Need Help Identifying This Bike
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5...0031kr7.th.jpg,
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3...0030pf1.th.jpg, http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4...0028sc2.th.jpg, http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6...0027jw6.th.jpg recently bought this road bike. I would like to restore it, or better you fix it up, and maybe turn it into a fixed gear bike. Don't know where to start! Any help or knowledge would be greatly appreciated, as to what I can do with this bike, where to start...etc. |
The Gears say Schwinn...
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Yep, the one-piece crank, the chainwheel, the pie-plate spoke protector, the steel wheels, and the rear der ('GT 100'-Shimano?) look just like the ones on my ~1973 Varsity. But this frame has some lugged joints? Interesting... Could be an engineering or marketing trial run piece? 1973 was about the time the Le Tour appeared. The messy black primer job says 'stolen'.
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I really wouldn't waste my time with this bike. It is an example of the lowest quality bikes of the era, and as duffer says, its probably stolen. Just oil the chain and ride it, but I wouldn't even replace a brake cable on this bike.
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Schwinn World Traveler
From Bob Hufford's site http://www.geocities.com/sldbgallery...73wtrav01.html http://www.geocities.com/sldatabook/gallery.html Must've been an unsuccessful experiment--looks like it was offered in 1973 only. Opaque Blue matches. Found a BF thread here: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=56975 |
damn, you guys are good. Yea I assumed the black spray paint meant stolen and it is heavy as hell. So I take it this bike wouldn't do good as a fixed-gear bike? Was thinking if I took off the gearing and brake systems it would drop a good amount of the weight.
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I think the frame is steel...
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Originally Posted by dirtylaundry
(Post 4950089)
damn, you guys are good. Yea I assumed the black spray paint meant stolen and it is heavy as hell. So I take it this bike wouldn't do good as a fixed-gear bike? Was thinking if I took off the gearing and brake systems it would drop a good amount of the weight.
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ilikebikes, you really think so!?
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Originally Posted by dirtylaundry
(Post 4953987)
ilikebikes, you really think so!?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike006.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike005.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike004.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike003.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike002.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...hisbike001.jpg |
Yeah once you loose all the steel components and put alloy wheels, cranks, seatpost, stem and handlebars you should have a sup 25lb fixie. Then you can wait for a better frame to come your way and swap the parts over later.
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Originally Posted by cyclotoine
(Post 4954517)
Yeah once you loose all the steel components and put alloy wheels, cranks, seatpost, stem and handlebars you should have a sup 25lb fixie. Then you can wait for a better frame to come your way and swap the parts over later.
ilikebikes: sweet conversion. If I was a girl I would love it. But even being a guy not too into pink: I still dig it. |
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