat. Had 11 days off a year, including weekends and holidays. And it was STILL a good time. Hard times, but good. |
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Quoted: The definitive guide to the greatest decade to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9AsSO7hTo Born in 74’. Class of 92’. View Quote Born in '74, Class of '92 Interesting years in which we have lived. |
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Quoted: Boomers: We were really cool, we all listened to a band named after a dildo! Millennials: OMG, chicks hair was huge! GenX: At least our chicks had huge hair and not huge dicks. Ugly Kid Joe will always be high school in the 90s to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA Let us not forget when talk show hosts were somewhat respectable and made the mistake of calling 2 Live Crew on the show. Even the Boomer dudes be like dat ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViMrXn5IIs Anyone remember Green Jelly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtffv9bpB-U View Quote Do I remember Green Jelly? Fuck yeah I do. Hell I remember when they were called Green Jello and had to change their name to Green Jelly because Jello got their panties in a wad. |
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View Quote Holy crap. I think I had one of those! |
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Just sat through the whole hour plus of the Vid in he OP, man did it bring back some great memories. I now have at least a dozen movies I want to stream now.
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Quoted: The definitive guide to the greatest decade to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9AsSO7hTo Born in 74’. Class of 92’. View Quote Hnh. He put up another one. Different world, and yet it was radically different than the world that came before. His other ones are good too. |
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Quoted: Aren’t gen x before 1980? I thought 1980+ were considered millennials. View Quote There is no solid date and never will be, because it's not about dates, it's about shared experiences. I know people born 5-8 years after me who I relate to better than I do with a few who are older, and I came at the very end of gen x. |
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Quoted: I was born in early 79, I have no idea what I am. View Quote We're the end of the cohort and cusp between gen X and mill. We didn't have social media or a cell phone till college, and are the last to remember the world before a ubiquitous internet (1993-1995ish) ... if you're the person who can explain millenial nonsense and tech to your boomer parents ... |
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Quoted: Quoted: I remember the 80's It was a good time to be a kid. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/kathy-ireland-swimsuit-1989-february-07-1989-sports-illustrated-cover.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmZkNDM0NmUtZTFkZS00ODBiLWJjNDMtNWM4MmMzYWQ1ZmI5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQwMDg0Ng@@._V1_.jpg https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/lineups/02gneSKPz21hPs4X7Ql9hwb-1..v1577151441.jpg https://2l7g9kgsh281akevs49v281d-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_3901-1132x639.jpg Didn't He-Man bang She-Ra? No, it's more like she-ra killed he-man. The Fall of a Toy Empire: A He-Man and The Masters of the Universe Retrospective | Part 3 |
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Quoted: Taking a jump on your BMX bike, slipping off the seat and crushing your nuts on the bar. All you could do was ride it out. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The kid in the 2nd pic has that look of, "Holy shit this landing is gonna hurt !! But the flight sure was worth it." And I can totally relate to that. Jumping our bikes; misjudging the speed or trajectory and hitting either a tree, your friend, some big-ass rock. Or just slamming into the ground after a 3-4 second flight and winding up with God-knows-what stuck in your hair, your knees, your elbows, your eye(s), or just sticking out of the hole it just made. And if you wore a helmet or knee or elbow pads, you got called a fag. Hell, you'd get shit if you wore a shirt, most of the time. Shorts and shoes were basically all we wore in the summer. And sometimes shoes were optional. BEST FUCKING TIME OF MY LIFE! Taking a jump on your BMX bike, slipping off the seat and crushing your nuts on the bar. All you could do was ride it out. Pfff. You didn't have the hard plastic seat that did virtually the same thing? Also, have the vertical scars on your shins healed up completely? |
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Quoted: Wrong Gen X go to 1982-1984 depending where you look. Also I know many 1985-1986 that are far from "Millenials". Eta. Should be a transitional addendum to the Gen X for those non millenial early millenials. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Aren’t gen x before 1980? I thought 1980+ were considered millennials. Wrong Gen X go to 1982-1984 depending where you look. Also I know many 1985-1986 that are far from "Millenials". Eta. Should be a transitional addendum to the Gen X for those non millenial early millenials. The in-between. Happens between every generation. oregon trail / xennial / etc is the term you're looking for. |
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Quoted: Everyone wanted to be a Ninja and carried Shuriken Stars. https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/254935735866_/Ninjutsu-The-Art-of-the-Invisible-Warrior-by.jpg https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/2015/06/15__13_07_31/1.png30895801-204c-454b-ab1f-2f642e72d806Zoom.jpg View Quote Ha! I still have three ninja stars I acquired circa 1980. |
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Quoted: } Yesssss US Cavalry!!! Also ‘71 checking in. Aka best year. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: } Quoted: Born in ‘71…not reading the whole thread but have we discussed waiting on the new Soldier of Fortune mag to hit the stand or my US Cavalry catalog to show up in the mail. Yesssss US Cavalry!!! Also ‘71 checking in. Aka best year. Man...US Calvary...used to goto the store in Radcliff when we would goto the Patton Museum |
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Ahhh, ninja stars.
The funniest thing? I have a couple of elementary school yearbooks with drawings of "Rambo's knife" and "Rambo's gun" shooting at people. These days... Which means our parents too us to see First Blood. |
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HS class of 87 and born in 69 a few days before Woodstock. ????
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What the hell is going on in here? It smells like Drakkar, hairspray, lip gloss, and sex ... with an ever so slight hint of the doobage.
HS Class '87. Pilot of a '79 Chevy Monza with towing package for subdivision autocross excellence. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/417902/20220328_202048_jpg-2329933.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/417902/20220328_202126_jpg-2329934.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/417902/20220328_202227_jpg-2329935.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/417902/20220328_202356_jpg-2329936.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/417902/20220328_202506_jpg-2329937.JPG View Quote You can still find them on Tubi. My son has watched them all several times. Proud papa moment. |
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View Quote I think I still have at least one or two left, ordered from a ninja magazine. |
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Quoted: @TheTallest I asked my Mom for the USS Flagg again recently….she checked eBay and said it was still too expensive. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I wish I had the USS Flagg. My parents were poor. The two big wheels we had were both second hand. One was technically my brothers. @TheTallest I asked my Mom for the USS Flagg again recently….she checked eBay and said it was still too expensive. When I was a kid we took all of my Joe’s behind the house into the woods and destroyed them. Now as an adult I wish I still had them. I’ve been contemplating on going behind my parents house to try and find the parts. But every now and then I scour eBay for them. They’re so ridiculous in price now. |
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Quoted: My wife is from Vine Grove. I'd hit up US Cavalry and Gold Nugget Army Surplus whenever we were down there. View Quote When the kids got old enough to take to the Patton Museum we used to go to the Golden Nugget Army Surplus Store. I would give each of them twenty bucks and they would go nuts. I bought a lot of stuff from Golden Nugget. Sadly just like the all of the armor at the Patton Museum, Golden Nugget is gone |
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