The "did you know this streams on Netflix?" thread

[creekster]

If by dork, you mean didn't ride girl's bikes, then yes, you are correct.

yes. That was a girls bike. not much you can say to argue about that. And that is not something I would have ever done.

[creekster]

Stingrays debuted around the time I was 11 (that would be 1963-4) and it was THE bike to have. But my Depression-era parents thought Scwhinns were an overpriced waste of money so they surprised me by buying a similar seat (banana seats, I believe they were called) and raised handlebars to go on the clunky paperboy bike I'd inherited from my brother. And then they really rubbed salt into my youthful wounds by adding handlebar grips with those long tassels that would fly about as I pedaled along. Great, with the added tassels I was going from being laughed at to having the snot beat out of me. Fortunately, the tassels mysteriously came out of the grips and could not be located. Still, instead of an ubercool Stingray I was pedaling a major dorkcycle. No wonder that I didn't take up cycling again until I was 50.

lol. when I got my first stingray in maybe '69 (now that I think about it it might have been more like the '67) it had tassels. Like yours, mine also quickly disappeared. My bike was impaired by my father's lack of mechanical skills. It had a front fender that he put on backwards (he built the bike from a box), so that the long part of the fender extended out over the front wheel, leaving just a little stubby bit behind the fork where the long part is needed to block road spray. It looked stupid. Like really stupid. The problem was he couldn't figure out how the fender tab was supposed to be mounted with the brake caliper. When my grandfather saw it on christmas day he immediately pointed out it was on backwards and explained how it should have been put on. My father, a very proud man, would not admit the error but insisted that he had it on right and forbade me to take it off and reverse it. As a result I had to ride around with this very cool bike having all of its coolness scrubbed off due to the completely dorky looking backwards fender.

[Northwestcoug]

Typically there was only one hand brake on those stingrays (I had two stingrays as a kid as they go back to the late sixties and early seventies and were designed, I think, to mimic the very popular "chopped hog" Harleys of the motorcycle world). The cable on the right hand grip is attached to a shifter for the three speed hub. The rear brake was a coaster brake (reverse pedaling activated). The left hand grip has the brake lever with cable to the front brake. Some of them had different size or style of tires. I had a Scwhinn from about 1969 0r maybe 1970 that had a large slick tire on the rear and a small 20" wheel and tire on the front. The coolest bike ever.

I want to say that mine was a one speed with the coaster brake. But I have this vaguest memory that it would shift into another gear if I pedaled back once, lighter than to brake. That doesn’t make sense to me, so maybe I had a three speed on the handle.

[creekster]

I want to say that mine was a one speed with the coaster brake. But I have this vaguest memory that it would shift into another gear if I pedaled back once, lighter than to brake. That doesn’t make sense to me, so maybe I had a three speed on the handle.

You very well might have had an internal hub shifter that was activated by reverse pedaling ,if done in a sort of quick hit and release motion, but then was am regular coaster brake with applied reverse pressure. They were pretty common in the day, but I think they usually only had two different gear ratios, and not three. So your memory is probably spot on!

[chrisrenrut]

yes. That was a girls bike. not much you can say to argue about that. And that is not something I would have ever done.

Guys, this was mid to late 80’s. Think Miami Vice, Duran Duran. Pink was in, and not entirely unmanly at that time. That was not a girls bike. You may have been too old to dig the popular scene st that point.

[creekster]

Guys, this was mid to late 80’s. Think Miami Vice, Duran Duran. Pink was in, and not entirely unmanly at that time. That was not a girls bike. You may have been too old by that point to dig the popular scene st that point.

So I know the pink thing was in. I bought my first Cannondale in 1988 and it was a milky dark grey with hot pink accents, including lettering, cable housings, etc. It was a great looking bike. Now I might have been too old to understand the pink with white wheels stuff, but man it sure looks like a girls bike to me, even in 1988.

[Northwestcoug]

You very well might have had an internal hub shifter that was activated by reverse pedaling ,if done in a sort of quick hit and release motion, but then was am regular coaster brake with applied reverse pressure. They were pretty common in the day, but I think they usually only had two different gear ratios, and not three. So your memory is probably spot on!

Well thanks Creek. My memory is still intact!

[dabrockster]

So I know the pink thing was in. I bought my first Cannondale in 1988 and it was a milky dark grey with hot pink accents, including lettering, cable housings, etc. It was a great looking bike. Now I might have been too old to understand the pink with white wheels stuff, but man it sure looks like a girls bike to me, even in 1988.

So you and the other dork were not even teenagers during the 80’s.

Next time shut your trap when you really have no clue..


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[creekster]

So you and the other dork were not even teenagers during the 80’s.

Next time shut your trap when you really have no clue..


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If we all followed that rule this place would be a ghost town.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Lol. I love salty Dabrockster.

[Commando]

Are you guys seriously arguing that this is a girls' bike or are you just giving Da Brocksta shit?


*It's clearly a boys' BMX bike. A 'girls bike' has an upper bar that slants down rather than goes straight across to the seat fitting. You J. Edgar Hoovers with something to hide, loudly insisting that 'pink is for sissies' or whatever crack me up...

[Flystripper]

Are you guys seriously arguing that this is a girls' bike or are you just giving Da Brocksta shit?


*It's clearly a boys' BMX bike. A 'girls bike' has an upper bar that slants down rather than goes straight across to the seat fitting. You J. Edgar Hoovers with something to hide, loudly insisting that 'pink is for sissies' or whatever crack me up...

no such thing as a girls BMX bike in the 80s....especially not a GT...

[falafel]

Are you guys seriously arguing that this is a girls' bike or are you just giving Da Brocksta shit?


*It's clearly a boys' BMX bike. A 'girls bike' has an upper bar that slants down rather than goes straight across to the seat fitting. You J. Edgar Hoovers with something to hide, loudly insisting that 'pink is for sissies' or whatever crack me up...

What, so they can wear it with their dresses?

[Commando]

no such thing as a girls BMX bike in the 80s....especially not a GT...

right. I'd be shocked if there was a 'girl' version. Sometimes you have to spell things out slowly, though.

[Commando]

What, so they can wear it with their dresses?

I guess. I always found it counter intuitive that the boys get that convenient bar to slam their nuts on if they put both feet down and aren't quite tall enough...