Just another Schwinn...
02-11-07 | 06:14 PM
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Just another Schwinn...
...Like none other, baby!
'49 Schwinn. Forgot what model it is (X-something or other). Modeled it after my '47 Henderson-badged Schwinn of the same model (shown in the background, the '49 is in the foreground):
It is the last Schwinn resto I do for a long time (unless another Paramount comes my way). This photo ought to give you an idea as to what I started with:
Take care,
-Kurt
'49 Schwinn. Forgot what model it is (X-something or other). Modeled it after my '47 Henderson-badged Schwinn of the same model (shown in the background, the '49 is in the foreground):
It is the last Schwinn resto I do for a long time (unless another Paramount comes my way). This photo ought to give you an idea as to what I started with:
Take care,
-Kurt
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02-11-07 | 06:40 PM
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Shows you the type of people who you find at the Schwinn Forums. Street rubbish.
-Kurt
(Edited to jab the folks on the Dark Side
)
Shows you the type of people who you find at the Schwinn Forums. Street rubbish.
-Kurt
(Edited to jab the folks on the Dark Side
)
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02-11-07 | 07:28 PM
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From: Garland, Texas and Tahlequah, OK
Bikes: '68 Raleigh Grand Prix,'71 Schwinn Super Sport, '73 Schwinn Paramount, '83 Schwinn Super Sport, '84(?) Univega Gran Sprint, '89 Schwinn Waterford Paramount
This bike is just too cool. Great details everywhere! Love the badge and that winged chainguard sends it over the top. You resurrected a real beauty. It looks like labor and love in equally massive quantities.
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02-11-07 | 07:49 PM
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Sweet...just shows what can be done with a lot of work
...now I need to get working on that Herc I got off Pastor Bob
waiting on warmer weather...and a day or two off in a row
Aaron
...now I need to get working on that Herc I got off Pastor Bob waiting on warmer weather...and a day or two off in a row Aaron
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ISO: A late 1980's Giant Iguana MTB frameset (or complete bike) 23" Red with yellow graphics.
"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"_Nicodemus
"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
02-11-07 | 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by cudak888
Shows you the type of people who are into the Schwinn balloon & musclebikes. Street rubbish.
I like the idea of getting my Corvette an the road... But I know I won't do as fine a job as you have. Maybe in round 2 in a few years I might do a more complete job... In that way your work has inspired me.
Great restoration!
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02-12-07 | 02:28 PM
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Glad you folks like it. Not my own though - did it for a friend who wanted something similar to my '47, but in two-tone. We worked out the teal/white/gold scheme from a small AMT '58 Impala model kit that I was in the process of working on.
It wasn't a labor of love though - more a labor of getting it done to get it out of my hair. It's the last time I do a bike that requires 10 hours of fender work to get the dings out of it (not to mention a crapload of tar on its underside).
Ladies version of the DX? I always thought it was some X-34P something or other - at least, something approximating that was told to me by the fellows at the Schwinn Forums.
Oh, I revised my response to jab the Schwinn Forum, Little Darwin
-Kurt
It wasn't a labor of love though - more a labor of getting it done to get it out of my hair. It's the last time I do a bike that requires 10 hours of fender work to get the dings out of it (not to mention a crapload of tar on its underside).
Ladies version of the DX? I always thought it was some X-34P something or other - at least, something approximating that was told to me by the fellows at the Schwinn Forums.
Oh, I revised my response to jab the Schwinn Forum, Little Darwin
-Kurt
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