Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Aluminum Schwinn

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Haro540
12-28-08, 05:48 PM
This is not my first fixed gear bicycle, but it is my first conversion.
Not sure what frame it is if anyone knows please inform me.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s293/oko7015/Photo1-2.jpg

bad news hughes
12-28-08, 05:49 PM
do you have a clear photo?
dayvan cowboy
12-28-08, 05:58 PM
is that left side drive or is the photo flipped?

bad news hughes
12-28-08, 05:59 PM
photo is flipped.. look at the schwinn logo
Haro540
12-28-08, 06:00 PM
Correct and Ill get a better picture soon, all I had was my macbook to take the photo.
peabodypride
12-28-08, 06:04 PM
Looks steel to me..
bkowa092
12-28-08, 06:53 PM
Looks steel to me..

Not doubting you, just curious. How can you tell from the picture whether the bike is steel or aluminum?
peabodypride
12-28-08, 07:14 PM
Not doubting you, just curious. How can you tell from the picture whether the bike is steel or aluminum?

The tubes don't look the slightest bit oversized. Cannondale road frames tend to have smaller diameter tubes than most other alu frames, but this isn't a C-dale.
sneaky viking
12-28-08, 08:41 PM
maggggnnnett.
dcraver
12-28-08, 08:53 PM
Looks like a Schwinn 564. I have the same bike but I actually left the stuff that is supposed to be on there, on there.
Haro540
12-28-08, 10:18 PM
Yeah its a Schwinn 564 thanks man.
It is Paramount butted aluminum and new picture will be up tomorrow.
time bandit
12-29-08, 09:23 AM
The tubes don't look the slightest bit oversized. Cannondale road frames tend to have smaller diameter tubes than most other alu frames, but this isn't a C-dale.

yeah, in like the mid 80s...
lol, what about older aluminum bikes?

fail.
peabodypride
12-29-08, 09:43 AM
yeah, in like the mid 80s...
lol, what about older aluminum bikes?

fail.

http://velospace.org/files/schwinn564_downtube_50.jpg
If he had posted a decent picture, like this one, I would have agreed. But from the MacBook crap he posted, there's no way to see that the tubes are O/S.