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Originally posted by Nic Name
If I had kept those cards in mint condition, rather than using them to create an illusion that I was all grown up and riding a Harley, I could trade them today for a real motorcycle to experience again those feelings from my youth.
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To have preserved your basball cards, all you would have needed was a "Vroom!" engine to turn your bike into a play motocycle. Shaped like a motorcycle engine and battery powered with a handle bar control for revving (and a classy locking key garaunteed to fall out and get lost first time you hit a bump) this had one feature you'd never get with basball cards: the ability to let your engine idle when the bike wasn't moving.
The bicycle noisemaker of choice in my childhood was a mechanical siren driven by friction with the front wheel like a bike generator...with a chain attached to the handlebars to let you rev the siren up and down by pulling the siren away from the wheel.