Goofy Schwinn builds and parts in ads or old photos or real life

[onecatahula]

How about this one, Jose . .
What the heck ?

 

[SJ_BIKER]

How about this one, Jose . .
What the heck

Wtf....Head scratcher!!! How did they open up that clamp to wrap around the thick tube?

 

[SJ_BIKER]

Fellow caber allowed me to photograph this. It's a postwar fork leg with prewar circle type drain holes. Most I have seen are rectangle shaped.

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

Fellow caber allowed me to photograph this. It's a postwar fork leg with prewar circle type drain holes. Most I have seen are rectangle shaped.

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Interesting observation. I have never noticed the drilled hole, and like you the only thing I noticed was the square/rectangle hole. It looks like they might have saved one step by "not drilling" the hole before the fork end was flattened. I'd bet the square/rectangle hole was pressed into the metal during the flattening step.

It's always interesting to notice the small subtle differences that took place over the past 100 plus years.

John

 

[SJ_BIKER]

This prewar fork has no drain holes. Odd.

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

This prewar fork has no drain holes. Odd.

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Friday 3:30 PM.

John

 

[mickeyc]

Ivory wheels on a b6?

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I had one a few years ago that I sold at Memory Lane. It was a blue '51 B6 with painted wheels - see photo.

 

[SJ_BIKER]

Old internet photo

 

[SJ_BIKER]

Electrifying.... But I can't figure out the set up... Battery tube and generator?

 

[Porkchop & Applesauce]

Generator must be a back up for when all the battery’s are dead.