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Large Filipino
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I just scored this less than an hour ago at a local garage sale. Craigslist said "Newspaper Bike 60 dollars" So you KNOW I had to check it out.
Went over there on Cronus and my kiddie trailer and it was way in back of the garage collecting dust. As I was helping the lady probably about my age dig it out back there she was telling me about how her GRANDFATHER used it to deliver the paper route when he was a child. So I'm anticipating heavy spokes and heavy duty but when it uncovered it didn't look as heavy duty as I had hoped. But it has this weird fender guard and it looks like a kind of bike one would use on a paper route.
Frankly it LOOKS like an early 70's bike but it could be earlier.
Maybe that lady said "My kid's grandfather" or her husband's dad. That may make more sense here.
Still though. That front "cage" looks like something that was used long ago.
Can someone help me identify it?
I need to know the year of this bike just for bragging reasons.
I ended up dropping the price down to 40 bucks.
I stopped at the 711 for it's 711 day!
FREE SLURPEES!!
Man did I feel like one of them "Trash People" today.
People still admired my bike,though.
I'm seriously contemplating having that "talk" with MOOP.
MOOP may have seen his last days.
This bike is way more comfortable than MOOP can ever be yes even with MOOP having the suspension fork.
I'm just built for cruisers I think.
This will be named MOOP 2 if I go ahead with the transformation.
And yes,that's a real leather seat with no real tears on it but some wear.
Went over there on Cronus and my kiddie trailer and it was way in back of the garage collecting dust. As I was helping the lady probably about my age dig it out back there she was telling me about how her GRANDFATHER used it to deliver the paper route when he was a child. So I'm anticipating heavy spokes and heavy duty but when it uncovered it didn't look as heavy duty as I had hoped. But it has this weird fender guard and it looks like a kind of bike one would use on a paper route.
Frankly it LOOKS like an early 70's bike but it could be earlier.
Maybe that lady said "My kid's grandfather" or her husband's dad. That may make more sense here.
Still though. That front "cage" looks like something that was used long ago.
Can someone help me identify it?
I need to know the year of this bike just for bragging reasons.
I ended up dropping the price down to 40 bucks.
I stopped at the 711 for it's 711 day!
FREE SLURPEES!!
Man did I feel like one of them "Trash People" today.
People still admired my bike,though.
I'm seriously contemplating having that "talk" with MOOP.
MOOP may have seen his last days.
This bike is way more comfortable than MOOP can ever be yes even with MOOP having the suspension fork.
I'm just built for cruisers I think.
This will be named MOOP 2 if I go ahead with the transformation.
And yes,that's a real leather seat with no real tears on it but some wear.
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