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DPDISXR4Ti
Any idea if that's been done? I guess as long as the dropouts are the same width it should be possible. I probably wouldn't bother with my old Collegiate. When I did a quick & dirty "restoration" to it a couple years ago, I couldn't believe this was once my sole bike that I rode until I was about 25. It was like driving a tank that handled badly.
It's been done somewhere, I'm sure of that, even if it never made the internet. My memory also faintly remembers coming across a few ISO 597 Schwinns with wheel swaps. At least one probably was a swap off one of the many Free Spirit 3-speeds of the '80s with the Shimano 3.3.3 hub.
You've summed up the ride of most electroforged Schwinns as they came from the factory. I've got a 1949 D37X balloon tire Schwinn here - in operational condition - that is the worst riding piece of garbage I've ever been on that can legitimately claim to be "tuned up and ready to ride."
-Kurt