Originally Posted by
Lazyass
I had a buddy with a Super Stroker, they were pretty cool. But in the late 70's the Mongoose with motomags was THE bike to have. If you modded it with a Tufneck gooseneck, checkered pads and a numberplate covered with stickers you were the man. The Redline was almost on the same level.
Motomags and Super Strokers were pretty tough to hang onto when everyone else at the track was riding Kuwahara, GT, Hutch, Schwinn Sting or PK Ripper - bikes that weighed about five pounds less.
Early Mongoose bikes also had no clearance - so power jumping was an adventure. It didn't help that the further up the semi-horizontal dropouts you got the back wheel, the worse the clearance problem became
Mongoose eventually fixed everything when they brought out the Supergoose. 4130 was in all tubes (not just three). Dropouts were truly horizontal, and there were no heavy BMX Products aluminum mag wheels to be found anywhere.