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Price is important. Satisfaction is priceless. Something along those lines is what I recall. | |||
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They "borrowed" that from John Ruskin: "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey." John Ruskin ... stirred anti-clockwise. | |||
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Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round. Get on your bikes and ride. | |||
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Heck, that was an awfully long time ago and I was very young. They may have accurately attributed it to John Ruskin and I got his name puzzled up with one of theirs. I'd question my memory before I'd accuse anyone of plagiarism. | |||
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Schwinn 3-speed only as a kid but coveted a 10 speed. I wonder if kids today even appreciate what a bike was for a kid as in my day especially when kids get driven everywhere and coddled. Having a bike was the ultimate as was getting your first car whatever POS it really was. | |||
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The tag line Captain Kangaroo used to say on his show 50 years ago was "Schwinn bikes, the quality bikes, are best." "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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I had a Schwinn that had a rear axle with coaster brake and two speeds shifting in the axle. I have not seen one since. I loved that bike. Had a Varsity 10 speed next. It had the early seat post front derailleur lever. Loved that one too SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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Give them the pickle. Or maybe that was Farrell's. Corporate motivation training becomes confusing. | |||
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I have some 50s and 60s Donald Duck Comic books that have Schwinn ads on the back. SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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Yes ! This is part of what I heard. If it dont show up I will ask next weekend and write it down. The rest of you guys are making me laugh..  | |||
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This was my first Schwinn bike. About age 6 or 7. I loved this bike.  | |||
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One of the many bikes we've sold at the Flea Market is a 12 speed. It wears 27" tires which are labled High Pressure. Its a bit older but in nice shape. Kinda old school quality. | |||
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Like others, my days as a kid were spent on a bike. It was freedom! I now ride my Townie along the lake shore and every time I throw my leg over it, I revert to being 12 years old again. I mainly rode the poor kids bike. A Huffy. And I still don't wear a helmet! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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So true! Seldom ride anymore but have one waiting to pedal. Nothing said freedom like my bike when I was a 10 -15 yr old. Ran a paper route on it. Explored much of my town on it. | |||
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My Yiddishe unclce Moishe used to say: "Ich bin onna Schvinn mit your face inna vin, din your in like Flynn, unless your name's Christopher..." Cuz den yer Walken!" "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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SigMonkey...You are a real hoot...Thanks for the laugh. I too had a Schwinn in 1957, had the tanks on it that were just pressed metal and had the red and white tassels onthe end of the handle bars. I loved that bike. It disappeared when I went into the Army, probably one of my younger brothers. ****************************************************W5SCM "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution" - Abraham Lincoln "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go" - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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You were big for your age.  | |||
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Both ads from about 1960-61 on back of Donald Duck comic books  This is the one I had with the 2 speed axle  SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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Had numerous Schwinns growing up, the last being my older brother's hand-me-down (it sucked being the youngest of seven) Continental 10 speed. Great bikes though. I rode them delivering papers and my first real job ever was in a bike shop (Wheaton's Cycle and Toy...still in business since 1918) tuning them up, repairing them, and truing wheels...among other things. Then, I rode that Continental to work for a whole summer bussing tables until I saved up $350 for my first car...a '70 Cutlass. Great memories. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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