Classic & Vintage - See what you guys made me do...

You bums and your Super Sports and Super Tourers; you forced me to go and grub one up for myself. A couple weeks ago I put an ad on CL looking for a chainguard ring for my '76 Continental. A guy called saying he had a nice one, so I drove over to see him and stumbled into an elephants' graveyard for Schwinn lightweights. He's got probably 30 in various states out behind his house. I only bought the chainguard that day, but I did notice one '71 Super Sport frameset among the Varsities, Suburbans, and Contis. The next week I went back and got it. The Brooks B15 was long gone, but a nearby Varsity gave up it's original saddle, and a Suburban coughed up a set of Campus Green fenders, all for $25.

It'll need fresh paint and new decals, but I screwed it together and borrowed a set of wheels from one of my Raleighs just to see how it'll look. A Super Suburban, if you will.

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Boy that bike is clean.

It looks like you have the same Randonneur style handlebars that I have on my Voyageur II. They look cool as heck but I'm not sure if I like them for comfort.

The saddle and bag is a nice touch!

You know how much that little round refector on the rear fender goes for on ebay? It alone should more than cover the $25. What a deal!

That was the only old-style refector in the whole batch, too. The mounting bolt's torn out of the reflector, but I can work around that; Schwinn fenders just don't look right wearing anything else.

The fenders are pretty clean, but the frame's got a little ding in the toptube, and the paint's shot. The stem was only a red hair this side of being stuck, too. Oxylic acid and a 6-inch bench vise made it see reason, though.

The new decal set will be non-standard gold, to match the fender lining.

New decal set? Could you possible have one in white, hint hint, haha. That looks uhhhmazing! It's a Superburban.:D,,,,BD

I think there's some guy in Australia, and another in the UK somewhere
who do repop decals. . . (smiley thingy goes here)

nice, very nice

marty

Ya, we really need to find a good source of old decals,,,,it would make life so much easier! (heres my smiley thing - :) )

Very nice find, Mike! I rode a Super Sport from '72 until '80 when it was stolen. They're great rides.

Ah Schwinn! Always a great looking bike! Hey! Maybe a "Supurban" ?

Great find. I've owned a 1971 Super Sport and I am currently rehabbing a 1968 Super Sport. The old Super Sports are among my favorite riding bikes. Enjoy.

Nice find!

What a gorgeous bike Mike!! You had 1 in the past so, welcome back to the dark side:D

Since you're already sending Dr D my '71 SS decal set, and since he'll already be whipping up some "Campus Green" for mine, the timing could be good ehh?? Does this mean we get the "volume" discount??:p

I really believe that fillet-brazed bikes will become more appreciated in the coming years....

Y'know, I completely forgot yours was Campus Green too. I think I better drop the ol' paint dauber a line.

Those mudguards look great on that bike.

I'm in love with the matching fenders!!!

Not bad for fillet brazed.

A Super Suburban, if you will.Funny, I was going to approach you about just that name on some decals. "Sierra" (Eric Amlie) graced me with a Ladies Super Sport frame and I have a matching Opaque Blue men's out in the shed that I need to build up and was thinking of doing them "Suburban" style. Great minds and all that ... :)

Bob "I'll need white" Hufford
Springfield, MO

Heheh -- the artwork's already done. :D

Heheh -- the artwork's already done. :D

Wouldn't "Super Suburban" be the same thing as "Urban"? :D

Wouldn't "Super Suburban" be the same thing as "Urban"? :D

Yup, about like my friend who hosted semi-biennial birthday parties. :)

Yeah, but it doesn't fill the line out as well, you semanticists. I suppose I could call it a Super Clubman, but there's no precedent for that appelation.

I think you should call it an Exurb.

Neal

"Urban Suburban" if you want to be cute.

"Schwinn Para-Viscount" if you want to insinuate that your Ashtabula BB will fall apart after 20 miles.

Or, for the winos out there, "Schwinn Bourbon."

-Kurt

Schwinn Suburban Renewal.

Tubing decal says around the periphery:
'Hand-brazed with a garden trowel'

The BB fillets definitely look like they let the new guy do this one. :D

oxylic acid to get the stem unstuck, how does that work? Why new paint, it looks great the way it is?

Turned the frame upside down and kept pouring the acid solution into the headtube. It would run out in a few seconds, and I'd fill it up again. It took out enough of the iron oxide for me to bust it loose. The next step would've been to pour in ammonia to get rid of some aluminum oxide.

You can't really tell in the pic, but the paint on the frame is thrashed.

Uber Urban?, hehe.

I must've got an experienced builder on my opaque blue 73/74. All the joints look pretty damn good? Can't tell the real year since it has a 73 S/n, and a 74 dated crank. Is this a common occurrence on the hand builds? Maybe the owner bent the original somehow? I'm not doing fenders on mine(yet), but 1 3/8" knobbies and moustache bars are going on.

Yeah, but it doesn't fill the line out as well, you semanticists. I suppose I could call it a Super Clubman, but there's no precedent for that appelation.

How about "Appelation Spring"? :p

Uber Urban?, hehe.

I must've got an experienced builder on my opaque blue 73/74. All the joints look pretty damn good? Can't tell the real year since it has a 73 S/n, and a 74 dated crank. Is this a common occurrence on the hand builds? Maybe the owner bent the original somehow? I'm not doing fenders on mine(yet), but 1 3/8" knobbies and moustache bars are going on.

Probably the frame was built and numbered in late '73, sat through the Christmas holidays, and didn't get assembled until early '74 -- with a nice, newly arrived crankset.

Or there was some sort of temporal anomaly in Chicago around that time...

How about "Appelation Spring"? :p

Those are the kind on a Brooks B72, right?

Those are the kind on a Brooks B72, right?
Which would look perfect on your "Schwinn Suburban Renewal" :D
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