Thread: Schwinn Sierra aka Poor Man's Fat Bike
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Old 04-10-16 | 07:12 PM
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Bikes: 1978 Trek TX700; 1978/79 Trek 736; 1984 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport; 1984 Schwinn Voyageur SP; 1985 Trek 620; 1985 Trek 720; 1986 Trek 400 Elance; 1987 Schwinn High Sierra; 1990 Miyata 1000LT

I really dig the color- When I first saw that you were stripping the decals I was all like:

Then I saw what you were doing and I was all like:

I have a High Sierra- one of my love/hate things with it are the Roller Cam brakes- I really can not adjust these things to save my life. I've thought that moving the bosses to a canti position would be cool- but I wouldn't want to wreck the Black Chrome finish.


As an aside- I passed on one of these bikes last year-




It was in really nice shape- but the second I started to move it, I could just feel that mass- and as much as I'm not big into "weight," that bike was really too heavy for me.
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