Here are some better pictures of the 1987 Schwinn Peloton I recently acquired. I switched out the mismatched wheelset with one that has Campagnolo Athena hubs and Matrix rims. I replaced the RD and FW wth a Suntour Vx GT RD and a Schwinn 14-34 FW.

photo by vonfilm, on Flickr

photo by vonfilm, on Flickr

photo by vonfilm, on Flickr

photo by vonfilm, on Flickr

1987...very good year! Looks like a nice one. Have fun.

loving the SunTour Sprint crankset!

i would find a smaller freewheel though, i've always thought the Megarange thing was a little bit of a hoax.

Sweet bike

That's very nice.

Did Schwinn make the Peloton in '87?

Looks like an '86, Eric. There's no '87 in the catalog.

Thanks Stan!

Nice bike!

Looks like it's equipped much like the '87 Circuit.

Then, 86 it is. The PO had told me it was an 87.

MPC Biker,
How is the Shimano Mega-Range a hoax? I needed the gearing; it shifts very well;it was only $14. I wish that it did not have the writing on the big cog, but I can live with it. I keep this bike at the office and ride it it in the mornings before work. I have been doing laps of the Highland Mall parking lot to stay out of traffic. If I were to use this much elsewhere I will switch out the crankset with a triple.

Very nice bike... jealous.

Very cool bike. I've always like the black stays on this model.

I very much like that 14-34, especially with only a double up front. It's nice to know that option is available.

I run a couple of bikes with seven speed megarange cassettes. The smaller 6 cogs provide some reasonably tight ratios and the big 34t cog gives you a bailout gear without having to run a triple. I like the big jump to the 34t cog much better than a cassette with more even spacing between the cogs. I find shifting from 24t or 26t up to 34t much more useful than getting there from 28 or 30t. Where I ride I need big jumps in a hurry on the bottom end and skipped cogs are wasted cogs.

Congrats on this acquisition, Vonfilm. Very nice.

There was probably some crossover between model years since I have a 1987 Circuit frameset that was actually built in 1986.

Nice Schwinn. I have a '89 Circuit and would love to have a Peloton. Almost did last week. Seller undervalued a 1985 Peloton on CL and I made him a realistic offer. Was all set to pick it up and he decided it was worth a lot more so it sits on CL. He told me other potential buyers gave him the "real" value. Maybe it is worth $500 to someone, not me.
https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/bik/2360062031.html

During the seventies and eighties, it was common for Schwinn production for the next model year to begin in October, so a bike with a frame serial number indicating an October, November, or December manufacture would be built to the next year's model specs. For example, a 1987 model year Circuit might actually have been built during the last three months of 1986.

I don't believe Schwinn would have built a 1986 model year bike in 1987, though.

This is one bike I would still like to get. I love the paint job. Congrats!