Schwinn Bicycle Company

Now, I've often mentioned that I grew up in Nashville, and as a child, I really didn't visit a lot of states.

I did love to travel, but my Schwinn couldn't actually take me that far, maybe out of the neighborhood, but certainly not out of Tennessee or even Nashville.

My parents took me to Detroit and across the border into Canada when I was two or three, but I certainly don't remember that trip.

In fact, the only so-called memory is from my parents and my cousins who were on the trip, and that was the incident of me falling out of the car somewhere in Michigan, a humorous anecdote for them, if not for me.

Um, and, um, You know, if that next offering comes out there, that's an unrealistic opportunity that you just have to take advantage of.

And, yeah, but, you know, look, I got a Schwinn three-speed bike with a shifter in the middle with a banana seat and high handlebars.

I was happy with that.

I didn't need anything else on Christmas.

And we both cried at different times.

We actually went to the bicycle store, and they're still in business since 1968 where we bought our Schwinn bicycles.

Dad took us down there, and we each had a $100 bill that we had earned through allowance and doing chores and stuff like that.

And we went, and as soon as I saw that Schwinn apple crate, You know, it had a banana seat and monkey handlebars and a gear shift.

And I said, that's the one I want.

And my brother bought a 10-speed bike.

So there was this movie that played here.

It's documentary called no hands, the wild ride of the Schwinn bicycle company.

And this, the cool thing about the Chicago film festival is they have some movies that play to the local crowd that are very much kind of like the Tribeca film festival.

They cater to where they're playing at.

And so they focus on things that are very well known in Chicago and the Schwinn bicycle company is, operated out of chicago for a long time and so it was a very famous um staple of the city and so telling their story is something interesting for the people of chicago and the family had never really talked about publicly or addressed what happened to the company they were used to be one of the uh biggest if not the biggest uh bicycle company on the the planet for a long time and then they went bankrupt in 1992 and no one really understood how or why entirely other than just the typical woes of the bicycle market.

And so this documentary tries to tell that story, and there's a disclaimer at the beginning to explain where and why they used AI, but they used it to bring life to historical imagery that they had of certain people from the story that they're telling.

Both the people who founded the Schwinn Bicycle Company and other people who were involved in the early years And so they took these black and white photos and made them, you know, move like AI does.

And it was just very unsettling and annoying and really frustrated me because it's like you don't have to do that.

Yeah.

So if anyone sees a Schwinn with Napoleon Dynamite handlebars, please hit my line.

Okay, so you're telling me that after all of these incidents that have happened, your apartment complex hasn't sent out a mass email that's been like, hey, we understand that there's been some incidents that have happened over the last couple weeks.

We have upped our security.

Here's my question.

Why bring this to the table? At what point do you file a police report? Because I know they're not going to find it.

Does that help me in any way? What's the point? Is someone going to pay for it? Some kind of insurance bigwig going to give me money for my Schwinn?

No, you file a police report, and then they'll basically file it away and be like, all right, we'll keep that in mind.

Julian's Auctions held a preview today.

It features Pee Wee's iconic gray suit and other costumes, red Schwinn bicycles, dolls, puppets, claymation figures, scripts and more.

The memorabilia comes from Ruben's major features in TV shows, including Pee Wee's Playhouse, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and the Pee Wee Herman Show.

The auction will take place on October 28th.

... villain here.

Like, who's got the more-- Even though like Bear was more like the overt, like nice guy entitlement sort of thing, and Rudy's trying to be, you know, the, the bad boy with the leather jacket and riding a Schwinn-

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... or whatever the fuck he rode.

Is, it was a riding area outside of Aptos, California, between Santa Cruz and Aptos.

And back then, where you would, you'd ride a Schwinn with, with U brakes on it and, you know, it was pretty, pretty, all rigid of course, steel frame.

Awesome bike, really.

I wish, wish I would've kept that bike.