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Old 01-20-06, 03:06 AM
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Originally Posted by bigbossman
I've had a couple pass through my hands. One wore the Sears brand and the other wore the J.C. Higgins brand on the headtube, but both were stamped "Made in Austria" on the rear stays. Let's see......alloy bars, Weinmann center pulls, steel cottered cranks, decent looking frames, UGLY colors. And the two chainrings were only a few teeth different, Very tall gears. the Sears had really cool "humped" drops (wish I'd kept those), and both wore Simplex running gear.

I paid $2.50 for the plum colored one, and the thrift store actually gave me the orange one for free - they were gonna toss it in the dumpster.

Sears Puch:


J.C. Higgins Puch:
Similar to both bikes. The forks on the orange one look right, as do the lugs. Head badge is like the plum one. It has the wing nuts. Sugino cranks, though. Must be an after-thought. Shifters and cables are balky. Sun Tour guts are clearly out of wack. Light blue metalic is in very nice shape - hardly a scratch.

Ok, that does it. For $10 I can give it some love.
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