What "Muscle Bike" did you have as a kid?

[Magnumcharger]

Muscle Bike: Built in the late 60's to early 70's. Usually had a banana seat, sissy bar, ape-hangers (or monkey bars), may have been a single speed, or multi-speed (with ball-busting shifter), and most definately came with Red-line tires!
Being a Canadian, I had the obligitory CCM bike, in this case the "Mustang"...with redlines.
I'm certain this started the whole Musclecar business off with me.
How about yourself?

[dads_69]

Schwinn Stinray. Gold w/a white banana seat, big chrome handle bars. Rear tire was a slick w/chrome spoke wheels. Those were the days...

[BrianShaughnessy]

'69 Schwinn Orange Krate.    Brand new cost about $91 and change.  16" front wheel on a springer w/ drum brake,  seat shocks,  5 speed. 

Now they're collector items.   I've seen them over $1K at swap meets.   

Not mine... googled pic.

[Magnumcharger]

I think the Orange Crate was the holy grail of Muscle Bikes!!!
This was a CCM (lesser) equivelent....with ball basher shifter.

Pic courtesy of:
http://www.geocities.com/chopper10speed/readersbikes.html

[General_01]

I did not have a "muscle bike". I had a Huffy BMX Thunder bike. The bike is off the net. I don't have one of mine. The bikes you guys had look way cooler the the one I had.

[Magnumcharger]

They were pretty damned cool!
I remember some of these bikes actually came with slicks on the rear wheel!!

[Old Moparz]

A Raleigh Chopper

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,18836.0.html

[moparstuart]

'69 Schwinn Orange Krate.    Brand new cost about $91 and change.  16" front wheel on a springer w/ drum brake,  seat shocks,  5 speed. 

Now they're collector items.   I've seen them over $1K at swap meets.   

Not mine... googled pic.

I had the orange crate also and a girl friend of mine had a red apple crate

  I love the seat shocks and the small front tire  easy for popping wheelies

[Red Ram]

AMF Aerobee...white letter slicks and Superbee emblem...is it any wonder why I like Mopars!!!

[mikesbbody]

A Raleigh Chopper

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,18836.0.html

I had one too mine was yellow i got it for xmas when i was a kid I went down the steepest hill i could find on xmas day, got the speed woobles (probably because of the smaller front wheel) I wrecked hard and smashed the ..t out of the bike  I was in hospital on xmas day 

[RallyeMike]

You guys have good memories. Mine was red, white and blue with a banana seat, ball buster 3-speed, and flat slick rear. No springer or red-lines     I have no idea what model it would have been.

[bull]

You guys have good memories. Mine was red, white and blue with a banana seat, ball buster 3-speed, and flat slick rear. No springer or red-lines     I have no idea what model it would have been.

Yea, good memories. Mine sounds just like Mike's above but it was root beer brown. The rear slick inspired me to outfit it with a parachute so I could slow down quicker during my time trials. I broke the frame in half one day as me and a buddy were trying to ride our bikes on a frozen creek.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

 Mongoose FS1.
I will try to find a pic post.
I was born in 74', so I was riding bikes right when the freestyle/BMX craze really hit.
As long as you had pegs and a "gyro" you were set.

[hemigeno]

I had a blue Western Auto single speed "Buzz Bike" very similar in style to Magnumcharger's (same handle bars, banana seat & rear support, and same splash guards exactly).  Instead of redlines, it had a white letter rear slick that read "The Wide One", but I think the front tire on mine was plain (could have had a redstripe?).  After my dad saw how quickly I wore that rear tire out, he made me change all my own bike tires.  Yep, I went through several of those     Broke the front forks twice, and had many pedal changes from jumping.  I know I took years off my mom's life from her suddenly seeing me flash by the kitchen window with one foot on the frame and one on the banana seat "surfing" down the sidewalk.  I had other bikes, but that was the muscle-bike of mine anyway.

