Pre War Schwinn Girl's Bike

[elginkid]

Here’s a close up of my ‘38. I’m not sure if the legs were different in ‘39, they were different for the 1940 models.

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

Here’s a close up of my ‘38. I’m not sure if the legs were different in ‘39, they were different for the 1940 models.

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It would seem to me that all of the Early Lady's fork leg difference would be in the length and radius between the pivot bolt and the yoke bolt holes. I base "my guess" on, why would they want to re-engineer the bottom (men's) radius of the fork for only the small production volume of lady's "spring fork" models?

One thing is for sure, the two leg sides have to be a mirror image to ride properly. The importance of the Yoke alignment cannot be over stressed. Yoke's were very easily damaged by twisting the front wheel in a utility bicycle rack like commonly used at schools. You have to look closely at the yoke alignment when aligning a spring fork that was twisted to determine if the bend is in the yoke, the legs, or all three parts.

In time, Schwinn saw the light, and adopted the men's frame head tube length dimensions to the lady's models to ease parts replacement, and inventory stocking.

John