Originally Posted by
Pompiere
Nice score! $40 mus be the going price for flea market Schwinns. That's what I paid for my '88 LeTour last year. It was all original, except for the tires. By the late 1980s, Schwinn was starting to get a pretty good product, but it was too late to save the company.
As long as its not s fat tire Schwinn cruiser, which people assume are all worth crazy money. I saw one, an obvious reproduction (with a 5 speed Shimano Tourney RD from no earlier than 1996 in my estimation) at a flea market for $1000. Over the next 5 years I continued to go to that flea market and saw that dumb bike there every time. I even bought a bike from the guy, a Takara I think, that was crashed with a badly bent fork, for $10. It had a Shimano 600 group on it, along with some nice wheels and a few other interesting parts.