My cousin (same cousin that bought the used '69 Charger that started my passion for IIGens) had a customized buzz bike with apehanger handles, loooooong extended front forks, tiny front wheel, with the high sissy bar, etc.  I actually thought that thing was much harder to ride, but I asked to drag it out every time we visited them.  After all, it was way cooler looking than mine...   

[Charger_Fan]

I had an orange Schwinn Stingray with a slick on the back.
I always wanted a "ball buster three speed", but never got one. I used to drop my bananna in the back & tilt the ape hangars forward, so I rode hunched over...which worked great until I rode it off a jump & the bars rolled forward upon landing...effectively putting me on my face in front of the bike!

[The70RT]

BF Goodrich. Yeah they made some cool ones with metal flake paint jobs 

[PocketThunder]

What is the sissy bar?  Is that the bar behind the seat?   i was born in 75 so the bmx craze was more my era.

[Charger_Fan]

What is the sissy bar?  Is that the bar behind the seat?

Yes.

[my73charger]

My first new bike was a Huffy Thunder Road.  Before that I had a bike made up of several other bikes and sporting a banana seat and a sissy bar.


1978 Huffy Thunder Road

[Old Moparz]

A Raleigh Chopper

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,18836.0.html

I had one too mine was yellow i got it for xmas when i was a kid I went down the steepest hill i could find on xmas day, got the speed woobles (probably because of the smaller front wheel) I wrecked hard and smashed the ..t out of the bike  I was in hospital on xmas day 

Sorry, but as long as you can tell the story, it's pretty damn funny.  

My next door neighbor was telling me about how his Dad taught him to ride a bike when he lived in San Francisco as a kid. I suppose his Dad was either a bit sadistic, or didn't care, or maybe just dumb. He took him out to a street with a big hill, which I hear is fairly common in SF, kept him balanced, then gave him a shove. He said he was doing okay at first with the momentum from being pushed, then picked up speed until a chain link fence put an end to his debut ride.  

[my73charger]

A Raleigh Chopper

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,18836.0.html

I had one too mine was yellow i got it for xmas when i was a kid I went down the steepest hill i could find on xmas day, got the speed woobles (probably because of the smaller front wheel) I wrecked hard and smashed the ..t out of the bike  I was in hospital on xmas day 

Sorry, but as long as you can tell the story, it's pretty damn funny.  

My next door neighbor was telling me about how his Dad taught him to ride a bike when he lived in San Francisco as a kid. I suppose his Dad was either a bit sadistic, or didn't care, or maybe just dumb. He took him out to a street with a big hill, which I hear is fairly common in SF, kept him balanced, then gave him a shove. He said he was doing okay at first with the momentum from being pushed, then picked up speed until a chain link fence put an end to his debut ride.  

  I wonder how long it was before his dad said...Oh Sh#$!

[Magnumcharger]

Geez, I did the same thing to my (former) best friend!!

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I also had the obligatory Huffy BMX bike with the plastic mags but the one bike I really wanted & got for my 8th or 9th birthday (late 70's)was the bike that was copied after a motorcycle.  It had a plastic gas tank, wide banana seat, rear coil spring shocks & front fork shocks.  the bike weighed a TON!!
I remember jumping it off ramps & getting literally thrown off the seat from the recoil of the shocks in the rear!  Good times!
I wish I can find a pic.... 

[Old Moparz]

I also had the obligatory Huffy BMX bike with the plastic mags but the one bike I really wanted & got for my 8th or 9th birthday (late 70's)was the bike that was copied after a motorcycle.  It had a plastic gas tank, wide banana seat, rear coil spring shocks & front fork shocks.  the bike weighed a TON!!
I remember jumping it off ramps & getting literally thrown off the seat from the recoil of the shocks in the rear!  Good times!
I wish I can find a pic.... 

Yamaha, right?

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

for the life of me Bob, i cant remember who made it.....it was black with a red tank, chrome coil shocks, and a number plate on the handle bars (number 1 I think)