After my third visit in two weeks to Nearly New Recycled Bikes, I finally found my soul mate! It's a gorgeous, navy blue 1979 Schwinn World Sport. It's got 10 speeds, which is 9 more than my last one.
It's so fast, it makes me a little nervous. Almost all my Chicago bike-friends have been in some sort of accident and I always believed I've been left unharmed because my old cruiser was so loud and slow, there was no missing it. It jangled loudly over every bump, an audible warning to pedestrians. It was so slow, when someone opened a car door two feet in front of me, I had 3 minutes to dodge it.
But you gotta live sometime, right?
"That boy of yours can all but touch his Christmas bike right now. He's ridden it already, through hundreds of miles of imagination. And just because he can't believe it won't come true, because he know you'll give it to him if you possibly can, he's bragged to all the gang about 'his bike' - and his Dad, who never lets him down."
Congratulations! Does it still have that new bike smell?
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