Hmmm...If I could get back to 1967 I could pre-order a 5 speed Stingray in Radiant Coppertone.

Lol

Sounds like my brother was on it. Guy would get speeding tickets on flat ground on bikes.

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I ride a rad rover fat tire with some great upgrades and customizations. Yesterday I was at the light with a guy on a Harley. He looked at me and me at him and it was a living meme that said "The look you see when even the biker knows your bike is cooler than his Harley."

@@ottohesslein3230 I ride 26" BMX.

This bike and many like it were well engineered heavy duty Anerican machines...

@@TheJuan_N_0nly you got that right! See how smooth the handle bars were steady! Awesome Ride!

When people proudly built American products.

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@@bigjim8088 More like when people proudly BOUGHT USA made. What, you drive a foreign make?

Nope it will be is someone's pants

Disco and bellbottoms

Glad to see brake cables on this puppy, a coaster brake hub alone would be a death trap for your use

2nite on bottom gear m8

Doc browns voice is engraved in my head lol 😂

Carzy cool man. Where do live?? Looks I'd love to go try

Have eagle on my mountain bike. Awesome ride on a classic bike, uuuh the car jammed u up

Oh, I Know Palos Verdes California Hills Thousand Oaks California Hills Thank You For Posting The Videos

@@dannyball2503 Saw That too

Oh so you were an idiot more than once?

The fastest I ever did was 40 mph on a mountain bike. That was enough to scare the shit out of me. I can't imagine doing this. Just watching the video gave me sweaty palms.

I have rode 52 on a 10 speed when I was 16. 60 now and the hill is still there. Nope i will not.

It's breathtaking or was for me in my teens. Felt like I just couldn't peddle fast enough did just over 50 messing with a friend of mine while he was driving his car. Broke the chain same day talk about pucker factor 1000.

@@kennethwallace4338 the chain broke while or after . That's scary!

@@ericunderwood8080 after while I was riding home solo. Sprocket breaks so had to wait for the thing to slow down then use foot to stop. Didn't learn anything starting doing it at night until I was 17. After a major wipeout at idea speed back was out for a long while. Flipped over top of a Camaro that ran a red light. Off duty paramedic was in the lane I landed in front of his car.

Thanks for your comment! One of my favorites. I just drove past the road a few minutes ago. Sadly, it is not in the great shape it was when I was riding it. I too grew up those same years. We couldn't afford a Schwinn, but I had a sweet Sears Spyder (Christmas of '68). It was a great time to be a kid. The bikes, Hot Wheels,TV shows, etc... We had paper routes, did chores, had real Gym class, even a school nurse. In the the summer we went out in the morning and played outside until dark, sometimes after. Now I collect these muscle bikes and redline Hot Wheels and often find myself listening to those same tunes we all heard on AM radio on my playlists. There are a handful of commentors that just get it. Glad to hear from another of those!

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@@billworley8727 ......same ! ! ! Born in 1959

The video and comments take me back! I had a Pea Picker as well. Did my paper route on a yellow Schwinn Heavy Duty.

@@billworley8727 I was wondering if you were old enough to have one or just bought one. Makes it even better that you older. I have all kinds of bikes but try to get muscle bikes so far other than my brothers Schwinn and my Raleigh I've found (that I could afford)a Schwinn and two huffys. A friend gave we one huffy and the other I found washed up after a flood in the creek up against the bridge looked like it had been there awhile but you know for the love of bikes

The other day my kid asked me "dad, why didn't you have to wear bicycle helmets when you were a kid ?". I replied, "because we weren't stupid son".

@@RNicolasRuvalcaba lol. We definitely didn't live with the fear mongering that goes on today. ✌

That's about only way to go this fast on one! He was still pedaling around 40mph, no way the gearing would allow this on that bike. Passing 45mph on a road bike, 100psi in the tires, gearing that would allow this, sealed bearings, etc down a massive hill is still hard to do

@@Imageloading... these speedometers aren't accurate at all its like the same one they put on the exercise bike Schwinn made. I used to ride one constantly my grandmother owned while growing up and always loved maxing out the speedometer lol. I'd be surprised if he was going 40mph let alone 55mph. Still a cool video of an awesome bike nonetheless.

@@PatrickCavanaugh0420 it was definitely still fast, and great clickbait! I enjoyed the video

@@Imageloading... for sure he was hauling ass lol.. I enjoyed the video also, oh the childhood memories of cruising with my friends around our neighborhood. This bike was well before my time as I was a late 80s baby the last generation before all the technology we love today.

