This thread looks like fun. I'll play! That chopper bike is way cool. My son and I put a similar one together when he was around 10 (he's 25 now!) and it's still hanging in the rafters of my garage. I'll have to get a couple pics. So this pic was taken somewhere around 1964: me doing the wheelie thing with my first homebuilt Stingray style bike. I had seen a pic of one somewhere in a magazine and thought it was cool. So I bought a used 20" bike from the local Gambles Hardware store, mail ordered a banana seat and high bars, stripped the bike down and painted it pastel purple with model car paint. Spent all my money on the seat and bars so had to leave the mis-matched tires on it. As far as I can remember this was the first one of its kind in our little midwestern town, a year or so later they were all over the place.
Scored this on a Christmas Day some years back in the shittiest part of Oakland, CA. Paid $300 for it. Sold it for $3000! Paid for my new frame,complete rearend(new/custom made), and a few other needed parts....... =SCORE!
Some of my junk................ '65 Murray Wildcat X-65: '65 Sting Ray: '66 Huffy Cheater Slick: Western Flyer Buzz Bike: '68 Huffy Rail: Some other shots of the same stuff.....................
I'm not a bike collector, just a pack rat. Here is one I bought a few years back. Schwinn American (I think).. Two speed axle. Original except for the tires, so I can ride it!
I have some of those real old knee action bikes rotting in a shed that I thought I'd do something with about 30 years ago but now the shed is falling down and with my current balance problems I think bike riding might be out.
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.this bike was used by the I.R.A.in the fight against the empire in 1920s.rare find with carbide lamp,rifle and holder and puncture repair kit/tools.viewed today in the independence museum Kilmurray just off the main cork-Killarney road outside Lisarda village.well worth a visit
I've had this 1949 Schwinn for 30 years. just recently rounded up the chain guard, tank, rack and fenders for it. I have the correct fatter fender for the rear, and what is called a "train light" fender for the front since I took this picture. sucker weighs 50 pounds!
this one started out as a Schwinn Varsity 10 speed. sectioned, stretched and raked, it's the chopper I never had when I was a kid. 26" wheels. still under construction. update.....
In 1970, when I was seven years old, my dad bought me a Columbia "Playbike 88" with the three speed stick shift for my birthday. The bike was exactly the same as the model 138 shown in this advertisement below. I can remember being escorted into our dining room for the big reveal, and my new steed was up on top of the dining room table on display glittering and sparkling in the light. I was absolutely floored. I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life before. This thread has brought back a lot of fond memories for me as I think about that old bike and the new-found freedom that it granted me. I would dearly love to find another one and re-live that wonderful time in my youth...
Currently i am riding a new schwinn cruiser, but i grew up riding a 1967 schwinn fastback with slick tire and 5 speed on the crossbar. I have a 67 schwinn american getting ready to go together, my brother got me a 2speed hub and banana seat for it...
Just repainted my swing bike that I’ve had since the early eighties. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
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