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  1. duecesteve
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    My beast 7 speed I ride on the Cape cod c**** 36 lbs, I had to have it reminds me of and old flat tracker Harley or triumph. And this is my woods and beach bike full suspension salsa bucksaw carbon tail 32 lbs it's like riding a lazy boy in the woods! They have 4x26 inch tires Screenshot_20260328-211244~2.jpg
     
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  2. lumpy 63
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    20260328_182613.jpg 20260328_182635.jpg I love Schwinns. The single speed had a flat the other day, need to patch it
     
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  4. lumpy 63
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    yep , works like a charm:D
     
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  5. Moriarity
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  6. Max Gearhead
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    from Wisconsin

  7. duecesteve
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    I had one similar to that it was made by Firestone I got it for Xmas my dad got it for selling tires it was purple I think Murray made them? Nope I looked it up and it was a Firestone GTO Panther 3 spd made for them by Huffy. OIP (20).jpeg
     
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  8. SS327
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    I had a 72 AMF Aerobee three speed. Look that bad boy up.
     
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  9. Moriarity
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    like this?
    aerobee.jpg
     
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  10. duecesteve
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    The murray eliminators were cool too 65687mkii030.jpg
     
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  12. Moriarity
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    the one orange krate is a single speed mid 90's remake
     
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  13. duecesteve
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    When I was a kid I was the local bike builder I made a lot of stingrays into choppers I used the tubing I got from a TV repair shop up the street from my house, I used the antenna tripods I could build a 3-4 ft front end . With 16 inch front tire. They were cool. And welded them in the back shop of my father's gas station. I was popular lol
     
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  14. slowmotion
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    I was the first in my little hick town to build extended forks. Cut the tubes off a donor fork, reversed, & slid over host fork, drilled & bolted (didn't have a welder at 12yrsold.:D
     
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  15. duecesteve
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    I remember those and some kids just beat them on and they'ed fall off going down the street lol
     
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  16. SS327
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    That’s my bike except the shifter body and handle were white. Too bad I jumped ramps, curbs and hills with it and destroyed it in 7 short years. Was a great bike to use for delivering newspapers though.
     
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  17. Moriarity
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    that is one step better than I did. Just hammer them on and go. but you come to a pretty abrupt halt when they fall off!!
     
  18. slowmotion
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    Mark, I learned that on the proto-type....:eek:
     
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  19. SS327
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    Not if you put a small bolt through them so they don’t fall off. Or get your neighbor to weld them on. Learned that the hard way.
     
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    Hammer on, wheelies caused problems when they fell off ha ha, They neighbor across the street dad welded them for the neighborhood crew.
    Those bikes looked cool but didn’t turn worth a diddle. Fun stuff
    Did you guys attach cards or balloons on the forks for a good engine sound. @Moriarity did you have that Vroom when you were a kid?
    Dan
     
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  21. Moriarity
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    never had a vroom as a kid, did have cards in the spokes held on by clothes pins
     
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  22. slowmotion
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    We tied balloons in the spokes. It was an art in itself to get juuuust the right psi for that deep thump! Take off like a Bat, and see how long you could go before your actually "blew" you motor! Much to the joy and laughter of the other participants! Damn, those were good times!
     
  23. Moriarity
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    Here I am at age 8 with my brand new blue sears spider three speed. And the other picture is one just like it that I bought off a Craigslist ad last year. Still looking for the correct seat for it
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  24. lostn51
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    I don’t have the bike anymore and I can’t find any pictures of it whenever I rode it but I got a Sears Screamer 1 when I turned 6. Dad tossed it out when he cleaned the shed out to put car parts back in the late 80’s. I loved that bike…….. IMG_1686.png
     
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  25. Sharpone
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    My brother had a similar bike from Sears it was a 3 speed and had the faded red to yellow paint.
    Dan
     
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  26. Moriarity
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    you mean your dad (saver of all things?) actually threw something out once??? man what a cool bike
     
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  27. duecesteve
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  28. duecesteve
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    Those are some funky handlebars
     
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  29. RodStRace
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    So at this point after that Sears bike, I gotta ask Mark how many different rolls (display box?) of that colored, translucent handlebar tape do you have?
    I tried to find pics and came up empty.
    I did find this. BTW protect your eyes, it's like old school HAMB in spots.
    https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/chopper-forks.107862/
     
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  30. BJR
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    When I was a kid I climbed over the fence of the neighborhood bodyshop and grabbed a bent 59 Olds deep dish steering wheel. After I straightened it out some, I figured out how to mount it on my bike after using a hack saw on the handle bar neck to get the wheel on. It had a horn ****on on each spoke of the wheel so I hooked it up to my bike horn. I was the only kid in the neighborhood of south Mpls with a steering wheel on his bike.
     
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