Indeed! In the late 50s / early 60s we often rode our bikes to and from weekend Boy Scout camping trips. These experiences shaped our lives and prepared us for so many crazy adventures yet to come.
>From age six or so we lived on our bikes. From early morning until lights out. And constantly fiddling with set-up, this is where wrenching began. Now all these crazy years later, still at it. Same joy, same attention, nothing has changed really. Not even the bikes quite truthfully. How much different are the bikes I ride now from that Raleigh Blue Streak that turned my world upside down? (Thankfully got double the gears and grateful for that.) Wouldn’t change a thing and would do it all over again Jock On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM 'Jim Kerrigan' via RBW Owners Bunch < [email protected]> wrote: > > That’s brought me back to the 60’s when my Boy Scout troop bicycled 70 > miles to scout camp. In Texas. In the summer. I rode it on my single speed > Rollfast cruiser that probably weighed as much as both of my Rivendells put > together. “Ten Speeds” were too exotic for us. Nobody told us it wasn’t > supposed to be as much fun as it was. > On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 10:57:09 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> My Dad helped me rig a canoe hand truck into a trailer rig for my Schwinn >> clunker 2-speed kick-back in the early seventies. Wish I had photographs. I >> also rode my late 70s Schwinn Paramount with tubulars off road back in the >> day, down a trail along a railroad bed in my neighborhood and on USFS >> roads. I learned to repair tubulars or sew-ups, and I still ride tubulars >> on a regular basis. Thank goodness for tubular rim tape and sealants. >> >> Russell Duncan >> Connecticut River Valley, Massachusetts >> - >> On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 11:11:05 AM UTC-6 ascpgh wrote: >> >>> I rode my Motobecane Mirage on trails, paths and streets all over my >>> childhood area north of St. Louis. It was a bike so I rode it and it was >>> after breakfast so I was dressed, in street clothes. >>> >>> Andy Cheatham >>> Pittsburgh >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 12:32:30 AM UTC-4 Keith P. wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe pushing it for a post on this forum, but I bet others will get a >>>> kick out of these Boy's Life magazine images I came across of some >>>> beautiful steel made, rack kit'ed, bikes of the 60's: >>>> >>>> [image: Surf.jpeg] >>>> [image: Bikes.jpeg] >>>> [image: goodyear.jpeg] >>>> >>>> Good paint jobs. Good headlines. >>>> k. >>>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/83c9e120-fe22-4e57-9eb8-102d7ae99478n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/83c9e120-fe22-4e57-9eb8-102d7ae99478n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BkTrE4bLMO%2BDu-vLnTSXwVGOshqRxB5PF0Z%2BGwZ6%2BSQvQF-aw%40mail.gmail.com.
