i remember going into an otasco in oklahoma city as a kid and looking through their fishing lures. it was a way to kill time on sundays when i visited my grandmother down the street. they also sold these kind of low-end bikes. i actually bought one from them right after my ninth birthday when i scraped together about $87 from many relatives. it was a bmx, and i loved it. it took me to football practice for a few years, also allowing me to ride around with the cool kids and their mongoose and diamondback bmx bikes. on a cheaper bike like the flyin-o, you had to act a little more dangerously to fit in. this was rather difficult to pull off with its cheap stem allowing the bars to adjust at just the wrong time. i would also ride it through about six different neighborhoods, up to the u-tote-em to buy a whatchamacallit, coke icy and kiss cards. those were the days.