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Racer92 4/6/2009 12:35pm
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Big Lenbroski wrote:
Here's me circa 1970 [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/Gangreen/fool.jpg[/IMG]
Here's me circa 1970

Slow ~ Pro wrote:
Oh right...Like you know how to pop a wheelie !
Big Lenbroski wrote:
Don't hate me because I'm a true blonde...
Damn Lenny, you look the same even today. Youve aged well !
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Larry 4/6/2009 12:38pm
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Slow ~ Pro wrote:
Oh right...Like you know how to pop a wheelie !
Big Lenbroski wrote:
Don't hate me because I'm a true blonde...
Racer92 wrote:
Damn Lenny, you look the same even today. Youve aged well !
So lenny is the gay suzuki rider?Blink
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 12:50pm
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Slow ~ Pro wrote:
Oh right...Like you know how to pop a wheelie !
Big Lenbroski wrote:
Don't hate me because I'm a true blonde...
Racer92 wrote:
Damn Lenny, you look the same even today. Youve aged well !
Yep, Ben Franklin gave me that belt...
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Crash82 wrote:
[IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c301/crash82/scan0032.jpg[/IMG] 1969, Tallahasse Fl, Georgetown Apartments Schwinn Mini Stingray.


1969, Tallahasse Fl, Georgetown Apartments Schwinn Mini Stingray.
How many of you took the banana seat off and replaced it with a single seat,
then split your goose neck and put a pair of motocross bars on?

Or would take an extra set of forks, cut them up and slide them over your
existing forks. Then install some huge ape hangers and a tall sissy bar
and make a chopper.

I loved my Schwinn Stingrays.

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88sdad 4/6/2009 1:07pm
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Big Lenbroski wrote:
Don't hate me because I'm a true blonde...
Racer92 wrote:
Damn Lenny, you look the same even today. Youve aged well !
Big Lenbroski wrote:
Yep, Ben Franklin gave me that belt...
I had a belt and pants just like that, the only difference is I wore a pair of Wallabee's.
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Racer92 4/6/2009 1:25pm
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Just like was said above, we used to cut forks off old bikes and slide them on our Stingray forks and make the bike a chopper.

And if you were truly pimpin' you ran a BIG sissy bar.

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Cygnus 4/6/2009 1:36pm
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Shit, the real pimps rode these!


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88sdad 4/6/2009 1:40pm
4/6/2009 1:40pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 11:16pm
Cygnus wrote:
Shit, the real pimps rode these! [img]http://www.antiquewhs.com/2005013.jpg[/img]
Shit, the real pimps rode these!


I had one of those also, mine was the Orange Crate.
It had a big slick on the back and an 8 ball shifter.
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Void Main 4/6/2009 1:41pm
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Racer92 wrote:
Just like was said above, we used to cut forks off old bikes and slide them on our Stingray forks and make the bike a chopper...
Just like was said above, we used to cut forks off old bikes and slide them on our Stingray forks and make the bike a chopper.

And if you were truly pimpin' you ran a BIG sissy bar.

I had one like that but mine was gold.
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Racer92 4/6/2009 1:46pm
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Tommy is right, the 'Crate' bikes were the holy grail.
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Racer92 wrote:
Never was around any BSAs, I rode my dads Triumph 250 Traiblazer..... [img]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b277/database2/triumph250trailblazer.jpg[/img] Freezing cold out trail riding.
Never was around any BSAs, I rode my dads Triumph 250 Traiblazer.....



Freezing cold out trail riding.
That is awesome! Never was around one of those, but one of my riding buddies had a big poster of one on his wall, right next to his Steve McQueen "Great Escape" poster.
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Racer92 4/6/2009 2:01pm
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That paint job was my dads doing, he had just redid his '72 Econoline with the whole shag carpet interior and painted the outside like all the 'Good Times' vans out there. We put two large ass Yamahauler decals on both sides. The paint he had left over, he painted the tank, side panels and fenders on the Triumph. It was gold glitter paint with a flame decal on the tank,, ugh Major pain in the azz to start when cold.

This is how the bike looked new.

http://sportscargallery.com/1971%20Triumph%20250.htm

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Highsider 4/6/2009 2:12pm
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Thanks, Racer, for the link. Already forwarded to a couple of deserving recipients!
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 2:23pm
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Cygnus wrote:
Shit, the real pimps rode these! [img]http://www.antiquewhs.com/2005013.jpg[/img]
Shit, the real pimps rode these!


