Sting Ray bikes a Euro conspiracy?
06-01-21, 09:36 AM
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TL/DR: Turkey levers.
I think he needs a better braking system on his keyboard.
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06-01-21, 10:14 AM
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Um, what in the world is all this? Is there a central point and or summary? Could this not have been condensed into a more readable format? And finally, when you reached the end of authoring this tome did you really truly expect it would be read in its entirety or no?
However, the ALL CAPS SENTANCES, use of multiple exclamation points!!! and excessive ellipses............. sets off the 'old man yells at cloud' filter, and it goes in the TL/DR file.
But then, I'm a snarky, cynical MTB-riding Gen-Xer, so you can't expect much better from me.
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06-01-21, 10:23 AM
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Is it better or worse than Jim from Boston's "conversation" threads? 
I really don't mind either. It takes all kinds to make an interesting forum, and no one is forced to read everything posted.
I really don't mind either. It takes all kinds to make an interesting forum, and no one is forced to read everything posted.
06-01-21, 11:03 AM
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06-01-21, 11:09 AM
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And for the record.... Sting Rays (and their imitators) were cool - when we were kids. BMX bikes were and still are stupid.
06-01-21, 11:32 AM
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I think sting rays bikes were responsible for fueling American youths love for biking and biking culture. I know that most of the kids I knew around then graduated directly from sting rays to ten speed bikes around junior high and continued bicycling for the rest of their lives and have nothing but fond memories of those sting ray bikes as do I. Just a great bike...
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06-01-21, 01:22 PM
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Hey, I applaud the ability to throw out a wall of text like that. That would take me long enough that my ADD would kick in and I'd delete it and walk away without finishing the post.
However, the ALL CAPS SENTANCES, use of multiple exclamation points!!! and excessive ellipses............. sets off the 'old man yells at cloud' filter, and it goes in the TL/DR file.
But then, I'm a snarky, cynical MTB-riding Gen-Xer, so you can't expect much better from me.
However, the ALL CAPS SENTANCES, use of multiple exclamation points!!! and excessive ellipses............. sets off the 'old man yells at cloud' filter, and it goes in the TL/DR file.
But then, I'm a snarky, cynical MTB-riding Gen-Xer, so you can't expect much better from me.
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06-01-21, 02:47 PM
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As someone that grew up in a midwestern suburb in the 60's, riding a bike was not something that was an organized event, it was just something you did. You rode bikes to the comic book store or the public pool, or just rode around. It was a way to pass the time as opposed to an activity or sport. I don't even recall knowing there was such a thing as a bicycle race until I was mostly passed the bike riding stage of adolescence.
For how we used bikes, stingrays were ideal. Good for doing wheelies or riding in a field or just riding in circles in the street. A road bike would have been a lot less fun.
For how we used bikes, stingrays were ideal. Good for doing wheelies or riding in a field or just riding in circles in the street. A road bike would have been a lot less fun.
06-01-21, 04:58 PM
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Yeah, maybe the real issue was not encouraging kids to go from those bikes to the next level once they outgrew them. But I can't help but think the unnecessarily heavy, bechromed, style over substance retro style was carried on for too long. It for sure affected the way bikes were made in the US into the 80s, anyway.
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