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Originally Posted by rekmeyata
(Post 13803333)
That's crazy cool.
Not sure what year your bike is but they were made from 76 to 83 and I'm pretty sure it's the 83 year model since that's the only color of light blue they put on the Superior and it only came with that color in 83. And Schwinn did odd things with their entire bike line and depending on year. The 83 model for your bike was the best year for the Superior, the models prior to yours were 28 pound bikes instead of 23 pounds and not equipped as well. They did the same thing with my Le Tour Luxe, the years prior to my 85 were no were near as good as the one I got, the older versions were closer akin to a Traveler or World Sport, but the 85 shared the same frame as the same year Voyager and better components, and weighed 3 pounds less then previous models. Your bike was built out of the new Paramount plant in Waterford WI and it was the next bike down from the Paramount of the same year thus earned the nickname "Baby Paramount" because Schwinn closed down their old Paramount factory and moved to the Waterford site and in the process had a bunch of spare frame tubesets and lugs so they assembled the Superior using those left over Paramount parts to get rid of the stuff. Schwinn did make the stays longer on the Superior for some reason, but it did make the bike just a tad more comfortable to ride. Then Schwinn slapped on 2nd tier Campy components on it! Anyway, you have a fantastic bike that is very difficult to find anymore. I hope you restore it and keep it. Here's a forum discussing this bike: http://www.waterfordbikes.com/board/...ea36dfe5b15acc Here's a brief catalog info on it: http://bikecatalogs.org/SCHWINN/1983...per_Sport.html |
Originally Posted by guzziee
(Post 13803726)
I guess the old Schwinn deserves its own thread, I'll take better pics and post it, looks to be all original with a small rust spot on the top tube. Fork has a paint chip and looks to be chrome under the paint, rear dropouts are campy but front are tange.
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Originally Posted by guzziee
(Post 13803726)
I guess the old Schwinn deserves its own thread, I'll take better pics and post it, looks to be all original with a small rust spot on the top tube. Fork has a paint chip and looks to be chrome under the paint, rear dropouts are campy but front are tange.
The paint can be fairly easy to fix, just get some paint to match and sand the rust off with a real fine 150 grit sand paper, then once the rust is gone feather the paint edges with a 500 grit. Then spray on new paint with a air brush. If done right you may not even have to wet sand the paint to get paint edges off. |
Originally Posted by rekmeyata
(Post 13805478)
The older Superiors had cheap stamped out dropouts, just like the cheap Traveler and World Sport models had. You got the best Superior made, quite a bit of expensive improvements made on that bike that the older ones never got.
The paint can be fairly easy to fix, just get some paint to match and sand the rust off with a real fine 150 grit sand paper, then once the rust is gone feather the paint edges with a 500 grit. Then spray on new paint with a air brush. If done right you may not even have to wet sand the paint to get paint edges off. |
If you really want to restore that bike's frame and fork the right way and don't mind spending the cash to do it, I understood Waterford can do it. At what cost? I don't know, but it would look like new with original paint color and original decals.
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Picked up this Fuji Sagres SP from a scrapper this past summer. It has been yet another back logged project and I finally pulled it off the hook last tuesday. I did a complete overhaul on it, probably the most thorough one I've ever done.
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http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/...-0ne/005-1.jpg Found A couple old 26inch bikes in the trash this week,1980 schwinn cruiser5 speed.....And a 1983 Jamis Boss cruiser,
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Mr. Blurry cam returns.
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http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/...ar-0ne/001.jpg The phn camera sucks but heres a better pic of the bikes i got out the trash....after i took the foam off the bars and rusty crap off um! still need cleaned up thow,
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Nice trash finds! The red one especially.
Typical phone-camera results. Need to flood the interior with light since there's no real flash. Plus, any rotating motion will result in a photo that's part focused, part stretched. |
Had a couple of interesting pickups today. First, I got my third Tenax frame Schwinn in February, this time a huge 1987 Prelude. Needs work (natch), but should turn out OK.
My better pickup was at a local bike shop. They wanted to sell off some of their old NOS left overs. The stipulation was you had to take an entire bag, no picking through it. So the first bag I took was the chain ring bag. I could see it had quite a few in it, and some nice ones. The second was a freewheel bag. After taking those two, they let me pick through the misc wheel pile, and the derailleur bag. And at the end, they let me take one hub from the orphan hub box. I ended up with 34 chain rings, some misc Campy, two new in package Dura Ace, one new in package Ultegra, and a lot of other ones. The freewheel bag had a nice NOS 7 speed Suntour Winner Pro. My lone hub was a 7400 DA front hub with skewer. Interesting "two piece" RD. OK, the cage is broken off. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6...7456bd56_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6...63a6fc1b_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6...c42ee4ea_b.jpg |
Nice haul wrk101. I had the little sister to the Prelude a few years ago in mint condition and sold it to a friend of Scottryder. One of the few bikes I've sold that I wish I held on to...
Is that a 9s XT rear derailleur in the middle of that third pic by any chance??? http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/...750_SS%29.html |
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Is that a 9s XT rear derailleur in the middle of that third pic by any chance???[/QUOTE] Yes, although it is not complete (the rear of the cage and the pulleys are MIA). I dug through their large pile of derailleurs, and grabbed anything that was decent. There is a Sante RD (used, missing one pulley), a NOS tricolor FD, three different model XT FDs, all NOS: M751, M735 and M738. |
Killer score on the parts, and that Prelude is a beauty!
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Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver
(Post 12644204)
We have a policy at our co-op that, when trikes get donated we give them to people who need them and cannot afford them as a new trike is an expensive beast.
