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

[1FastCharger]

Some cool bikes there. I had a Wester Flyer Ramrod. I got rid of it when I upgraded to a 10 speed. What a dumbass.....I wish I still had it now.

[68RT4ME]

I had a Columbia Center console 3 speed, yellow with a black banana seat, Chrome forks, small from wheel and a slick in back. The shifter was chrome too with a black knob, chrome sissy bar. Kinda looked like the Schwin model but in Yellow. I remember going to the local bike shop with my Father. I think I was in the 4Th grade. He bought it for me brand spanking new and I was the hot shot in the hood back then.    We bought and I put a  black kind of motorized box with a grip built into it and when you twisted the grip, it reved up like a motorcycle. Very cool upgrade back then 

It ran the quarter in about 48 seconds....lol 

We moved to another neighborhood a couple years later. By then I modified it into a chopper and some punk kid in the new hood stole it for some other friends along with my brothers bike. We gave him a beatin but never got the bike back. It was my favorite bike all time.

[1FastCharger]

Sorry to dig up a dead thread, but this got me thinking about the Ramrod I used to have. After doing a lot of internet searching I finally found one on Ebay. A little negotiating and I am once again a Ramrod owner. My wife went to pick the bike up on her day off. I was thinking "OH Crap - I am going to be too big to ride it." Well, I look a little funny, but I can ride it!!

[jb666]

I used to think my Redline MX11 was the coolest thing in the world.. When I saved up enough to buy my DOUBLE GOOSENECK, watch out world, here I come!!! 

[Khyron]

I had a Columbia BMX.. wonder If I can google that.

... nope.

[TheGhost]

I had a Huffy with a couple of playing cards stuck into the spokes of the rear wheel.  You weren't cool if you didn't have those.

[skip68]

I had some kind of yellow bike with the yellow banana seat! (Probably a huffy), but I preferred my "Green Machine" with the side brakes that made you spin and slide!  It was so cool! Yes, I was a tomboy!   

Mrs.Skip68

[69bronzeT5]

Chuck had this bike!  I'm just screwing with 'ya Chuck 

[FlatbackFanatic]

I had a Sears Spyder Stingray bike. It was all chrome, a cheater slick, sissy bar, a white banana seat with red flames, and it was a three speed with a "T" shifter. Very fun bike. That was in the late sixties, early seventies.

[1969chargerrtse]

Mine was a 1968 Murray F3 eliminator.  3 speed stick on the console, metallic blue, sissy bar, metalflake banana seat, and rear slick.  I LOVED that bike, I got it new when I was 14 and rode it everyday.

[Magnumcharger]

So...what we need as adults ~ a cool bike to ride!
One with:
1. Metalflake
2. Redlines
3. Shifters
4. other trick stuff, as required.

I'm about to buy another bike for driving to work, I wonder if there's anything that looks cool anymore? (For a 46 yr old guy, anyway.)

[1FastCharger]

Hey Magnum, how would you look on this??

[Magnumcharger]

Hey Magnum, how would you look on this??

Tougher than shit!! But pedalling it up a hill.....?

[1FastCharger]

It surely needs to have more than one gear. Maybe a setup like on the autobike would be cool.

[jb666]

My buddy likes to cruise around on this, and he's cool 

[Ponch ®]

I had a BiMex (Bicicletas Mexicanas) Vagabundo bike at our house in Mexico that I would roam around in during the summers I spent there. It was absolutely the coolest bike I ever owned. I always wanted to bring it over here, but my parents wouldn't let me cuz it was too big and heavy to bring by plane. They just figured it was cheaper to buy me a bike here. I don't know what happened to it - probably got "lost" after the house was sold a long time ago.

Found this pic on the Mexican eBay. Hmmm...the bidding is only at about $150  .
Mine was just like it, but a B5-ish blue.



Otherwise, when I was a kid (in the late 80's / early 90's) I was REALLY into GT bikes. I didn't race them or anything, I just thought they were the shit. Chrome frame, 5 spoke black plastic rims...

[charger_cody]

MONGOOSE FTW 

[maxwellwedge]

CCM Mustang. 3-speed, Banana seat, high handlebars and sissy bar. I think it was gold. No Schwinn's sold into Canada back then....none that I ever saw anyway.

A few (as in lots) years later I bought the Yamaha V-Max 1'st year of production....It looked like a 2 wheeled musclecar and I had to get it.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

I had one of these, but burnt orange metallic.  Saved up all my money so I could buy it.



I thought I was a pretty good BMX rider...in reality I sucked!

I still have the bike...up in the attic I think. It's pretty torn up. 

[captnsim]

This is a bike 

[Magnumcharger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelie_bike

[greenpigs]

Found a picture of what mine looked liked except I had matching blue tires.

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/gt_bicycles/27929

[chargerboy69]

Found a picture of what mine looked liked except I had matching blue tires.

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/gt_bicycles/27929

Those GT's are sweet bikes.  I would have a room full of these old bikes, but being 6'4", there is no way I could fit on a 20" bike.

Now a 24" cruiser, maybe.  But trying to find a nice Hutch or GT cruiser under $2000.00. . nope.

[Magnumcharger]

Not that I've been looking, but for whatever reason, I've taken an interest in these old bikes, years after the fact.
I guess it might have something to do with getting older and reviewing your past.

Either way, Here's a couple of neat bike pictures I had forwarded to me recently.
I'm not surprised to see that these bikes have recently developed a strong following, especially given that the age of the original owners would be approximately 50 by now!

[Neal_J]

Yet another Schwinn Stingray.   Hand-me-down from older brother:  blue, white banana seat with silver metalflake, rear slick, tall sissy bar, coaster brake.    Used to jump off the church steps (3' high) for distance.

For a time, it had a plastic "motor" that created a revving noise.  My dad installed it specifically on my bike to annoy the old man that lived next door. 

Good times...