86 Schwinn World Sport

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After

Now thats a thing of beauty

thanks. I had a blast. I am on the hunt for a new project already.

English-made cheapy 70's bike - Townsend 'Rallye Sport'

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After:

now thats what i called a rehad

i take it the previous fork was bent?

Still need to get the lugs outlined in gold. Working on getting all the components polished up.

Wow. Did you paint that yourself?

Agreed - you need some more deets on this restoration! Looks very good, BTW!

Great informative site. for my first post, here is a 76 Schwinn Suburban I just restored for my daughter to ride at college. wish I had a better before pic. There wasn't a piece of chrome on this bike that didn't sit in an OA bath.

Before:

[img]https://www.flickr.com/photos/60766423@N08/6060916310/[/img]

After:

[img]https://www.flickr.com/photos/60766423@N08/6060916556/[/img]

I went the easy way and had it powder coated. The repro decals are from Cyclomondo. Let me know if there's anything else you're curious about.

No, the paint on the front fork was badly oxidized. i was claying it and the paint was rubbing off so i repainted it a cream white to match the "world sport" logo.

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After


It's an older Dawes Galaxy. Reynolds 531, rides nice.

FIFY.

Nice work!

Heres a few bikes that Ive worked on recently

Quite happy to finally be able to post this as an 'after'

Before & during set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ah_blak...7623835225554/


Hetchins Super Special c.1950 by ah_blake, on Flickr

After set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/4494857...7627450817188/

hetchins01 by fyxomatosis - since forever, on Flickr

HETCHINS = why, just why do they have curly stays?

marketing

There are few things* on a bicycle that'll turn heads quicker than curly/vibrant stays.

* hot models excluded

Do you recall the RAL color code? It looks really good. Let us know how the outlining goes. But, for my money, it looks pretty classy as is.

They are cool-lookin'

The original reason, apparently, was to create both strength and flex in the rear triangle; but, for the most part, the Colonel is correct.

A lot of English bikes wound up doing this. Notably, the Bates bikes had a bunch of curly stays and forks.

What wheels are those?

A radially spoked rear wheel? How long will that last?

The rumor I heard about the Hetchins curly stays is that the British racing rules didn't allow decals for a while so Hetchins did that to make their bikes distinguishable.

are your tires on backwards?

I can try to find out. I got it done here, but it doesn't seem to be on the site. It was called "Fuller Black" if I remember correctly.