Saved this from the Salvation Army...not bike related but still requires balance .
No paddles or fin so they are next on the "find" list.
Nice and clean almost, as new 59.00 bucks with 5 kicked in for a veterans donation..happy as a clam.
I am getting ready for the winter season here in SoCal and this will compliment my long boards quite nicely. It is just a lot harder to get to Malibu or Topanga.
Happy New Year!
Ben

Looks like a great find, but I know squat about boards. Would you list the maker, model, size, and components? It looks mid-Pacific to me, and maybe having a Japanese influence. I would expect SR cranks, Dia Compe brakes, and Suntour derailleurs and shifters were speced on this - probably a plastic saddle (Avocet maybe).

There's always County Line if you're willing drive a little further up the coast

Also, that sign is from the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, usually to mark a historic monument (e.g. old church). Did that come with the SUP?

Aloha Billy,
How do you know about County Line?
I got that from a county worker when they were replacing signs with a newer version the several years ago..they were just trashing a lot of old stuff to make way for the next issue...this one had just came down and was not stuffed in the can yet....I wish I would have got more but no room in the suitcase.
Howzit over there?
Aloha, Ben

Emma Wood reef break .

dweenk,
If this is for me..Yes it is a Frankenboard....mix of Campagnolo SR and SL (good eye on your part), Suntoure Superbe Finn and Titaium rials....vintage Ideal saddle will soon replace the Avocet. Brakes will be stripped in favor of an upscale hipster fixie track fliflop set-up.
I am trying to maintain its loss of integrity.
See you on the slopes err I mean waves!
Regards, Ben

aka "Overhead" reef. The rollers that barely rubbed the reef on the outside would be the biggest sets once they unloaded on the sandbars at Emma Wood. Surfed with (next to?) the Malloy brothers and Dane Reynolds there when I was a teen in the late 90's.

Aloha Ben- I grew up in the Ventura County area, so north LA county spots were an option. There are plenty of great spots that break (on the right tide) in the Oxnard/Ventura area. Santa Barbara has a few as well.

Neat sign...but don't let any HVCB employees catch you with it

Cheers,

Billy

Billy! Where ya been ?

Wondering the same thing..saw a post a short while ago....maybe catching to many big ones on the N.S.
Ben

Charge it, brah!

Waiting until spring to head to the North Shore, after the pros and cameras leave. South Shore has been flat, only venturing down there for a dip or to push visitors into Waikiki ripples. Still a blast.

Also hit up the Vans Triple Crown for the contests at Sunset and Pipeline.



Hope ya'll are looking forward to the New Year as much as I am.

Aloha Ben- I grew up in the Ventura County area, so north LA county spots were an option. There are plenty of great spots that break (on the right tide) in the Oxnard/Ventura area. Santa Barbara has a few as well

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Billy,
Hey I thought is was always Hawaiians on the leftside. I go to el porto when I am feeling like I want a BB and have my short board, Topanga's tough with a long board because you can catch'em way out and rid'em in, some folks don't like that: :
Aloha, Ben

Better pictures when it is in my hands (and after it is built up)

nice!

My Dad and I picked up these of CL in Chicago. Pretty sure the chrome frame is actually a Sports Tourer but it came with the other grey complete ish Superior.

The chrome frame is beautiful, looks in great shape - only thing is that spacer on the rear dropout, are the adjusting screws rusted in / broken off? Regardless, nice score!

That grey Superior sure has some handlebar funk going on! Great score on both of them. So... who gets which ?

Oh man does it have some bar funk... lol Check it out in the open!

So currently I am getting my Dad's old Voyaguer 11.8 chromie (that I rode all thru college) back on the road in a thread in C&V. He is pumped as a chromed Chicago brazed bike was what he wanted to order in 1980 when he worked in the bike shop but obviously they were dead by then.

So really its like him getting the bike he always wanted! By that he gets the chrome Superior/Sports Tourer bike and I just want to do a mild cleanup/refresh on the grey Superior and I'll get that one. Then we can ride chrome Schwinns together and blind everyone on the trail!

I also have a LeTour frame that I found in the garbage about five years ago. I pulled all the components and gave them to a friend working on a varsity. So I guess that counts as a garbage save too! Anytime I see a large frame I go straight for it. We are both about 6'2''-6'3''. I believe it is a 1979 LeTour IV Chicago lugged frame. That one literally was about to get picked up by a scrapper or the garbage man.

Here that one is in all its glory as well.

Grey Superior







The LeTour is behind the 11.8 on the hood of my car. Limited garage space to it makes a decent table lol



I'll snag a better pic when I get home. I recently pulled it and the 11.8 out of the attic. Cabin Fever project.

Hey if you need a 21.1 stem for that superior, I think jcb3 has one looking for a home.

Great projects there, every one. Pretty terrific about you and your dad getting to go riding together.

I also have a couple, one of them a GB and another that is pretty nicely finished but I forget the brand. Incidentally, while the decimal equivalent of the size is 21.1 they are actually made and marked as .833 (inches) and are not metric-sized stems.

Late '80's (I think) Stump Jumper from a garage sale last summer. I got it for $12. It had been sitting in a garage unused for many years but was ready to ride except for needing tires/tubes. This bike has a special place in my heart because my brother, now deceased, had one just like it that he was pretty proud of back in the day. This is more of a commuter around town for me.

Better pictures of the LeTour I found in the garbage. I think its a 79 LeTour IV which is a Chicago made 1020 frame, correct? I am not sure on my plans what to do with it.

The rest of it I parted to my buddy working on his old Varsity. I kept the stem and the seat. I believe they are both original.

Cool, thanks everyone.

So pardon my ignorance but are all old schwinns or the majority of them 21.1mm stems?

This can confuse even the long timers. Generally, the lower-to-moderate end U.S. made bikes, from forever ago until the mid-'80s, are .833 stem bikes. The top of the line Paramounts and the imported (Japanese and Taiwanese) bikes used the 22.2. It was not until Schwinn moved U.S. production to the Greenville MS plant that they adopted the standard, but I could be wrong on this. It may take a Schwinn maniac, of which I am not one, to detail the specific models and years. When dealing with the '80s-and-earlier bikes it's best to have a caliper on you or be prepared to yank the stem to check the markings.

You should post this photo in the current thread on the Avocet Touring seats, especially since it was a garbage find.

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ii-saddle.html

Awesome bike and a great connection to the memory of your Brother. Ride with pride!