Originally Posted by
Lakerat
Discounting my paranoid tendencies requiring me to have a chin strap on my tin foil hat, Sting Ray bikes had to have kept a generation of American cyclists from becoming racers. Imagine what could have happened had the ten speed craze occurred ten years earlier.
On the other hand, the Stingray may have brought millions of American kids into cycling. What someone rides as a kid does not define what they ride as an adult.
But it may have had more of an influence as a precursor to riding motorcycles.
John