What brand BMX bike did you have as a kid ?
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MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
I had this Pro Thunder blue and gold. But I had the spiked pedals and while racing a neighbor kid I slipped off of the left side pedal and it gouged a chunk out of my ankle. 22 stitches inside and out. Still have a nasty scar to this day. I will note, I was wearing my kangaroo sneakers. They had these cool pockets in them for God knows what. They were all white. After that incident the left one was blood red and then brown.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Stripped down Schwinn stingray with a 10 speed seat installed. And we just rode around like free range chickens in the woods. Never any BMX for reals. Though we did build jumps and jump over our friends. LOL!
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
This. But I put the 10 speed seat on the stripped down Stingray. It still had the ape hanger bars. I can't believe no one suffered internal injuries laying on the ground past the ramps we built for us to jump over.Schwinn.... with a banana seat.... and then a Schwinn 10 speed.
We jumped our bikes off ramps and jumps before BMX was part of the vocabulary.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
My first bicycle wasn't a BMX bike. It was a Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat and the accessory with the most emasculating name ever. The sissy bar.
Real men crack their skulls on the pavement.
This bike was stolen from my driveway.
Real men crack their skulls on the pavement.
This bike was stolen from my driveway.
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mongooz
Sic Semper Tyrannis ☨
"In the early 1960s some states initiated laws that mandated the use of a bar on the back of a street motorcycle for safety reasons. At the time bikers were not a group particularly concerned with safety, and started referring to the bars as “sissy” bars because they were not happy about having to comply with the new law. Some bikers began making excessively tall sissy bars as a form of protest, which later became part of the chopper look we know today."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissy... laws,about having to comply with the new law.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
Husqvarna ruled MX before the Elsinore took over.
...and before that it was Matchless, BSA, Maico, CZ, etc.
CZ probably had more championships than Husky during the 60s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motocross_World_Championship
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
Maico Breako. I'm sure you've heard that.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
I've never seen Macio in person, that I can recall, outside of a few in a show/exhibition. The 490 though is a legendary open class MX bike that was supposed to be a monster.
Tig
Dildo Store Warlord
My brother had the 175.don't forget about the Kawasaki 175 Bushwacker, 1969-ish
My dad and uncle (left) were Kawasaki Bighorn 350 guys. That was a powerful bike for those days.
