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TimM63 said:
Schwinn Stik Shift
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oooh, I think I was in grade 3, and Claude Garand shows up in the school yard with a gold Mustang!
My one year old 24 inch red CCM coaster bike lost some of its shine. And I wouldn't be getting another one anytime soon!

What we really wanted to see was him do a wheely!!
 
Nice. I was never able to have a schwinn. But, we did get Kmart Huffies and I absolutley road the crap out of that purple bicycle. If I remember right I think my stick shift was just a three speed but man to me it was cool. Jumped a boat load of ramps back in those days. Oh the childhood freedom of bicycles. No phone, no internet, no computer games. Just good old days spent outside with the friends until the street lights came on.
 
Yeah, I had the K-Mart Huffy as well.

I tried to spruce it up by spray painting it black and putting on some yellow Oakley padding etc..., but just could keep up with the with the "rich kids hotrods" aka Mongoose BMX bikes that the others in the neighborhood had

Those top of the line BMX Bikes were a real status symbol in the early 80s.

I also remember getting together with a bunch of kids and making our own BMX course back in the woods digging dirt to make banked curves, bumps and jumps and everything

One time I had a particularly spectacular speedy vault off of a jump hitting height I had not achieved before only to then be in mid-air watch my front tire fall away from the bike as I kept sailing on.

Apparently I did not tighten the nuts enough when changing out my flat tire tube and it fell off at the worst moment

Those were surely the days
 
I forget the brand I had but it only had one speed. The frame was light orange with red highlights, and a red banana seat. Never got a sissy bar, either, and I'm glad I didn't. Looking back, it would have been a little harder to mount but more importantly, dismount, if you had to in a hurry.
And remember coaster brakes? And kickstands?
 
Metallic purple banana seat with Sissy bar. Mine was a one speed with coaster brake. Excellent for in the winter when the streets had patches of Frozen ice after the street lights went on. Man, you could slide sideways forever! I had three older brothers so we had bikes hanging around all junked up you know? I would take the crappiest one and cut off the front forks right where they join at the front brake so that you got about 2 ft of fork. Now you go to your good bike and take off the front tire, grab a hammer, and pound that fork onto your other Fork. Voila. Easy Rider! Man those were the days until I popped a wheelie and the tire rode off without me
 
the Baron said:
I forget the brand I had but it only had one speed. The frame was light orange with red highlights, and a red banana seat. Never got a sissy bar, either, and I'm glad I didn't. Looking back, it would have been a little harder to mount but more importantly, dismount, if you had to in a hurry.
And remember coaster brakes? And kickstands?
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My very first bicycle was a hand me down of my older sister. Don't have any idea what kind it was but my Dad had painted it pink for her and left it pink. So I learned to ride (without training wheels) and then keep riding on a pink bicycle and I really didn't care, I had wheels. The Huffy came a year or two later. I certainly remember coaster brakes. Kickstands? waist of time we just dropped em where we got off of them.
 
WELL in my young days i could not afford a bike like these what they were called CHOPPERS BIKE as in those days i never got any pocket money so had to do small jobs to try an earn some dosh all i had was an old broken down go cart untill my older brother brought me an old bike an i was scared stiff of fallen off it so i used to say i dont feel safe but my brother grabbed me an stuck on the seat an gave me a good shove off an then i dint have any chiose but to try an ride it an i did but fell off when i wanted to stop as i was only 6yrs old
chrisb
 
I lived in the country and was given a second hand one. The banana seat lasted about two days and after a week, the front handle bars were stripped and the bearings were knocked out of the front wheel. The bike got transformed into a BMX style.
 
BOATMAN said:
WELL in my young days i could not afford a bike like these what they were called CHOPPERS BIKE as in those days i never got any pocket money so had to do small jobs to try an earn some dosh all i had was an old broken down go cart untill my older brother brought me an old bike an i was scared stiff of fallen off it so i used to say i dont feel safe but my brother grabbed me an stuck on the seat an gave me a good shove off an then i dint have any chiose but to try an ride it an i did but fell off when i wanted to stop as i was only 6yrs old
chrisb
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I remember the kids that would extend the forks of their bicycles to make choppers out of them. Extended forks and big tall sissy bars.
 
BOATMAN said:
a good shove off
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...big brothers!

My bike was too big for me, but I, along with all the other kids in the neighborhood, had learned on a tiny two wheeler of a kid down the street.
So at 7, when I got mine, I'd have to get on by standing on the curb, until I learned to swing my leg over like the cowboys!

Speaking of little brothers, mine was 7 years younger and he had a Bigwheel! Made the tricycle I'd had look pretty lame...

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Before that, it was a tractor, I can still see his little legs cranking it around the driveway!

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