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The effort would be well worth it. Painting them white just tells others you didn’t make the effort to do it right. 😎

I know after restoring and collecting 1st generation Rivieras that there were many mid production year changes in automobiles. No reason that the bicycle industry didn’t do this as well. Perhaps someone can come up with Fall/Winter catalog showing bicycles. I doubt that the Christmas “ Wish...

1964 was the first year for Sears to use the “cap”,on their Spaceliner. This is a Murray built bike sold under the Murray name; it’s neither a Sears bike nor a Spaceliner.

I have this same bike.Hence I already had it marked in this book. In the Middleweight forum, there is a separate Flightliner/ Spaceliner group. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/the-ultimate-sears-spaceliner-reference.35629/ However, you will notice that the chain guard with the bike is the...

The 46??? Is the key to the year. It’s hard to read in the photo. I Think that chain guard and tank were 1959 & 1960 items.

Speaking of blenders

If you’re trying to replace these or match one, it’s fairly easy to remove one and measure it. Lay the “J” over the edge of a ruler and measure.

Yeah, I know it’s not a Schwinn but it’s green, kind ’a. The picture of the 1956 Corvette was taken when I originally bought it. I’ve since removed the rear rack and added a front rack and a Schwinn S seat - original 56 seats are unobtainium.

In the mid 60s my brother and I had a suburban route outside of Hutchinson, KS. We’d get home from school, fold between 425 and 450 papers and put them into apple boxes. Mom drove our 55 Buick four door hardtop. No matter what the weather all four windows came down. I’d throw across the road...

Yes. The Hurd and Gordon book “Collectable Elgin, JC Higgins, Sears, and Hawthorne bikesmwould be a good place to start. This is a link to an eBay sale. https://www.ebay.com/itm/295557506006?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335809022&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

The people you pass seem to enjoy the restored ones more. Once you’ve lubed everything and have good tires and tubes on them, you can’t tell any difference so give some pleasure to someone else.

Bought this pair for $10 from a guy here locally. Before this pair, I’d never seen the Goodyear 134 model tire. Since then I’ve seen a picture of one other bike with a pair - white sidewalls in fact.

IF the sun ever comes out again.

We owned a couple of Schwinns we bought at Target but didn’t keep them long. One thing about the 1/4 x 20 screws and nuts for the rear fender braces on a Schwinn. The ones you take out will not work if you’re adding a Schwinn rack to the back. They’ll be too short.

Those are not ‘button head’ screws. Button head screws have a torx head drive. Here’s a chart of screw heads. Except it’s getting more difficult to find anything put Philips drive heads.

I’ve found that most of the bikes I’ve had to find screws for are 1/4 x 20. If the threads in the fork tube are buggered up, I’ve found that using a 1/4 x 20 hex head self tapping screw works well. Working with a socket and ratchet is much easier than using a screwdriver.

I tried hot water and that did nothing that I could tell. Even with a rubber kitchen gripper I couldn’t get a good grip on them. 🤔💡I took a 5/32” open end wrench (the diameter of the rack rail) and slipped it over the rail. Brought the wrench right up to the “crutch tip” and gently tapped the...

Makes me wonder now, after having seen different measurements on different cups, to what tolerances were the cups stamped out, or was the chrome plating thicker one day or season to the next. Glad this is over. if you haven’t seen it elsewhere, here’s what I scrounged together.

Is 1.29 a rounded up number? All of the pictures of micrometers that I see are 1.28XX. Does anyone have a schematic from Schwinn that shows what the intended ID of the head tube should be?

I bought what was left of a 1959 Jaguar which had been heavily coated with red house paint. All that’s left of it is the rear rack. I’d like to try to salvage the rack but I’m afraid that anything I’d use to remove the paint would destroy the plastic housings for the reflectors. How do you...

I don’t remember for sure but it could be the camera in this iPad. This is the first time I’ve seen it in natural light. The bike was originally campus green and if I remember correctly, I took the fork to True Auto Paints and had it color matched. It’s close enough for Government work and me...

