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Kickstand Confusion...

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dla

Look Ma, No Hands!
Both my ‘46/’47 (serial #C71663) and ‘47/’48 (serial # D26940) DX’s have the kickstand mount angle that requires a kickstand with the tighter bend. While my ’49 and later frames all have the more relaxed bend in the stands.

Both the early frames where found as frame/fork/guard only so I have nothing to go on other than the serial number for dating.

Thinking that all early frames with built-in stands would have the same mount angle, why would the tapered stand (’46 only) that I recently purchased from a member here have the more relaxed bend of the later stands?

1946/47 DX...

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1947/48 DX...

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1949 DX...

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1952 Hornet...

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Tapered stand...

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I have four phantoms.
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I’ve noticed that the pin-striping on the forks are not consistent.
One is shorter while another is closer to the top of the fork.
I don’t have photos for comparison.
But if they were all the same, I would not have mentioned this at all.

This is only just a guess.
Perhaps the inspection process on consistency was not very strict.
And over the years different people applied it.
Being hand painted, there is a tendency to not be spot-on perfect
or exact from one year to the other.
Perhaps this might have been the case with the kick-stand.

Schwinn probably didn't expect kids would make a fuss about a
bike’s accuracy with such details.

I know when I got my Western Flyer X-53 for Christmas I was very
thrilled.
The fact that the color was a translucent red which I wasn’t too keen,
didn’t matter.
I was just happy to have a bike.

But It would be nice if an expert can explain about the kickstand.
 
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