[News Script: Boy On a Motor Bike] Part: 1 of 4
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BOY ON A MOTOR BIKE
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When Gary Tubbe of Fort Worth was only two years old
he learned to ride a bicycle, and Channel 5 news emme
covered that first bike ride. Today Gary is back in
front of the cameras at the age of five and he has
a new means of transportaion to show off. Gary's
father, Leon Tubb, has spent the last a two months
building a one-horsepower mini-bike, combining a
lawn mower motor with a bicycle. The bike gets two-
hundred miles per gallon and can hit a top speed of
12 miles per hour.BRING IN MUSIC
LONG OF PROUD FAMILY IN FRONT OF CAMERA
Tubb says he built the mini-bike as an exercise' in
reverse psychology. He says he hopes if Gary has a
motorbike now, he won't want one when he gets older.
TITH SISTER ON BIKE
Gary occasionally agrees to take his three-year-old
sister for a ride, even though she seems a little
reluctant. Since as already graduated from a
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Boy On a Motor Bike], item, June 23, 1968; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc991946/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.