1970 Schwinn Krates® ad

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

This bike was THE BOMB at the time. You could not be a cooler kid if you were riding around on one of these. Well you could be cooler if you weren't dressed for a nice game of golf.

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[write-light.livejournal.com]

OMG a banana seat and high bars THESE WERE DESIRED

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I decided I needed the Orange Krate, so I looked it up on eBay. You can get one! For $400. A bit out of my price range for impulse shopping, but I dare one of you to pick it up!

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That still looks like a dream.

[benji.livejournal.com]

A white cotton picker. Don't see one of them in popular culture much.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

And highly appropriate that it's being ridden by what appears to be a young Kenneth Parcell!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

My bike must have been a Huffy knock-off of this series called the Dill Pickle. It's long gone, but might someone have picture just like it posted somewhere out there? You're darned tootin'! That's not me, though, and my seat was black. If it ever had a basket, I don't remember it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zyohOtW538I/TFDDVC_jzNI/AAAAAAAAAEA/Y4-5xzDI7uQ/s1600/pickle+001.jpg

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I had a similar ride, but it was made by Columbia. I thought it was the most awesome thing there was.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a 1970 Cotton Picker sitting in my living room with a 1967 Rams Horn Fastback