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#1 2007-11-27 11:51am

reilley1
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1972/73 Harrigan Special

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1972/73 Harrigan Special

Early Nor-Cal Iron

Way back in the stone age when BMX was young. A great deal of innovation was being done in order to get that extra edge. This was not limited to the So-Cal scene. The more I look into it, the more I realize how the whole scene was moving in different parts of the country in parallel, or just weeks behind. This is specially true of the NOR-Cal scene.

A while back the OM and I had a good talk about how BMX spread like wildfire. He mentioned going up to Nor-Cal and battling it out with The Silver Shield BMX team which included people like Friendly Fred, John Wells among others. He also mentioned a certain Pete Harrigan and his bikes. Thanks to Mike "Spike" Rush (another Nor-Cal 70s icon,) I managed to get one of Pete's innovative frames.
The frame is a modified Schwinn Sting Ray. Main reason was in order to run longer cranks.
The last  picture shows where the bike was cut and rewelded along with a cool chainstay reinforcement


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#2 2007-12-01 8:29pm

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Re: 1972/73 Harrigan Special

Thanks for posting this gem. I wish my Schwinn Sting Ray looked like that back in the day. I would like to take that on the track today. LOL

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#3 2008-03-18 6:41pm

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Re: 1972/73 Harrigan Special

wow what a stunna.....I really like this bike. It just screams old school.....could you go into what all they did around the BB...


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#4 2008-04-09 7:42pm

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Re: 1972/73 Harrigan Special

The bike won best of 70s at the recent Gonzo's BBQ.  smile

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#5 2009-03-05 6:56pm

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Re: 1972/73 Harrigan Special

so cool had a schwinn like this in the late 70s. just stock, but it was cool!


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#6 2009-09-10 11:07am

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Re: 1972/73 Harrigan Special

i'm curious, what was the stock crank length, and what did it change to?


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