Remembering the Sting-Ray Bike (1963-1982)

Fishpo31

Rode it to school. Uphill, both directions, in the snow…

RaceBannon

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

booker14

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

DerekJohnson

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

1to392831weretaken

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?

El_K

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.

YellowSnow

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.

PurpleThrobber

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.

PurpleThrobber

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

The 1970's, @RaceBannon.

YellowSnow

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.