I went to high school in the late ‘80’s. Graduated in 1989. Very few of us here in So Calif. had cars while in high school. That and the bmx culture here was crazy popular. There was a bmx track at a local park and our local Schwinn shop did a lot of freestyle shows as that was on the rise.
I actually had a car. Truck. 1954 Chevy short bed. But it didn’t run yet, and I didn’t get my license until my last year of high school. So bikes were how we got around everywhere. And we rode dawn till dusk and later back then