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Originally Posted by Craig T
I LOVED that stick shift model. Single mother couldn't afford one and I never got a clean chance to steel one. You must have been RICH!
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Yeah, wanted one real bad as well and Christmas morning found the Sears single speed version, complete with 20" iron mag rear wheel, 16" front spoke wheel, and shift lever parking brake (still had a coaster brake too) siting under the tree. Didn't work too well for delivering newspapers and couldn't jump a ramp very well with that heavy rear wheel.
Broke a few Columbian Workhorse (newspaper bikes) frames when I tried to convert them for dirt riding back in 74. Man, I should have followed through on that idea and maybe folks would be riding DLGs instead of Gary Fishers!