Back when Black Friday Krates were a thing, I was just getting back into bikes as an adult. I bought the green one for something like $79, and then the blue and black ones on clearance for less than $40. I always envisioned customizing them to represent different eras of Stingrays... the green one as an early Deluxe, the blue one as a late '60s fenderless, and the black one as an early '70s BMX conversion. The black one looked like this for a while:
The wheels and fork were robbed off a (get this) girls' Schwinn Dee-Lite that I got for a few bucks at a thrift store. It was one of those nasty little Toys R Us bikes with one big oval tube from the head tube to the BB. I went as far as spray bombing the forks black, but it has been kicking around in pretty much that state for like 10 years.
Then just recently I saw these cool-looking old school raised white letter knobbies on Fleabay, and I decided the bike needed an update. I robbed the bars and stem off a junker '78 Schwinn Tornado BMX-style bike and made up some graphics on my wife's Cricut, and this is where we are at now.
I am thinking about putting a 24" Schwinn blade fork on it like the old Scramblers had, but the one I have needs to be threaded further down to work with this frame. I also noticed a thread on a BMX board where someone found a vintage Stingray-frame Scrambler with some very early Red Line forks on it, and they are shaped kinda like these, so I might just leave these on it and even print up some obviously bogus Red Line looking stickers for the fork. I figure that'd go with the theme of using a bad copy of a Sting-Ray to make a bad Scrambler tribute bike.
(Didn't I see that somewhere on RRB? Someone printed some fork stickers that looked like a brand name but said something else funny...)
The wheels and fork were robbed off a (get this) girls' Schwinn Dee-Lite that I got for a few bucks at a thrift store. It was one of those nasty little Toys R Us bikes with one big oval tube from the head tube to the BB. I went as far as spray bombing the forks black, but it has been kicking around in pretty much that state for like 10 years.
Then just recently I saw these cool-looking old school raised white letter knobbies on Fleabay, and I decided the bike needed an update. I robbed the bars and stem off a junker '78 Schwinn Tornado BMX-style bike and made up some graphics on my wife's Cricut, and this is where we are at now.
I am thinking about putting a 24" Schwinn blade fork on it like the old Scramblers had, but the one I have needs to be threaded further down to work with this frame. I also noticed a thread on a BMX board where someone found a vintage Stingray-frame Scrambler with some very early Red Line forks on it, and they are shaped kinda like these, so I might just leave these on it and even print up some obviously bogus Red Line looking stickers for the fork. I figure that'd go with the theme of using a bad copy of a Sting-Ray to make a bad Scrambler tribute bike.
(Didn't I see that somewhere on RRB? Someone printed some fork stickers that looked like a brand name but said something else funny...)
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