01-07-2005, 01:15 PM
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| Guest | Re: Sad Story: was Schwinn Sidewinder from Walmart
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:22:52 GMT, Werehatrack <rault00@earthWEEDSlink.net>
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>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:02:56 -0800, tomk2003@hotmail.com (Tom Keats)
>wrote:
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>>In article <1105059871.fe1acdc85cddfb3532308792207d2c71@teran ews>,
>> "Mike Kruger" <mikekr@mousepotato.com> writes:
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>>> That new Schwinn Stingray --
>>... It looks cool, but I guess
>>> there will be a lot of "mint" ones of these available in
>>> later years because it's hard to imagine a child riding it.
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>>I remember when the originals hit the market. The big deal
>>was, you could pop wheelies with 'em.
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>And that was their downfall as well, when kids started getting hurt
>doing it. In fact, it was *too* easy to do a wheelie on them, so that
>sometimes kids would do one when they didn't mean to...and often went
>all the way over backwards and did a head-bash.
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>>As for nowadays, the lowrider folx (and maybe the chopper
>>artists) seem to like them, although I'd expect an original
>>would have more aesthetic appeal.
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>I briefly wondered if one of them might make a good base for brewing a
>'bent, but that overly fat rear tire just looks like a stunningly good
>way to waste effort dragging a bunch of extra weight around.
Sick minds think alike.
I've been noodling on the idea of how a chopper style bike might be built fast
and aero without having the recumbent geekishness.
Ron
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