Thread: Back when Schwinn was American-made....
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Old 11-01-18 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by SteelThisBike
...but even the young hipster types pay good money for the real deal Chicago Schwinns. They're too young to be on a nostalgia trip so it must be the legendary ruggedness of those battlewagons.
These two real deal Chicago Schwinns were bought by an oldster (me) in 2006 for $5 each at garage sales and their ruggedness and reliability still serve me well with no fuss or muss. Only modification was replacing drop handlebars on the Varsity for upright bars from my own parts bin.




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