Saving Tempest
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
The 'simple' and boring answer: Kids of all ages want to go FAST. Whether they do or not is irrelevant and perhaps their parents didn't want them to but giving them a pretentiously named diamond frame bike with swoopy handlebars would have been the equivalent of a 'mountain bike' today.
"Let the four winds blow" - Fats Domino
"Let the four winds blow" - Fats Domino