Fleet Wing girls bicycle question...

[HARPO]

A friend of mine has a neighbor selling this 1960's ??? 3-speed Fleet Wing bike. Appears to be, from the hanging photo he sent, to be in nice condition...and with a rear rack. Looks like an offshoot of a lesser Raleigh bike, though. Maybe I'm wrong.

Any idea as to the value on it?

 

[HARPO]

I just found this on Sheldon Brown's website:

Fleetwing A house brand of Boston's Jordan Marsh department store chain.

 

[HARPO]

Owner is asking $50 for it...

 

[morton]

Don't make any right hand turns until you reroute the left side brake cable

Looks like its in pretty good condition and if it's what you want, price seems fair especially if tires are good. Only problem I see is dealing with those ##@**&%%$$## cottered cranks as you should clean and repack all the bearing assemblies if they haven't been done recently.

 

[HARPO]

So...is the bike worth $50 or not? Any and all comments welcomed...

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

If your into lightweights yes , I dont see how you could go wrong for 50 bux.
The college kids around here eat those things up .