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wheelie bike
A wheelie bike, also called a muscle bike, high-riser, or banana bike, is a type of stylized children's bicycle designed in the 1960s to resemble a chopper motorcycle and characterized by ape hanger handlebars, a banana seat with sissy bar, and small () wheels. Notable examples include the Schwinn Sting-Ray and Krate lines and the Raleigh Chopper line. Other notable manufacturers and retailers that offered models include AMF, CCM, Columbia, Huffy, Iverson, J. C. Penney, Malvern Star, Monark, Murray, Ross, Sears, and Vindec.
== History ==
In 1962 Peter Mole of John T Bill & Co contacted Huffy Corp about making a new bicycle called High Rise. The bikes had a long seat called a banana seat with strut and taller handlebars. Huffy hesitated for several months before agreeing to make the bike with the stipulation that if it was a flop Peter Mole would buy all the left over parts and bikes. The new bike, called the ''Penguin'', was finally being sold in stores by March 1963 and was the first of this type to market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Birth of the Factory Muscle Bike: 1963 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Myths and Milestones in Bicycle Evolution )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Evolution of the High Rise Bicycle 1963 )〕
Also in 1963, Schwinn's designer Al Fritz heard about a new youth trend centered in California for retrofitting bicycles with the accoutrements of motorcycles customized in the Bobber or Chopper style. Inspired, he designed a mass-production bike for the youth market as ''Project J-38'', and the result was introduced to the public as the Schwinn ''Sting-Ray'' in 1963. Sales were initially slow, but eventually took off. By 1965, several other American and foreign manufacturers were offering their own version of the Sting-Ray.
BMX bikes began to supersede wheelie bikes in the 1970s, though Schwinn continued to offer them until 1982 and Raleigh until 1984.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Schwinn Sting-Ray Mania Continues )〕 Original wheelie bikes are popular collectors' items now,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 History: The Birth of the Original Sting-Ray )〕 and some manufacturers have reintroduced updated versions.〔
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