Our Bike was sort of a creepy Mauve

 


When we were little girls growing up on the west side of Chicago our mother sent us to day camp in the summer to keep busy. As we got older, we would ride our bikes. Somehow,(I'm sure it was donated to us by someone) we got this huge old pinkish mauve bike which really was hideous to a little kid wanting a bannana bike. The fenders were really thick. It was old and huge.
But there were no designer things back then, so I rode the bike. Did I have a choice? It was really big. Scary to ride it...I rode on 26th street... a fairly busy street... but I did.
I saw this bike and thought about the pink bike all over again.