Originally Posted by
Bike jambalaya
Nice.
Another random question. Did Schwinn make any split tube cruiser or single tube klunker in a quality tubing? Or were those bikes like the VW bug of the early bike area. If not what company of bike series would you consider to that.
After recently learning more specifically about tubing and different joining methods and frame charactistcs in general. I'm looking at my dads Chicago Schwinn like 🥴
I mean, there were quite a few ‘83-90 MTBs from different companies made of Reynolds, Tange, True Temper, and Ishiwata tubing, some were lugged, all can be equipped to fit your vision of what a Level Top Tube Klunker would look like.
The only one that I think Chicago Schwinn did was the Paramountain Ned Overend.
for curvy tubes but good riding, the first thought is Ingliss/Retrotec. A few hours/days surfing cycleexif and radavist might turn up some others.
I think it’d be cool to throw $1500-2500 in parts at a Walmart Beach Cruiser to make it both trail worthy and look like a 70s downhill racer.