Especially with a real one!

WashedOver@lemmy.ca to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 592 points –
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I… don't
Has that word ever really meant that?!

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

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.

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

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

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

if it does, it would be called "seating" instead of "pegging"

No, the bike is definitely pegging him.

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

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

For the cyclist to stand on when performing various BMX stunts

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.

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

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

It still is, as long as BMX stands for Bum Masterfully Xecuting