There was always something special about the Stingray frame. I had a bunch of bikes when I was growing up. In 1976 I got a very odd and rare Viscount BMX with MX-60 mags installed from the factory. It was the first BMX frame to show up in my area. I grew up rural and wanted a road bike. My parents came home with this "thing". I was horrified. Over the next year BMX came alive here and I started to take a different view of the little red looptail I had. I sunk over $500 into it with all red ano parts. Super-Maxys... bars... everything was red but the wheels. My friends and I all packed up with our 20" bikes and rode the area every summer. It was at that time that I got to ride my first Stingray. It was my cousin's. A yellow 1973 that was bone stock. I ended up buying it from him and painted her blue. It went on to be the victim of a full BMX conversion. That bike was special and I regret ever selling it (the Viscount, too). The Stingray always flew the furthest and wheelied the longest. It was those memories that drove me to get a Stingray frame for my son. As soon as the ultrasound showed it was a boy I bought the frame. He was born already owning it.