Mike Dunn a former bicycle drag racing champ?

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Never saw this before, chutes and all lol.

 

[Pete]

Funnycar Summer

 

[mgty3whlr]

Awesome Stuff! I remember when I had hair that long... Waaaay cool back then. LOL!

 

[Nunz]

I think I remember also seeing a pic in National Dragster way back then. Mike's a few years older than me, but I remember those days back in the '60s-70s. I was the ringleader in having bike drags on our street. I had the Stingray and the long hair, don't know where he got those chutes though!

 

[mgty3whlr]

Influenced from dad I suppose, Why not be different and get the fan's attention.

 

[Just Paul]

I still have my parachute bike in my shed from about 1992. I'll have to drag it out and take some pics.

 

[ironpony]

wow that brings back some memories...

did anyone else extend their front ends with pipe or forks off another bike to make a chopper? They were big on Long Island in the late 60's early 70's. Also baseball cards in the spokes vroom vroom

 

[Cliff]

Awesome Stuff! I remember when I had hair that long... Waaaay cool back then. LOL!

I remember when I had hair.... You can see bottom pretty easy now.

 

[Litefoot]

Ya I did that with cut off forks on my sting ray here vegas in the mid to late 60's too, also put on some little handle bars off little kids bike, those were the days

 

[Reese]

did anyone else extend their front ends with pipe or forks off another bike to make a chopper? They were big on Long Island in the late 60's early 70's. Also baseball cards in the spokes vroom vroom

Yes I did also extended the banana seat bar to make it look like a long back rest. I swear if I knew what the record was for the longest wheelie, I could have broken it. LOL

 

[Nunz]

The more I think about those days, the more good memories come back. Being that my dad was racing during that era, my Stingray was my way of emulating him. Constantly switching out parts, putting on a slick, different grips, seat, etc. Even stripped it all down and painted it candy red!

 

[NitroHunter]

wow that brings back some memories...

did anyone else extend their front ends with pipe or forks off another bike to make a chopper? They were big on Long Island in the late 60's early 70's. Also baseball cards in the spokes vroom vroom

I was a chopper crazy kid in the late 60's, spending the summer with cousins in a Northern California lakeside resort town frequented by the Red & White choppers thundering through, and man, I had to have one. I cut off some 10 speeds forks - they were longer, you know - and 'compression welded' them (aka beat them on real good) over my stingray forks with a big hammer. The rake was bitchin and everybody stared when I rode my fine machine past. I was cool. Well right up until my flat-top wearing dad showed up and had a fit about how I was gonna get killed when those forks fell off, blah blah you're grounded, etc.. Then he tried to take them off, of course they wouldn't budge, the situation escalated to Coors fueled brute force, vise grips and hammers, but ultimately the hacksaw prevailed and my chopper days were over.
A couple years ago we bought one of those fat tire bikes for a pit bike, so of course I tuned it up with playing card spoke 'motors'. It fit right in with the IHRA NFC traveling circus atmosphere.

 

[ironpony]

that is a neat story, I picked up a Schwinn Stingray chopper a few years ago on sale cheap, man that would of been cool in the 60's a factory fat tire chopper

 

[Dennis]

Fire burnout on a bicycle...pretty bad ass.

 

[glofria]

I live not to far from that shopping center and man has it changed over the years. There is a Chucky Cheese right on the spot where the starting line is now.

I am a bit younger and our bikes were based off of the BMX style. Cards in the spokes were still cool though.

 

[mick]

had the whatever brand with banana seat, 3 speed shifter, ape handle bars, slick rear tire, and yes, we would make
parachutes out of garbage bags and twine.....must have been just before i was bit by this bug.......original mags,
original covers, no pages missing

 

[ironpony]

I had one front end I but from electrical conduit IIRC it was about 4 feet long but you know how that goes everything gets bigger as our memories fade, well almost everything......

 

[Rajunz]

I was a chopper crazy kid in the late 60's, spending the summer with cousins in a Northern California lakeside resort town frequented by the Red & White choppers thundering through, and man, I had to have one. I cut off some 10 speeds forks - they were longer, you know - and 'compression welded' them (aka beat them on real good) over my stingray forks with a big hammer. The rake was bitchin and everybody stared when I rode my fine machine past. I was cool. Well right up until my flat-top wearing dad showed up and had a fit about how I was gonna get killed when those forks fell off, blah blah you're grounded, etc.. Then he tried to take them off, of course they wouldn't budge, the situation escalated to Coors fueled brute force, vise grips and hammers, but ultimately the hacksaw prevailed and my chopper days were over.
A couple years ago we bought one of those fat tire bikes for a pit bike, so of course I tuned it up with playing card spoke 'motors'. It fit right in with the IHRA NFC traveling circus atmosphere.

Too funny, I was riding a friends "chopper", pulled a wheelie and the next thing that I remembered was waking up on his couch with his mom standing over me fanning me.

 

[mick]

Too funny, I was riding a friends "chopper", pulled a wheelie and the next thing that I remembered was waking up on his couch with his mom standing over me fanning me.

......'mom standing over me fanning me' .....i have this mental image..... there's a really great joke where the punchline is 'that's how you wave the towel', but i digress

 

[TSK]

No helmets, or any other protective gear.
How did we ever survive those days?