Stingray Grape
I want one of these. Is that so wrong?
posted by scrooner at 3:15 PM
Monday, May 08, 2006
Contributors
Previous Posts
- I like Holidays
- Best Thing That Happened Last Weekend
- Time the Avenger
- Review of the movie trailer Flight 93
- Children's Books
- 16 shells from a 30 ought 6
- Toothbrush
- Missing From AFIs Top 100 Comedies
- It would be funny if there weren’t so many dead pe...
- Post Tourney Grub, Western States
6 Comments:
Not wrong at all. You could zoo bomb pretty dope with one of those.
But if you're going for the front post, you gotta spring for the mallo seat. Nothing better, especially when you take a girl for a ride on the back.
I still reminisce about my stainless steel Schwinn Scrambler.
That thing was the best, the only thing that came close was Adam's homemade "Star" bike, because that had back pegs.
I had a sweet mutt bike when I was a kid. It had a Hutch frame and fork, 3 piece cranks, Hutch hubs, Araya rims, some sweet golden aluminum handle bars and various other Shimano accessories. That was back in the days when the human skull was indestructible and helmets were stupid. I used to bomb down our hill, Sugar Hill (New Hampshire), to school in the mornings.
My friend, Brooks Barber, had a Redline Cerrera which was the Porsche of BMX bikes in the early/mid 80's. That bike was a beautiful thing. This one kid, Aaron, had a 12 speed with wooden blocks on the peddles so he could reach them. I always thought that was goofy.
Dan, if you get Henry the bike of your dreams, then the hipsters and cool cats will accept him as one of their own.
The "bike" of my dreams when I was young was the Green Machine, which made the Big Wheel look kinda weak in comparison. I had a Big Wheel, or rather, a few of them, since the front wheel would always develop a flat spot from skidding out too many times & then it sucked.
The best actual bike I had as a kid was one that I got from that Cap'n Crunch treasure hunt contest. It was a Huffy with a big rectangular seat on the back. After I swapped the seat out it was rad.
I did spend some time on a girl's Stingray at some point (wasn't my bike) and that thing was sweet for wheelies. You could sit really far back on the banana seat & just pull up slightly on the ape hangers...wheelie time.
But I guess my question is, would I still fit on a Stingray today? I'd probably have to tilt the bars pretty far forward. And would anybody in Beaverton appreciate my bike, or would they throw stuff at me from their cars as they whiz by at 50mph.
You would still fit on that bike.
It's surprising how the human body can contort on bicycles, it has to do with circles I think.
I've ridden a child's tricycle in the past two years.
I always hated how a big wheel would eventually bend in the middle and make you scrape the center, and how the front wheel would split and take away valuable traction potential. the spinout handbreak is one of mankind's top five inventions though.
Kyle, you are mixing my bikes up! All of my childhood bikes were homemade until the Hutch Trickstar. I started with a orange chopper, then moved onto a brief period on a pieced together yellow Schwinn. After that my dad built the "Spider-Man" bike, which was some type of scrap dirtbike parts that were painted red and blue in the end. That bike rocked because nobody could touch me in the ride as fast as you can, jump off you bike, and see how far it goes without you. Most kids' bikes fell within a yard on Kirkland, but mine would go 3 to 4 yards. After that bike, I had a more traditional chrome dirtbike, but it was still pieced together by my dad. Finally we reach the trickbike stage, where I actually got the fully assemble Trickstar. I was always afraid some Cottonwood hooligans would jump me and take it. It is weird...I was cool with all the Whitaker hooligans, but that did not transfer north of Galbraith Rd; it was lawless north of Galbraith Rd.
"They come mostly at night...mostly."
-Newt
You gotta make it so I can post topics.
I am home with the baby and flipped it onto the Tyra Banks Show. I have seen plenty of people make fun of this show and have caught a few moments myself. Yes...this show appeals to retards (ol' skool meaning). What is getting me, though, is that she has on a group of "ground breaking" Krunk dancers to show some specific moves. First, krunk is not innovative, it is just an extension, a form of bboy breakin'. Second, if this is a dance innovation, I invented it in 1994-1995 when I was the Bearcat! Because of suit restraints and other things, my bboy inspired dancing encompasses the same movements and even specific moves as "Krunk". Wow...a white guy from Cincinnati invented this dance revolution...who knew?
Another thing, Alan Houston was just a guest star on Clifford's Puppy Days...that is sweet.
Post a Comment
<< Home