Vintage new depature hub, old school conversion?
01-18-09, 02:12 AM
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Vintage new depature hub, old school conversion?
A friend of mine is a major vintage Schwinn collector and he came across this odd bike the other day. It's a '64 and he's nearly certain it started life as a Racer. I would appear that the bike was converted early on in it's life, because all of the parts are 60's schwinn (other than the hub), though it appears that they are not correct (notice the small chainring compared to the chain guard). At this point we are guessing that someone bought a racer and laced in the new departure hub early on. Was this a common thing to do? Did schwinn produce a fixed gear like this? The catalogs he has don't mention anything.
Also, I've never seen this type of cog set up, is anyone familiar with this?
Also, I've never seen this type of cog set up, is anyone familiar with this?
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I don't know too much about New Departure, but, I do know they've become quite valuable. I have only recently even learned of the brand, so my knowledge is obviously not too great.
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can it do barspinz? I can't recall ever seeing anything like this, and my dad had a collection of racers when I was a kid. That is likely a one off someone built, though I couldn't guess anything more.
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What's the model # printed on the hub shell or on the drive-side dust cover?
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Somehow you need to get BF member Scooper to look at this thread. He's very knowledgable about Schwinns.
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Model D is a coaster brake hub not fixed. Fairly common even though they went out of business about 1953. New Departure was part of General Motors. Parts are a little hard to find for them. They are excellent brakes when they are working. Roger
01-19-09, 02:10 PM
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Nope, this definitely a fixed gear hub. The same guy also has a New Departure Model D fixed gear hub with lock ring threads.
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Interesting. New Departure also did two and three speed conversion kits to convert their coaster hubs to geared hubs. The below group has a link to an article about the introduction of the 3 speed conversion unit on their Yahoo group site. As I recall expensive for about 1951 as the listed MSRP is about $15. The article was from Popular Mechanics or Mechanics Illustrated as I recall. The 3 speed is quite rare I believe.
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/Geared_hub_bikes/
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/Geared_hub_bikes/
