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Chopper Bike Playing Cards In The Spokes

A clothes peg, a card, and instant motorbike.

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Chopper Bike Playing Cards In The Spokes

Peg a playing card against the spokes and your bike made a noise. That was the whole technology.

Two cards was louder. Four cards slowed you down. There was a genuine optimum and every street had worked it out.

It destroyed the cards and eventually the spokes. Nobody has ever cared less about a consequence.

Cost back then

Free, if you had cards

Goes for now

Still free, still works

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