'82 World Sport I picked up a couple years back, been on my stationary trainer gathering dust until a few weeks ago. I robbed the wheels and tires off it for the '72 Varsity I rode in this year's Clunker Challenge. I got tired of seeing it laying in the garage so I threw it up on the stand yesterday and started pulling out the parts boxes. I "massaged" the stays and forks so I could squeeze in a set of 700 X 25 MTB wheels and 700 X 47 Continental Touring tires. I also replaced the crankset with an SR triple crankset and the derailleurs with Shimano Tourneys because I had a set I needed to use up. For Round 1 I kept the original centerpull brakes but they were less than spectacular so today I replaced them with a set of Shimano sidepulls with QR's off an 80's Shogun 500 and replaced the chrome steel handlebars with a set of aluminum Randonneur bars from another old Schwinn along with the brake levers and turkey levers from the Shogun. Now the brakes work great even using the turkey levers. I topped it off with my almost 20 year old Terry Liberator saddle, just need an aluminum seatpost, haven't measured it yet but a 26.2 was a no go. This thing handles great on gravel and everywhere else I've taken it so far. It's no lightweight BUT it is noticably lighter than the Varsity I've been dragging around the past few weeks! It's pretty low rent but I love riding it, this one's going to be around for a long time and I see it racking up a lot of miles.

As purchased......



As of this afternoon.....





This is what the gravel roads around here look like, this is one of the good ones......