HOW FAST WAS YOUR BOGIE?

shepshedpoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:28 pm

We had an absolute ellish 4-man bogie, Silver Cross back wheels n all that, kept us amused all the holidays cos we were to the Manor born and had nowt! Mind you me mam was a pit pi$£ed off having to push our young un round on two wheels til me dad put a couple of owld chopper tyres on the back of the pram :roll:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22608

Mr Shepshed, I make you about 45 - 47.

Anywhere near?

shepshedpoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:35 pm

41 Mr I not a bad guesstimate though

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22608

Aye, had to be roughly early 70's. We were probably the last generation who had to make our own toys. Good days though. Imagine letting a 7 or 8 year old go out with his mates these days and go missing all day and only come back when he was hungry. You'd have the Police out within the first hour.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:47 pm

Mr I wrote:

Aye, had to be roughly early 70's. We were probably the last generation who had to make our own toys. Good days though. Imagine letting a 7 or 8 year old go out with his mates these days and go missing all day and only come back when he was hungry. You'd have the Police out within the first hour.

I'm from that generation aswell....making Bogeys and Riggy-ups....and I'm only 35!!!! :sweeeet:

shepshedpoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:56 pm

We used to play nicky knocky nine door, make tarzies up the beck, jump the beck (I did everest at fens beck) and played the knick to go tatie picking. If you knock off school these days they take you go karting n things like that. The school bobby used to take us home ny our lugs and then Dad would get his belt and................... ouch, 30 years ago claims direct would've had a field day.

poolpower · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:49 pm

I HAVE STILL GOT MINE
MIGHT GIVE IT A BLAST TOMORROW

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:44 pm

Mr I wrote:

Aye, had to be roughly early 70's. We were probably the last generation who had to make our own toys. Good days though. Imagine letting a 7 or 8 year old go out with his mates these days and go missing all day and only come back when he was hungry. You'd have the Police out within the first hour.

When I was a lad........

I would have been out until the light lasted during the summer on the Town Moor, playing 2 a side, 4 a side, 15 a side footie, however many people turned up. Including sending someone down into the water at high tide to retrieve the ball when it went over the rails, down the slope and into the North Sea.

Sarnia Poolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:42 am

Poolpower - what are you playing at?!? It's small wheels at the front, large wheels at the back! Don't you know Newton's first law of bogie-dynamics?

I can still see the tins and tins of half-emptied British Racing Green paint we used to have lying around our garage. Happy days indeed.

poolpower · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:29 am

Headlanders never ever go with the flow
and Newton used to use his mothers brush shank to push it
[honestly it is still in the shed :uhoh:

]

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:15 pm

I had family in Horden so we used to make a bogie n hurtle down the back street with all the kids in the yards hoyin lumps of coal at you as you went past,then you swapped n it was your turn to stone someone

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:02 pm

GroovyCrimes wrote:

all the kids in the yards hoyin lumps of coal at you as you went past,then you swapped n it was your turn to stone someone

Aye....yeh canna' beat a Clemmy fight!!!! :sweeeet:

butchers block · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:27 pm

Used to drag mine up Hart bank, do a bit of snaggerin' then aquick gettaway down again.
Could get all the way down to the Brus Arms without stopping.

No Clavering Estate and no roundabouts anywhere till the Brus. And very little traffic on the road. Hardly ever had to stop at the x-roads. (That was in the fifties).

Kids don't know they're born now.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:30 pm

me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!

whitelight.whiteheat · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:28 pm

Fantastic memories - big wheels at the back, small at the front! Brilliant and as fast as the hill was steep. :-o

poolpower · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:08 pm

the trouble is these days the wheels dont last long
a good set of wheels from a quality pram would last you ages
the modern stuff buckles up when you hit the pavement
one good thing though the modern ones are snap on and easy to change and you dont have to cart the whole pram home just slip the wheels off and into the boot
i got a set off a pram in Brenda road last year just near B N Q 20 twenty seconds and in the boot

i just had a thought
it might be the extra weight i am carrying these days rolfl

Bill Mitchell · **Joined:** Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:25 pm **Posts:** 36

The speed of my Bogie depended on how fast i picked my nose.

butchers block · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:25 pm

parmopooly wrote:

me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!

Yeeeh!......... I used to do that as well. Used to slide down the other side as well where the old clubhouse used to be before they put a bloody big tank & stuff in there.

BigMaxBranning · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:10 pm **Posts:** 39

I never realised there was more than one Poolie in Shepshed, Me and my wife lived there for a year while we were working in Leicester and I thought I was the only Poolie in the village!

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:13 pm

Quote:

me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!
me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!

I used to get an ICI fertiliser bag and slide down the banks at Brierton quarry when it had snowed. You had to be wary of stones mind, it yucked if one of them caught your arse when you slid over it.

butchers block · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:53 pm

poolieinnottingham wrote:

Quote:

me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!
me and me mates used to slide down the railway embankment next to Steetley on flattened cardboard boxes!! Not very bright come to think about it, how nobody got killed I'll never know!!!!

PS Health and Safety nazis would have a field day with all of this lot!!!!

I used to get an ICI fertiliser bag and slide down the banks at Brierton quarry when it had snowed. You had to be wary of stones mind, it yucked if one of them caught your arse when you slid over it.

You would not have risked steetley embankment with snow on it. It was breathtaking on just the grass.
You must be knackered now on the Brierton quarry now though - it don't snow any more.

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