Worcester, MA ...........circa 1980 to 1984 FREE SPIRIT "Sheffield" 3 Speed ........Deep Royal Blue in color.............$47.49 currently on the bay.....likely Murray from the 1 piece crank...
All of these SEARS Free Spirits of that 1980 to 1984 era had beautiful paint schemes even if they were basic ordinary tourist type bicycles. These simple 1 piece crank bikes are decent enough and the superb paint schemes are much much nicer than anyone ever expected from SEARS, especially considering how ugly that many of the 1973 - 1979 Free Spirits were. SEARS did have many nice looking paint schemes on some bicycles in the very early seventies. late sixties and earlier, on both domestic and Austrian bikes, but who the heck knows why by 1971 and certainly by 1974, the majority of SEARS' best bikes were very ugly , perhaps not as ugly as their economy Free Spirit line, but still ugly in their bland paint schemes and dull colors. The seventies Free Spirits were ugly in a garish, loud, and badly coordinated, hideous decal sort of way, that looked like a color blind 3 year old child had chosen them. Perhaps SEARS' marketing team did this to emphasize how "cheap" the sales price was on the Free Spirits of the Seventies and also to differentiate them somewhat from their more expensive offerings with a different level of ugliness and to keep the economy Free Spirit line at least as ugly looking as their high line models in that '73 to '79 era.
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