Hoss Cartright

Hello,

Some of you may know of me, I have a popular Schwinn web page very highly Google ranked. (why I do not know) My name is Jim, I'm from the Lafayette Indiana area. Grew-up in the bike business, I'm 54-years-old.
Some members who are into classic road bikes suggested that I post some of the heavy, middle, and light-weight Schwinn bikes in my collection as there are many people who dig these as well.
I have been collecting since the early 1990s. I like vintage road bikes the most and I ride them but have a little bit of everything going back into the 1940s.
I have almost 50 Schwinns but this selection of images are the ones that are some of my favorites.
I know that the women's bikes have almost no value but I have bought them at yard-sales for dirt cheap money (some for free). 90% of my collection is pre-ebay purchased in the early-mid 1990s.

Our original paint 1973 Schwinn Continental - 10 speed 27" road bicycle. 1973 was one year only on this color known as "Sunset Orange"


Our restored 1973 Schwinn Apple Krate 5-speed with hand operated caliper brakes and very rare Genuine Stingray Krate speedometer/odometer. Bought already superbly restored at the same yard-sale as the 100th anniversary Black Phantom.



Our restored 1978 Schwinn Stingray "fenderless" in Kool Orange. I restored it in a not-correct 1978 color but I love Kool Orange! - This is the "real old School" boys bicycle. - I can remember well my spectacular leaps off the pitcher's mound. I thought I was going into orbit, but was probably getting less than one foot off the ground. I also vividly remember a huge crash on one of these. I was zooming down a steep alley in West Lafayette and lost control and got a serious case of road rash. Another time when I was riding in flip-flops, I clipped my big toe on a tree-root up-heaved sidewalk segment and took the tip of the toe right off... How we survived childhood is a mystery to me.




Only one year of production, extremely rare 1978 Schwinn Stingray "Sneaker". The bicycle has a tennis shoe styling motif. The pinstripes and writing on the chain-guard are designed to look like shoe strings. I have a girls one as well.






Our limited edition (one of only 2000 made) 1999 Schwinn "Grape Krate" New in box. A lot of people bought this very limited edition. So did we. I had the inside line so got it for dealer cost plus 20%

jbkirby

Again, you have an absolutely phenominal collection. Thank you for sharing with all of us!!!

Ex Pres 

Bump this one, too. Thanks

skydog6653

Feel free to add pics as time allows!