I've been wanting to pick up an older, made in the USA Schwinn for a while. I know the older Super Sports are good bikes, fillet brazed with plain gauge chrome moly so on the heavy side designed no doubt to withstand the zombie apocalypse.
(1) What is the value of the bike? Seller wants $250 but the bike has been hanging out for a month on CL in a smaller city in the middle of nowhere (you know, Iowa,
(2) The bike came in 22 and 24 inch. This looks to be a 24 inch. Were these bikes measured center to center or center to top? I can ride it center to top French style but too big if center to center.
(3) The bike is a bit of a boat anchor. I reckon the best way to lighten it up is probably to convert the crank to cotterless. Is that a solid conversion that won't give problems down the road? I reckon the original steel crankset may be heavy as heck but it too is designed to withstand the zombie apocalypse.
(4) What's the best way to date the bike, is it the serial no.?
The bike looks to be in good shape and fairly original:
Paging @
Scooper, our guru in all things Schwinn,