My First Bike
Red Schwinn Typhoon I was writing in a Google+ Bike Commuting Community about my first bike (that I can remember) and my memory wandered into my childhood in South Central Los Angeles where I grew up. I had this red Schwinn Typhoon bike when I was 7 about 1959. I remember the day that I took the training wheels off and some Hispanic kids a few houses from my house propped the bike up and shoved me down the hill. Wow I was going so fast that I forgot that I was riding without the training wheels. Leave it to the Internet to give me a photo of the bike as I could only imagine what it looked like up until today. I remember taking the fenders off and learning how to change a tire on this sucker with my dad's crescent wrench. As a kid I had a red Schwinn Typhoon I would ride it on the sidewalk in front of my house at 12203 South Main Street at age 7. There is a hill on Main Street and my brother, friends and I would ride really f...
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