This is what I had as a kid but it was yellow.  The 70's version of today's "choppers".

Mike

Yup... my first big bike was a 70's metalflake-blue "Drag Stripper". Same bike as on the included pic, but just blue. I had that bike for years until I completely wore out the shifter unit and the shaft between the 2 pedals broke and the pedals just dropped. Man, I beat that thing to hell. I still remember popping sweet wheelies with it... and yes, impaling myself on the shifter!

No shifter for me but I remember beating the living tar out of a CCM Mustang. That thing just kept going and going

Squid

Quoted from SquidVicious

No shifter for me but I remember beating the living tar out of a CCM Mustang. That thing just kept going and going

Squid

Actually that's what I had..  A CCM.  My mistake earlier.

Mike

Schwinn still makes some variations of them minus the shifter. I particularly like the springer front ends. My son ended up with the last version of the Stingray which he uses more as a toy then his serious bike. He got one of the early release ones that still had all the goodies like the foot pegs and chrome frame. Again the f'ers cheapened the bike after initial release and dropped the chrome chassis and many of the accessories. It looks like this without the engine.





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yep, i use to have frankenbikes.  with 10 kids in the family we never got anything new.  but boy could my mom weild.  she put together a couple of bike frames and extended the front forks twoflod.  think it was almost eight feet long.  nothing as nice as the new coppers they make.  but for its time period, no one else had one (that long).