Sensational latest find

[SimpleTom]

I just got this Sensation "Mike Bike" to add to my project list. I've got to have a few bikes other than Trail Horse and Trail Blazers. The fenders have been added but otherwise it's a nice frame.

 

[RobertC]

Hey Tom,

Nice little Mike Bike frame !

This is one of the earlier ones....you don't see too many of these around.

Good find !

 

[keith true]

My friend bought one of those new in 1968.The Merrimac Farmers exchange stores here sold them,also the Agway stores.Every farm kid got a Sensation Mike bike.They could just add a few dollars a week to the feed bill and take one home.They were known for breaking at the down tubes about 6 inches down from the fork neck,or at least the ones abused around here were.My friends bike didn't have wheels like yours,he had plain white wheels.

 

[manchester1]

Nice project bike:thumbsup: Now lets get cracking on some projects:laugh:

 

[SimpleTom]

Nice project bike:thumbsup: Now lets get cracking on some projects:laugh:

Will do. Just finished building a shelf in my new Toy Box. Just need to re organize and the mini bike projects will begin again. :thumbsup:

 

[manchester1]

Nice toy box:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Jack's]

I just got this Sensation "Mike Bike" to add to my project list. I've got to have a few bikes other than Trail Horse and Trail Blazers. The fenders have been added but otherwise it's a nice frame.

Nice find!! I'd take it!

 

[keith true]

Did all the Mike Bikes have that pointed joint in the frame at the rear axle? My friend bought a new 68,and I just thought it was a frame made of two identical loops,like my Cat.I just don't remember that sharp joint in the frame.Now,it has been over 40 years,so I could be all wrong,but we did compare those bikes day in day out all summer long.It did have a long seat and two of us could ride on it.

 

[KustomKartKid]

Did all the Mike Bikes have that pointed joint in the frame at the rear axle? My friend bought a new 68,and I just thought it was a frame made of two identical loops,like my Cat.I just don't remember that sharp joint in the frame.Now,it has been over 40 years,so I could be all wrong,but we did compare those bikes day in day out all summer long.It did have a long seat and two of us could ride on it.

There were other models of Sensations that did not have the pointed axle plate...in fact I think only the early ones like the one Tom pictured had them.

Here's a different or later model: