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Article: Vintage bicycles.(includes related articles)
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Do you still have the bike you rode as a child? It might be worth big bucks in this fast-growing field of collecting.
In 1959, when I was nine years old and living in a small town in Illinois, my father drove me out to a farm where a friend of his had a bicycle for sale. It was a bright-green Monark Super Deluxe, with heavy-duty front springs, white balloon tires, front and rear fenders, a luggage carrier over the rear wheel, a battery-powered headlight, and a jewel-studded imitation fuel tank. I recall that my father paid $10 for it, despite the fact that my feet barely reached the pedals.
I lumbered around town on my green steed for a few years, but ...