@@PatrickCavanaugh0420 it's hilarious how so many in the comments truly believe he was going that fast.

You're not gonna believe this some dude just flew past me doing 55...on a Schwinn!!🤣🤣🤣

You gotta reach 88 to time jump.

Going through red lights at 55mph on a bicycle isn't the smartest thing Ive seen. 1:21

@@babbalonian2 some times in the name of science some risks must be taken

@@babbalonian2 maybe not the SMARTEST...but most definitely the funniest

Your just one evolutionary step away from being a full blow idiocratic example of what can be seen in the clip linked below. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/raeXZNVn392bcps.html

That isn't a crate bike if it was I'm pretty sure we be watching it in the news because I not to sure a crate could do it speed wobble and see ya at the scene of the crash

That was awesome LH, made me laugh out loud with a mouthful of coffee, i can clean that up though, cheers.

Exactly!

Really. Bravo. If you passed me doing that, I would have needed a change in clothes.

Comment of a moron. Idiocracy is real.

@@williambrandondavis6897 Literally one of the most overused comments on youtube.

My bubble is not popped. These Huret made speedometers were designed to work with all sorts of wheel diameters. To be accurate, they require the appropriate hub(driver) installed on front wheel. These drivers utilize a worm gear pitched to the wheel size specified by the embossed hub housing. These drivers were produced for 16", 20", 24", 26", as well as some metric sizes. I have the correct 20" unit installed.

WOAH ! Now you are scaring the shit out of me.... The fastest I've ever been on a bicycle was 50 mph, and I honestly could see my whole life before me as I was certain it would end right there. lol You're fast Man, really fast!

For what it's worth, it takes me an hour to mentally prep for these kinds of runs, and a full hour or more to get adrenaline most of the way out of me. 40 MPH doesn't have that effect. I was a bit surprised at the difference between 45 and 50.

pagb22 you are 100% correct

@JA S yo man you're saying that you have a hard time imagining a stingray running with a road bike well imagine this that's Stingray is highly possible a 5-speed they're pretty quick I've got an old Stingray I rebuilt out of junk parts it's running a 15 speed mountain bike front sprocket and a 6-speed back back wheel and there is no brakes and it's put in the highest gear it can be and I actually got pulled over by a cop who said I was doing about 60 mile an hour on that bike and that was back when I was 14 26 now rebuilt the bike back to how it was back then I have been trying to get back to that and faster sense

It is a Schwinn approved squared off 2.125 reproduction slick on the rear. Because of this tire, the bike accelerates in the turns better than say a rounded tire. Less rubber making contact. The people that study the physics of this sort of thing use the term 'coefficient of drag'.

I actually got several while stationed at Ellsworth AFB at Rapid City South Dakota. I had an old Schwinn 5 speed with 27 inch wheels. I was trained to ride mountain bikes so a street bike was like riding a feather. The best I ever got was 47 in a 25 zone. I only knew one speed on a bike and that was wide open and flat out! All of my tickets got disposed of. I had that old bike up in the 50 to 60 mph range on downhills. I was challenged by one of the cops for a bike race from one side of the base to the other, about 4 miles. He lost. All those years of hard falls and abuse took their toll though. I'm 63 now and have been 100% disabled since I was 50. But how many people can look back and smile at the fact they routinely got speeding tickets on a bicycle. The First Sergeant just used to say... "You need to slow down boy!" Terry from South Carolina

had he done a safety check before the ride he would have been fine. no need to fear speed because your friend can't check a bolt

How in TF does a front wheel just come off. He should of never been on the road if he didn't even know how to turn a wrench..

@@southtexasspecials175 it did. And rode a wheelie for 150 feet . do you or did you check the nuts on you wheel axles before you go on a ride. Knows may be when we went to corner market someone could have losing it.

@@sagesends we didn't wear little bitch helmets safety checks ok. 1970s boys with bigger nut sacks than these pussyfooting clowns now

@@mr.v8194 dang thats messed up if that happened

M.L. Miller Thanks! Schwinn produced great products for a long time; bikes that promoted confidence.

@@joem13yearsago73 of course he did at 1:23. Cautious of your surroundings 😁

Momentum at any cost !

Dumbass! This is the reason cyclists are not respected. Between the white Jeep and the red light, your cashing checks your body can’t pay.

