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A Nod to the Man Who Changed It All [History of the Schwinn Sting Ray (bicycle): 1963-]
BikeMag.com ^ | November 19, 2013 | Vernon Felton

Posted on 11/18/2018 10:53:43 AM PST by ETL

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To: Notthereyet
What exactly are you resentful about? His shirts not being wrinkled or his having a better bike?

The Schwinn Apple Crate is my Rosebud, but you are correct about our blessings.

Every day brings about new exciting challenges, we live in the greatest country in the world and Donald Trump is President!

Nobody has it better than us now or probably in the history of mankind.

121 posted on 11/18/2018 3:23:05 PM PST by caltaxed
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To: ETL

What did You Pay for that
1966 Sting Ray?
I’m thinking that would be a
Big Hit on the Boardwalk
Here in Mission Beach,San Diego!


122 posted on 11/18/2018 3:27:54 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: ETL

I didn’t/won’t/not gonna post any of Reggie’s homo butt brother Barry’s bike pics. Don’t ever plan to either.


123 posted on 11/18/2018 3:29:46 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: ETL

Amazing they only sold 10,000 a year? I had a full size red Schwinn I got in ‘600 with big saddle baskets. It still hangs in the barn. We went all the way to Muskogee to get it for Christmas. Bicycle, motorcycle and then my pickup all were freedom machines. I could easily outrun a Stingray when they came out.


124 posted on 11/18/2018 3:35:19 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: ETL
In the early 60s, word spread from Los Angeles that kids were modifying old Schwinn frames—bolting on Ape Hanger bars and adding other accouterments from early choppers.

Show me your average kid today who could identify a wrench let alone modify their bike. We used to hack-saw the front wheel forks off of dead bikes and extend our front tires out a foot or so. Our dads, they'd smile and watch.

125 posted on 11/18/2018 3:48:58 PM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ETL

Ping for the memories


126 posted on 11/18/2018 4:14:26 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: ETL

I had one in the 60s...then I got a 3 speed and 10 speed and now a 21 speed mountain bike... Schwinn bikes were great bikes...


127 posted on 11/18/2018 4:15:13 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Big Red Badger
What did You Pay for that 1966 Sting Ray?

450. I've been offered 700. It looks a lot like the Grey Ghost from the Krate series. Doesn't have the chrome spring fork, small front wheel, or disc brakes, though. Saw a "like new" Grey Ghost on eBay going for 4,500.

128 posted on 11/18/2018 4:32:47 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Good Score!
I recall Building all kinds of
Bikes in the 60s’
Took a 26 inch frame and flipped
It upside down,
Put a seat post on the main crank
Housing and raised the gooseneck.
The Clown Bike was A bit goofy but...
Oh Well.
Rode Unicycles as well,
Tried that last year and lucky
I didn’t break a hip!


129 posted on 11/18/2018 4:47:45 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: heterosupremacist
I had that Raleigh. I bet I could hold that wheelie longer than you, lol. I could utterly destroy the "Crate Boys" with wheelie rides...especially doing circles like a friggin' unicycle. Thanks for the great memory 😀
130 posted on 11/18/2018 4:59:07 PM PST by True-Stu
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To: ETL

I loved my Schwinn Suburban Cruiser in the early ‘60s. Blue. [Sigh. Memories.]


131 posted on 11/18/2018 4:59:22 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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To: ifinnegan

Had one in The early seventies it got stolen from my parents garage we knew who stole it so we stole it back right out of their garage.


132 posted on 11/18/2018 5:05:31 PM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: thinden

I never liked them, at all..... Sorry.


133 posted on 11/18/2018 5:09:56 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: thinden
My parents wouldn't spend hal a "C-note" on a bicycle.

I got a Huffy Hot Canary instead.


134 posted on 11/18/2018 5:10:27 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: ETL

One of my brothers got a Stingray for Christmas when they first came out. For months he was the envy of his pals in the neighborhood.


135 posted on 11/18/2018 5:25:35 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: ETL

I’m not sure of the year but it was around 1972-74 I got a lemon yellow Stingray for my birthday. Yellow bike, yellow grips, white banana seat. After 3 or 4 years and many wipe-outs I tore the seat up so we went to the Schwinn dealer and I got new a yellow banana seat for that birthday. I remember it being $20

We used to make jumps out of wood and bricks in the street and jump those bikes hour after hour, all part of being a kid in the 70’s.

One day I rode that bike to the bus stop to meet my friends coming home from another school. It was all down hill for probably 1/2 mile. I put 2 on the seat, 1 on the handle bars and I just straddled the bike and drove. The one friend that I couldn’t fit on the bike (or he was to smart to get on) said he walked around the corner and saw “4 kids laying in the street spread out all over.” We all had a bit of road rash but other than that we were ok, because we were kids.

Never did it again though.


136 posted on 11/18/2018 5:34:18 PM PST by greenishness
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To: ETL

I had a 20” Huffy with a Banana Seat, and my next door neighbor worked at a bicycle shop in Dayton, Oh.... My dad took me Carrollton Park on the very last day that Wright Brothers Shop was open before Henry Ford moved it up to Dearborn, MI to create his museum for the Ford Production LIne, Planes and Edison’s Shop for Electricity.


137 posted on 11/18/2018 5:49:54 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Big Red Badger

Lawn Darts...had them growing up...and my brother shot an arrow into the air... it came down on my head...and stuck there...never had a bicycle helmet growing up...nor a motorcycle helmet...


138 posted on 11/18/2018 6:17:57 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: ifinnegan

With my Raliegh 3 speed bike and my little red wagon, I delivered the Hartford Times...( and the last day it was published, I gave all the Times to my worst customer.). I loved delivering papers.


139 posted on 11/18/2018 6:41:48 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: noiseman

I did some jumps...as I said before, I’m not sure how we all survived the good old days...


140 posted on 11/18/2018 6:46:50 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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