
In The Beginning
Parts List:
Schwinn Sting-Ray Deluxe.
Glitter banana seat.
Ape hangar bars.
Chrome fenders.
Schwinn glitter grips.
Rear slick.
Coaster brake.
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1966 Schwinn Sting-Ray Deluxe.
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I remember my first Sting-Ray, I went everywhere on that bike.
One year later my brother revamped my Schwinn as a birthday present,
he put on: new Glitter grips with streamers, a sissy bar that reached
way over my head that had a peace sign on it plus some other goodies... too cool!
This is the bike that started all, Schwinn
designed the pictured frame above and kids immolating the popular motorcycle,
motocrosser's started tearing up their Sting-Ray's. Some of
the first modifications a rider would have done to the bike above to make
it dirt ready would be: remove fenders and chain guard, replace the
seat and sissy bar with whatever they could find and last but not least...
some knobby tires. There wasn't a lot of off-road equipment available
back then, things like knobby tires (that's what they were called then)
and a small seat weren't invented till... somebody will have to help me out here with the date?
Seeing the interest in off-roading Schwinn came out with
their moto-x'er called Scrambler but by the time they had the Scrambler
it was to late, BMX was already booming with more dirt qualified machines.
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