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Old 02-08-08, 07:37 AM
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What Schwinn is this?

Saw this on e-bay but no decals as I can see https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=021
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I believe it's an '84 le tour:
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html

I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
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After looking at the ebay bike again, there are differences between it and my '84 le tour, but I still think it's likely the ebay bike is an '84 le tour. The original rims would be Weinmann's, not Rigida's, the pie plate would be metal, not plastic, and the hubs would have quick release axles, not nutted (the ebay bike may have had the wheels switched out and the plastic pie plate and nutted axle(s) might have come with the wheels). The brake hoods would be gum colored hoods, not black (but again, those may have been switched out). My '84 in the dark blue color has a red headbadge, not silver, but maybe they put different colored headbadges on the different colored bikes.

The frame, including the tubing decal, fork, shifters, rear derailleur, front derailleur, crankset, and brakes are the same as my '84 le tour. The shifters are Suntour Symmetrics, which have a cam inside the shifter body that trims the front derailleur as you shift the chain in the rear.

The '84 le tour was made in Greenville, Mississippi-

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Originally Posted by well biked
I believe it's an '84 le tour:
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html

I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
+1, I think your right on. I had a 84 Super Le Tour, sold it recently. It had the same 4130 decal. The 84 Traveler, (that I kept) does not say double butted and does not say made in America. The Super LeTour was a darker silver, almost a tannish gray, but the LeTour was that really nice silver that Schwinn made. IMHO that's a really nice riding frame. I rode mine for a brief period before selling it. The only reason I sold it is I wanted a Schwinn with original paint and decals and the one I picked up (at a yard sale) had faded paint with almost no decals, so I flipped it. But I wish the Super LeTour had the nice paint and decals instead of the Traveler I decided to keep.
I think your comment about changing the wheels is spot on. The Super LeTour had 1 1/8 rims. Well Biked, do your rims have spoke eyelets like the ones in the pic?
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Well Biked, do your rims have spoke eyelets like the ones in the pic?
No, the Weinmann rims on my '84 le tour don't have eyelets. They're aluminum rims with the "bulged" edges (kind of a hybrid between straight-walled rims and hook-edged rims), and the spokes are stainless steel. The wheels are an improvement over the wheels that came on my '83 le tour luxe, they had aluminum Araya, straight-walled rims with galvanized spokes-
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