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What got Ali into boxing
Posted: 07 Jun 2003, 18:43
by DLH=Chicken
I've said it here before so this won't be hard. Tell me the brand of the item and how and where he obtained it for full credit.
Posted: 10 Jun 2003, 22:43
by Broncano
Yes you've said it before, only problem is you were using a different username
flex wrote:
Clay grew up in a family that had enough money to buy him a bike that was stolen which is the reason he got into boxing.
Posted: 12 Jun 2003, 00:19
by Jeffsboxing
It's his new Schwinn (is it correct spelling?) bike. Did his pop buy it for him?
The 12-year old Clay was very upset and met a patrol police officer, Joe Martin who owned "Columbia" boxing gym in Louisville.
Posted: 12 Jun 2003, 15:22
by DLH=Chicken
Jeffsboxing wrote:It's his new Schwinn (is it correct spelling?) bike. Did his pop buy it for him?
The 12-year old Clay was very upset and met a patrol police officer, Joe Martin who owned "Columbia" boxing gym in Louisville.
Hmmm, the spelling is a little off on that. If by schwinn you were trying to spell Mongoose then you were correct.
The exact model was a Mongoose "dyno" series. the dirt/street tiral bike. Part of the mongoose company was bought by another company which adopted the name DYNO and now make BMX bikes.
Technically you could say Ali rode a DYNO but it was a Mongoose back then.