Hey, I just stumbled upon this post. It is certainly cool. I have some interesting news for you. OMG, that bike, the one in the picture, the one with the tiger handlebar grips, That was MY bike in the mid 1960s. Specifically that one. It was given to me by my Uncle Charles. I personally put those tiger grips on it (traded them from a friend who had gotten them with his paper route money (from Brian Kovach). Can't be another one with those rare novelty grips. I learned to ride on it. I rode it all over my town (Hartland, Wisconsin, then later Woodstock, IL) for many years until I was older and got a Schwinn "Heavy Duty" for paper route purpose. That original white wall rear tire is bald to the cord, I'm sure, from me and my buddies practicing brake-lock "skids" all the time. Bike does wheelies really well too. The back of that fender is scraped from popping wheelies and hopping off holding the bars. Quite moving to stumble upon my old bike from childhood. I'm Robert Payton. I was born in 1959. Delighted.