cool! muscle bikes were not popular when i started riding a bikes, it was more a BMX time. i remember one older guy that had a muscle bike, i really liked it and always wanted one. a few years ago a friend at work said he had a ross apollo 5 speed that neede some work. he said he would give it to me if i got a hood for his truck out of the junkyard and delivered it to his house. the deal went through. after some work, money and a learning experience(i never took a bike down to the bare frame before) i ended up with this(i made the shifter)-
![[Image: bike1.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/65rbdodge/bike1.jpg)
since i built this one i bought another ross apollo as a bare frame and forks for $5 at a flea market that looks the same but is a single speed, it is red/white.
I had a Mustang 3-speed shifter with the banana seat and extended handlebars...alas it got stolen. I wrote the serial# down and STILL have the slip of paper to this very day! It went missing around 1968.
65rbdodge Wrote:cool! muscle bikes were not popular when i started riding a bikes, it was more a BMX time. i remember one older guy that had a muscle bike, i really liked it and always wanted one. a few years ago a friend at work said he had a ross apollo 5 speed that neede some work. he said he would give it to me if i got a hood for his truck out of the junkyard and delivered it to his house. the deal went through. after some work, money and a learning experience(i never took a bike down to the bare frame before) i ended up with this(i made the shifter)-
since i built this one i bought another ross apollo as a bare frame and forks for $5 at a flea market that looks the same but is a single speed, it is red/white.
Those are cool I remember you showing me these.
I would like to restore a old Webco BMX I have in my rafter's. And I still have that green Stingray that I showed on here a while back, everyone want's to buy it from me.
4264door Wrote:I had a Mustang 3-speed shifter with the banana seat and extended handlebars...alas it got stolen. I wrote the serial# down and STILL have the slip of paper to this very day! It went missing around 1968.
It'll show up on e-bay someday. I dont know what a Mustang looks like any pics?
Pretty much like the one pictured here except it had a factory gold metal flake paint job with matching vinyl seat material. It was a CCM made bicycle Serial# J139451. Sorry, no pictures, heck even if I had a picture of it the photo itself would be so yellowed by now it would not do justice to the bike. Back then Dad had one of those Polaroid insta-cameras that developed the picture right in front of you. You old guys should remember that! LOL
1298Mine looked a lot like this picture I found on the internet but mine had a 3-speed shifter on the center cross bar, and if I jumped that bike too hard I slipped off the seat and guess where I hit that shifter...that's right, almost ripped the family jewels off one time! Maybe it was a good thing it got stolen, I might not ever have had any kids!
Stingray and rack of dusty bikes
I had a yello Shwinn 5 speed. Skinny tire stingray. Friend of mines dad own a Shwinn shop. He had them all. "Orange Crate", Stingrays. Small tire with the springer front ends. Cool bikes. Would love to have them today.