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Remembering the Sting-Ray Bike (1963-1982)

DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,071 Founders Club
in Yellow Snow's Record Shoppe
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  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,746 Founders Club
    Thanks Taft!
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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,455
    edited December 2022
    Ahh, the memories...I would have given my left arm for an Orange Krate, but instead got a purple Huffy, and it damaged me for life...

    One of my friends had an Apple Krate, with white tires and a steering wheel. He was the coolest kid in the neighborhood.

    We thought wheelie bars were for pussies (didn't need 'em), and sissy bars were, well, for sissies...Good chit
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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,829 Founders Club
    The nut cracker

    10 speed or fuck off in our hood
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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,455
    On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,525 Standard Supporter
    Fishpo31 said:

    Ahh, the memories...I would have given my left arm for an Orange Krate, but instead got a purple Huffy, and it damaged me for life...

    One of my friends had an Apple Krate, with white tires and a steering wheel. He was the coolest kid in the neighborhood.

    We thought wheelie bars were for pussies (didn't need 'em), and sissy bars were, well, for sissies...Good chit

    The purple Huffy was my first realization we weren't in the same class as the country club kids.

    Moved up to a Schwinn Varsity at the next stage but it was already established where the Throbber was in the caste system.

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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,829 Founders Club
    I got a purple Schwinn varsity and I became a man at 13

    Until I was 16 and got the hand me down 1964 Chevy Nova

    Haven't rode a bike since
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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,455
    I got my one and only Schwinn as a gift from a college girlfriend, and then promptly broke up with her. Didn't ride it much, but I do remember being pulled over for speeding, and then almost got a DUI...My entire case to the cop revolved around "If I wasn't drunk, I'd be driving my car"...
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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,455
    RaceBannon said:

    I got a purple Schwinn varsity and I became a man at 13

    Until I was 16 and got the hand me down 1964 Chevy Nova

    Haven't rode a bike since

    Was it a "Killer Nova"?
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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,815 Founders Club
    Fishpo31 said:

    On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...

    Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.
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  • Fishpo31Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,455
    Rode it to school. Uphill, both directions, in the snow…
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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,829 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...

    Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.
    The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2


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  • booker14booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 176 Swaye's Wigwam
    We were pour, my first and only bike was something like this Huffy. It was actually kind of embarrassing to be seen on.

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  • DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,071 Founders Club
    When I was 13 I received this bike, or something immensely similar. The first couple of days I had it I kept it in my bedroom. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and looking at it in the dark and feeling so fired up. HaHaHa



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  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,657 Swaye's Wigwam
    RaceBannon said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...

    Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.
    The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2


    So terrible in literally every way, but have a bad boy image and are therefore cool?
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  • El_KEl_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,270 Swaye's Wigwam
    A bike with a gear shift or that could swing was the tits

    I got this bike when I was eight. Parents bought it at Schucks when Schucks sold bikes and auto parts
    My friend in the neighborhood got one too and we would try to make that shock work as much as we could


    Then a few years later when it wasn’t cool to have a Huffy, my parents sprung for a Minigoose. Not a Mongoose, a Minigoose. It was a pretty cool bike for a 9 year old.


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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,815 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    On Christmas Day in '72, my best friend and I got identical JC Penny orange 10 speeds, with little odometers attached to the front wheel. It was close to single-digits temperature, and we rode those things all over town, about 15 miles, IIRC...

    Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.
    The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2


    It'd be nice if you could give me a ride into town.


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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,525 Standard Supporter
    edited December 2022
    booker14 said:

    We were pour, my first and only bike was something like this Huffy. It was actually kind of embarrassing to be seen on.

    I had that three speed bullshit, too.

    Not the high rise sissy bar though. Just half mast. Same as The Throbber is today.

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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,525 Standard Supporter


    This is actually a pretty decent book for us children of the 70's.

    The 1970's, @RaceBannon.

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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,815 Founders Club
    PurpleThrobber said:



    This is actually a pretty decent book for us children of the 70's.

    The 1970's, @RaceBannon.

    It's a miracle you all didn't die of skull fractures. I haven't been a bike sans helmet since the Reagan administration.
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