Matthew! You responded exactly in kind! Your story is fantastic, riveting - truly. And, fine, I admit it, your Schwinn Stingray was cooler than the Huffy Desert Rose.
I would also like to point out that we had the same haircut. 🤣🤣🤣 Sent from my iPad > On Aug 18, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Matthew Williams > <matthewwilliamsdes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >  > On a sunny Christmas morning in 1975, I got a fire-engine red Schwinn > Sting-Ray. > > My brother, our friends, and I would ride our bikes every day after school > and all during the summer. Our parents had no idea where we were or what we > were doing--their only rule was, "Be home at six for dinner." They probably > thought we couldn't go far, but we rode through every alley and backstreet of > our town, and the neighboring town, and the town beyond that. > > We'd ride down to the beach or along the cliffs above it, or into the nearby > state park where we'd look for bats in the caves, tease rattlesnakes, explore > the flood-control dams, and one summer we discovered a swing someone had made > from a stolen fire hose. I was seven years old, I had a bike, we had total > freedom, and the world was ours to explore. > > <1975_Schwinn_StingRay_1.jpg> > <1975_Schwinn_StingRay_2.jpg> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/inPnblsLjKU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b4ab09d6-071d-4767-b05a-c786c294122fn%40googlegroups.com. > <1975_Schwinn_StingRay_2.jpg> > <1975_Schwinn_StingRay_1.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/47014A29-D9BE-40FB-8629-22744A83BEA7%40gmail.com.
