I saw this in Walmart. It has a 20" x 3" Flame Tread Tire.
There doesn’t appear to be any brand name other than West Coast Chopper on the tire.
I’m pretty sure it’s a true 20" rim (not a 19")
It’s about $100 you can throw away the frame and get 2 slightly overpriced tires.
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lol 
Cool stuff. It’s neat to see these chopper bike styles being made.
Here’s another view that shows the tires from a different angle (the picture is from the Wal*Mart web site):
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It’s $169.34 at the Wal*Mart web site. Just a bit less than the similar Schwinn Stingray chopper bicycle. Those would be some very expensive tires.
“everything old, is new again”
Anyone remember the 60’s chopper bikes …?
(Schwinn I think)
They were 5 speed ‘stick’ shift, small front wheel, shock absourber forks, tail finned witha ‘sissy’ bar, and draw back handle bars …?
Now ‘those’ where chopper bikes …
Here’s another cool chopper bicycle: Rain City Choppers project bike.
Expect to see a chopper bike from Redline sometime soonish. It looks like that bike uses the same size of rear tire as the Schwinn Stingray. Build quality of the bike also looks much better than the Wal*Mart chopper bikes (and I’m sure it will be much more expensive too).
I went back to the Walmart site and looked at thew different views. That is actually not the bike I saw in Walmart for $99.
The one I saw had tires almost identical to the Dyno Fireball.
The one in the above picture just has a zig-zag tread pattern.
at my local dick’s sporting goods, thaey had the super wide stingray tires and tubes… If anybody wants some, i’ll buty them for you and ship them (additional cost)
thats looks better than the schwinn’s! and the tyres are more uni friendly too.
You could certainly get more use out of it than just the tires. Especially for $170. Carefully modify a uni hub to equal the number of holes in that front rim and have a pimp@$$ wheel. You could use the rear rim too. That seat looks almost uniable. Some pedals…I think thats a 2 piece crank…stem…bars. Definately worth it if you can find use for half of these parts.
Oh yeah. They were from Schwinn and many imitators (don’t know who was imitating who).
Plus, those were bikes, not wannabe motorcycles. That seems to be the trend with these newer ones, possibly inspired by the popularity of today’s art motorcycles. These bikes are far less functional than those older hi-rise bikes. Very heavy, and suitable mostly for cruising along, not for any sort of performance.
Today I saw a really cool whitewall 24 x 3" cruiser tire called the “Fat Daddy-O” or something like that. Sorry, can’t remember the name. It would make a great tire for a “street MUni” or something. My local Bob’s Bike Shop has a collection of several outlandish-looking cruiser bikes, including the Schwinn with the massive rear rim & tire.
I’ve seen the one Darren’s put together, but I don’t know how it can be a “chopper.” It’s hard to “chop” a unicycle, as the frame has to basically stand straight up & down. Making it more curvy and less functional will probably go a long way to making it a nice cruiser uni though.
Is that Shakespeare? Macbeth perhaps?
Dave
I wonder how it would look if you tried to make it look like the front fork of a cruiser motorcycle. Like have two huge round chrome tubes connecting to a large metal plate that the seat tube is connected to. Might look cool, then again, it might look lame.
Did a search in some places …
seems it was a song title and a TV show …lol
No origin that I could find