Posts Tagged ‘schwinn’
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Thusly:
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A wheelie bike, also called a muscle bike, high-riser, or banana bike, is a type of stylized children’s bicycle designed in the 1960s to resemble a chopper motorcycle and characterized by ape hanger handlebars, a banana seat with sissy bar, and small (16-to-20-inch (410 to 510 mm)) wheels. Notable examples include the Schwinn Sting-Ray and Krate lines and the Raleigh Chopper line. Other notable manufacturers and retailers that offered models include AMF, CCM, Columbia, Huffy, Iverson, J. C. Penney, Malvern Star, Monark, Murray, Ross, Sears, and Vindec.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Here’s the thing – the lazy bike thieves of San Francisco almost never go after things that are secured with U-locks. Why? Because the hunting is too easy for stuff that’s not properly U-locked. As here, where a UCSF student has locked his (probably a he, based upon seat height) beautiful Trek aluminum mountain bike to three foot pole. This would work in Flatland, but not in San Francisco.
People, when will you learn?
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Tags: bicycle, bike, cyclist, flatland, green festival, irving, lock, parnassus, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, schwinn, sfbc, stolen, theft, u-lock, ucsf, z axis
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
The owner of this Schwinn bicycle took a bit of care before locking it up for the last time ever. Note the $50 Kryptonite Evolution Mini (quite fashionable, non?) avec cable for the wheels – that’s a perfectly cromulent way of a locking a bike on the mean streets of San Francisco. (A lesser lock would have succumbed like this.)
But the owner might have dared to leave it overnight, when the freaks come out.
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The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has some thoughts on the issue of protecting your bike. Check it out, after the jump.
Good luck.
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Tags: bicycle, cable, coalition, cut, cyclist, evolution, kryptonite, market, mini, new york, rider, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, schwinn, security, sfbc, street, stripped, theft, valencia
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Now, locking your bike this way is better than nothing, and any would-be thief would have to awkwardly carry your ride to his bicycle processing van located several blocks away, but still…
Read up on the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition‘s theft advice page if you’d like.
As seen outside the Green Festival:
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Tags: bicycle, bike, cyclist, green festival, lock, market, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, schwinn, sfbc, soma, south, stolen, theft, u-lock
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Whatever you do, don’t strip it down and take off the paint. You look good in pink.
Get your Schwinn steel cruiser frame with steel springer fork and Shimano 7-speed rear derailleur with SRAM grip shift right here at Target. Some assembly reqd.
Tags: balloon, beach, bicycle, big adventure, bike, california, cruiser, cyclist, Embarcadero, fork, pink, roxie, San Francisco, schwinn, spokes, springer, target, whitewalls
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Pee-Wee Herman’s rather baroque red bicycle, stripped down to its essence, would look something like this Schwinn beach cruiser avec springer fork seen on Valencia. Click to expand:
Whitewalls, gratuitous spokes, kickstand and chrome, chrome, chrome.
That’s quite a look.
Tags: balloon, beach, bicycle, big adventure, bike, california, chrome, cruiser, cyclist, fork, herman, mission, pee-wee, pee-wee's, peewee, roxie, San Francisco, schwinn, spokes, springer, valencia, whitewalls
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