need help identifying vintage schwinn please!
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need help identifying vintage schwinn please!
i have a schwinn that i want to restore and bring back to its original condition,it was given to me and i know nothing about the bike other than its a schwinn LeTour and the serial # is SC100935 pleaseeeee help me
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By my memory, Schwinn started making LeTours as a response the the flood of mid-level Japanese bikes that were driving Schwinn out of business - the first time. Think mid to late 70s. I think the LeTour name continued on to, or nearly to, present day. So you may have a vintage bike, or you may not.
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This should be moved to the C&V subforum.
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Here are two references where you can get information on the bike as there are links to the catalogs for the years the bike was in production. https://bikehistory.org/bikes/letour/
A Bicycle's Point of view
Sometimes you can date the bike by looking at the components for date stamps. Places where you may find a date stamp are hubs, on the backside of the brake, and on the inside of the crank arm. That would pin down the year it was made within months. There is an online database for old Schwinn bikes but it does not have serial numbers for bikes imported from Japan.
Panasonic in Japan made the "Schwinn approved" Japanese bikes and for that you got to pay about $30 more for the bike over buying the same bike from a Panasonic dealer. I know because I worked in a bike shop and when somebody came in we would send them to the Panasonic dealer over the Schwinn dealer. Lots of people would scoff at the idea it was the same bike but we knew.
A Bicycle's Point of view
Sometimes you can date the bike by looking at the components for date stamps. Places where you may find a date stamp are hubs, on the backside of the brake, and on the inside of the crank arm. That would pin down the year it was made within months. There is an online database for old Schwinn bikes but it does not have serial numbers for bikes imported from Japan.
Panasonic in Japan made the "Schwinn approved" Japanese bikes and for that you got to pay about $30 more for the bike over buying the same bike from a Panasonic dealer. I know because I worked in a bike shop and when somebody came in we would send them to the Panasonic dealer over the Schwinn dealer. Lots of people would scoff at the idea it was the same bike but we knew.
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Hello @xxslayerxx ,
welcome to the Bike Forum.
From the serial number the frame of your Le Tour was made in 1981.
Here is a link to some Schwinn catalogs that may help: https://bikehistory.org/catalogs/
Here is a link to another 1981 Schwinn Le tour:
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...1-le-tour.html
welcome to the Bike Forum.
From the serial number the frame of your Le Tour was made in 1981.
Here is a link to some Schwinn catalogs that may help: https://bikehistory.org/catalogs/
Here is a link to another 1981 Schwinn Le tour:
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...1-le-tour.html