Originally Posted by
sd5782
I found it strange that the spoke length wasn’t the same as on my other 73. I would’ve thought that they would just reuse the spokes. I certainly don’t remember if they used new spokes, but it seems they must have used newer shorter ones. This was a small town Schwinn dealer and probably no sew ups around. The patina presently matches the rest of the bike.
Or they changed the number of spoke crosses.