That just brought back some old suburban “Middletown Dreams”
from the 70s. Banana seats: they were even making them with a metal flake vinyl finish usually purple or gold, the plastic fenders, and the only thing missing, the fork extenders. Kids used to trawl the neighbors refuse when old bike frames were present, saw the forks off and slip them over those on their own bicycles to “chop” them. For about a five year period no disposed bicycle ever got hauled away with the front forks intact.