Playboy 88

[Chips_Mahoy]

Just picked this up from a local yard sale.....Columbia Playboy 88

Never heard of or seen one before. Too cool to pass up! Anyone educate me on it/them?
Seat doesn't look original but I'm diggin' the layback sissybar!!

 

[Jaxon]

Playboy bikes were made for one year until Playboy sued them for using the name. They changed them to Playbike after that. Cool Score on it.

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Doing some looking around the WWW, it looks like it has the seat and sissy bar on it from a 1969 Super 88 . Other than that, it's original.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Very cool!
Love that fork!

Luke.

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Very cool!
Love that fork!

Luke.

Same here. That's what caught my eye.

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Close-up of the seat:

And too bad the tires aren't in better shape. They're the originals!

 

[MBblue6]

Cool grab on the Columbia? Did you grab Girls White Schwinn Fairlady in the back ground of the first pic?

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

No I didn't, but another member here was trying to.

 

[MBblue6]

I would be interested in it if you have any way to pick it up. Thanks, Matt

 

[CRASH]

Neat score. What's your plans with it?

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Neat score. What's your plans with it?

For now, it's going into storage until some other projects are finished. Then......whenever that'll be, I'll probably just try to clean it up as much as possible and get it close to orig condition. I don't plan on keeping it. I just bought it so it wouldn't get scrapped.

 

[CRASH]

Cool. That's some history worth saving. I'd restore it and offer it to Hugh Hefner for $10,000.

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

Cool. That's some history worth saving. I'd restore it and offer it to Hugh Hefner for $10,000.

Nice idea, but by the time I'd get it done, 'ol Hef will be probably be gone....

 

[ChicagoMuscle Guy]

Cool Find, had a PlayBike 88 for a while. From what I can remember the 88 stood for the fork system, however the Playboy may have only been Ava with the triple tree style fork, I do not remember. I know my Plsybike 88 had that style fork and bar, and another friend had a PlayBike and his had the standard fork and bar like most bikes. I did research the bars at one point as someone asked how could you lower or raise the bars cause it was a solid unit that just bolted on. What I found out was Columbia offered diff height bars you could purchase separately.

 

[Chips_Mahoy]

I found some Columbia info online. Looks like they offered quite a few different options and accessories