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Remembering the Sting-Ray Bike (1963-1982)

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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,676
    Rode it to school. Uphill, both directions, in the snow…
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,655 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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  • booker14
    booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 187 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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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,888 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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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    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_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,530 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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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,728 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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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,619 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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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,619 Standard Supporter


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

    The 1970's, @RaceBannon.

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,728 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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