cudak888 

PARTED OUT, NO LONGER AVAILABLE

This one popped up locally a while ago - it was looking a bit worse for wear and I took pity on it. Gave it a good cleaning, straightened the fork, polished up a few bits, and here it sits.

This is a 22" frame measured to the top of the seat tube extension (as Schwinn did it BITD). This isn't an electroforged boat anchor, but a fillet brazed 4130 frame. Still, in traditional Schwinn fashion, it has a one-piece Ashtabula crankset and built-in kickstand to ensure partial boat anchor status. It is cleaned up, but unrestored - complete with Brooks B.15 saddle. Original Hunt-Wilde bar tape, drivetrain, wide-range Atom freewheel, et. cetera. The cable housing is original, but has some tears here and there on the original vinyl; rear cable itself has been replaced. Calipers have original Weinmann X pattern salmon brake shoes on them, and they work like brand-new Kool-Stops.

Shifts as well as the Huret components can be expected to shift on an Atom freewheel, and stops a lot better than I want to give it credit for - though the Weinmann 27" aluminum rims definitely have something to do with that.

Here's the bad news: There are some notable paint nicks around the upper seatstay/seatpost area which will not polish out. Personally, if the Kool Orange reproduction paint out there wasn't such a ripoff, I would probably have wetsanded the entire area, primed it, resprayed it, and blended the respray into the original paint with wetsanding, but that's where I draw the line - I've got other projects to get wrapped up in

Have it listed locally for $275, but will gladly do $225 + actual shipping cost via BikeFlights or ShipBikes (whichever is cheaper) to any BikeForums member.





















-Kurt

bikemig 

Love the color. swampyankee2 was looking for one of these; he might be interested.

xiaoman1 

Kurt,
Nice work! That color and Opaque green are by far my favorite colors from Schwinn.
GLWTS, Ben

Drillium Dude 

I like - and the Brooks has just the right amount of patina. GLWS

DD

cudak888 

Thanks; will reach out.

Believe it or not, it's not original to it. Someone had put a Pacific saddle on it.

-Kurt

Kabuki12

It is amazing how well made these bikes were. I rebuilt my mailman’s Le Tour IV after it had sat for over 25 years in his mother’s garage. Strawberry red with chrome wheels. The bike came out looking much like what yours did. The paint was shiney new and the chromes had no pitting anywhere. I test rode it after getting it all back together. Yes it was heavy, but the ride was very smooth and comfy. Great for cruising around on. He now rides it regularly like he did when it was new!

cudak888 

Price reduced to $200 + actual shipping.

-Kurt

cudak888 

$175 + actual shipping.

cudak888 

Bumping this up out of desperation. Sold it a few days ago to a local rider who's been trying to use it as a commuter, but this thing is just not conducive to the type of hard-edged riding that he likes to do. The fairly crude Schwinn headset just won't stay tight enough, and one of the Twin-Stik wingnuts stripped on him. He's also not used to having any sort of give in his brake calipers, making the centerpulls difficult for him to get to grips with.

It's back now, and I'm planning to install a new wing nut on the Twin-Stik, examine the headset to find out if there is anything actually wrong with it other than abuse (or lack of finesse in the ability to adjust what amounts to a fairly toylike headset), and get her back to how she is in the pictures.

$125 minus the Brooks, and yes, I'll even consider partial and interesting trades, selling without the wheels, or part-outs (provided someone is willing to take the frameset).

I'm tired of it taking up space, and I have too many other bikes piling up.

-Kurt