Remembering the Sting-Ray Bike (1963-1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLaOU4g6wAComments
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Thanks Taft!
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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 nut cracker
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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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The purple Huffy was my first realization we weren't in the same class as the country club kids.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
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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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
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Spoken like a REAL American Man.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
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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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Was it a "Killer Nova"?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
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Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.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...
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Rode it to school. Uphill, both directions, in the snow…
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The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2YellowSnow said:
Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.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...
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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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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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So terrible in literally every way, but have a bad boy image and are therefore cool?RaceBannon said:
The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2YellowSnow said:
Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.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...
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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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It'd be nice if you could give me a ride into town.RaceBannon said:
The Harley Davidson of bikes. Boomers best in everything. Built by the men who won WW2YellowSnow said:
Man you Boomers had some shitty ass bikes.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...
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I had that three speed bullshit, too.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.
Not the high rise sissy bar though. Just half mast. Same as The Throbber is today.
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It's a miracle you all didn't die of skull fractures. I haven't been a bike sans helmet since the Reagan administration.PurpleThrobber said:
This is actually a pretty decent book for us children of the 70's.
The 1970's, @RaceBannon. -
We didn't have seat belts either
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My mother drove a Corvair.RaceBannon said:We didn't have seat belts either
Unsafe at any speed
- Ralph Nader
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I crashed into a car mirror on one of these owned by a friend, because he ran me off the road and the fucking handbrakes were sticky as shit and couldn't stop the bike. Got three stitches in my forehead after that crash.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.
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My ride from about 6 - 12 yrs old, birthday gift from Ken's Cycle on Hwy 99 in Edmonds.
Upgraded to a Mongoose BMX bike at about 13.
Wish I'd never traded those spider web magnesium rims for plastic tough wheels, but I didn't like bent rims, so I caved into plastics that year. Fuck.
