Bogies

[Turks Head Again]

When I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s .
All the kids had bogies.
Made from wood and wheels from a pram.
With a bit of string to steer it.
Great fun and sometimes a few scrapes for your mam to deal with whilst you howled in pain.
Where are these fun , home made toys nowadays ?
Not seen one for years.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

When I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s .
All the kids had bogies.
Made from wood and wheels from a pram.
With a bit of string to steer it.
Great fun and sometimes a few scrapes for your mam to deal with whilst you howled in pain.
Where are these fun , home made toys nowadays ?
Not seen one for years.

I made one with a lawnmower engine driving the back wheels. It was pretty much undrivable, and looking back it was f*cking lethal. How I didn't kill myself I'll never know.

The engine was bolted to the main plank, and had a hand throttle. Drive was provided by a belt driving the rear wheels from a flywheel directly on the output shaft of the engine. If that belt had ever snapped, it would have cut me in half, and we'll say nothing about the position of the petrol tank.

Thar bogie taught me a lot about engineering. Apparently, pram wheels were not designed to go more than 10mph. Who knew?

 

[RadcliffeRick]

When I was young most of my bogies were on my jumper sleeve!!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

When I was young most of my bogies were on my jumper sleeve!!

When I had a nosey in this thread I also thought it was ending up on sleeves.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Pram wheels attached to a few floorboards ,a piece of skipping rope for steering ,a downhill run ,no brakes,a brook at the bottom-what could go wrong.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Remember those days well :)

 

[Turks Head Again]

Prams with axles are thin on the ground these days.
Modern prams have those wheels similar to a shopping trolley .
However , I've discovered an alternative and I'm thinking of making one for my grandson........Wheely bins have an axle.
Only take a morning to knock one up.
Probably bloody freak him out but it'll give me a massive blast of nostalgia.

 

[ray21]

When I lived on Langley in the 60s we used to call them Guiders, did anyone ever used to use a roller skate with a book on it and go down a hill ?.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Bogies were villainous elf-like creatures that inhabited Boggart Hole Clough. Bogies was short for Boggarts. The planks with four wheels attached and a rope were called guiders!

 

[Daz_Blue]

Do kids in UK still do penny for the guy ? ...... they used to get pissed off when I gave them a penny and walked off with it