I enjoy collecting and working on old bikes. Here’s my 65 Sears Spyder 3 speed, a violet Schwinn lil tiger I built and a 77 Schwinn lil tiger. My kids enjoy riding them. I’ve got several others. You can’t beat the look of the old Solo Polos on these old muscle bikes they are sweet!
I use to ride a TON. Would get home from school, do 40 miles before supper and then 20 miles after supper. Everyday. 7 days a week. Did TOSRV (Tour of the Scioto River Valley - Columbus, OH to Portsmouth, OH, 210 miles round trip) many times. I still have my bike, 1973 Gitane Tour de France, Reynolds 531 double butted, all the good stuff back in the day. I went by a bike shop a year or so ago and told them about the Gitane. Guys was amazed at my "antique" bicycle!
Wife's Terra Trike. It's like riding a lawn chair.............fast! She has one knee that gives her trouble. This is so much easier to ride. I want one now.
You have a nice collection. I’m good with one now. Actually my old Mountain bike hangs in the rafters of my shed. I never use that anymore. If I ride the trails and go over the handlebars and get hurt maybe no one will find me? At least on the road they would.
I have a lot of reservations about being lower than a Camrys bumper. Just too dangerous to even consider.
That is really cool! I remember when guys were experimenting with that in motocross and supercross. Got banned if I remember correctly, had no idea it was on bicycles, too.
Christini is better known for their 2wd motorcycles, several models are presently available. Not much available in bicycles however, just a 2wd fat tire bike. https://www.christini.com/
I still have an odd ball sears bike I used to ride. It has hydraulic brakes with only one brake lever. I think it is about a 1975 model. I have never seen another one in my area.
My home bikes.. Gary Fisher Kaitai, Smooth as silk. Wally World Hyper mountain ebike, $600 & (lots of fun). The BIG GUN, heavy artillery fat tire 28 mph. (64 lb. Beast) I have fun blowing the doors off the mini-bike brigade in my neighborhood!
When I was a kid my father said I couldn’t have one of those bikes with the stick shift. He told me they were nut crushers. Looking at it know I know what he meant. I wonder how many painful quick stops there were? No way in this day would any company make that.
Maybe that's why you can still find mint ones left....one and done riding Wish I could afford them, but a good real one that's not a reproduction are more than some of my cars now. Had one on our farm as a kid, I remember it laying in the junk pile with a Phaeton and Model A body that rat rodders would kill for. We just used them as target practice
Only thing that helps my back is riding. Just rode every day for 7 days and got 105 miles all single track mountain biking. Current bike is a Scott 700 Spark. Road bike is a Blue CH4 road race bike. Department store bikes suck if you really ride. Often they are so poorly built as to be dangerous. My grandkids ride a Woom and Frogs. (yes real brand names from England. )
I used to ride a bike then the effing thing threw me over the handle bars for no good reason and of course the seat hit me in the back of the head while I was on the ground. I put it up for a while then look it over and everything seemed fine until I went around the block again and almost in the same spot went over again except I remembered the seat and it hit the ground where my head was. So needlessly to say I never rode it again.
We used to make Schwinn 10 speeds into mountain bikes back in the day ,wasn't a lot of selection back in the early80's.Later in life I bought this Gary Fisher Superfly 100 carbon fiber one of my favorite Bikes to date
Brandon, I assure you there was a reason. Anyone who has a ton of miles under their belt had gone over the bars most multiple times. Experience has taught me to put my arm up because I know the bike is coming down on my head to add insult to injury. Got a broken finger once doing that when my hand went into the spokes of the still spinning wheel. Many things can take you down including potholes, big rocks and all kinds of road debris. The strangest one that took me down was a 12” or so wire ring like found in modern car wheel covers. It hit front tire of my bike and flew up into my front fork. Over I went like Superman. Was on a bridge in Boston years ago. Just some raspberries on skin. You just get up and ride away.
I completely went through my wife's 1950's vintage girl's Raleigh about four years ago. She dumped it on her first ride. It's sitting out back in a shed now. Sad. She will never ride it again.
