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Originally Posted by Rain Man
A 3-speed would still seem cool, though. Did you have a banana seat and a sissy bar?
My first new bike was a red, white, and blue single speed Huffy Free Spirit, which I later retrofitted with a mirror and a speedometer/odometer. It looked a little like this, but more red and the handlebars weren't as dorky.
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Here's a picture of mine. It doesn't look as cool to me now as it did when I was a kid. I remember thinking the spring-looking things on the front end looked cool, but they were just cosmetic as it turned out.
My main problem with it was the weight. I lived in the country and rode a lot in pastures and creek beds. It just wasn't the right bike for that kind of thing. Later, I got a hand-me-down single speed girl's Schwinn that was really light. I replaced the seat with a sort of banana seat (more boxy than typical banana seats), replaced the tires with some real knobby ones, and replaced the handlebars/handgrips to make my own pre-BMX off road bike and it worked a lot better. That bike was a lot like the one you had except that it was a girl's style, which didn't bother me.