A BIKER GANG WITH A LITTLE LESS HORSEPOWER AND A LITTLE MORE HORSEPLAY.
"DRUM BRAKES" AND "SISSY BARS"-- WE'RE TALKING BICYCLES HERE. DO YOU REMEMBER THE "RALEIGH CHOPPER"? HOW ABOUT THE "SEARS SCREAMER"? WHAT DID YOU RIDE? WITH THE HELP OF ONE MAN, THE MUSCLE BIKES OF THE PAST STILL HAVE SOME MIGHT TODAY.
HERE'S FOX 61'S JIM ALTMANIT'S A TIME WHEN SEATS GLITTERED, METALICS SPARKLED, AND "SPOKES" SPOKE VOLUMES
((It was a big deal to have a bike that was cool, it was part of your persona when you were 12))
AFTER YEARS OF COLLECTING BIKES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, JIM HAS TRANSFORMED HIS BLOOMFIELD WHEREHOUSE INTO "THAT 70'S SHOWROOM" WHAT HE CALLS THE "NEW ENGLAND MUSCLE BICYCLE MUSEUM", AN 8-TRACK FLASHBACK TO A 3-SPEED ERA
((This is revisiting the early good times, before there was the stress of a wife, a girlfriend, a mortgage, a job... You had very simple and pure needs when these bikes were ridden))
A KIDS ANSWER TO THE HOT ROD... THEY'RE ALL HERE -- OVER 200 RARE BIKES FROM THE 60'S AND 70'S:
THE "DRAG STRIPPER"...
THE "ROAD RUNNER"...
AND THE SUPER TRICKED-OUT "SCHWINN APPLE CRATE"
BUT BARNARD SAYS THE MUSCLE BIKES LOST THEIR MIGHT IN THE MID 70'S AFTER POLITICIANS "LEGISLATED" THE FUN OUT --
OF COURSE, THERE WERE DESIGN FLAWS; HANDLE BARS YOU COULD FLY OVER, AND STICK SHIFTS THAT COULD REALLY STICK
((if you take a look at the seat and the ergonomics of it)) ((it looks really uncomfortable)) ((for those of us with testicles its almost unridable)) ((ha!!))
AND EVERY SO OFTEN THE 'MUSCLE BIKE MUSEUM' COMES ALIVE
THEIR JACKETS ARE LEATHER
THEIR SEATS BANANA
MEET THE "PEDAL POSSE"
((ABOUT 6 TIMES A YEAR, JIM'S INNER CHILD COMES OUT ON THE STREET ALONG WITH ABOUT 3 DOZEN OTHER RETRO RIDERS))
BARNARD SHARES HIS BIKES, SOME BRING THEIR OWN -- STEVE IACINO STILL HAS HIS '69 SEARS SCREAMER'
((Brings back my childhood, this was my original bike when I was a kid//1650 just absolutely love this bike))
ALL OVER TOWN, THEY 'FREE WHEEL' ((QUIK WHEELIE MONTAGE))
AND, THEY HIT THE SKIDS...
AND THIS, IN ESSENCE, IS A CHANCE TO RIDE FORWARD AND BACK-PEDAL AT THE SAME TIME
((we're re-living a fun part of our youth or getting it when we didn't have it))
ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT JIM ALTMAN, FOX 61 NEWS AT TENA BIKER GANG WITH A LITTLE LESS HORSEPOWER AND A LITTLE MORE HORSEPLAY.
"DRUM BRAKES" AND "SISSY BARS"-- WE'RE TALKING BICYCLES HERE. ...all »A BIKER GANG WITH A LITTLE LESS HORSEPOWER AND A LITTLE MORE HORSEPLAY.
"DRUM BRAKES" AND "SISSY BARS"-- WE'RE TALKING BICYCLES HERE. DO YOU REMEMBER THE "RALEIGH CHOPPER"? HOW ABOUT THE "SEARS SCREAMER"? WHAT DID YOU RIDE? WITH THE HELP OF ONE MAN, THE MUSCLE BIKES OF THE PAST STILL HAVE SOME MIGHT TODAY.
HERE'S FOX 61'S JIM ALTMANIT'S A TIME WHEN SEATS GLITTERED, METALICS SPARKLED, AND "SPOKES" SPOKE VOLUMES
((It was a big deal to have a bike that was cool, it was part of your persona when you were 12))
AFTER YEARS OF COLLECTING BIKES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, JIM HAS TRANSFORMED HIS BLOOMFIELD WHEREHOUSE INTO "THAT 70'S SHOWROOM" WHAT HE CALLS THE "NEW ENGLAND MUSCLE BICYCLE MUSEUM", AN 8-TRACK FLASHBACK TO A 3-SPEED ERA
((This is revisiting the early good times, before there was the stress of a wife, a girlfriend, a mortgage, a job... You had very simple and pure needs when these bikes were ridden))
A KIDS ANSWER TO THE HOT ROD... THEY'RE ALL HERE -- OVER 200 RARE BIKES FROM THE 60'S AND 70'S:
THE "DRAG STRIPPER"...
THE "ROAD RUNNER"...
AND THE SUPER TRICKED-OUT "SCHWINN APPLE CRATE"
BUT BARNARD SAYS THE MUSCLE BIKES LOST THEIR MIGHT IN THE MID 70'S AFTER POLITICIANS "LEGISLATED" THE FUN OUT --
OF COURSE, THERE WERE DESIGN FLAWS; HANDLE BARS YOU COULD FLY OVER, AND STICK SHIFTS THAT COULD REALLY STICK
((if you take a look at the seat and the ergonomics of it)) ((it looks really uncomfortable)) ((for those of us with testicles its almost unridable)) ((ha!!))
AND EVERY SO OFTEN THE 'MUSCLE BIKE MUSEUM' COMES ALIVE
THEIR JACKETS ARE LEATHER
THEIR SEATS BANANA
MEET THE "PEDAL POSSE"
((ABOUT 6 TIMES A YEAR, JIM'S INNER CHILD COMES OUT ON THE STREET ALONG WITH ABOUT 3 DOZEN OTHER RETRO RIDERS))
BARNARD SHARES HIS BIKES, SOME BRING THEIR OWN -- STEVE IACINO STILL HAS HIS '69 SEARS SCREAMER'
((Brings back my childhood, this was my original bike when I was a kid//1650 just absolutely love this bike))
ALL OVER TOWN, THEY 'FREE WHEEL' ((QUIK WHEELIE MONTAGE))
AND, THEY HIT THE SKIDS...
AND THIS, IN ESSENCE, IS A CHANCE TO RIDE FORWARD AND BACK-PEDAL AT THE SAME TIME
((we're re-living a fun part of our youth or getting it when we didn't have it))
ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT JIM ALTMAN, FOX 61 NEWS AT TEN«
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