Originally Posted by
Artkansas
It should be remembered that he did not pull this design out of the air. Kids were already giving their bicycles the chopper look with aftermarket ape-hanger handle bars and banana seats. ..
Yeah. Around 1960 most of the kids in my neighborhood had bikes and we all "customized" them in different ways. Some of the more well-off kids had banana seats and high bars. This definitely predated the Schwinn Stingray.