The Arrival of the Stingray

This isn't the Stingray electronic device used by incipient stormtroopers in Baltimore's terror cops.  Instead this is Schwinn Stingray from back when America would have been horrified to see American cops treating the Constitution like toilet paper and the people like useless riff raff.

There's no picture yet since (cough) 'some assembly required' so it awaits daylight in a cardboard shipping box.  It's a humble start but this bicycle has seen the glory days and kids getting the biggest kick out of 'popping wheelies' all the way down the street.  Maybe you think playing "Blind Man's Bluff" with button-pushing an electronic toy is a cool way to pass time ... but that would be a hell of a shame, wouldn't it.

"Oh, oh, I couldn't live without my iPhone!"  (Runs off wailing)

Here's a tip on that, Electro Boy, you ain't living now.

The assembly part isn't clear because I can't see it yet but the pedals will need to be re-attached.  The banana seat will likely need to be attached as well but Yevette has a 'tiger seat' which she says was quite special back then.  The handlebars will have to be added as well but these are all relatively easy moves.  The wheels are likely already mounted and probably there won't be much else to do.  Yevette also found a honker squeeze horn and that gives a great duck sound, so great I was begging for mercy after a couple of honks.  It's funny, tho.

A little bit of hassle and a little bit of torque should make this bicycle ride like it did when it was new.  Of course there will be pictures.

Maybe this looks a little frivolous but she had a bit of good luck which was immediately followed by some seriously bad luck and not with she nor I; instead it was with someone who would never be ignored.  The Socialist river flows where it will and she believes.  Probably you need a big heart down here or you won't make it.

That big heart also brought a Stingray so it will be opened up when there's a bit of light about.  She will likely ride about like a crazy woman and honking that goose horn up and down the street.  I doubt she will want video but it can happen if she likes.


This should also get a bit of the Voice of Reason since, "Ma‘am, it would probably be good to consider how long it's been since you rode when one of these here vee-hicles."