Quote Originally Posted by IvonaDestroi View Post
although, my idea of step-through is the 70's old school style where you can actually step through it! I wish they still made the super low curvy step through frames, nowadays they're always some highly placed cheesy imitation. Structurally unsound my butt!
70's? Maybe. But my Huffy curvy step-through was made in the 50's.


Like that, only blue and white. With a white basket and white handle bar grips. The huffy logo was painted on the thing they chromed in the picture above, which also housed a horn.

It was left to rust by the original owner (my older sister) after my older brother waylaid her one day by throwing a broom handle through the spokes, and yes, that was every bit as disastrous as it sounds.

I got a book from the library about bike repair and fixed it up, including replacing bent and broken spokes and re-truing the wheels, something I cannot do to my own bike now.

I cleaned the rust out of the innards where the horn mechanism lay and got the horn working again.

Replaced handlebar grips, sanded and undercoated and painted

Then when I had it fixed up, I was told I wasn't allowed to ride it.

Which I blithely ignored.

No matter what I did, the chain would leap out and grab my pants legs. Hmmm, an early version of the vampire clipless pedals perhaps?

At any rate, I wish I still had that bike. Apparently after I was kicked out, my younger sister wrecked it and it was eventually thrown away. Which is a great shame since it's apparently worth about 3k now. . .