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On a sunny Christmas morning in 1975, I got a fire-engine red Schwinn Sting-Ray.
My brother, our friends, and I would ride our bikes every day after school and all during the summer. Our parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing--their only rule was, "Be home at six for dinner." They probably thought we couldn't go far, but we rode through every alley and backstreet of our town, and the neighboring town, and the town beyond that.
We'd ride down to the beach or along the cliffs above it, or into the nearby state park where we'd look for bats in the caves, tease rattlesnakes, explore the flood-control dams, and one summer we discovered a swing someone had made from a stolen fire hose. I was seven years old, I had a bike, we had total freedom, and the world was ours to explore.
On Aug 18, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Matthew Williams <matthewwil...@gmail.com> wrote:
On a sunny Christmas morning in 1975, I got a fire-engine red Schwinn Sting-Ray.
My brother, our friends, and I would ride our bikes every day after school and all during the summer. Our parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing--their only rule was, "Be home at six for dinner." They probably thought we couldn't go far, but we rode through every alley and backstreet of our town, and the neighboring town, and the town beyond that.
We'd ride down to the beach or along the cliffs above it, or into the nearby state park where we'd look for bats in the caves, tease rattlesnakes, explore the flood-control dams, and one summer we discovered a swing someone had made from a stolen fire hose. I was seven years old, I had a bike, we had total freedom, and the world was ours to explore.
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Landing a sick jump feet free on my 3rd birthday in 1986. Step through steel frame with fat tyres, fenders and an albatross bar on quill stem as high as it would go. My Riv future was assured...
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Excellent storytelling Leah, et al. I am not waiting on Platypus, but I *am* waiting on the Charlie H Gallop and I feel like we're in some kind of race (although the CHG is likely behind, since less details have been officially provided). I hope we get a colour as cool as the green. I haven't heard a peep about what colours are being planned for production on the CHG.
My first bike is not too different looking; banana seat, fork that is certainly bent and unsafe. I was actually pretty timid as a kid and it took me a long time to take the plunge on training wheel-free riding. I was six when I figured it out. As you'll see in the second image, riding bikes became the one thing I was not timid about. I was no good at sports, but I had bike skills: throughout my childhood and teenage years I rode mountain bikes, and I became pretty skilled at trials riding (hopping around on one wheel, etc) in my late teens and into my twenties. I then discovered fixie bikes, which I was into for the 2000's, and by 2010 or so I shifted my interest to touring bikes, where Rivendell became something I was more acutely aware of.So despite my first bike being quite Riv-friendly, I then went in very un-Grant-like directions for about two decades before returning.
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On Aug 18, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Carl <carlsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Not sure who has all the pictures of me as a child (mom or one of my sisters) or if any of them featured me and my bike!?
This isn't my picture as I just found it on google, but this is the first bike model I remember riding. On the saddle it says "Good Buddy" so I always called it my good buddy. I rode that thing so much the frame eventually broke...well, we were riding in a field and I rode it down a steep hill I had no business riding down and the ensuing crash led to a broken bike. It's the first bike I got good at skidding with, also it did passably well when we built ramps to jump off of.
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“I’ll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.”
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Bike Content: None whatsoever.
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Olivier - you’ve outdone yourself !!What a masterpiece.I love the artwork so much.💓from kim
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...and some additional material for those still waiting for a Platypus by way of sample badge.Save a few refinements, you are looking at the 99.83% final version.Have a wonderful day,Olivier in SFOn Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 9:56:15 AM UTC-7 Pancake wrote:Just some material for those still waiting for a Platypus: https://i.redd.it/0a07ng567bj51.png
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...and some additional material for those still waiting for a Platypus by way of sample badge.Save a few refinements, you are looking at the 99.83% final version.Have a wonderful day,Olivier in SF
<IMG_0378.jpeg>On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 9:56:15 AM UTC-7 Pancake wrote:Just some material for those still waiting for a Platypus: https://i.redd.it/0a07ng567bj51.png
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