FogiesSpeedShop
'Lil Knee Scuffer
Very nice Super! I have a BA Opal Standard as well.. coolest color ever offered!
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Opal Violet, the end of run.
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60sstuff
Wore out three sets of tires already!
FogiesSpeedShop,
Thank you!
Let’s see a few photos of your BA Opal Violet.
I have a couple more Survivors in this awesome color.
Chris.
Vicious Cycle
Finally riding a big boys bike
I think they were stamped when the bike was licensed at the fire station or PD, this was common in Ca. back in the day. (They tried to do this on my Peugoet PX10 and I refused. I could not let them damage the 531 tubing !)
acg_schwinn
Finally riding a big boys bike
That's a thought, yes... although there are only two stamped digits to be seen; it doesn't seem like those would be unique enough to identify the bike among all the thousands of others in the same city. It does have a separate Oakland license sticker from 1967, when the bike was two years old, and that sticker is dated 9-67, seeming to match the two stamped digits of 9 and 7, though that might just be a co-inky-dink. The way to confirm that would be to find any other vintage bike with an Oakland sticker on it from that era, and look for similar stampings. I notice that the Oakland sticker has been plastered over some other sticker of a different shape and color, either an earlier license sticker or maybe a dealer label.
FogiesSpeedShop
'Lil Knee Scuffer
60sstuff
Wore out three sets of tires already!
60sstuff
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Anybody own a legitimate very early (July / Aug.) Super Deluxe?
If so does it have a 36 spoke rear wheel on it like shown in the Schwinn Reporter and the Sports Illustrated ad.
Every “Super Deluxe” I’ve seen always has a 28 spoke rear wheel.
My H4 (Aug.’64) Lime Deluxe was built with the 36 spoke and this seems to be the last month use of the 36.
If so does it have a 36 spoke rear wheel on it like shown in the Schwinn Reporter and the Sports Illustrated ad.
Every “Super Deluxe” I’ve seen always has a 28 spoke rear wheel.
My H4 (Aug.’64) Lime Deluxe was built with the 36 spoke and this seems to be the last month use of the 36.
FogiesSpeedShop
'Lil Knee Scuffer
That's too cool! Had to be 2 of the last
mrg
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
My H4 SD Lime came from original owner just missing og pedals, grips, high hoop sissy bar, front axle & black wall slick, it was partially disassembled and had the baldest blk wall knobby on a 28 spoke rim, I ask the owner about it and he said it was a og blk walk slick bike for sure ( he said WW were for sissy’s and he had the first bw slick in town ) and he went thru a few rear tires but didn’t remember changing the rim but who knows.
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