This is a 1973 Schwinn World Traveler, I think. It has the "World" headbadge instead of the Schwinn oval. In one of life's little coincidences, Auchencrow had just told me about his '73 World Traveler and why it was historically significant, and I'd said I had never seen one before. A few days later, on my daily lunchtime walk to the bike shop on the Detroit Riverfront, I encountered this bike ridden by its owner to the shop. She told me it was "given" to her a few years ago -- that is, sold to her at a very low price -- and her friends have been telling her to get rid of it and buy new. I told her it was a good bike, and to sell it only to me. So she may have second thoughts about unloading it now.
The bike in the background was built by the owner, who works at the shop and another one, and is also a bike courier for a law firm.
