Another inventive idea of the youth of the 1980s: customise your BMX, Chopper or Grifter with household refuse!

Sliced bread used to be sealed in its plastic bags not by a sticky label, but by a 'toothed' plastic tag. A tag which, coincidentally, used to also fit perfectly around the brake cables of a young child's bike.

Ultimate kudos, peer group respect and underage sex followed for those who filled their entire brake cable length with said tags. But you had to eat a shitload of bread.

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