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Spyder

Originally Posted by surveyor6
Stingrays, Spyders, Screamers, Eliminators and many more.
Mine is a replica of a Spyder built on a Higgins Flightliner frame. Its a 24/20.

1961 Flightliner
No pics, but my brother and I each bought 24” Sears Spyders in perhaps 1970. Mine purple, his blue. Somewhat different frame top tubes IIRC as I believe his had both brake calipers on the back. Both had that same stick shift and chain guard. With 5 speeds and 24”, they were so much faster than the clunky single speeds in 26”. We delivered papers with them and they were so much more maneuverable than the bigger clunky bikes and way faster than the new 20” stingrays which were all show and little go.
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