Bikes were cool when we were kids?

[MotorbikeGuy]

Angel wing handlebars, banana seats, front and rear suspension, sissy bar, small wheel in front big wheel in the back, slick tire in the back!! They just looked so cool!! What do you think?

[WindAtMyBack]

I never got into those kind of bikes, like the Sting-Ray. Maybe because they were new and I only had used bikes as a kid. I graduated to the larger 24" bikes as soon as I was able to ride them. Then on to the 26 and 27" bikes (3-speed and 10-speed bikes). By that time I was pretty serious about riding, like dozens of miles a day.

[MotorbikeGuy]

To bad you didn't have one of those, they were really cool!!

[WindAtMyBack]

I rode them before. I didn't like them. I never considered them serious bikes.

Just for the heck of it I just checked prices on used ones. The cheapest plain ones were asking $300-400. The ones with the shifters were asking several hundred, with many well over a thousand. I'm curious if they are actually selling for those high prices. I need to start keeping my eye for those at garage sales.

[jennifer_bloom]

The bike I had as a five year old was beautiful but I was too young to care about aesthetics.

[MotorbikeGuy]

What size was it?

[jennifer_bloom]

I do not remember - I was five years old