During my childhood and early adolescence, Schwinn made a line of bicycles called "Krates", which were really variants of their enormously popular Stingray bicycles. They had "banana" seats, "stick" shifters and other features that were meant to evoke the "muscle" cars of that era.
Those bikes came in a rainbow of colors and went by names like the Pea Picker Lemon Peeler, Apple Krate and Orange Krate. (As Tom Wolfe pointed out in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, young men involved in the culture of custom muscle cars seemed to have an abhorrence of the letter "C".)
I never, ever thought about what an Orange Peel might have looked like. But I found out while I was surfing the web after riding home just ahead of yesterday's deluge:
Those bikes came in a rainbow of colors and went by names like the Pea Picker Lemon Peeler, Apple Krate and Orange Krate. (As Tom Wolfe pointed out in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, young men involved in the culture of custom muscle cars seemed to have an abhorrence of the letter "C".)
I never, ever thought about what an Orange Peel might have looked like. But I found out while I was surfing the web after riding home just ahead of yesterday's deluge:
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