[b-man]

I was riding around on this Schwinn sidehack I had built out of several old Schwinn bike frames. I did all the cutting and fitting, a couple of the neighborhood dads that were into dune buggies and motocross bikes did the majority of the oxy-acetylene gas welding on it. 50 years ago it had shiny red paint and two nice banana seats I had recovered in black Naugahyde.

By this time I had moved on from being heavily into building 1/24 & 1/25 scale model cars and playing with HO scale slot cars and redline Hot Wheels to building motocross bicycles. This was right at the dawn of commercially available motocross bicycles when we were all building our own.

Was looking forward to building my first engine, a VW 1500 about a year later at 15 years old.