GTs58
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Outstanding rim design.
I’m not sure how these tags were used as a sales display, but I thought they were pretty cool.
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Then there’s this Lobdell-Emery advertisement from May 1949,
American Bicyclist.
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Note the Tubular rim made exactly like the Schwinn S series Tubular Rims.
Hmmm!
So who actually made these rims?
Schwinn or Lobdell?
Here's some of Frank's drawings. The S-6 rims were made a few years before the S-2's but the profile was different. Fig. 2 appears to be the S-2, or darn close to it with the shoulders not as wide. I think Frank was on to something before Lobdell. There was also some notes with these drawing on the issue of getting the rims cleaning fluid flushed out before chroming.
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