@@AH-64-Apache_Attack_Helicopter Thats Cool Thinking He IS MORE situationally aware Then YOU THINK ? Ride over top of them as a Bike & motorcycle Can outmaneuver.. I was a motorcycle delivery , in Washington DC , and I rode the street ... By the way do you fix your own airplane ? Nothing goes to anyone For Service That I Drive IN House ALL OF IT !!! Don't drive it if you don't know how it works.... That pretty much takes y'all out ...& It's A Nuclear END One Way Or the other Any Time Now.. So Party & Ride On Wayne....Of Fighting 6th Air Cavalry ....Your , Tech. Fix IT Same @ Howard Lovecraft Have Some Life There ?

@@AH-64-Apache_Attack_Helicopter sure but don't judge an entire group of people based off of the only one's you pay attention to

And he was never heard from again.

@@robertmeadows1657 I fear he is no longer with us. You can only blow so many red lights at 50+ mph.

Glad to hear ands thank for watching!

+Bill Worley you just ran a red light...

It was calibrated later & found to be off by 20 MPH ...... he was actually doing 75 !! 🤣👍🏻

Yep they had different ones for different tire sizes.

Yea my thinking is it is set up wrong, I once tried going down what we here call 7 hills (very long and very step hill) with my 26 inch 10 speed in high gear and only got to 35 mph and took along time to stop using both front and rear brakes...

I had a speedometer on a stingray bicycle, 20" tires. It read 5 MPH faster then I was travelling. The speedometer was meant to go onto a bicycle with larger wheels, like a 3- speed bicycle had. 26" wheels? I moved it to the 3-speed bicycle. Then it was dead on accurate.

I think he was doing about 10 when it said 20

Thank you having road many miles on nice road bikes here in colorado the possibility of reaching and maintaining 55 on a twenty inch bike is pure fabrication!

Yeah he was going 10 mph after 2 pedals me thinks the speedo is off, bad ass nonetheless

I like the part around 00:40 when he takes a right turn from the left turn lane, across two lanes of straight ahead traffic! And better than that? He does it at 30MpH

I seen that too ,😱

Insane in the membrane

Is he still alive... This is an old vid

TheTarrMan lol

MAGA

@@timgraysontv M.S.G.A.....make Schwinn great again..!!

Oh FYI trump ain't pres no more

@@cschu879 You are technically correct but let's not get into that right now. Hahaha

theres something wrong with your fuego then. is it a 1.6 NA?

@@Toxic2T Yes there is. It has two flat tires and no windshield wipers.

Agreed. I can’t believe this is true. I think the bike was mounted to the side of a car or something. There is some spots where the side to side wobble suggests peddling, but to be peddling that fast, doesn’t jive with the motion, and no way could a single speed 16 or 20” size bicycle be pedaled above maybe 30-35mph. So a free wheel down a steep hill, is the engine driving such speeds. A vid showing evidence that an actual rider is in control, that’s the smoking gun needed to prove this. I can imagine a teenager attempting this in actual practice. I’ve ridden 21 speed road bikes upwards of 50, but on a single (or even 5 speed) Schwinn, bullshit.

No. That was definitely 50. Every biking video appears slower than real life. Same with downhills. They never look steep until you see it in person. Check out Farlow Gap in Pisgah Forest N.C. The video lies.

I'm with y'all I ride I bicycle with a gas powered 2 stroke motor, my bike barely gets up to 30-35 mph, I can assure you that this vid is nowhere near 55, it's a cable driven speedometer, they're not too accurate, more for fun. I know It's hard enough doing 30 mph on a road bicycle, all those people don't wear clip in pedals and spandex for fun, a Schwinn stingray doing 55 and not barley ever going down hill, lmao Keep dreaming. 😂🤣😂🤣👍

I did just that with Strava. Speedometer is as accurate as these old analog units ever were, which is actually pretty good. They were well made. I have a number of these on various Schwinn bikes including Stingrays, middleweights, and Varsitys'. I also have a number of other vintage brand speedometers mounted to various Murray and Huffy 'muscle bike ' platforms. I know my speedometers. I know my bikes. I know how fast I ride. My friends know fast I ride. These vids are posted just for fun. I'm not promoting some sort of 'record'. These are just for fun...

I second that, the Hurets are very accurate. Inside they are exactly like analogue car speedos, most likely made with the same tooling, thus the same kind of precision. They even went the extra mile to make calibrated driving units for different wheel sizes such as 16", 20" and 26". I tested a metric Sachs-Huret and a VDO against a GPS and both were within 5kph at 40 kph.