I had the Stingray Jr, purple flake. I think it was called the Manta Ray. My twin brothers had the basic full sized stingray also purple flake. White banana seat, slick tires on theirs. Several years later when I was about 6th grade and the brothers were too cool for bikes I took one of theirs, removed the curved hollow aluminum tubes off our charcoal grill, slip fit them over the front forks and had a bitchin chopper that could only be kept from a wheelie pop by leaning slightly forward. This unbalance also kept the forks from bending to breaking point because the aluminum really was pretty lightweight. This would have been about 1971 and no one locked their bikes at school so when I'd get out for the day my bike would be nowhere near where I had left it. Kids would be using it during lunch break at Tom C. Gooch Elementary. I got the Schwinn Varsity 10 speed, yellow, later on.
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- jimlouis 5-19-2013 7:20 pm