Show us your summer toys! (Non-auto related)

[atomicholiday]

Summer can officially start now!  I just got this back from the marina and dumped it in yesterday.  It’s been in the family for a little over 20 years now.

Come on!  Let’s get summer going.  Let’s see your warm weather toys!

[Ace-Garageguy]

    

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Edited May 23, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[cobraman]

That there is funny !

[atomicholiday]

43 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

    

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…and there are all the reasons I don’t have time for the boat.?

[Snake45]

4 hours ago, atomicholiday said:

Summer can officially start now!  I just got this back from the marina and dumped it in yesterday.  It’s been in the family for a little over 20 years now.

Come on!  Let’s get summer going.  Let’s see your warm weather toys!

Suh-WEEEET! I was gonna post some pics of the '74 Schwinn Sting-Ray that I'm restoring and riding, but now it would just look like a turd. You win! 

[atomicholiday]

16 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Suh-WEEEET! I was gonna post some pics of the '74 Schwinn Sting-Ray that I'm restoring and riding, but now it would just look like a turd. You win! 

No way, let’s see it!  Anything that gets you out in the sun is welcome here.  No contest intended!

Edited May 23, 2023 by atomicholiday

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, atomicholiday said:

No way, let’s see it!  Anything that gets you out in the sun is welcome here.  No contest intended!

Well, just since you asked so nice....

Here it is just as I pulled it out of the shed, where it had been sitting, unmodified, unmolested and unrestored since I bought it at a yard sale about 30 years ago:

 

First order of bidness was to get it operational and ridable, which involved ONLY replacing the front tire tube and covering the gash/divot in the seat with black duck tape. Then and only then, after proving that it would make it around the block, did I bother to wash the 30 years of Barn Find Grime off of it. Detailing of various sorts yet to come, but here's what it looks like right now: 

 

[Khils]

58 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Well, just since you asked so nice....

  I see yours is from the era after Nader stuck his nose into regulations! (Thumb shifter)

Here's one I've had stashed since the early 70's

Edited May 23, 2023 by Khils

[Tom Geiger]

Have to pull it out of garage this weekend. I now work six miles from home so I may use it all summer

[atomicholiday]

Love those Stingrays!  I had a cheap knockoff when I was a kid.  But I loved that bike.  It was my first true love.

[Ace-Garageguy]

8 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

Have to pull it out of garage this weekend. I now work six miles from home so I may use it all summer

Great little vehicles.

Friend o' mine just bought a Samurai, clean, unmolested (no huge wheels or jacked up silliness), 45,000 miles, minor ft. end cosmetic damage...$1500.

I hate him.   

[von Zipper]

This makes mowing the grass fun ,its like riding a go cart

My wifes 1968 Schwinn "Miss Hollywood "

my 1952 Schwinn "Hornet "

Our camping trailer

 

 

[1972coronet]

6 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Suh-WEEEET! I was gonna post some pics of the '74 Schwinn Sting-Ray that I'm restoring and riding, but now it would just look like a turd. You win! 

[Engine 51]

4 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Well, just since you asked so nice....

Here it is just as I pulled it out of the shed, where it had been sitting, unmodified, unmolested and unrestored since I bought it at a yard sale about 30 years ago:

 

First order of bidness was to get it operational and ridable, which involved ONLY replacing the front tire tube and covering the gash/divot in the seat with black duck tape. Then and only then, after proving that it would make it around the block, did I bother to wash the 30 years of Barn Find Grime off of it. Detailing of various sorts yet to come, but here's what it looks like right now: 

 

Man, does that bike bring back memories…..great ones. Funny how you can forget things from childhood, see a pic and it all comes rushing back. Sooo glad you posted this!!

[Snake45]

3 hours ago, Khils said:

  I see yours is from the era after Nader stuck his nose into regulations! (Thumb shifter)

Here's one I've had stashed since the early 70's

 

Oh BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, you win. Is that a Cherry Picker? That's the bike equivalent of a low-milage First Gen Z/28 or maybe a '66-69 Chevelle SS396 or GTO. 

Re the thumb shifter: Since my stroke, I'm on blood thinner (Warfarin) and my arms and hands are prone to bruises for no reason at all. This thumb shifter has "bruised" a great big  maroon spot right at the web of my right hand. I oughta post a picture of that. 

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, von Zipper said:

My wifes 1968 Schwinn "Miss Hollywood "

 

If that were red, and a boy's bike, and a J.C. Higgins instead of a Schwinn, it would look just like MY boyhood bike. Would have been maybe a '64 or '65 model, I dunno. I DO know it's the reason I never had a Sting-Ray or clone, which is why I'm enjoying my '74 genuine Sting-Ray so much NOW! 

[Gearhead Kevin]

I ride every day, on one bike or the other, usually about 25-27 miles. 

I’m kind of a Schwinn nerd. The red one is a King Size American and is quite rare. They’re several inches taller than a normal Schwinn. 

and the blue one is a 1951 that I’m piecing together with correct dated parts. 
 

[LDO]

I can’t. It would get me banned. 

[Tom Geiger]

19 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Great little vehicles.

I bought it new in spring of 1992.  Best $10,500 I ever spent!  ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 5/23/2023 at 8:57 AM, atomicholiday said:

Summer can officially start now!  I just got this back from the marina and dumped it in yesterday.  It’s been in the family for a little over 20 years now.

Great looking boat. More info please.

[RSchnell]

When in town, the ladyfriend & I will do an excursion on the local gambling boat. I'm not much of a gambler, but it's cheap fun to go out for the night and people watch!

[atomicholiday]

6 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Great looking boat. More info please.

It's a 2000 Moomba Boomerang.   18 ft. inboard ski boat.   350 Mercruiser engine which puts out about 325 hp.  My dad bought it when it was about one year old and passed  it to me a few years back.  

Skiing is one of my other passions.   Been at it since the early 80's.  My dad actually just retired from water sports about two years ago.   He's in his mid 70's now.   Still in pretty good shape for his age. 

[FLHCAHZ]

[redscampi]

2008 Polaris Ranger 500. Part toy, part work horse.

1981 Suzuki GS1100E. All toy.

[Calb56]

Oh... toys? I thought you meant how I was spending my summer? Pretty much, just work...