Post your banana seat bike
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Post your banana seat bike
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
Mine is a replica of a Spyder built on a Higgins Flightliner frame. Its a 24/20.
1961 Flightliner
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I'm in the middle (on a blue Schwinn Stingray). Photo is from 1972ish. My brother (on the right) got the cool bike.
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Since high school my focus has been geared lightweights - but my first bike had a banana seat:
1970 Schwinn Apple Krate
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1970 Schwinn Apple Krate
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No pictures but my brother and I had a “banana seat bike”. No name or nuttin. It was probably a Montgomery Ward kids bike that was given an overhaul, a black rattle can repaint, white banana seat and high riser bars. Fun but we were not kind to that bike. It was our first build, first of many for me. First and last for my brother. He went on to save many babies lives. I eventually became a bike mechanic.
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I did bad things with and to that bike.
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Spyder
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.