Wow, never expected to see one of these on CL!
04-03-22, 07:59 AM
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@Chicago Al: If you link the original, "vintage" thread a few people's eyes will be opened 
Actually, link it anyway - I wanna see it (and the comments!) again for good laugh. That thread, and the "P u s s y Cruiser" thread, have always been fun classics!
DD
Actually, link it anyway - I wanna see it (and the comments!) again for good laugh. That thread, and the "P u s s y Cruiser" thread, have always been fun classics!
DD
Last year's comments were amusing.
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04-03-22, 09:09 AM
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So no one responded...can someone facilitate? Those Sears bikes made by DeRosa are rare.
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04-03-22, 09:39 AM
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04-03-22, 10:15 AM
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Dumped in Lake Monona during a drunken tribute to Otis Redding, Dec. 1985. Fished out of the Rock River, downtown Rockford, Earth Day 1998. Last seen in Tollview, IL; final conveyance to Chicago remains shrouded in mystery.
Poster missed one mark, however. The photos are too good. OfferUp-quality would have been the finishing touch. As said, there's always next year.
(Edit - waitaminit; TV Lenny gave away those bikes because they DIDN'T pass BMA/6, or so I've heard. Mandela effect? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
Poster missed one mark, however. The photos are too good. OfferUp-quality would have been the finishing touch. As said, there's always next year.
(Edit - waitaminit; TV Lenny gave away those bikes because they DIDN'T pass BMA/6, or so I've heard. Mandela effect? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
Ya tink dem Blues Brothers transported it? That’s my best guess!
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That would be an over exaggeration. I owned one.
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04-03-22, 10:36 AM
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True, the Signatures were quite nice and had pedigree. But when I was a kid in Chitown i think we had early Ross-labeled BSOs that were more like that one. I also could have them mixed up with Columbia. My friend had a Columbia 10 speed and hauled on it, despite teh Allvit, steel rims and brakes, et cetera. But this was 1967 or so.
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I was thinking this was a Sears...oops.
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I’m not sure it really matters what old basic BSO brand either of us thinks this is - it’s either a scam or an April Fool’s joke, and a pretty good one with all the Chicago references you guys have thrown up! I’m sure your Ross reference was real because I have a friend who still pines after his Signature, and my middle and high school friend who kicked our butts on his Columbia is real and is still kicking, though not still pedaling unfortunately. When I first went away to college I took my tool box and I did repairs on a few bikes very similar to the one advertised, and I have no idea how they were branded - just general cheap stuff sold in the Midwest in those days.
Best media April Fools I recall is when long-defunct Audio Magazine would review “products” made by the 1 Lirpa company, I think there may have been a reversing turntable among them. It’s always seemed to me ShelBroCo was conceived in the same mold, with the He-Man saddles which could not be worn out and would never sag, et cetera.
Best media April Fools I recall is when long-defunct Audio Magazine would review “products” made by the 1 Lirpa company, I think there may have been a reversing turntable among them. It’s always seemed to me ShelBroCo was conceived in the same mold, with the He-Man saddles which could not be worn out and would never sag, et cetera.
04-03-22, 02:25 PM
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Someday, those 70's gas pipe specials will be the rarest of all bikes. People have no respect for them. They end up in the trash. Do that often enough and they will be as scarce as hen's teeth. No one will notice until after they are all gone.
04-03-22, 02:48 PM
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...and the bike restorers will be looking for dork disks and stem shifters to restore their vintage department store bikes
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Bye-Bye...
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