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06-29-11, 07:43 PM
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nice! worth the wait.
06-29-11, 07:50 PM
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06-29-11, 07:54 PM
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06-29-11, 07:56 PM
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nicely done. enjoy your "new" ride.
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06-29-11, 08:18 PM
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06-29-11, 08:23 PM
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I don't have a count. I don't keep a log. I did quite a few charity rides for a few years. Some were 100 miles, some less. I did the Delaware MS ride one year called Bike to the Bay. That was a two day event - 75 miles each day.
06-29-11, 09:51 PM
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Found a bunch of the old Schwinn catalogs on line. Pretty cool stuff if you owned one back then. From 1988
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...90/index5.html
https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...90/index5.html
06-29-11, 09:54 PM
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06-29-11, 09:59 PM
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Well it certainly took you long enough to slosh some paint around and mail order some parts. 
Hopefully you are as happy with the decision to hand paint it now as you were when the idea came up. Should give you another good twenty years of service before you get too old and befeebled to ride it anymore and by then the new paint should have earned its patina. Glad you didn't go overboard with the VO stuff and kept it simple and utilitarian. Very nice looking job you did with it. Congratulations.
Hopefully you are as happy with the decision to hand paint it now as you were when the idea came up. Should give you another good twenty years of service before you get too old and befeebled to ride it anymore and by then the new paint should have earned its patina. Glad you didn't go overboard with the VO stuff and kept it simple and utilitarian. Very nice looking job you did with it. Congratulations.
06-29-11, 10:08 PM
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No clearcoat.
06-29-11, 10:13 PM
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06-29-11, 10:19 PM
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Well it certainly took you long enough to slosh some paint around and mail order some parts.
Hopefully you are as happy with the decision to hand paint it now as you were when the idea came up. Should give you another good twenty years of service before you get too old and befeebled to ride it anymore and by then the new paint should have earned its patina. Glad you didn't go overboard with the VO stuff and kept it simple and utilitarian. Very nice looking job you did with it. Congratulations.
Hopefully you are as happy with the decision to hand paint it now as you were when the idea came up. Should give you another good twenty years of service before you get too old and befeebled to ride it anymore and by then the new paint should have earned its patina. Glad you didn't go overboard with the VO stuff and kept it simple and utilitarian. Very nice looking job you did with it. Congratulations.
06-30-11, 07:44 AM
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Short ride this morning. No parts fell off the bike, so I guess I put it together right. The brakes have much better stopping power than the old single pivot set. Shifting was good. Need to do some fine-tuning to the position, but the saddle is comfortable so far.
06-30-11, 10:56 AM
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I guess you're voting one in the one-bottle-or-two debate.
06-30-11, 11:00 AM
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By default, since the Schwinn only had one set of bottle bosses. In the past, I have had two bottle cages on this bike. It requires the use of hose clamps or zip ties, which don't fit in with the current build.
06-30-11, 11:09 AM
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Do you use a camelback to survive those brutal 65F New York summer days?
06-30-11, 11:33 AM
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You'd better have children and leave the bike to them in your will, because you won't be able to make it explode. I still have my '86 Peloton, and despite being in many, many crit crashes, and having beef-jerky slabs of scabs from ankle-to-hip during most of my highschool years, I was never able to knock the thing crooked. I chipped the paint in many places, but the frame is CHROMED underneath the paint! And the rear triangle is black chrome.
It's the Sherman tank of bikes, and I was so happy when I finally found another one in my size on Ebay after four years of searching.
It's the Sherman tank of bikes, and I was so happy when I finally found another one in my size on Ebay after four years of searching.
06-30-11, 11:52 AM
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Yeah, I think this is kind of like a couple's "2nd Wedding".
rjones --- nice rebuild/refresh. Thanks for the history of the bike and chronicling of the new build. Unique, functional and good looking.
rjones --- nice rebuild/refresh. Thanks for the history of the bike and chronicling of the new build. Unique, functional and good looking.
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06-30-11, 11:54 AM
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You'd better have children and leave the bike to them in your will, because you won't be able to make it explode. I still have my '86 Peloton, and despite being in many, many crit crashes, and having beef-jerky slabs of scabs from ankle-to-hip during most of my highschool years, I was never able to knock the thing crooked. I chipped the paint in many places, but the frame is CHROMED underneath the paint! And the rear triangle is black chrome.
It's the Sherman tank of bikes, and I was so happy when I finally found another one in my size on Ebay after four years of searching.
It's the Sherman tank of bikes, and I was so happy when I finally found another one in my size on Ebay after four years of searching.
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06-30-11, 12:04 PM
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Gracias. That's the original paint with no refurbishing. I just built it up with modern Dura Ace 7800 bits.
I've also got my original frame from 1986. And... umm... one more '86 Peloton frame currently being refurbished at Cyclart. (I have a problem.
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I've also got my original frame from 1986. And... umm... one more '86 Peloton frame currently being refurbished at Cyclart. (I have a problem.
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