Muscle Bikes

[427heaven]

I didnt want to mention that modification but us left coasters built those with our fathers 3/4 inch EMT that is used for running electrical wiring. A couple of well placed hits with a ball peen hammer and a couple of 3/8 bolts and we became Peter Fonda of easy rider fame in about 20 minutes, We was supafly.

[FL SAAC]

Listen we know the feeling of popping a wheelie and coming down,  having the forks come off and sticking in the dirt

Or better yet popping a wheelie on a hill with a original 90 pound Phantom and breaking the spring and fork...yikes

That one could not have lasted long.

[FL SAAC]

Gotcha, the kid on the bike maybe one of the jackson 5, maybe,  could be

I didnt want to mention that modification but us left coasters built those with our fathers 3/4 inch EMT that is used for running electrical wiring. A couple of well placed hits with a ball peen hammer and a couple of 3/8 bolts and we became Peter Fonda of easy rider fame in about 20 minutes, We was supafly.

[427heaven]

 I like the headlight we couldnt afford one of those back in the day!

[FL SAAC]

You mean one of these lights

When I was young we couldn't afford them either, I use to put a candle on top of the handle bars....

I like the headlight we couldnt afford one of those back in the day!

[2112]

Do you remember using those headlights?

They typically ran on a big D cell battery. They stayed bright for all of about 10 minutes.

If you needed a real light, you had to get the ugly generator and string the ugly wires along the frame.

[427heaven]

My Stingray was personalized with a DRAG slick and a mini license plate with my name on it in the 60s. Pure racing BAD ASS for a kid.

[FL SAAC]

Do you remember using those headlights?

They typically ran on a big D cell battery. They stayed bright for all of about 10 minutes.

If you needed a real light, you had to get the ugly generator and string the ugly wires along the frame.

Yesah ! That actual yellow schwinn with a few others sit on our garage wall.

[FL SAAC]

My Stingray was personalized with a DRAG slick and a mini license plate with my name on it in the 60s. Pure racing BAD ASS for a kid.

The license plates mostly came from the inside of cereal boxes

Remember when crackerjacks realky brought a prize

[FL SAAC]

And for the ladies

[FL SAAC]

My Stingray was personalized with a DRAG slick and a mini license plate with my name on it in the 60s. Pure racing BAD ASS for a kid.

Drag slick, never heard of that....

Look at this Huffy add,  this bike has them.

This kid probably grew up to be a policeman,  look at the light on his handlebars . Oh crap and the groovy pants also, styling !

[Side-Oilers]

My Stingray was personalized with a DRAG slick and a mini license plate with my name on it in the 60s. Pure racing BAD ASS for a kid.

I had the same setup.  And a speedometer to see how fast we could go down steep hills.   I pegged the 40 mph gauge with my friend sitting behind me, on a very steep hill, which was scary fun.

[427heaven]

You mean one of these lights

When I was young we couldn't afford them either, I use to put a candle on top of the handle bars....

I like the headlight we couldnt afford one of those back in the day!

I rode too fast for candles... so I taped a flashlight to the gooseneck with a rag or piece of cardboard under it to get the right angle on the road. Oh those beginnings were fun!

[427heaven]

 Since we are talking about our early beginnings and bikes, I remember thinking bikes are quiet and boring it needs some noise! clothes pins and playing cards to the rescue and depending of the placement of the card you could get a mild sounding engine sound or if you doubled it up you had the toughest sounding bike on the block. There was a down side to this engine sound activity, it would loosen the spokes so much the bike became wobbly and no one knew how to true a wheel? Who cared when you had the coolest bike on the block back then. Just had a little flash back 50 years ago.

[FL SAAC]

Two ways to make them loud:

Common folks put baseball cards in spokes

The rich ones got vroom motors from mom and dad

You know how many rookie cards i executed

Since we are talking about our early beginnings and bikes, I remember thinking bikes are quiet and boring it needs some noise! clothes pins and playing cards to the rescue and depending of the placement of the card you could get a mild sounding engine sound or if you doubled it up you had the toughest sounding bike on the block. There was a down side to this engine sound activity, it would loosen the spokes so much the bike became wobbly and no one knew how to true a wheel? Who cared when you had the coolest bike on the block back then. Just had a little flash back 50 years ago.