Schwinn Serial Numbers Explained

[Xlobsterman]

An open mind? Or the mind of an adolescent making up names. Schwinn was one of the first to use the rear "drop out" in the US and I'll call it what it is and what it was named, not something someone thinks it looks like. If I was going to refer to it as something that it looked like using my open mind (imagination), I'd call it a clevis hook fork end. It's called a drop out for specific reason and it seems that many here don't have any idea what a rear drop out fork actually is or why it's called that. The rear facing "track fork" is not any type of drop out. Why is this so hard for everyone to understand, it's so damn simple! Here's a solution for the learning impaired. Lets call the forward facing rear fork end a drop out. Then we'll call the rear facing fork end a pull out. Now that's what I call some open minded thinking.
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DUDE............I think you need to take a nice relaxing fishing trip, and use some fish hooks to help you relax a bit...............LMFAO

Here is a pic of a Mako Shark I caught on a "Fish Hook" a few years ago now! Notice the smile on my face after a great day of fishing

 

[Xlobsterman]

None of the comments here should be taken as an attack on @Xlobsterman. I appreciate getting to see stuff like this. It’s Schwinn‘s consumer relations in 1981 fault.

I knew when I posted this there were going to be certain individuals that would jump all over it and dispute the information in it.

And all "FISH HOOKS" aside, take the info for what it is worth, and have a great 4th of July holiday weekend............!

 

[schwinnlax]

Well, I have no interest in getting into these squabbles, but the fact does remain that document has lots of errors.

 

[Rivnut]

Lets call the forward facing rear fork end a drop out. Then we'll call the rear facing fork end a pull out. Now that's what I call some open minded thinking.
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I had always thought that it was just a rear fork. This is a page from a 1949 Schwinn catalog. Check out item #33

 

[GTs58]

I had always thought that it was just a rear fork. This is a page from a 1949 Schwinn catalog. Check out item #33

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Yep, exactly. But that's not what the masses today call it. And #32, front fork. Ever hear, "My front forks are bent"?

80% of the members here should read this. No such thing as a rear facing drop out.

 

[Xlobsterman]

It's hilarious how this message thread about Schwinn "Serial Numbers" has turned into a thread about rear fish hook style drop outs...........

Anyhow, everybody enjoy the 4th of July weekend. I have my box of fish hooks, and I am going fishing this weekend!

 

[Xlobsterman]

Well, I have no interest in getting into these squabbles, but the fact does remain that document has lots of errors.

And those errors are?

 

[Rivnut]

It's hilarious how this message thread about Schwinn "Serial Numbers" has turned into a thread about rear fish hook style drop outs...........

Anyhow, everybody enjoy the 4th of July weekend. I have my box of fish hooks, and I am going fishing this weekend!

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Catch and release?

 

[Xlobsterman]

Catch and release?

NOPE........catch and BBQ