What Schwinn is this?
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What Schwinn is this?
Saw this on e-bay but no decals as I can see https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=021
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I believe it's an '84 le tour:
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html
I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html
I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
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After looking at the ebay bike again, there are differences between it and my '84 le tour, but I still think it's likely the ebay bike is an '84 le tour. The original rims would be Weinmann's, not Rigida's, the pie plate would be metal, not plastic, and the hubs would have quick release axles, not nutted (the ebay bike may have had the wheels switched out and the plastic pie plate and nutted axle(s) might have come with the wheels). The brake hoods would be gum colored hoods, not black (but again, those may have been switched out). My '84 in the dark blue color has a red headbadge, not silver, but maybe they put different colored headbadges on the different colored bikes.
The frame, including the tubing decal, fork, shifters, rear derailleur, front derailleur, crankset, and brakes are the same as my '84 le tour. The shifters are Suntour Symmetrics, which have a cam inside the shifter body that trims the front derailleur as you shift the chain in the rear.
The '84 le tour was made in Greenville, Mississippi-
The frame, including the tubing decal, fork, shifters, rear derailleur, front derailleur, crankset, and brakes are the same as my '84 le tour. The shifters are Suntour Symmetrics, which have a cam inside the shifter body that trims the front derailleur as you shift the chain in the rear.
The '84 le tour was made in Greenville, Mississippi-
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I believe it's an '84 le tour:
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html
I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt13.html
I've got one, mine is the blue color. They're very nice bikes-
I think your comment about changing the wheels is spot on. The Super LeTour had 1 1/8 rims. Well Biked, do your rims have spoke eyelets like the ones in the pic?
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No, the Weinmann rims on my '84 le tour don't have eyelets. They're aluminum rims with the "bulged" edges (kind of a hybrid between straight-walled rims and hook-edged rims), and the spokes are stainless steel. The wheels are an improvement over the wheels that came on my '83 le tour luxe, they had aluminum Araya, straight-walled rims with galvanized spokes-