I don’t take pictures as I go along - gets the camera too dirty. But here are some pictures of my latest finished projects.

I used the inches in decimals this time than the inches in fractions like I did the first time. The CABER from whom I got thes also sent me one of the deluxe cups like you pictured. All I know for sure is that they work. The cup at the top is only in use to level the micrometer so the dal is...

It’s the size I was looking for in my original post. Schwinn bearings et al. I’ll post some pictures when I get to my shop.

It’s a done deal. I traded another CABER a seat for a complete BB set and a complete headset. The bike should be road worthy in the next few days.

The posted picture of the bottom bracket and the accompanying page from a Sears catalog identify the bike as a 1959 Flightliner. You will notice differences in the tank and the chainguard when compared to the 1961 - 1963 models, and the 1958 - 1961 Deluxe models. Here’s a picture of a...

Here’s a different catalog page showing a close up of the tank In the upper right hand corner Of the pag.

If your bike was a 58 - 60, it has a different style tank. The tank on these early models was painted and had two chrome headlight rings like this.

There is also a pinned section On the middleweight forum here on the CABE dedicated to the Spaceliner bikes. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/the-ultimate-sears-spaceliner-reference.35629/

Here are a boy’s and girl’s 1961 Flightliners. Side by side showing you the differences in the tanks for the different gender bikes for that year. These two have the chrome frame and the springer front fork. The tanks for the chrome framed boy’s bike has buttons for the light and a horn...

The model number is on the left drop out. It corresponds to the catalog number and you can determine the year from that. Post a picture of it. It will begin with MOD 502 then a 4 or 5 digit model number followed by a unique serial number. Sometimes it is necessary to remove the axle nut to...

I could not hold the micrometer and get a good angle with the camera at the same time. In each picture, I properly “measured inside the tube” then removed the calipers and took the photo. I’m not an amateur at this! One of our other brethren told me he had quite a few Schwinn 1-1/4” headsets...

I just inspected my head tub, it measures the same diameter all the way around - it’s round not oblong. Here are some pictures of different measurements. 1.25 would be 1-1/4” so these measurements are off by just thousandths of being 1.2500, like 75/10,000.

I recently bought a 1959 Tornado 'Twin Straight Bar' bare frame. I had enough spare parts to put together a complete bike, or so I thought. It's all painted and ready to assemble, or so I thought. Tires went on the wheels, seat on the seat stem, seat stem into the seat tube, crank, etc. I...

I’ve also used my body hammers and dollies on fenders, chain guards, rack, and any other sheet metal. Some stretch metal, some shrink it, some have curved faces. Me of the dollies has an almost perfect curved surface. It takes practice though. And a good set of files to get them perfect.

The big ball peen hammer and heavy plastic bag filled with playground sand is my cheap way of duplicating Eastwood’s panel beater combo. The sand gives but not enough that you can go too far and it spreads out the impact of the hammer. If I had to do a bunch of fenders, I’d get that Eastwood’s...

No reason they can’t be rolled, but they roll out much better if the braces are removed. I gently use a large ball peen hammer and some play ground sand in a thick plastic bag.

IF you decide to take the dents out of the fender, what method do you use?

+1 more for the decals.

Good news. I have the Waterford Schwinn Catalog site as an icon on my desktop. I clicked on it today and it was there again.

I’ve known a couple of ‘older’ ladies who had the stems on their bikes turned backwards because they felt more comfortable sitting up straighter.

Kinda says it all, doesn’t it?

Is the title of a Danish Infantry bicycle unit dispatched to the front lines to help holdback the Nazi invasion until reinforcements arrive. Base on actual events. Subtitled but easy to follow.

I’ve had it as an icon on my desktop for years. Used it as a reference often. Hopefully someone can put it back up.

I get redirected with a warning that I’ll be giving up secure information if I open the new link. .??? It’s been like this for a couple of days.

clean the surface rust off the Macy’s bike using a scrunched up ball of aluminum foil and some water (simple but it works.). Leave the rest alone except for cleaning repacking bearings. New tires and tubes if needed. Can’t offer anything on the other one.