Okay, how many of you remember these beauties? It's the Sears Spyder Bike complete with monkey bars, banana seat, and geared like a tank; it took real muscle to get these things around town! This was my husband's 7th birthday gift in 1969. Grandpa and Grandma refurbished it a few years ago and brought it up for our kids to enjoy. Our brother had one just like it. This one has a low sissy bar, I think ours had one of those high ones in the back, but the same glittery hotrod purple. This is our daughter getting it ready for another season of fun. She shined that thing up all afternoon with a toothbrush and Barkeeper's Friend. (She's looking more and more like I did in the early 1970's, complete with the Jesus hairdo and freckles.) Note the Midwest March muck in the background; a combination of wet grass, mud, and a winter's worth of dog poop.
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Sears Spyder Bike!
Okay, how many of you remember these beauties? It's the Sears Spyder Bike complete with monkey bars, banana seat, and geared like a tank; it took real muscle to get these things around town! This was my husband's 7th birthday gift in 1969. Grandpa and Grandma refurbished it a few years ago and brought it up for our kids to enjoy. Our brother had one just like it. This one has a low sissy bar, I think ours had one of those high ones in the back, but the same glittery hotrod purple. This is our daughter getting it ready for another season of fun. She shined that thing up all afternoon with a toothbrush and Barkeeper's Friend. (She's looking more and more like I did in the early 1970's, complete with the Jesus hairdo and freckles.) Note the Midwest March muck in the background; a combination of wet grass, mud, and a winter's worth of dog poop.
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You know it's really Spring when you can start smelling all that winter dog poop. I want a bike like that NOW!!! It would be prefect for my stubby hobbit body. Yes, our brother's had a groovy thing like a roll bar that went up his back. Greg Brady had one too.
Put a DJrH cheerleader outfit on her with red earth shoes and I couldn't tell the difference!
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