I really have seen it all now.

[Bat-mite]

 

[FredA]

Wow - surprised hit boots didn't catch fire.

 

[MClark]

I guess the eight tiny reindeer have been retired. Santa is zooming like a Saber Jet.

 

[Marc_G]

The hand held selfie stick, so one hand on the controls, and clearly no effective braking system, added to the thrill. Helmet? What's that? Not even biking leathers...

 

[lakeroadster]

Not even any glasses? This guy is the poster boy for "Mr. Don't".

 

[Marc_G]

That orange bright exhaust under his bum... gotta be a few accident modes that could get him into Darwin Award contention here... but he's presumably reproduced already.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

"Here, hold my beer".

 

[chrocket]

Now I know what Gandalf is doing when he smoked those Hobbit spices

 

[Bat-mite]

Now I know what Gandalf is doing when he smoked those Hobbit spices

Ha. I almost put a Gandalf joke in the thread title: "How Gandalf really got away from the Orcs." But I resisted.

 

[Antares JS]

Is it really a rocket? That sustained fart noise makes me think pulse jet.

 

[modeltrains]

http://maddoxjets.com/skateboards/

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

That’sa long walk back. Hope he doesn’t leave out in the grass.

 

[Dane Ronnow]

And they say getting old is no fun!

 

[rharshberger]

skateboard wheels....one word...GRAVEL

many times haulin butt on my board and small gravel brings the wheels to a sudden stop, its where road rash comes from.

 

[DAllen]

lol Darwin Award bait

 

[Woody's Workshop]

No protective gear, not even glasses.
Now that's how we did things when I was a kid!
Kids today are babied way too much.
I guess that's why so many of today's kids are over weight and afraid of everything besides their cell phones and game consoles.

 

[Dane Ronnow]

No protective gear, not even glasses.
Now that's how we did things when I was a kid!
Kids today are babied way too much.
I guess that's why so many of today's kids are over weight and afraid of everything besides their cell phones and game consoles.

Bumps and bruises, chipped teeth, maybe a broken bone—to a kid growing up in the '50s, it all came with the territory. We didn't do things because they were safe. We did them because they were fun. And we lived to tell about it!

 

[SDramstad]

Bumps and bruises, chipped teeth, maybe a broken bone—to a kid growing up in the '50s, it all came with the territory. We didn't do things because they were safe. We did them because they were fun. And we lived to tell about it!

Most of us lived anyway.....

 

[Funkworks]

Since the dead can't speak, I'll speak for them: "Nope, we didn't all make it!"

 

[Dane Ronnow]

Since the dead can't speak, I'll speak for them: "Nope, we didn't all make it!"

I remember now. It was the early '60s. Tens of millions of kids died from injuries sustained while riding bikes without helmets. And protective eyewear. And knee pads, elbow pads, and leathers. It was a nationwide tragedy.

[Edit] Sorry. What I meant to say is I must have been lucky growing up.

 

[terryg]

Go kart version

 

[Hobie1dog]

No protective gear, not even glasses.
Now that's how we did things when I was a kid!
Kids today are babied way too much.
I guess that's why so many of today's kids are over weight and afraid of everything besides their cell phones and game consoles.

+1...what he said.