Schwinn Bicycle Memories

[Mosesatm]

Does anyone remember these? Look at what it sold for!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=95155&item=6619988997

 

[case12]

Wow! Bannana seat, sissy bar, chopper forks (I used to make these myself by hack sawing forks off old bikes and sliding them onto the ends of mine). I used to have the tall sissy bar on my Schwinn (Stingray). I eventually added a tiny tire on the front and some ram horn handle bars. And yes, I used to clothes clip baseball cards (even the 3-D kind) into the spokes to make that cool sound. Casey

 

[Mustanglvr]

I had many banana seat bikes and I still have the ten speed Schwinn I got for my 11th birthday. It is all original yet, just needs new tires. It still has the original tape on the handle bars, paint and the original tires. I wonder if they`ll ever be worth anything?

 

[BroadwayBlue]

Wow!
I got a gold Schwinn when I was 5 years old with training wheels.
Converted it over the years with a banana seat, handlebars, speedometer and turn signals on the back ... mmmmm ... modded out my bike ... so that's where this all started huh? :grin:

 

[luisa2552]

My brother had one of these! I had the 'Liitle Chic' girls version. I remember he had a real bad wipe out once where he almost lost his manhood on the shifter!!

 

[Mosesatm]

That just made all the guys on this side wince with empathy!!!

 

[390cs68rcode]

I used to be as passinate about bikes when I was a kid as I am about cars today. Used to race BMX bikes when I was young and mountain bikes in my 20's. Buddy of mine had one of those but without the chopper forks. If I remember correctly it had the squared off slick rear tire. Ahhhhh, the good old days.

 

[Diesel Donna]

I wiped out on my brother's Stingray bike in 1968 when I got into a high speed wobble while going down a steep street. Broke my jaw and got scraped up and stitches everywhere.....but I got to ride in a cool ambulance!! :grin:


~~~~Donna

 

[390cs68rcode]

I wiped out on my brother's Stingray bike in 1968 when I got into a high speed wobble while going down a steep street. Broke my jaw and got scraped up and stitches everywhere.....but I got to ride in a cool ambulance!! :grin:


~~~~Donna

and then later in life you bought THAT ambulance. :wink:

 

[Diesel Donna]

and then later in life you bought THAT ambulance. :wink:

Wouldn't that be a hoot if it was?! Mine did come from a fire department in New Jersey and my Dad was a fireman in New York.....

But my car is a 70.

 

[still looking for one]

I started out with a black and white 1959 Schwinn Speedster, it was parked at the college when it got hit and run - totaled.

I took it across the golden Gate Bridge in about 1960, where the cops got me at the SF side and sent me back across!!! A devil may care time for me.
The seat broke on it 1/2 way across the bridge, so I was iron-butt going home!! Then it started to rain! Stopped by Highway patrol above Sausalito, and ordered off the highway - just before the long steep grade.

Jim B

 

[GTCSMustang]

A friend of mine, Steve Juliano, has a beautiful set of 6-Schwinn Krate bikes. You can see them on his website. All of them brand new and never ridden.

http://www.stevenjuliano.com/schwinn.htm

And, he has some cars too.

Scott

 

[j21moss]

anybody remember the Western Auto Stingray Bike with the steering wheel and red sidewall tires???

 

[Diesel Donna]

anybody remember the Western Auto Stingray Bike with the steering wheel and red sidewall tires???

Yes! Jeeez I almost forgot about that one. I still have the registration form I filled out for my red Western Flyer when I was about 8.