I've had a few rides under my belt with her and she is wonderful!
1977 Schwinn Super Le Tour 12.2 in
all chrome! As purchased state saw a sad-looking bike that was otherwise straight and worthy of restoration. My low monetary buy-in price of $40 was to be greatly offset with hours and hours of rust-removing, glaze/film-removing, and chrome polishing--to say nothing of completely re-outfitting the old, tired/worn out components with thoroughly modern ones, almost all of which were from a super light weight modern (2016) build that had me not jazzed about ultra light bikes (16.2 lbs--very nice manners, solid bike, but I wasn't feeling the love, nor the extra weight that I actually kinda liked). To the photos!
Everything but a freewheel:
At least they employed a rubber buffer. Alas, RUST:
Poor thing.
I will make you better!
Better! So much better!
All that top tube for all that name:
Not so rusty any more, are we??? Up close, the scars are visible, but that shares her history. New decals (Velocals) and plenty of Dura Ace (7900 shifters, 7800 FD, RD, crankset, BB) mark the beginning of her new era.
Keeper.
