Red and Rover by Brian Basset for December 06, 2011
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Dear Santa, For Christmas this year I would like a... When Staying-Ray Fastback in metallic blue with banana seat and sissy bar. Don't forget, in blue! Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue Blue *In 1966, Brian Bassett received a Schwinn Staying-Ray in gold. His brother got blue.
comicgos almost 13 years ago
Some things in life you never get over!
Catfeet Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Am I blue…you’d be too…want that big, blue bike…gold won’t do!
JoAnn.G almost 13 years ago
i got the gold one. fixed it up and painted it blue for my daughter 20 years later. Schwinns were the best bikes ever!
doc white almost 13 years ago
Elictrict blue, oh that wasn’t a bike.
Hillbillyman almost 13 years ago
A sissy bar? LOL
hpnuke almost 13 years ago
Wow, I got a rock.
kcorl001 almost 13 years ago
Interesting… I got a Schwin with a Banana Seat in tiger stripe. I vividly remember the tiger-strip seat because that is what I was mad for at the time. Not idea what color the bike was.
Elaine Rosco Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I think Red likes blue!
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
So you want blue then, Red? What about say….Red?
Totalloser Premium Member almost 13 years ago
If he kept it in perfect condition it may be worth more than his parents paid.
keljabalyn almost 13 years ago
My Stingray in 1969 was green, with a blue banana seat. It was an awesome bike. I put my dog in the basket on the handlebars and we went everywhere together.
jackdohany almost 13 years ago
I wanted, and got, a black sting ray in about 1950. Most beautiful thing I’ve ever owned.
gobblingup Premium Member almost 13 years ago
My first big kid bike was a blue one with a flowered banana seat (I’m a girl). Loved it!! My parents hated it and tried hard to get me to get another one. I refused and they finally caved. I had that bike until college when they got rid of it.
mkhill almost 13 years ago
:)
w2lj almost 13 years ago
Schwinn Stingray – how I wanted one of those!
MarshaHeimlich almost 13 years ago
In 1945 I got a red bike that you could separate the front wheel from the back to put it in the trunk of a car. My parents who had just adopted me in September that year, thought it was the best, but I was disappointed because it wasn’t like my other friends bikes that had a button on the side that was a horn. I was 9 years old. That bike was the newest and best at that time. But kids don’t understand that.
rover Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Hah, I had the same problem with Santa. No matter how many times I ordered a green Schwinn, I wound up with a red Huffy. Dad included a small note from Santa, pleading budget problems. :)
batterie61 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I had a purple one with a 5x shifter.
Flash5005 almost 13 years ago
I got one like that but it was red. Over the next few years it faded and became pink. Do you know how hard it is being 12 and trying to be cool on a pink bike?
APersonOfInterest almost 13 years ago
As I read all the posts here I kept thinking about the old Robert Blake movie … ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE … now THAT was a bike !!!
GoodDoctor almost 13 years ago
In 1964 I got a black Rollfast middle weight bike (26X1.75 tires), at the time, the “English Racers” (three speed, light weight bikes) where the most wanted and the Stingray bikes where just being introduced. That black bike was a great bike but someone stole it in 1970 by cutting the lock when I was in school. I rode the bike to school (a Junior High School) which was about a mile away. I had worn out 3 sets of tires.on that bike.
Hoosierlostboy Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I feel your pain, Brian…but I had to use my SISTER’S used bike, had to paint it and put my own leopard skin banana seat on it! We all have those painful memories. So sad.
Perry Tompkins Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Boy me too. Mine was purple! That was the only color that they had at the Sear’s Outlet. At least it was a boy’s bike. However, the banana seat and sissy bar were great! Keep up the great strip!
keithmc almost 13 years ago
thats what i wanted @ 66 also but i got a schwinn 10 speed instead.(but it was blue)
Jonni almost 13 years ago
Guy’s! Stop yer whinin’! In 1966 I got a brother!
Stephen Gilberg almost 13 years ago
Anyone else reminded of “Liar Liar”?
astar15 almost 13 years ago
Hmm, nice historic note Brian.
Yukoneric almost 13 years ago
Those old Sting Rays are worth some money, now!
jsbuch almost 13 years ago
I remember asking for anything but an “English racer”. Guess what I got… a three speed English racer.
jsbuch almost 13 years ago
After a while though, I was the fastest bike on the block and wouldn’t have traded it for the world.
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I got the 3 speed blue StingRay out of Dad’s re-enlistment bonus in 67 or 68. He got a Heathkit color console TV, & spent a few weeks putting it together. First color TV we ever had.
burleigh2 almost 13 years ago
But no… he’s not BITTER or anything. He’s had enough counseling to get over it LONG ago!! Heh… heh… :-\
gmforde almost 13 years ago
I guess they never heard of trading. lol
lin4869 almost 13 years ago
I saved up my own money (allowance, etc.) to buy a blue Schwinn 24" bike for $25!!!
Miserichord almost 13 years ago
1966?
Rode a “jungle Bike”.
Highly modified WWII vintage military frame, WIDE, SOLID tires, coaster and hand brakes, Cargo tray over the rear wheel, Motorcycle style double kickstand.
Thing weighed almost as much as I did at the time, but I put a lot of miles on it on and around Anderson AFB, Guam.
JazzInTN almost 13 years ago
Hmmm…. I think my Sting Ray was purple. 1966 was too many brain cells ago! My new bike is Big Blue Pearl, has 6 gears, a sissy bar and a solo seat. No ape hangers, because they are illegal in Tennessee! And I think it can go a whole lot faster!! ;)
edwardh007 almost 13 years ago
I got a purple knock-off bike for my birthday in 1967 (or was it 1968?). It wasn’t a Schwinn, but a Sears cause it was cheaper and my folks didn’t have much $.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 13 years ago
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”