Mongoose

I got the, I got a lot of use out of that.

I had, I had a Mongoose for a while.

But then, as I grew up, when I got a new bike, mountain bike.

For sure.

didn't win this time.

Peer pressure didn't win.

And then for me, Mongoose was definitely high-end dirt bike, trick bike.

For us, probably to this day, I don't know if it's still anymore.

Yeah, I could ride a bicycle.

I had a Mongoose growing up.

All right.

I had a solid bike.

You're right.

That would've been like a Mongoose and whatever, but they didn't hear that.

With the knobby tires.

Yeah.

I beat you.

I was 15 grand on Mongoose.

I've just beat you there.

[laughs]

So, okay.

So, Duke Bass owner, Mongoose Racing, president of the Federation of American Bicyclists, or FAB.

Bicyclists.

Bicyclists, that's right.

Especially when How Needham decides to speed it up to make it look faster.

Now he did that in Cannonball Run, he did that in Smoking the Bandit, but when you've got people on bikes doing this, and your legs are going like this, you know, why would you get away with that?

uh so the race ends crew wins bart loses gets kicked off a mongoose racing yeah but then crew being such a good guy it's like why don't you join our new joint team rad racing they lift up the bike together freeze frame

such such a great ending if i was going to commemorate like camaraderie coming together it would be lifting someone else's bike up with them yeah

Yeah.

The Mongoose, Start.

Mongoose.

Mongoose was, like, the first one that, like, really put it on the map.

Yeah.

Yeah.

recall.

I remember seeing a Mongoose.

I might buy myself a Mongoose bike just to say I bought one.

Yeah, they were like $200-something.

Not the ones in Cali.

Really? Yeah, Mongoose, GT, and Patterson, $350, $500 for a bike.

Yeah, out here they were like $353.

80s, 90s, that was a lot of money.

Five stations.

So for me, getting on my Mongoose... and hauling ass down Pinellas Point Drive and making my way to the 7-Eleven, where I had the added bonus of occasionally running into Doc Gooden, that's where you bought baseball cards.

Now, that probably was before your time even, Tom.

Like, did you know that baseball cards were at gas stations? That's where you bought them.

Yeah, right.

And Diamondbacks and Mongoose and all that.

That's where we would go for that.

But people would say, oh, you know, Hutch's made in Baltimore, and if they have a scratch in it, they throw it away.