I was 10 years old and found this next to the Christmas tree! WHEEE!
Still, very cool!Update! I just found a more accurate photo. Mine was not the highly desirable Schwinn Stingray, mine was actually a Sears Spyder, this color but without the sky high sissy bar.
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My little brother had the StingRay style bike, being older I had a RollFast.View attachment 258248
Back in the day, I rode a standard. My friends all rode Specials. It used to bother them that I was much faster.
.......and wheelies became a thing........
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Back in the day, I rode a standard. My friends all rode Specials. It used to bother them that I was much faster.
My little brother had the StingRay style bike, being older I had a RollFast.
Thinking they were distributed through Western Auto.And what is a RollFast? I’m not familiar.
The Stingray was the bike I wanted. That bike is almost exactly what I got..View attachment 258248
Back in the day, I rode a standard. My friends all rode Specials. It used to bother them that I was much faster.
I was too old for a Stingray bike but in 1958 I got a new Schwinn Corvette. 26" with semi pneumatic tires, Bendix 2 speed and generator lights. Way cool! What`s left of it is still hanging on my basement wall waiting for restoration. Identical to the one pictured.
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I`ve still got the Louisville Slugger, Spaulding ball and Wilson glove and a Savage .22 rifle. Never had a shotgun as a kid. Still got the Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Lionel train, Gilbert chemistry/microscope set and a shit load of stuff I`ll never use again but will make a hell of a estate sale.
Well, my parents are like that, and I appreciate it. When they go, I can get rid of just about everything with no remorse. I believe my wife won’t be that lucky.I’m always amazed that people can hang on to one thing for decades. A first car or motorcycle or bicycle . I still have exactly three things that I have carried forward from my youth, a Louisville Slugger baseball bat that bought with money mowing yards as a kid, a youth model 20 guage shotgun that my father bought me as a boy, and a Roger .22 caliber rifle that my grandfather bought me for my 13th birthday. And that’s it!