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1941-42 Schwinn New World

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Just Jeff

Wore out three sets of tires already!
This is my first venture into lightweight bikes, so I figured this was a good bike to start with. I’ve been wanting a skinny tire bike to ride for a while now and prewar bikes are my favorite. When I saw this one for sale here on the CABE, and it was very close to my house, I jumped on it.
My initial hope was to do a little cleaning and then ride it. But while cleaning it I decided to delve into it further.

Here are the pics I took last Sunday when I picked it up.

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On Monday I started the disassembly for cleaning.
I was very happy with how well it came out. Surprised how much of the original pinstriping there was hiding under the grime. I was also surprised to find blackout bottom bracket bearing cups. Nothing else was blacked out though.

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With the bike cleaned up to my liking, the wheels weren’t up to snuff. Time to clean them up! Starting with the rear wheel. And look what I found hiding under all the caked on dirt and grease!
Cleaned up quite nicely. Not perfect, but I like it so far. And hot damn! A DD hub! Now the paint damage on the top tube makes sense! But now I want the rest of the parts to complete the hub

The shiny brake arm was not with this originally. I’ve had that for a while now and just decided it needed to be on this bike (the original one didn’t have much chrome left anyhow)

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