Jim Barnard
Wore out three sets of tires already!
It seems to me, that these Apollo bikes were always shunned. I always thought of these as the bike you had if your Mom ran away with the Fuller Brush Salesman and your Daddy drank the dole. The pedals were kind to shoe-less chirlins for a reason.
I have had many in the last 2 decades (even an NOS one) and never saw fit to keep any. I rode one in the NYC 5 borough ride and discovered that if you pinched the awful saddle twixt your thighs and leaned the handle bars to one side, the frame would flex almost 4 inches (without breaking!)
I recently parted one out and was surprised how much interest in the parts there was. I started looking online and was pleased to see that the right model has become VERY appealing to me and, it seem many others.
I LOVE the "Metallic Poo" color especially when it had a white saddle and a giant stick shift on the top tubes with an early "APOLLO" screening on the flat tube.
Here is one that has joined the collection against all odds. Super cool with the chain guard and not the ring. Did they really make 1 billion 100 million of these? (Probably not sequential)
I salute this cheap and beautiful muscle bike:
I have had many in the last 2 decades (even an NOS one) and never saw fit to keep any. I rode one in the NYC 5 borough ride and discovered that if you pinched the awful saddle twixt your thighs and leaned the handle bars to one side, the frame would flex almost 4 inches (without breaking!)
I recently parted one out and was surprised how much interest in the parts there was. I started looking online and was pleased to see that the right model has become VERY appealing to me and, it seem many others.
I LOVE the "Metallic Poo" color especially when it had a white saddle and a giant stick shift on the top tubes with an early "APOLLO" screening on the flat tube.
Here is one that has joined the collection against all odds. Super cool with the chain guard and not the ring. Did they really make 1 billion 100 million of these? (Probably not sequential)
I salute this cheap and beautiful muscle bike: