Hello you may have seen me post on here about my 1987 Schwinn Super Sport. Something that has puzzled me for years about this bike, and I try to learn every odd detail about bicycles and what the company's do to them. It is that ever since the frame started to get some wear on it chips scratches, the areas I am puzzled about are the rear legs, that's what I call them and the chainstays and fork. Where these are chipped now you can clearly see shiny chrome. Now I don't really understand why would they chrome the rear legs chainstays and fork then paint over it, unless they repainted an already made up frame. I do know at the time panasonic had something to do with schwinn when they where transferring all work to japan or something like that. The only schwinn I know that had this chrome and paint scheme was the 88 circuit but I know this could not be the answer. So I looked at panasonics from that year of 87 and 86 nothing they made matched. So that is the question why would they do this, and if it was an already made frame what is it.