my other kruiser is....A SCHWINN STINGRAY!

Here is the Riviera and an Orange bike I forget what brand (it's a cheapy too). Also a Bantam, I repainted it for my niece a long time ago, she is now 18 and the bike needs redone again.

 

i knew , i just knew it.. im consorting with a bunch of shady bike boosters!! haha.

 

Its a Billetproof sticker, you should be able to get one from the Billetproof Emporium on the website. I trimmed my one down a little to fit the chain guard.

 

I had one the same color....the last one in the shop until more came in. It was about 1961 or 62. I think it cost $60 bucks. Bought it at the Schwinn shop on Sherman way near White Oak.
Three of us guys ( good friends ) would ride that thing at a time. One on the handle bars, and two on the seat...both peddling.
We did that alot and it held up good.

 

http://www.bunchobikes.com/serialnumber2.htm

this is a good way to find the year of your bike by using the serial #

 

Man, I wanted one SO bad when I was a kid---all the cool guys had Stingrays and Krates and other 20" bikes with big apes and sissy bars....so Christmas '65 when I was 8 I got my first bike---a 24" Western Flyer I HATED that thing.... Bitched about it so much my folks bought me apes, a tiger-striped bananna seat and tiger headed grips for my birthday six months later(yeah, it looked gay )
I STILL wan't happy. My pals all had chrome and metalflake and 20" redline slicks.....and I was riding a turd(in my mind anyway) So, the next Christmas my Grandad bought me a Mattel Stallion!(Thanks Pappy!!! )
In the mid 60's, THAT was about the most radical and unusual bike around---chrome EVERYTHING, seat like a motorcycle with shocks under it. He even bought me a Vroom motor for it. I rode that thing until I was 14---wore out the crank bearings and a bunch of rear tires
I get an urge to buy another one every few years until I see one in person and realize how small they are---no WAY I could ride one now
O/T maybe, but bikes were a stepping stone for a bunch of us.

 

well the HAMB has art fridays and model car sundays maybe bicycles should get saturdays

heres one of mine i a weekly thing was started i got more and more trad ones

 

this is my sons project started as a girls schwinn lil pixie i think it's a littel bit manlier this way

 

this is my sons project started as a girls schwinn lil pixie i think it's a littel bit manlier this way

 

Here's mine.......it's not a Stingray but I like it anyway.

 

The bike in the first picture is EXACTLY what I had as my first bike. I remember jumping the culvert in my neighborhood on that thing. I've still, to this day, never been racked harder. I'm pretty sure that is the reason why my penis never grew after I turned 8. I wish I'd have kept that bike so girls would understand.

 

That is cool, Klemmy! I've never seen a Stingray in that color.

I still have my Stingray that I got new in '76. First bike I ever got. Looks alot like yours, but yellow. Been thinking for a number of years that I should pull it out of the shed & restore it.

Cool post!

 

Never had a Schwinn but my first new bike was a AMF avenger 5 that I got on christmas in 1969,sold it for gas money in 78 and now have two of them. I like riding them but my butt does not like the banana seats anymore,I dont know what happened in between the time I was 8 and now but I can only get a couple miles and its time to get off. Jeff

 

Cool bikes, can't believe they're re-popping them so cheap. I still have my Iverson Mono-shock, but wish I kept my Barris designed Dragstripper and 57 Jaguar.

 

Here is my NOS '68 Sears Screamer that I bought from a second hand store several years ago. It is a 3 speed and in absolutely mint condition. It has never been ridden. The owner of the second hand store told me that he bought out the contents of an elderly lady's garage, and that the bike was one of the things in the garage. She told him that she bought it for her grandson who came to visit every year, but that he didn't visit for a few years, got drafted,went to Vietnam, and was killed. So sad. The other picture is my '68 Orange Krate.

 

Some years ago the Schwinn family heirs (Eddie in particular if I remember right) ran the business into the ground. It went bankrupt, was bought and sold a couple of times. Now owned by a Canadian conglomerate called "Pacific Cycle" which owns a stable of other brands and is the major supplier to Toys-r-Us and the rest of the mass market.

It (Schwinn) is all Chinese made now. They are not really repops when you look closely. Only the stickers are similar.

The story of the demise of Schwinn (once the second-most recognized trademark, ranking behind only Coca Cola) is very well told in a book called "No Hands -The Rise and Fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company, an American Institution" by Crown & Coleman.

Great book and a good example of many of the things we talk about here on the HAMB.

 

Did somebody say RAT CYCLE???
Flat black=check
red rims= check
white walls=check
Ape hangers= check
skulls or iron crosses= darnit... not yet.... I better run and get me some!

The other two I ride back and forht to the post office all the time.

 

if you had a schwinn in the 60's they were the best built bikes. my dad used to take me to the local police auction and just to get a frame he had to buy a pile of stripped bikes at the end of a auction for $10 bucks! talk about excited got it going and after a few months it got stolen, fucking bummer i was crushed even though i had 3 other huffy bikes that schwinn by far was the best. hell i had a bike repair and other than the one i had never got to work on a schwinn even for free unless i hung out at the local schwinn shop. those days if you could afford a schwinn you could afford to have it serviced by the "dealer" just like a car. still have 4 ten speeds hanging in the shed but they just aren't "stingrays" great thread dudes! good memories.

 

my drug before my Cadillac was custom bikes. I've sold a lot of them off and put the money towards the Cad. A few are still for sale. This is my last creation started off as Dyno Frame:



some previous bikes:

 

Funny I was just drooling over this bike over at ratrodbikes.com

 

I love the Sears Bike. Had one myself but bought it in 1973. By then thay had made them 5 speeds and put Ram Horn handel bars on them. the screamer 1 had a park brake,springs on the seat post, and a weird spring for the front end. i had the screamer 2 which did'nt have the options. I passed mine to my younger nephew who later sold it in a garage sale for $10.00

I would love to have one again.

 

i dont care about any race bike,dirt track bike,or whatever kinda bike those bikes rode the best wheelies of any bikes

 

Man, does this bring back memories. I had the Canadian version of the Stingray. Mine was called a "Mustang". At least I thought it was the Canadian version .
Gold metallic, gold seat with a sissy bar and back pad.
When I got tired of it, I cut the forks off another bike and jammed them on to the forks of the Mustang. Presto! Instant chopper!

 

this is one i cut up a few years ago. laid pedal, and would throw sparks

 

thanks. i havent seen one in that color either, except a schwinn typhoon (correct me if im wrong on the name) my grandpa had that was like the stingray but a bigger bike (24 in i think).

great pics guys. ive been tempted to get a MIG welder and start making chopper bikes out of bikes i find at swap meets and yard sales

 

OK u got me....here's mine...Shanehttp://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd8/shanesflames/IMG_3883.jpg.....

 

I had started a monday bike weekly thread, but it didn't do well. Just gonna have bike threads like this one pop up once in a while. I enjoy it. I have over 20 bikes.

 

heres my tallbike

 

here is my pair of hot rod schwinns.

 

My huffy rail...




and my old Pile bike with a Sears Screamer Coaster mag...