velorinka

Hello bicycle people of the world,

I'm a most definitely NON-pro cyclist, who's terrified of cars and mostly just sticks to the cycle-ways and bike lanes around the city, going from A to B.

My trusty steeds throughout the years have been a 70s/80's (?) heavy steel frame BMX that I found in a dumpster and lovingly named The Tank and rode scrunched up with my gangly knees hitting my elbows all the way to Westchester.
A beautiful BSA Wayfarer, which I found in pieces on the street and put back together and loved for many years until I disappeared overseas for a while and it went on its merry way from friends, to friends-of-friends, to lost.
And then my current mount, which is a good old Schwinn Varsity that I impulse bought off a friend because it kinda looked like my old Wayfarer, and that's about the extent I know about bikes. It was however, NOT like my Wayfarer I realized when I tried to carry it up the stairs and almost died because it weighs literally about half of me. I can barely lift this thing up the curb (chicks....).

So anyways, unable to lift the Varsity up the stairs, I left it Kryptonited out on the street, and, fairly predictably, I come out the other morning to see not one, but both my wheels gone-zo! Love ya Brooklyn.

So to hide its wheeless shame, I dragged it upstairs and it has been sitting in my room like a forlorn puppy, imploring me to do something. And although I'm not usually so inclined, I have been sitting here obsessively googling old Schwinn catalogues and spec charts and shimano freewheels and yada yada, and that is why at 4am I'm joining a bike forum. The Varsity made me do it.

Hope I can read up and ask some questions of you lovely peeps to get rolling again. Catch you in the vintage forum.

cb400bill

Welcome. Sorry to hear of your wheels getting pinched. I'd use this as the opportune time look at lighter vintage bike.

obed7

welcome to the forums