The Good Old days!

So anyways, this is a bit of a rant as I've got 5 minutes free at work, but i tells ya, what the hell happened to the good old days of BMX!! The days when you would ride everything, wake up early as fuck on a saturday morning, be in the shed polishing your ride and tinkering around, ride down to your mates house, read issues of bmx plus for a while, then go streetride first thing in the morning, after that hook up with a few more people, usually at a designated spot, maybe combine a couple of dollars and go get some scoops of chips and bottle of fizzy from pak n save, after that go to the skatepark and ride, dodging the skaters cause you's were the only bmxers (and there weren't any of those fag single speed mtber's!!) ride there for a while, maybe session the flyout, then go ride the bmx track after that, if you were lucky there may have been racing on that afternoon!! buy an iceblock and some lollies form the track mum that runs the canteen, and ride the track in between moto's! if you were lucky you would know a kid who was racing and you could hangout at their dads car and read more bmx plus's and look at his dialed bike. After that another street ride and then home for dinner at your mates place, maybe ring mum and ask if it's sweet to stay at his house, get his mum to talk to your mum to confirm that it's sweet, then if your lucky maybe takeaways for dinner, and then spend a few hours in the shed polishing bike parts and making stickers and applying them and re-applying them to make sure that all the lines are straight, then read some more bmx plus's and then maybe watch rad or ride on or cheese or the bully vid, then sleep, wake up in the morn and do it all over again!! those were the goodtimes for me, when you saw another rider on the street and you were instantly friends! and it was ALWAYS crazy when you met another rider from another city! these days there's soooo many kids around, the first thing they're interested in your bike, ha, and if you run brakes or not, and if you've got the latest lotek kicks on (don't get me wrong, loteks are sweet, just usng them as an example) and such. Seems these days that kids are too scared to do their own thing, to run their bike a certain way or dress how they want, hell, even the tricks!!! anyways, this is a bit or a pointless rant, but just do the shit that you want to do and have fun, front brakes, four pegs, freecoaster, whatever the fuckin set up is, it's all bmx kn arse! but bring back the old days, roasting airs, wheelies, and peregrine 48's!!!