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March 18th

Lobdell rims were available well into the 50s and were carried by most of the major Schwinn distributors.

You could, but should you?

Wouldn't it be fun if the OP would pony up the serial number?

Look closely. This bike has red outline front and back.

Everybody knows that spring forks were optional and that possibility really is the simplest explanation for the bike in its current form....but it can't be proved and thus is just more speculation. I could just as easily say the bike was built after hours by the shop owner's son who liked...

The pedals are modern and have been addressed, the rack was the first thing mentioned and the fender pinstriping is as shown in the 1949 Movie Star handout below. The Lobdells were widely sold through distribution. The only "problem" is solving the question of the spring fork which can only...

Lease?

What changes?

The 1948 B507 had simpler, less expensive pinstriping on the fenders. The 1949 B507 had the more elaborate Autocycle style pinstriping and the open handle bars. This bike is a good fit for the 1949 B507 except for the spring fork which could well have been dealer installed, but I wasn't there...

The B507 (unequipped) came with truss forks.

The McCauley Luggage Carrier No. 85S was available through most of the major bike jobbers ca. 1950. The pedals are much later. The bike would have had a tank. Bike is 1949/1950-ish.

Apologies to the OP, but you can send that nasty old rust bucket down here any time next week. If I remember, I'll keep it in the garage.

Pedals, Part Number 9939 - Schwinn De Luxe 1" Rubber Block - $2.75 for the pair as seen in the 1948 Schwinn Dealer Catalog Parts and Accessories section. To be in the 1948 catalog, they would have been available in 1947. No need to speculate.

My early Hornet...the wheelset will stay until I rebuild the enameled S-2 originals. I want to ride it!

From my favorite "new" catalog.

$100.00

I need one 1951-ish bottle cap Schwinn approved pedal, 5 1/2" overall from cap to end of bolt threads. It can be a real rust bucket but it needs to be straight. Sanctuary much.

I need several sets of blackwalls for some "rider" projects I'm working on. What tire is your go-to blackwall 50's ballooner tire? Where are you buying them? How much do they cost?

Pictures of the whole bike?????

Not even close.

Please take a left side and a right side profile picture of the bike. We might see something that will give us a clue.

What model? What year? The "Japan" locknut may be a band omen. If the bike was built in Japan, we may never know who manufactured the stem.

Boom!

Funny lookin' fenders

Please allow me to paraphrase the well known adage: "The angle of the dangle equals the heat of her seat times the mass of the lass."

The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim...

As seen earlier..........

.....butt flashed...............

Truly!!!!!!

I just found this thread. It's a gentle memorial to our past and our friends. Thank you. At 78, I ride for pleasure and therapy. About 6 months ago I found and purchased a Sturmey-Archer 3 speed drum hub. I've finished the frame (a '53 cantilever), the fenders, most of the bits, the...

That was wonderful! Thank you!

Fair warning! You better keep this one locked up at night!

You should be able to replace the bike easily for $250.00 and that amount shouldn't raise any red flags for insurance purposes.

How much do you want it to be worth?

The only problem with relying on the Sturmey-Archer date codes is that nobody here has any idea or proof of how and when Sturmey stamped the flat pieces of steel that were then rolled into their hub shells. Their system may have been just as haphazard as Schwinn's system of stamping serial...

Cool as a Moose! Thanks!

Absolutely Fantastic! Thank you for posting these pictures.

Holy Ravioli, Batman, is that what I think it is? Is that a 1939?

Thank you for your interest. This thing is amazing. It is the Clayton-Willard Sales Catalog from 1951-1952. Clayton-Willard Sales, located in Jacksonville, FL, billed themselves as "Dixie's Complete Cycle Jobber." Among other things, the catalog includes the complete 1950 Schwinn Dealer...

Part number 2930 is the "spring retaining nut" I mentioned above. It is captured within the spring. It is designed to center the "torque bolt" to the spring. When the nut is loose against the "yolk bushing" the torque bolt can get out of alignment. If it is out of alignment the entire...

Not really. The "yolk bushing" and the "spring retainer nut" are out of alignment with the "torque bolt'. I can see it. The torque bolt looks bent in your picture but that could just be "camera angle." The "bumper" and the "bumper cup" have to work properly with the yolk bushing as it goes...

This catalog is unbelievable. Great stuff.....and tons of it.

Bolt's bent. Take it apart and repair or replace damaged parts. Dis ain't rocket surgery.

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I recently acquired a catalog from a major bicycle jobber in the southeast. It has a lot of VERY cool other things.

I saw the front rim and didn't even look at the back. I still think you are right...1946....but it could be 1947.

For the rims, the seat frame and the stem, I like it for 1946.