Originally Posted by
staehpj1
Yeah, not sure how old prairiepedaler is but as a young man I remember lusting after the high end schwinn models that I couldn't afford (Paramount). That was about 50 years ago. I could see someone wanting to ride one of those beautiful bikes today.
My wife had a fairly inexpensive Schwinn that came with cottered cranks and steel rings. It was probably a 72-74 or so model and had a mixte frame. Not sure of the model. For the price and our budget at the time it was a nice bike.
EDIT: Upong thinking about it, I remembered that my wife'e bike was a Raleigh Gran Prix mixte, not a Schwinn.
My Raleigh Gran Prix was a 72. WIthin 24 hours after buying it, the Simplex rear derailleur came off and a Suntour went on. Took another week or two for me to swap the shifters and front derailleur to Suntour too.
When you said cottered crank for a Schwinn, I thought that was off as the cottered cranks were most common in Brit bikes.