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1961 Coppertone Schwinn Continental

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My K0 (Oct 60) Continental is a 21" frame, it has an electro forged headtube.

Thanks for the confirmation! It appears that the FB headtube construction may only be found on the early 23" frames. It was either done all throughout production of that specific frame version (up through '62, those frames were re-tooled for a different geometry in '63) or possibly was done for only a period of time due to a problem with the 23" headtube tooling. If anybody listening in has a 1960 through '62 Varsity, Continental or Sierra with a 23" frame I'd be interested to know if the headtube is fillet-brazed as well as the serial number date stamp on the frame.
 
I'll be tearing down and checking out my 62 Conti in the morning. From looking at my 23" it appears to be fillet brazed.
 
Progress this weekend. Finally got the chain rings apart, what a pain in the butt. Derailers overhauled. Rear wheel is overhauled and polished, just needs a rim strip tire and tube. Freewheel completely disassembled and overhauled. Nearing test and tune soon.
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Wondering if anyone else has run across this.
I have a '61 Continental frameset that the routing for the rear derailleur cable over the bottom bracket shell uses a pulley similar to what was used with the 3 speed IGH bikes. This is instead of the cable housing & stops that are what you normally find on these bikes. I see Cody's '61 here does not have the pulley.
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Wondering if anyone else has run across this.
I have a '61 Continental frameset that the routing for the rear derailleur cable over the bottom bracket shell uses a pulley similar to what was used with the 3 speed IGH bikes. This is instead of the cable housing & stops that are what you normally find on these bikes. I see Cody's '61 here does not have the pulley.
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Eric, that is certainly odd. The tab looks to be a little different than a chain guard bracket. I wonder if they ran out braze on cable stops for a short while and used this to keep production running. That frameset looks to be in great shape, and your favorite color to boot.
 
Pulled a few late night hours in the garage and finished everything up. I always really enjoy cleaning up and overhauling those atom pedals, they always come out really nice and spin so smooth when you get them adjusted just right.
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Looks new, I'd like to find one
 
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