Been there done that bike jump over your buddies. With rickety heavy old Schwin one-speeds with a big heavy “tank” (nut busters) between the handbar and seat. Nobody had a ten-speed, too expensive and couldn’t handle the abuse. Homemade skateboards made by screwing a taken-apart metal roller skate to the bottom of a scrap of 2X6 and down the street you go. One piece of misplaced gravel meant multiple bloody war wounds to show off at school the next day. Helmets? Knee or elbow pads? Hell no, you’d have been laughed out of the gang.
Been there done that bike jump over your buddies. With rickety heavy old Schwin one-speeds with a big heavy “tank” (nut busters) between the handbar and seat. Nobody had a ten-speed, too expensive and couldn’t handle the abuse. Homemade skateboards made by screwing a taken-apart metal roller skate to the bottom of a scrap of 2X6 and down the street you go. One piece of misplaced gravel meant multiple bloody war wounds to show off at school the next day. Helmets? Knee or elbow pads? Hell no, you’d have been laughed out of the gang.
The cover isn't the part of the Sears catalog I remember most fondly....