This one has a rear drum brake and a wide range 6 speed drive and my housemate, who has a severe disability that limits his walking and ability to balance on a 2 wheeled bike looked like a 10 year old kid when he took his new bike for a ride. He is already planning to go out tomorrow morning for coffee (with me) and when he saw the basket the first thing he said was that he could take the dog for rides and she already went for a quick spin and seemed very approving of the new "dog bike". He also said that shopping will be awesome now that he can carry more stuff home in the basket as he should not be carrying things too far (he does not drive). He will share it with our neighbour and his friend and she too would like to get riding and for her it is probably a matter of life and death and she is morbidly obese and has limited ability to walk. Will replace the POS shifter with an orphaned Suntour half ratchet thumbie tonight and put some Kool Stop salmon pads up front and think I have some spare lights and a nicer saddle as the one on the bike has bent rails. This is one of the best catches ever... it is nearly mint and even came with it's orginal owner's manual and I rode it home 8km and found it to be a very pleasing ride although my back hates me now. Am still pretty happy to see the look on my housemate's face...he is the kind of person who has very little but would give you the shirt off his back if you asked... said he envied people he saw who had trikes and now he has one of his own. :) http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/ccmtrike1.JPG hows the roommates trike doing? |
Well, I got a couple more interesting pickups in the last few days. First was a 1984 ish Trek 420. Really good shape, should clean up well. Seller lived two blocks from my mountain house.
The second is a 1980 Raleigh Super Course 12 (guess on age). This one is a bit of a frankenbike. Has a MTB RD, and unfortunately, the rear wheel is a replacement (the front appears to be original, at least it is a Weinmann concave rim. What made this deal good, is that I traded two donor frames to a SS/FG builder for this bike. It was a win/win, as the guy really needed something not so freakin huge (traded him two 53cm frames), and he was going to strip this bike and just use the frame. For me, I have a pile of Raleigh panto'ed components, so I will be able to get an appropriate RD on here. And I like projects. And I like pruning the left overs. So we both came out great on this one. This came from the same guy I got the Prelude (above) from. We worked out a tentative deal then, but I needed to return with some trade stock. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/6...41c6c092_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6...a2abf1b5_b.jpg |
My other recent pickup, off fleecebay, is this Paramount sign. With my budding Schwinn/Paramount collection, I figured I needed another sign to put in my workshop. I think this is vintage, but I do not know. I like it regardless. Its a decent size, about 8 inches tall by 26 inches long.
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saw an ad online "Norco Mocha" with no pic and very little info. $150
I do a little research, and I'm thinking it might be this. So I email the guy and ask him about the derailleurs and if they have any model names on them. "Shimano" he says. I say yes I assumed, but do they say anything else like Deore, etc, and how many speeds does it have. This was about an hour drive out of town so I wanted to be sure it was worth the drive. "Deore XT and it has 8 gears" he says. I ask if there is any rust, "nope." So I get the address and go out. Company pays for my gas anyway :P Turns out it's a young kid selling the bike, and the bike was pretty s*** hauled. Only had a 6spd FW on it with bolt through axel hubs. Rims were rusted, crank bolts missing, blots missing out of stem, and stem is seized. However it did have a nice axiom handle bar, and indeed it did have a Deore XT derailleur, long cage, RD-M739 (which says 8 speed on it so maybe that confused the kid), as well as a Shimano STX FD-MC34 top pull derailler, KONA seat post, and a decent Sakae crank. It looks like somebody tried to work on it in the past and gave up hope. All the parts do appear to match the '96 Mocha, except the wheels and the brakes. My main interest in this bike was the wheels and drivetrain, have a big 26er frame that I want to buildi as a dirt tourer/city bike. His dad was there too, and insisted it was all up to the kid. They were nice people. So I told them because of it's poor condition, and that most of it would go in the junk pile I couldn't give them anywhere near what they wanted. He told me to make an offer anyway, so I said I could give him $20. Offer accepted, and now I have an RD for my build. The crank, FD and other parts will be usefull elsewhere I'm sure. Always nice to have a nice triple kicking around. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l/DSC_0519.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l/DSC_0522.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l/DSC_0521.jpg Sometimes that mysterious CL ad just isn't the catch you were hoping it to be!!! When I told him I was into fixing up old bikes, he mentioned his mother in law has some really old ones that belonged to her father (I'm thinking 50's and 60's). He thinks one is a Schwinn and one is a CCM. He took my number and said he'd find out what they were and let me know. Like I said, nice people! |
latest find:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...venewroide.jpg took off baskets,wheels,and chain. changed the 52 to a 39.... also removed handle bar and chainguard! looked at amazon for a few item im wanting! fun build! |
My browser gives me fits trying to view this thread. Does somebody host their pictures on a russian site that is full of spybots?
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Originally Posted by himespau
(Post 13864923)
My browser gives me fits trying to view this thread. Does somebody host their pictures on a russian site that is full of spybots?
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I've had it happen before. It might have even been this thread. Are you seeing it too? I don't know, maybe it's a Google Chrome thing, or just a me thing.
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Originally Posted by himespau
(Post 13865084)
I've had it happen before. It might have even been this thread. Are you seeing it too? I don't know, maybe it's a Google Chrome thing, or just a me thing.
Chrome was having fits about all the pics full of bad code and my chromebook wouldn't even LET me look at that page. |
I traded a pretty rough 1990 Trek 330 49cm for this 1999 Specialized Rockhopper today. I'm very pleased with this deal.
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...218_074101.jpg http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...218_074052.jpg Now with bigger tires! Maxxix Ignitors 26x2.35's. Sweetness. http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...219_171958.jpg http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...219_171947.jpg |
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