> -----Original Message----- > From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 24/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > > >The Sting Rays and other new bikes were considered sissy stuff, too > >clean and dainty for us. > > Wow, the memories are flooding back. I had a Schwinn Sting > Ray when I was about 11 (1971). Three speed stick shift into > a Sturmey-Archer hub. There was a cool mod that we all did > that was very popular at the time. Got rid of the big banana > seat, cut the rear vertical struts, installed a normal single > saddle, attached said struts to saddle so now the bike had > extra bracing from the rear axle up to the saddle as well as > the normal seat post. These were perhaps the forerunners of > the event bikes that you see today?
You cut off the banana seat? Where'd you put your girlfriend? I had a Red White and Blue Sears bike. It had a banana seat and wheelie bars, and we'd lower the front of the seat and the bars so you could ride around chopper style and look cool. > > Kids do stupid things, I was coasting along and letting my > foot catch in the front spokes, making a pleasing rattling > noise, when it got caught a little further than I planned - > round went my foot until it made good contact with the fork, > and I somersaulted down the road. Dazed and with twisted > ankle, all I could mutter was 'cooool!' Yeah, kids do stupid things. When I was 4 I tried to fix the chain on an exercise bike and ended up cutting a finger off. tv