Cyg and Bobby throwin' down...Smile

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Cygnus 4/6/2009 2:26pm
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Big Lenbroski wrote:
Cyg and Bobby throwin' down...Smile
Of all my possessions I had as a child. The only ones I would really want back is my Johnny Lightning race track, Schwinn Apple crate and my Evel Knievel Stunt cycle!
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 2:29pm
4/6/2009 2:29pm
Racer92 wrote:
Just like was said above, we used to cut forks off old bikes and slide them on our Stingray forks and make the bike a chopper...
Just like was said above, we used to cut forks off old bikes and slide them on our Stingray forks and make the bike a chopper.

And if you were truly pimpin' you ran a BIG sissy bar.

That was right before the BMX explosion..
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Void Main wrote:
[img]https://www.bmxnonstop.com/oldschool/images/deluxe.gif[/img]
That was identical to my bike ...bought it myself at western-auto. 5 dollars down and 5 dollars a week.Took me three months to pay it off w/interest.
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 2:35pm
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Big Lenbroski wrote:
Cyg and Bobby throwin' down...Smile
Cygnus wrote:
Of all my possessions I had as a child. The only ones I would really want back is my Johnny Lightning race track, Schwinn Apple crate...
Of all my possessions I had as a child. The only ones I would really want back is my Johnny Lightning race track, Schwinn Apple crate and my Evel Knievel Stunt cycle!
For me it would be my "Marvel" comic collection, I had a lot of first issues...
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 2:36pm
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Void Main wrote:
[img]https://www.bmxnonstop.com/oldschool/images/deluxe.gif[/img]
mrquick wrote:
That was identical to my bike ...bought it myself at western-auto. 5 dollars down and 5 dollars a week.Took me three months to pay it off...
That was identical to my bike ...bought it myself at western-auto. 5 dollars down and 5 dollars a week.Took me three months to pay it off w/interest.
You still ride it to work?..
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race 4/6/2009 2:43pm
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Didn't have the glasses. And I was a long hair hippie kid way back then. Had a Taco 22 .... that within a year of getting it, I destroyed it in a head-on collision with my older brother in his go-kart on a blind corner.

After recovering from that one, I came back swinging on a Taco 66 smoker. ( A power Products motor I think it had. ) Been a two-stroke fan ever since. Cool

( We soon blew up that Power Products motor trying to run it on nitro ... but not before being sent to Juvenile Hall for terrorizing the neighborhood as part of a mini-bike gang of hoodlums. )
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slowvet 4/6/2009 2:57pm
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Cygnus wrote:
Shit, the real pimps rode these! [img]http://www.antiquewhs.com/2005013.jpg[/img]
Shit, the real pimps rode these!


88sdad wrote:
I had one of those also, mine was the Orange Crate.
It had a big slick on the back and an 8 ball shifter.
Too funny, yep I had one just like that except it had these "ram horns" type handlebars. Tiny front wheel, 5 speed, straight up pimp. Man we went all over town on bikes, sometimes 3 at a time on one bike.
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Cygnus 4/6/2009 2:59pm
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The Ram horns were to hook your paper route bag onto!
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Highsider 4/6/2009 3:01pm
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Cygnus wrote:
The Ram horns were to hook your paper route bag onto!
And they handled REAL good at the beginning of the route!
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slowvet 4/6/2009 3:15pm
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Cygnus wrote:
The Ram horns were to hook your paper route bag onto!
A flood of memories, paper routes early Sunday mornings, stealing pop bottles from the back lot of the store, then bringing them around front for the deposit. Guilty.
Big Lenbroski 4/6/2009 3:20pm
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We ran something similar to this, using a lawnmower engine, a flatten rim welded to the back rim to run a giant fan belt to the engine, and that 5 speed Schwinn shifter for the throttle..

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JPT 4/6/2009 3:28pm
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Big Lenbroski wrote:
Cyg and Bobby throwin' down...Smile
Cygnus wrote:
Of all my possessions I had as a child. The only ones I would really want back is my Johnny Lightning race track, Schwinn Apple crate...
Of all my possessions I had as a child. The only ones I would really want back is my Johnny Lightning race track, Schwinn Apple crate and my Evel Knievel Stunt cycle!
Big Lenbroski wrote:
For me it would be my "Marvel" comic collection, I had a lot of first issues...
DAmn me too. I actually had the original Spider-man Amazing Tales. Read it until it was ragged. Original Hulk, Ironman, X-Men, Daredevil, Avengers too. Never store your old comics in a cardboard box in the basement.Sad

As far as how I looked in the 60's, just look at my avatar.

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