brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> m...
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>> notbob wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-05-02, Dave Smith > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> My first bike <?> was a 90 Vespa. My neighbour was selling it for $25.
>>>> Hitchhikers used to laugh at me, but I wasn't the one standing at the
>>>> side of the road begging for a ride.....
>>>>
>>> Amen. My first was a Vespa, also. I had so much fun on that thing, I
>>> stayed on two wheels for the next 45 yrs! They're all gone now, but I've
>>> been tickling the thought of another 2-wheeler to get to town or just the
>>> mailbox. A Vespa is first in line in my dreams.
>>>
>> They are selling Vespas again. I was stunned by the prices. They start at
>> about $6000, and that is for the tiny ones. The bigger models are over
>> $9000.
>>
>
> In 1953 every 12 year old boy needed one of these to pick up girls:
> http://www.retro.net/db/schwinn_phantom/220/

This looks like Pee Wee Herman's bike, the one that was stolen in Pee
Wee's Big Adventure. He traveled across the country, encountering Large
Marge in order to get that bike back.

"On this very night, ten years ago, on this very same stretch of road..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Pdlxd_rro


Becca