1977 Free Spirit 
#1 2009-12-04 6:05pm
- p8dog
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1977 Free Spirit
1977 Free Spirit
5th birthday present
Quickly tore the back of the seat up popping wheelies at the end of my driveway, replaced with same style flamed seat, also from Sears. They guys down the street owned Kawasaki bikes with shocks and had orange flags at the back. I saw them riding really fast and thought to do so you had to wobble back and forth. This led to my first memory of high speed crash. Later removed fenders and chain guard and put my sister's white free spirit 10 speed seat on. Looped out of a ditch jump and broke the handle off of the bars and that's all I remember.
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#2 2009-12-04 6:16pm
- kevin108
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
I just bought two of these bike this summer at a community sale.A older man was selling them,both in pretty good shape,still had original tires,asking 25 for both.So i offered him 10 for one,then came back later and bought the other one for 5 bucks.......There isn't much info on these bikes,but a pretty cool find......
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#3 2009-12-05 9:02pm
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
back when bmx looked and weighed more like mx!
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#4 2009-12-19 3:16pm
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
Great story! I had that same exact bike. After awhile, I took it apart and painted it candy apple red and left the fenders off. I remember using the rear fender to chuck wiffle balls.
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#5 2010-10-19 11:10pm
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
My fiirst bike was a White Freespirit. Banana seat, wide bars, no crossbar, 1 speed with hand brakes., May have had a 3 speed internal, cant remember. But it was my first, learned to wheelie and bunnyhop on that bike, after I bent 2 or 3 back steel rims, I moved up to a Royce union with heavy duty Femco rims. Cheng shin block knobbie tires.Number plates and high fenders. Waffle grips. Originally had a crazy fork brace, reminded me of a springless springer front end, it was rigid...... Good times......
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#6 2010-11-17 12:40pm
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
You may be able to find the actual bike ad here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/c … 003636126/
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#7 2010-11-17 12:42pm
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oh wait, found it 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/4 … 122081597/
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#8 2012-01-13 10:40am
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
Love the story, bro! 
Love the bike too - it's perfect for a 5 year old but it's kind of scary how the handle bar broke off like that.
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#9 2012-02-25 4:36pm
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Re: 1977 Free Spirit
I had the exact same bike back in the day! Love it! Instant fave!
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