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I still got mine, had a ball with that thing. Mine didn't come with a ball. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I still got mine, had a ball with that thing. Mine didn't come with a ball. Travis I did, Two.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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This is my sled. Not great picture, and the sled is old. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i322/frortfrances/ducks/DSCN2548_zpsc99a6f37.jpg)
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Good God! Did you steal it from ingwe? That thing looks older than the moon.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Remember jerking the sled out from under your body and turning it sideways as a braking maneuver?
Doing so would stop you in a heart beat. But as a habit, it guaranteed the sled would never become an heirloom.
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Out here in California we had Flexy Racers (just Flexies, to us kids): wheeled, steerable "sleds".
Our favorite run was right down the middle of our street, from the top of the hill to the dead-end barricade at the bottom. There was one narrow driveway at the very end of the road, and the game was trying to make that right angle turn; at nearly full speed, considering the lousy brakes. Failure meant some nasty road rash and extricating from the oleander bushes, with perhaps a good slam into the wooden barricade if one hadn't even gotten off the roadbed.
Just flying down the street was an adventure in itself, as the road wasn't smooth macadam but some tarred rock thingy. Talk about getting the jitters; this was it for real! I too grew up in an area of CA that rarely received snow (actually one town over from macrabbit) and owned a "Flexie" as well. We lived at the bottom of a hill where if you started a run from the very top, it was a good mile to the bottom and you could nearly hit what seemed like terminal velocity on the thing. At the bottom of the hill, the road turned sharply to the right so you had to make sure you had scrubbed off enough speed to make the turn. The sled had rudimentary brakes but I recall some of us crashing through the neighbors hedge more than once. Thinking back, I'm surprised I survived my childhood. ![[Linked Image]](http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jonkh/images/FlexyRacer.jpg)
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That's the thing, alright!
I recall many fun hours lying on my tummy (when I, the youngest, could wrest one of our Flexies away from my older brothers).
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It sure is not a new sled.
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we wore them sleds out as kids ..spent many a hour with steel wool and wax (mom's dinner center pice candle,don't rat me out!) with the slick runners it was fun to see how fast/far we could run them....I got on one a few years back ..ouch ...could use some springs and a pad on them now!!
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That's the thing, alright!
I recall many fun hours lying on my tummy (when I, the youngest, could wrest one of our Flexies away from my older brothers). Did you (or brothers) ever remove the springs from the steering bar to increase steering sensitivity?
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Remember them?
Any stories to tell? Sure do, my grandad rebuilt one for me, that was in 1947. At the time I was living with my mom's mom and dad at the time they were living in Cheney, WA. I remember one morning getting to the street that was closed off for the kids to sled on. At the bottom of the hill the city every morning put fresh gravel on the snow to stop the sleds from sliding across the cross street at the bottom of the hill, that street was also was old US 10 the main cost to coast highway. Well I jumped on my sled and down the hill I went, when I got to the bottom there wasn't fresh gravel or sand so I took the ride across US 10, it was a wonder that I get killed or badly injured as I got lucky I hit a lull in the traffic.
de 73's Archie - W7ACT ![[Linked Image]](https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/s180x540/532227_701629896563809_1743684631_n.jpg)
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Did you (or brothers) ever remove the springs from the steering bar to increase steering sensitivity? Mayhap not intentionally; but I recall them missing, at least in their later days.
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Still have the Flexible Flyer. Lots of fun and many bumps n bruises from that thing. Now the wife uses it for decoration out on the porch. Women...go figure.
Heard they were starting to gain traction in the collectors market. I'm keeping mine.
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My sled was a Silver Streak. I don't know how many trees I hit with that thing, but My dad finally replaced the front half-moon bar with a piece of 3/8" X 1 1/2" flat bar. I had the roll-off mode perfected so never was on the sled when it actually hit the tree but I was usually traveling at a good rate of speed while having fun dodging the trees in the woods behind our farm. I don't know what happened to that sled, but I saw one a couple of years ago and nearly choked at the price tag.  We also had another sled that was a "Champion" brand that my siblings use. It was longer and not quite as nimble as my shorter one.
Larry *********** "Speed is fine but accuracy is final" - Bill Jordan "We do not exaggerate when we state positively that the remodelled Springfield is the best and most suitable "all 'round" rifle".......Seymour Griffin, GRIFFIN & HOWE, Inc. 
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I too grew up in an area of CA that rarely received snow (actually one town over from macrabbit) and owned a "Flexie" as well. We lived at the bottom of a hill where if you started a run from the very top, it was a good mile to the bottom and you could nearly hit what seemed like terminal velocity on the thing. At the bottom of the hill, the road turned sharply to the right so you had to make sure you had scrubbed off enough speed to make the turn. The sled had rudimentary brakes but I recall some of us crashing through the neighbors hedge more than once. Thinking back, I'm surprised I survived my childhood. LOL, And we all wonder why we have those aches and pains.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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I have a real nice Silver streak hanging in my garage.
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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