“I need a favor, can you pick up a tandem on your way home”
09-22-23, 11:45 AM
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“I need a favor, can you pick up a tandem on your way home”
Asked Jeff, my track tandem collecting friend.
San Mateo isn’t really on the Cambria - Portland route. But I heard the words, “sounds like he has an interesting collection of bikes and parts, and he is getting older.”
ears perked.
this is the tandem: Schwinn racing with a dia-compe brake (?!?)
Next is a box o parts I picked up.
really, I just want the box. Those metal things are heavy.
Greta says, “really, another one!!”
Wow, don’t water the lawn for two weeks. Didn’t used to be like this.
Good looking box
All the throwing stars one could use.
San Mateo isn’t really on the Cambria - Portland route. But I heard the words, “sounds like he has an interesting collection of bikes and parts, and he is getting older.”
ears perked.
this is the tandem: Schwinn racing with a dia-compe brake (?!?)
Next is a box o parts I picked up.
really, I just want the box. Those metal things are heavy.
Greta says, “really, another one!!”
Wow, don’t water the lawn for two weeks. Didn’t used to be like this.
Good looking box
All the throwing stars one could use.
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09-22-23, 12:01 PM
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Is that crank British?
Too cheap to buy all the teeth?
Meth-crank?
A smile like "Indian corn?"
and my favorite:
"Summer - Teeth?" Some are teeth, some are not?
I can keep going. Or walk the dog.
Robert
Too cheap to buy all the teeth?
Meth-crank?
A smile like "Indian corn?"
and my favorite:
"Summer - Teeth?" Some are teeth, some are not?
I can keep going. Or walk the dog.
Robert
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09-22-23, 12:22 PM
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Cranks made by Schwinn if stamped Schwinn and Paramount I think.
Also probably HS, hubs, stoker stem, BB's and maybe bars.
Awesome short couple with extra rear stays for strength, these were raced by some of the toughest, baddest dudes in all of racing.
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09-22-23, 12:35 PM
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09-22-23, 01:45 PM
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I had a 1946 Paramount frame I chickened out on because hunting all the correct bits would have been hard and expensive. Finding the correct hubs for that tandem by themselves would have been a quest
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Asked Jeff, my track tandem collecting friend.
San Mateo isn’t really on the Cambria - Portland route. But I heard the words, “sounds like he has an interesting collection of bikes and parts, and he is getting older.”
ears perked.
this is the tandem: Schwinn racing with a dia-compe brake (?!?)
Next is a box o parts I picked up.
really, I just want the box. Those metal things are heavy.
Good looking box
All the throwing stars one could use.
San Mateo isn’t really on the Cambria - Portland route. But I heard the words, “sounds like he has an interesting collection of bikes and parts, and he is getting older.”
ears perked.
this is the tandem: Schwinn racing with a dia-compe brake (?!?)
Next is a box o parts I picked up.
really, I just want the box. Those metal things are heavy.
Good looking box
All the throwing stars one could use.
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Greta looks pleased with your purchase!
09-22-23, 05:58 PM
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I thought it was "some are here and some are there"? Curious what's under the red tape.
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That's the sort of bike that would remind 63rickert or Ted Ernst on CR of a story from BITD. Ted's dad was a bike shop owner in the Chicago area when this bike was built and Ted raced 6-days in the 50s. John raced in the Chicago area in the 60s(?). Any idea where the Montrose Cycle Club is/was? Sounds like a Chicago outfit to me. Though perhaps Southern California?
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That's the sort of bike that would remind 63rickert or Ted Ernst on CR of a story from BITD. Ted's dad was a bike shop owner in the Chicago area when this bike was built and Ted raced 6-days in the 50s. John raced in the Chicago area in the 60s(?). Any idea where the Montrose Cycle Club is/was? Sounds like a Chicago outfit to me. Though perhaps Southern California?
09-23-23, 10:23 AM
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And the serial number…. TR-1
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09-23-23, 11:02 AM
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Last post from me on this, but wanted to share…
Sept 64 Olympic trials at encino. Disney and Mountford in front riding a cinelli and bob kemp and Danny Saunders riding the Schwinn just behind. You can see the curved tube on the Schwinn. Both bikes were provided by bob hansing. I think Disney designed the 64 bike after the cinelli. Unless they put Schwinn decals on it for the Olympics.
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OK, one more….
because it cleaned up so nice.
because it cleaned up so nice.
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That's the sort of bike that would remind 63rickert or Ted Ernst on CR of a story from BITD. Ted's dad was a bike shop owner in the Chicago area when this bike was built and Ted raced 6-days in the 50s. John raced in the Chicago area in the 60s(?). Any idea where the Montrose Cycle Club is/was? Sounds like a Chicago outfit to me. Though perhaps Southern California?
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