• @Korne127
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    5411 months ago

    I… don’t
    Has that word ever really meant that?!

    • Jo Miran
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      5311 months ago

      Gen-X here. My friends and I just said “ride the pegs” or “suicide ride”.

      • @oyfrog
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        1711 months ago

        Related to suicide ride, but I’m a millennial: I had a childhood friend who rode down a hill on the pegs once. He thought the best solution for slowing down mid-hill was to jump off.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Isn’t suicide without the pegs? Just barely gripping on to the wheel bolts. Or on the handlebars?

        • Jo Miran
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          Suicide was the front, pegs or not. At least for us.

    • @rockSlayer
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      2211 months ago

      You’re telling me you’ve never pegged with your friends?

  • kingthrillgore
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    I told my dad a pegging party was when you had the bros on the back of your bikes.

    I’m now expecting my mom to text me back any second now.

  • @myslsl
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    2911 months ago

    These are not mutually exclusive. Believe in yourself.

  • @db2
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    2511 months ago

    Plot twist: that bike has no seat on the post.

  • @smackjack
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    1911 months ago

    I remember bike pegs. The things that everyone wanted, but no one ever actually used as intended.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      1311 months ago

      What was their intended use? I thought they were made for giving rides, and grinding rails…

      • @psud
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        1111 months ago

        For the cyclist to stand on when performing various BMX stunts

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          Oh, ok. So while they are in the air, or what? Or is this more like a trick bike display where they are just using the pegs to balance at crazy angles while they stay on the ground, similar to the former SAAB stunt driving team?

          Edit: For reference, those are unmodified SAABs. They could just do that shit off the line. That’s specifically why GM killed SAAB. They refused to use the GM standard parts, and kept making the safest cars in the world.

  • @Mango
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    1511 months ago

    Oh my gawd, I remember. I’ve literally asked dudes to peg me somewhere…

  • @50_centavos
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    1311 months ago

    It can still mean that if you call your ass a BMX.

  • @Rolando
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    1011 months ago

    Nobody’s going to mention Evil-Lyn there waiting for Skeletor?

  • @gdog05
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    511 months ago

    To be fair, we used axle pegs so… maybe a little less weird.

  • @LemmyKnowsBest
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    311 months ago

    EEE I recognize that boardwalk, Mission Beach San Diego