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My old bicycle
Surfing the web, I found an old ad for the bike my dad bought me...back in my grade school years. At the time, I didn't have the heart to tell dad I really wanted a Schwinn Corvette. Man, this old Huffy was heavy...the kids on the Schwinns left me in the dust. But hey, if the batteries were fresh, I could sorta listen to the local radio station.
 
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
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Hard to imagine what one of these pups would be worth today.....
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10-10-2007, 11:03 AM
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The nostalgia of it all...at the time, I thought I had the most "uncool" bike in town. Today? Well, I don't have a clue where it went after I quit using a bike for transportation.
That was a tube radio in the tank...the "headlight" took D cell batteries, IIRC... Funny how parents do that...buying things for their taste, not the kid's taste.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
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I was on the trailing end of all my father's siblings and cousins having kids, which meant I got some pretty well-worn hand-me-downs.
My first bike was a Flintstones Bike. No training wheels, no brakes. I learned to ride it by going to the top of the hill and then pushing off towards the bottom. The first time I got going well, I went all the way to the bottom of the hill and off of the retaining wall at the end of our front yard. I hated that bike, and was the happiest kid in the WORLD when I got a freestyle bike with pegs on the front and back, and a platform. I learned to surf really fast. |
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10-10-2007, 11:18 AM
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My first bike was a Corvette!
Photo (not my personal bike however) Mine was black.  Yes, I was a kid in 1958. Wow, hadn't thought about that bike in years. It had 3 speeds. Not like new types with multiple sprockets and de-railers. It had an internal setup in the rear hub (almost like a differential?) Wierd setup. Note $80 price tag! My mother put down $10 and they financed it (I paid with my paper route, weekly).
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Souvenir...souvenir...!!!
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10-11-2007, 06:22 AM
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My clunky old Huffy didn't have a prayer of keeping up. I don't think Lance Armstrong could have kept up with the average Corvette rider if he'd been forced to ride a Huffy...
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Seriously, what do you know about what's happening to your beauty? Any news?
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I had one of those bikes that was made to look like a dirtbike. Plastic gas tank, big seat, front & rear shocks. It was rediculously heavy. I can't find pictures of those things anywhere... what were they called?
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RadioBike! That is awesome. I'd never heard of it before. I had a Huffy bike, but nothing special. My first bike was nothing special either. Another big brother hand-me-down. I think the only thing I got new before I was 12 was underwear.
Schwinn Tornado. The only thing missing is the cards in the spokes... and later, I had the Vroom. 
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I'm loving this one...look at those bikes...How'd we ever survive? No reflectors, no mandatory helmets...and think about it, only ridden by kids. No adult asses in spandex...
The bike was transportation in those days. Evereywhere in town, ballfields, the swimming pool, and beyond...to the river for fishing, etc.
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(edit) So Mike, any memories of your favorite bike as a kid?
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