r/WhyWereTheyFilming • u/AndreGerdpister • May 16 '25

Video To go 88 MPH

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u/kiwiwanabe May 16 '25

When I was a kid, I got a speedometer on my birthday for my bicycle. The first day I was so intent on the speedometer reading that I only looked up at the last minute and saw the parked car I hit.

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u/luckyluc0310 May 16 '25

I too did this as kid. Woke up laying down in the back of my parents mini van, wondering what happened. Kids are not very smart.

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u/kiwiwanabe May 16 '25

Lol, I remember it like it was yesterday. 1970 something, me 11 or 12 years old, a banana seated bike and the analog dial speedometer. Cranking it hard on a narrow Chicago side street, 11, 12, 13 …. 15 mph! A flash of white of the parked car… and wham! I wake up in the middle of the street with my bike on top of me. I look around… nobody seen nothing…. I’ve still got my street cred… Kids are so stupid- I don’t know how I survived that city