Back when I was in highschool, some sadist invented the swing bike. I knew of just one. It was for sale new at the Western Auto store. After taking a short ride on it and nearly killing myself on the sidewalk in front of the store, I had to have one. Just one problem, I could not scrape up enough money for it and still keep gas and beer in my car. As time went on I thought about that bike many times and haunted the second hand stores and pawn shops trying to find one. In all these years I never saw another, until last Friday. One was sitting in front of a second hand shop right in downtown Emmett! It was paid for and loaded on the plumbing truck in a matter of seconds.
These bikes have the ability to steer( not misspelled, if you know what I mean
) with both wheels. The seat and back wheel are on a headset just like the front wheel. This makes the bike very hard to ride, but you can turn on a dime, or ride down the street with the front wheel on the sidewalk and the rear wheel in the street. Elson would call that crabbing it in. It needs a little tlc, but it is all there and I have already logged some time on it. I am glad to report that I can still take a trip to the concrete, and get up laughing.
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It is like find of the century for me to at last have this deathtrap safely in the garage. I looked them up on Ebay, and I paid way to little for such a collectable piece of headcracking history. Do any of you remember these oddball bikes? DC
These bikes have the ability to steer( not misspelled, if you know what I mean
) with both wheels. The seat and back wheel are on a headset just like the front wheel. This makes the bike very hard to ride, but you can turn on a dime, or ride down the street with the front wheel on the sidewalk and the rear wheel in the street. Elson would call that crabbing it in. It needs a little tlc, but it is all there and I have already logged some time on it. I am glad to report that I can still take a trip to the concrete, and get up laughing. <center>
[attachment 75977 swingbike.jpg]
It is like find of the century for me to at last have this deathtrap safely in the garage. I looked them up on Ebay, and I paid way to little for such a collectable piece of headcracking history. Do any of you remember these oddball bikes? DC
