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My parents bought me a Ward's Hawthorne (Stingray copy-cat) for my b-day in about 1970 and it weighed a ton. A few years later it was stolen from the bike rack at Ward's and the replacement was a Schwinn Scrambler and that bike was excellent--light and very "wheelieable."
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Sounds suspiciously like you set up a "hit" on your first bike in order to get the second one.