Originally Posted by William Karsten
I have a large amount of guilt that I'm going to disect it for bits and pieces. Crank and front brake will go to my second fix/single speed. Bars, neck, brake handles to my daughters mixtie project. The seat, I'm tossed: they sell well on ebay, but, I'd like to try out a leather seat for sometime to see if they are as comfortable as people say they are.
Ideale leather seats are no longer made~that adds to collectability factor; but, I'm moving more and more to riding on Brooks leather seats these days~you should try it before you jettison it! The metal frame on my last Ideale seat broke about five years ago and that was that...
If you're not going to use the bike frame, I'll bet that there's someone in your town that would be interested in it for making a chopper / tall bike / etc. out of it. In Portland, there's even a group of guys and gals that ride nothing but old Schwinns, and I don't think that weight is really an issue for them...anyway, if you're not going to keep it whole, I'd encourage you to make full use of all the parts, in any way possible!