I think that tough little sucker is straight out of The Road Warrior

Cool, cool.....What's the story on it??

Looks like a bike frame designed by someone who'd never seen one before.

my friend had one something like it growing up. His dad was a welder and buthchered it and installed a honda generator motor or something. It was the most unstable, dangerous piece of junk I ever saw.

Is that one of those indestructable bikes I have heard about? If so, very cool.

Those "shocks" don't actually WORK...do they?

That's not a Yamaha Motobike, is it?

https://www.bmxnonstop.com/oldschool/motoid.htm

I like your crappy Peugeot UE8 alot better!

Looks like money to me.Just don't tell these guys what those crazy small BMX bikes sell for!

If you'd have come around my neighborhood in about 1972, you could have sold a truckload of those-

So what do you think of this?

I think 30-35 years ago when that thing was all shiny it was the cat's meow and too cool for school.

I agree with the earlier poster who hinted that these bikes (sometimes) bring a good bit more $ than the VLWs we habitually talk about.

Doesn't mean I want one now though.

I think if you rode around on something like that around the time it came out you got laughed at, or maybe it was "cool" for a year or so I dont know, I was too young to remember, but when BMXs came out (I was born at the same time about) being seen on a banana seat bike got you laughed at!

I remember seeing a bike very similar to that thing around the farm yard of an old friends house back in the 80s, I remember picking it up and thinking "Ugh what the hell is this, its a bicycle that wants to be a dirt bike!" good times.

Yes they do. Probably the first ever full suspension bike made.

Thanks, I guess.

What's a VLW?

I believe Kawasaki and Yamaha both made bikes like that... I think it's sweet.

VLW = Vintage lightweight or "old roadbike" as you prefer. In any case the topic of most of the threads.

Sorry about that.

I am not sure exactly how PC this forum is so I will try to choose my words with care, I don't mean to offend anyone. When I was growing up such bicycles were popular with the younger (10-14 year old) aftrican american boys in Louisiana in the early 1980's.

Are you ageist AND racist? I'm outraged!!! I'm calling for an immediate ban of this individual!!!

At least I did not say that they were generally ridden in an S like swerving pattern down the street. It has been 25 years and I can still picture it in my head. These style bicycles swerving left and right taking up half of a residential street as the youngsters pedaled along. I had never given it much thought, just assumed it was the "in" stylish way to ride at the time, perhaps it was because they were so unstable.

way cool bike. I'm from that generation and that bike would have been the coolest in the neighborhood.