Sheldon Brown. Retrieved 2010-06-27. Wheelie Bike. Also known as a 'high-riser', 'Stingray', 'polo bike', 'banana bike', 'Chopper'.
These bikes were so popular that they continued to make them until 1973 and eventually produced several other versions like the Pea Picker, Grey Ghost and the Cotton Picker. A 50 Year Reunion. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apple Krate, Schwinn just released the 2018 Apple Krate Sting-Ray on Amazon.
Cite web requires website=. ^ (2004). Yale University Press. Meanwhile, a new juvenile craze broke out and propelled domestic bicycle sales past the four million mark for the first time.
This time around, the demand was for new-fangled 'high-risers' like Schwinn's Sting-Ray. ^ John Jurgensen (June 12, 2005).
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By today's standards, they are heavy, clumsy and laden with odd and dangerous accessories. But at a time when the Rolling Stones ruled the airwaves and helmets were unheard of, muscle bikes were the coolest things on two wheels. Cite web requires website=. John Brain. Bill introduced the Penguin to their many So-Cal dealers on March 3rd 1963, at the open house of their new corporate facilities in Glendale CA. Cite web requires website=. William Hudson.
Leon Dixon of the National Bicycle History Archive of America notes: 'This is a very serious myth. First, Schwinn merely copied the Huffy Penguin which existed BEFORE the Sting-Ray. Cite web requires website=.
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It was the KIDS in Southern California who came up with different ways to fit out 20-inch bicycles that resulted in the Penguin, Sting-Ray and so-called musclebikes. Cite web requires website=. ^ Lou Dzierzak (2002). MBI Publishing Company. Pacific Cycles.
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