Originally Posted by
cooperryder
Here is my 1986 Schwinn Passage I picked up last year.
I have owned a handful of great touring bikes over the years and toured on a couple of them loaded to the gills.
I have been surprised by this Passage.
If I understand correctly it was only made one year.
It is a remarkably nice riding bike.
It was built with a Columbus Tenax tube set according to the decal.
Online information I found says it was made in Schwinn's Mississippi factory.
I am enjoying it a lot.
Yes, technically the Passage was a one year only model. However, The 1986 Passage was really an upgraded 1985 LeTour Luxe- with the Tenax main frame and Hi-Ten stays and fork. And actually the leftover 1986 Passages were painted "Imperial Rose" with Passage decals for 1987.