What’s the fastest anyone’s ever gone on a Schwinn Stingray?

[wheelbender6]

Back in my 30s, I would get up early on the weekends to drive my Chevy Corvette on Ortega Highway (I kept it for 9 years). It was just me and the sport bikes on the highway at that hour.
- there was also a place along the highway where we shot our pistols on a range. Bluebird Canyon?

 

[fatbike]

Back in my 30s, I would get up early on the weekends to drive my Chevy Corvette on Ortega Highway (I kept it for 9 years). It was just me and the sport bikes on the highway at that hour.
- there was also a place along the highway where we shot our pistols on a range. Bluebird Canyon?

I don't know of that, my cousin who lived in Temecula use to take his crotch rocket GSXR bike and a few other friends I knew did too. I didn't have the vehicle, an El Camino with power and nice suspension, but not a rally car.

 

[Sevenhills1952]

If you research bicycle speed records, think you could beat Denise at 184mph?

The Exquisite Balancing Act of Riding a Bike at 184 MPH

Guts, legs of unobtanium, a friend with a drag racer, and a keen sense of aerodynamics are all key to Denise Mueller-Korenek's mission of setting the bike land speed record.

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If any bike is geared high enough, has a fairing, and (I didn't read Denise' s story all through) but one's in past towed up to a certain speed then rider takes over. You'd have to be one $#(( of a rider with a $#(( of a lot of guts! Tire technology...also for that speed.
About 20 years ago I mounted a Briggs and Stratton (horizontal shaft) motor on a homemade platform over rear wheel on a 3 speed bike I had here. I had a curved pulley about 5" diameter (like a boat rope pulley) that I slotted for the motor keyway. Mount was on a lever so you could lower it onto tire. It worked perfectly. I would pedal up to about 10, lower choked motor on, it would start, choke off, then away I'd go. I had ignition kill switch on handlebar so it was a compression "Jake brake" to slow down. It would go 64mph, flat level asphalt. No helmet of course.
I had a buddy follow me home one night, he on a motorcycle. At home I turned up driveway, and basically bike fell apart! (I was fine...coasting to a stop). The rear tire inner tube was squeezing out the sidewall!

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[wheelbender6]

This one might do The Ton.

Ymmv

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

go get a Stingray and keep up with this guy. since it appears people believe Stingrays can go to go 54 MPH, it should be no problem.

this guy is more fit and crazy than I was, I did my slower version many times when I was young and indestructible and lived to tell the tale. my friend I used to ride with was a fireman, I had to wait for him at the bottom since he had seen what happens to cyclists who crash at speed. said the road rash looks like the meat at he grocery store, only with rocks in it.

the video starts at the 12:00 minute mark. that is the beginning of the best downhill part.

 

[creebobby]

I did more cutting on my 68 Gravity build.

I’ve deleted the kickstand mount, chain guard mounts, rear fender mount nubs, top fender mount.

Next I m going to bend the rear triangle in skinnier and work on a custom flush front headset.

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[creebobby]

Here’s a first look at a dirty mock-up of the bike using a Pixie fork and a late 40s springer as a rear swing arm. The wheelbase stretches out to 50”, the maximum for official gravity bike competition.


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[creebobby]

Streamlining the frame.

The first draft rules are out the window.

For now the rule I’m giving myself for the frame is, all frame tubes and frame welds must be original factory Chicago Schwinn cantilever Stingray.


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[1motime]

Get a feel for it before the welding starts! Worth the time!

 

[creebobby]

Get a feel for it before the welding starts! Worth the time!

I don’t wanna weld!
If it needs welds I’ll get the pieces prepped and take it to the welding/muffler shop down the block.


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