Sir peace frog
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Bogey and barm ,hahadefinately GUIDERS! and its a fuckin MUFFIN
Bogey and barm ,hahadefinately GUIDERS! and its a fuckin MUFFIN
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?
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.
Guider is the correct answer, knew the Boggarts well, having attended Clough Top !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!
No shandy drinking Jessie's in ClaytonGuider, sounds like something our southern, shandy drinking jessies would say. Bogey, and whatever you crashed into was the brake.