Ghost Riding Bikes

[yoothgeye]

When you were a kid did you ghost ride your bike? You remember when you first heard of ghost riding?

I was over at a friends house and we were back in the woods. Big hill with some pine trees on it. We repeatedly took his BMX (yellow with blue ano parts, probably would be worth a mint now) and pushed it down the hill seeing who could make it go the farthest or caust eh biggest crash. We continued this until the cross brace broke out of his handlebars and the bars bent down and broke. We still rode it home, holding the stem to get started and then no hands riding.

If you've ever done a ghost ride on a flat surface and wondered how a bike could go so far without any steering input, watch the video on this page, it's really good: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Apr ... cycle.html

And before someone else with nothing better to add comes in here and posts this, let me beat you to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDLRCXR2ZM

 

[deven_science]

I used to ghost ride mine all the time! Ha. Seems a little ridiculous now.

 

[deorman]

If it had been a tank bike we'd all hate you now. Good thing it was just a bmx. Oh wait... viewforum.php?f=56 :lol: :mrgreen:

 

[yoothgeye]

If it had been a tank bike we'd all hate you now. Good thing it was just a bmx. Oh wait... viewforum.php?f=56 :lol: :mrgreen:

So you mean none of you ever jumped off a moving bike in a field to see how far it would go?

 

[brett4christ]

That's just about as bad as jumping out of a perfectly good plane with a parachute.....it greatly increases your chance for injury. :shock:

Not that I didn't do some stupid stuff on a bike when I was younger, but intentionally jumping off a moving bike wasn't one of them! :lol:

 

[Buck Masterson]

The thought would have never crossed my mind. I was poor and cherished everything I owned. If I saw my kids doing something like that there would be a foot where the sun don't shine, and would be a long time before they saw that bike again. Unless they put together a crap bike specifically for that purpose that is.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

About the closest I came to that was either riding up and throwing my leg over it and jumping off and letting the bike land on it's side but I think back then every boy did that. Or the time I tried to BMX the steap hill in front of the house and fell off the nanner seat and ghost rode the bike through the picture window.

At the time I had over 50 bikes in the garage so I didn't care, I hqad the "There's plenty more where that came from" aproach. Man if I had that collection today... :roll:

 

[Zumo]

Only ghost ride "junk" bikes

 

[aka_locojoe]

We used to ghost push shopping carts.

 

[Beachside]

I grew up in Northern Va and we used to ghost ride bikes down the hills in our neighborhood streets. Flashlight tag and the "Rope trick", where we would gather kids on each side of the street and when an unsuspecting car drove by, we would all pretend to pull up an imaginary rope. Looking back, the rope trick was a bit dangerous

 

[yoothgeye]

I grew up in Northern Va and we used to ghost ride bikes down the hills in our neighborhood streets. Flashlight tag and the "Rope trick", where we would gather kids on each side of the street and when an unsuspecting car drove by, we would all pretend to pull up an imaginary rope. Looking back, the rope trick was a bit dangerous

Lots of funny videos on youtube of kids doing the invisible rope.