Hello everyone...
Haven't been into bicycles since I was a kid with three newspaper routes. Back then, I started out riding on an early 1970's yellow/black Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat and ape hanger handlebars and ended up in my teens racing BMX. If memory serves me correctly I was riding a Mongoose with Redline forks and Ashtabula cranks.
Recently though...I've been dealing with quite a few health problems, so I'm tying to get some more exercise to improve my general overall health. Thought riding a bicycle sounded like a good idea, I'm just not into the walking thing. So, I started looking at purchasing a bike and actually liked the looks of the Cruiser models. The mountain bikes, commuters, hybrids and all that jazz just wasn't doing it for me, so I started solely looking at Beach Cruisers.
About that time, I remembered a bike that looked like a Cruiser up in the attic when we we're prepping it for blowing insulation up there a couple of years ago, so I went up the ladder to take a look and here is what I pulled out.
What I know about the bike is very little. I do know it's been sitting in the same spot resting on rafters since 1968 and before that my father pulled it out of an attic of one of his rental units.
So..that's where I'm at. I'm sitting here with a bicycle that I thought about just dumping on ebay or craigslist and using the money towards a Micargi or a Firmstrong cruiser...but I actually felt a little ill when going to do so. I think she might be a keeper. Instead of buying a new one, I think I might just fix 'er up.
Best Regards,
Liquid Cool
Haven't been into bicycles since I was a kid with three newspaper routes. Back then, I started out riding on an early 1970's yellow/black Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat and ape hanger handlebars and ended up in my teens racing BMX. If memory serves me correctly I was riding a Mongoose with Redline forks and Ashtabula cranks.
Recently though...I've been dealing with quite a few health problems, so I'm tying to get some more exercise to improve my general overall health. Thought riding a bicycle sounded like a good idea, I'm just not into the walking thing. So, I started looking at purchasing a bike and actually liked the looks of the Cruiser models. The mountain bikes, commuters, hybrids and all that jazz just wasn't doing it for me, so I started solely looking at Beach Cruisers.
About that time, I remembered a bike that looked like a Cruiser up in the attic when we we're prepping it for blowing insulation up there a couple of years ago, so I went up the ladder to take a look and here is what I pulled out.
What I know about the bike is very little. I do know it's been sitting in the same spot resting on rafters since 1968 and before that my father pulled it out of an attic of one of his rental units.
So..that's where I'm at. I'm sitting here with a bicycle that I thought about just dumping on ebay or craigslist and using the money towards a Micargi or a Firmstrong cruiser...but I actually felt a little ill when going to do so. I think she might be a keeper. Instead of buying a new one, I think I might just fix 'er up.
Best Regards,
Liquid Cool
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