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  • Things you don't see anymore…
  • zippykona
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    Apart from the obvious white dog poo, I can’t remember the last time I saw a Hells Angel ,a teddy boy or a runner running in the road with a car full of people saying ” I wonder why they don’t run on the path?”

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    A sense of humour.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Pay rises.

    nbt
    Full Member

    hedge porn

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    I can’t remember the last time I saw a Hells Angel

    Go to Morzine every second summer for the Harley Days festival

    (probably a Geneva lawyer rather than a hells angel but in his head he thinks he is)

    cheekymonkey888
    Free Member

    Dont drop litter signs / keep britain tidy and dust bins.
    BT phone boxes with working phones
    4* petrol?

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    My self respect.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Go to aviemore for the harley festival.

    Anyway my contribution – tv rental shops (ignoringrhe fact most folk just rent everythig via hp now)

    The man from prudential going round taking folks money for their savings

    The lemonade lorry.

    The milk float with kids hanging of the back collecting the money on thursday night.

    People walking!!

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    My luxuriant head of hair. Ain’t seen that for about 15 years.

    DezB
    Free Member

    An aside – I remember me and a friend, when we were about 10, painting our fake leather jackets to look like Hell’s Angels.
    We thought we looked the biz until someone pointed out we’d painted
    “Hell’s Angles” 😆 woulda been all over Facebook these days, no doubt.

    I haven’t seen a massive bunch of kids playing football in the park with jumpers for goalposts. We used to have games of about 20 a-side.

    Drac
    Full Member

    I saw a Hells Angel

    Overtook about 2 dozen of them at the weekend only to have to turnaround, pass them going the other way and then forced to turnaround and overtake them all again. They were very considerate warned each other and other road users with hand signals as flew passed them.

    Anyway you don’t see.

    TJ.

    binners
    Full Member

    My feet

    garthmerenghi
    Free Member

    ntb – yes, hedge pron. what ever happened to that. I remember finding my first bongo bush on Prestwick golf course as a youngster. Never see it any more. Is this due to all pron now living on the interweb?

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    Women with scabby knees

    Pitchforks

    Milk churns

    Bees

    My feet genital

    *Edit – oi Binners stop posting my jokes before I do!

    I saw some white dog poo the other day. I was tempted to take a photograph.

    JEngledow
    Free Member

    yes, hedge pron. what ever happened to that. I remember finding my first bongo bush on Prestwick golf course as a youngster. Never see it any more. Is this due to all pron now living on the interweb?

    I blame the rise of recycling!

    garthmerenghi
    Free Member

    Fizzy pop from the milk man.

    Pigface
    Free Member

    Picket lines

    If you want patched up bikers head to the Bull Dog Bash, they may even start a shoot out.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Charity collection boxes in the shape of life sized orphan children in leg callipers or sad looking labradors.

    Grim faced men standing at bus stops first thing in the morning in donkey jackets and overalls clutching a home wrapped pack of sandwiches.

    Kids catching bees in an empty jam jar.

    Football in the street.

    Choppers and Grifters.

    Witches Hats, Swing boats and huge tubular steel spiders and caterpillars

    garthmerenghi
    Free Member

    Budgie smugglers

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    I saw a Hells Angel too, well about 30 of them overtook me going up the A32 at the weekend. I’d just came down into Warnford from the Millburys and about to turn right up the lane onto Old Winchester Hill. I only needed to be on the A32 for about 200mtrs but it took me about 10mins for them to all ride past. Strangely for motorbike’ists they were riding reeeaaaallllllyyyyyy sllllloooooooowwwwwllllyyyy..

    Also, seems that the council have now strategically placed traffic lights going south into Wickham about 500mtrs just before you enter the village. I guess this is to calm all the moterbike’ists down, because you know.. it ain’t a frikin race track that road is it now..

    finger wag on, finger wag off

    .

    MrWoppit
    Free Member

    The rag and bone man (only those of a certain age will even understand what this means)…

    Northwind
    Full Member

    You don’t often see proper mad 1% angels any more, even the road tramps and blue angels and the like seem to be growing old disgracefully.

    zippykona
    Full Member

    Every Sunday morning we used to have a knife sharpener do the rounds.
    He had a rotating stone on the back of his push bike.

    nickc
    Full Member

    The collection statues for disabled charities

    Choppers and Grifters

    yeah, but thank ****, Choppers were unridable and Grifters weighed the same as the moon 😆

    footflaps
    Full Member

    Milk Churns

    +1

    As a kid used to see these outside every farm in the dales….

    Rusty cars is another one, when we were young all cars had rust on them…..

    Every Sunday morning we used to have a knife sharpener do the rounds.
    He had a rotating stone on the back of his push bike.

    Still see them in Italy though, normally a tiny car with a stone wheel in the boot driven off the engine.

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    Don’t see so many punk grandads as I used to.

    natrix
    Free Member

    Road bikes (racers) with the handle bars turned upside down 8)

    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    You don’t often see proper mad 1% angels any more

    I think what most people are seeing these days is members of the Harley Owners Group dressed like pirates out for a pootle on a sunny day. Back when I was a kid Hells Angels would be killing one another with axes in the New Forest every summer.

    boblo
    Free Member

    Spangles, golliwog’s, pink NHS glasses. That sounds like a very short summary of my childhood 😀

    <edit> current Harley crop are mainly bad ass accountants and dentists…

    nickc
    Full Member

    I think all the proper Hell’s Angels are all dead now aren’t they?

    shermer75
    Free Member

    White dog poos are now dog poos in little black plastic bags

    richen987
    Free Member

    weird and wonderful bike designs & suspension layouts, made out of odd materials, like the kirks, trimbles, whyte prst1, slingshots, softrides etc.

    used to love opening up MBUK to see what random new, expensive designs were upcoming, flexible plastic, magnesium frames, wire for downtubes, ll with mental paint jobs.
    None of them worked particularly well, they all cost a small fortune, but it was amazing times.

    now everything just works and looks the same, it’s kind of taken the fun out of it.
    *not the riding mind, stuff that works is cool, just not as much fun to see what people are coming up with.

    shermer75
    Free Member

    The rag and bone man (only those of a certain age will even understand what this means)…

    Still (sort of) get them down my way but it’s all about the scrap metals now…

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Pay rises.

    fasthaggis
    Full Member

    Kids gathering/playing with conkers.

    Probably an app now init

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Kids with lollipop sticks wedged against their spokes for that authentic motorbike sound effect.

    Fizzy pop from the milk man.

    On a similar note; glass bottles with a deposit on them. Why are we encouraging recycling less now?

    White dog poos are now dog poos in little black plastic bags

    You’ve got a point there. I wonder if in another quarter century kids will be on singletrackuniverse.com bemoaning the lack of poo-fairy bags?

    sparkyrhino
    Full Member

    Glue sniffers.

    convert
    Full Member

    Thalidomide birth defect sufferers. Is that in bad taste? Not sure, but you don’t.

    swavis
    Full Member

    Cougar – Moderator
    On a similar note; glass bottles with a deposit on them. Why are we encouraging recycling less now?

    Irn Bru have only just stopped that 🙂

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33995081

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