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Childhood Memories
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Still got the scar.
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Let us not forget some of the the stingray bikes in the late 60 to early 70's...someone thought a stick shift on the support bar between your legs on a a boys bike was a good idea... It looked cool but it was a bad idea !!!I
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HIgh rise handle bars, banana seats & sissy bars.
I won a Schwin StingRay bike when I was about 10 years old.Got to go on TV (Montys Rascals) and get it.
Along about 1971. 😉
Yep!............. What exactly are we talking about? Don
We did the front fork extension and added two feet or so to the height of the front end....My buddy discovered if you used the wrong metal and did not bolt it tightly, the first bump was a disaster.....In his case a broken arm.....I think the Moms all got involved about then and we all had to take them off.........
I was on the hand-me-down end of several brothers when I acquired my first bicycle around the age of 10 or so. An unremembered brand single speed 26". It did have a built in headlight and a chain that would slip just about every time I would lift myself off the seat to put the metal down and get peddling!
I wish I would have been wearing an athletic cup riding that thing!!! 😪
In later life when a friend would talk about meeting a "ball buster", I would always think about that old bike!
I wish it was a stick. My mother had the leather strap from a barber chair.
as a kid my 1st bike was from a general hardware store th etop bar could be flipped to make a girls or boys bike
when I was about 13 I got a westerauto ( knock off of the orange krate ) it was stingray ( called a rail I think ) it was a longer stingray bike 5 speed and long shifter and sissy bar banana seat .
but I also built a stingray style bike from parts traded and bought dirt cheap with a 16" front wheel extended forks and a slick on the back ( kids rat rod )
we had a some what close neighbors I was envious and jealous my entire child hood , ( being poor sucks )
any way the two boys about my age one older one younger they both got new Schwinn stingrays orange krates and a apple krate ( the names given by the company the top hot bike to have back then . they also bought them a Honda mini trail 50 that really made us other kids feel cheated in life . the dad bought him self a 69 ? GTO judge bright orange and was the envy of of the kids like me also
I wanted a orange krate bike so bad as a kid to be one of the cool kids but no way it was going to happen even years later ( even now ) there a huge collector item been years but last time I was looking a grand for one was about common .
my first job at the grocery store after my first fer pay checks ( a blistering 1.25 a hour ) I did buy a new 10 speed Nishiki at the time was like the top of the line , I am sure they were better ones but around us and the bike shop we had access to it was the best, i was trying to make up I guess not having the schwinn years before and had to show off
as for the extended forks a kid I knew his dad worked at some local shop and had access to do it so he made his kid a set of forks had to be 4 feet long if not longer for his bike . some times too much well is too much LOL