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What was your first bike?
Discussion at Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum in the Pre-Motorized Bicycle Information. forum. Originally Posted by CRUISER
pacific owns swchinn, GT and mongoose. huffy i think is still its own company
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03-17-2008, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by CRUISER  pacific owns swchinn, GT and mongoose. huffy i think is still its own company | My bad. You are right....Huffy is seperate from Pacific. 
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03-17-2008, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Autocycler In my neighborhood it was cool to ride a BMX Mongoose....kinda like a Lexus for the under 10 crowd  Back then, there was nothing so unforgivably uncool as riding a Huffy or Schwinn. Funny how they are pretty much all made by the same company now. | I remeber riding home on my faded red schwinn with the fiberglass pole and orange flag. I remember the fiberglass splinters. I bet I put a million miles on that bike.
I came home and told dad all the other kids had cool bikes and I needed one. I never asked for stuff. On my birthday I got black mongoose with gold rims and gold handle bars.
I was Knight Rider on my KIT
My dad's office was 7 miles away and I had to ride past Love Field airport and through a not so nice part of town. One day I showed up in his office, he nearly pooed his pants. I used to run cross country, I had a friend I ran with and we would talk the whole 3 miles. Now I can barely pedal long genough for the clutch to engage.  |
03-19-2008, 10:19 PM
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My first bike was 1960's 24" Schwinn cruiser type bike with coaster brake....It was waaaaay too big for me at the time and I had many a wreck because I had to lean the bike so far over just to get one foot to tough the ground..My Parents later got me a 20" BMX type bike with a bannana seat....No more skinned knees....I was a happy camper!
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03-21-2008, 08:01 AM
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For Christmas I got a weird 3 speed hub shifter sting ray style that never shifted right when I really wanted a Schwin Sting ray. That piece of trash had a wide checkerboard sting ray style seat, hard as a rock. My dad was a cheap SOB (ok like me) so he probably got it at a raffle or discount store. My mom tied a tony the tiger tail on the stubby sissy bar. My parents must have known I was disappointed....because in July (my b-day) I got a real Schwinn sting ray.....I was in REAL love. I did about everything but make love to the thing.......I do remember the next year or so putting a smaller front crank gear on it.....must have been an omen. |
04-01-2008, 05:54 AM
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It looks like wal-mart has or is going to drop the huffy line. One of their cheap-o men's cruiser bikes is gone. |
04-01-2008, 06:07 AM
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yay. If you mean the Cranbrook, the ones I saw had terrible welding and should be gone.
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04-01-2008, 08:30 AM
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That was the one, I think they still have the women's. It's a shame I have a huffy from the old days. It is probably the best frame I have. I'm going to do a china girl for my son in law with it this summer. I need someone to ride with even if I have to build a loaner for him and the neighbor to share. It's the neighbor who does my welding. |
04-09-2008, 04:30 PM
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My first bike was a 1975 Mongoose Motomag. My friend down the street had one too. I remember we used to play "Chips" with our walkie-talkes around the neighborhood. It was'nt long after I got it they stole it. After that I remember my Dad taking me to Kmart and I got a Murry BMX.
I was already racing Motocross at that time so bicycles really wasnt my thing back then. It wasnt until I saw "Rad" or "Break the Ice" BMX movie that really got me started with bicycles.
Who used to put the license plate that came with the Honey Comb ceral? I always did, I wish I saved those things.
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04-10-2008, 12:33 AM
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Here's my first bike, a Schwinn Sting Ray, My dad was a real tinkerer... He put on the steering wheel and the newspaper delivery bags!
This was around the mid 70's.
By the time the bike got to looking like this, I'd had it for many years.
I actually found this pic just a few months ago!!!  |
04-10-2008, 05:47 AM
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VB now that is one cool bike. i was going to do a steering wheel on my build bike and just never did. I love that thing. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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