John,
I think I have you fooled about my bike knowledge. I just started working on bikes a lot this summer, but I've worked on cars for years so I figured that if I can handle repairs on automobiles, I can handle them on a bike. So far, I was right on that, but I still have much to learn. I came upon the bike stand by pure chance; it was on craigslist one night for $50.
My World has friction shifters, not index shifters. I'm used to friction shifters, so I don't mind at all. The frame is not market as either hi-ten or chrome-moly, but it definitely weighs in at under 30 lbs. I don't have a scale, but it's not too heavy. The 57cm measurement is likely the length of the seat tube from the bottom bracket to the top of the tube. My frame measures 25" (63.5cm!) along that same dimension. I never thought I'd say this, but the frame is almost too big for me
I believe my tires are the originals; they still have the "HP Sport - Schwinn" sticker on the sidewalls. They are in great shape with no cracking or anything.
BTW, to keep pictures small, I upload mine onto a webshots.com account and then link to them here. I have no problems with size then.
Originally Posted by
JohnsWorldSport
JON,
Thanks for posting the pics.Your bike looks great overall! You are much more of a bike person than me! I have never replaced any bike components whatsoever except simple installs like a seat, bottle cages and handlebar basket. I would have saved paying the LBS if I knew what you know about bike repairs! You can tell you are a bike "aficionado" by that bike stand too. I've been noticing more "bike people" online use them, I guess, for repairs and in place of using a kickstand.
Are those indexed shifters or "click" shifters? You can tell I don't know the exact bike lingo. I mean by indexed as shifters that you have to hold in place for the gears to engage or "click" shifters where you just have to click into gears with positive detents. Does your World model have a hi-ten steel frame or chrome-moly and how much does it weigh? The factory says my '90 World Sport weighs a little over 26 pounds with the chrome-moly frame and steel fork. What is your frame size? I'm not sure about mine but its stand-over height is about 33". All that I know was that mine was advertised as a 57CM bike, whatever that measurement is from, I'm not sure. How are the tires? They look in pretty good shape.
I have attached a cleaner and larger picture of my bike.
BTW,
How are you able to upload such a nice, large, clean pictures
under 100KB which this post says is the upload picture size limit? I find that I have to reduce the overall picture size in order to keep a decent resolution.
ENJOY THE RIDE!!!
John