Originally Posted by
Kabuki12
I loved my root beer brown Varsity in the first few years I rode it and it was a true icon. When I rode it to high school there were many who had them in various colors.
At the height of the Bike Boom
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ba-n.html#bikeboom
you could put your name on an 8- to 10-month waiting list, or, thanks to its innovative electro-forged manufacture,
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/varsity.html
ride home from the Schwinn 'Total Concept' store on Varsity.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/varsity-shaddox.html
During 1971-73, Schwinn produced a new Varsity every 17 seconds, 24/7/365.
Sure, there have been plenty of bikes
in movies, but what other bike has the nostalgia/panache to have a movie
named after it?
