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Cruisin' on my Bluebird
I think those clips were only used on the "Continental" aluminum hubs, the standard steel hubs don't have them, I'm guessing because they used grease instead of oil. And both hubs look like original Schwinn items, no idea why one isn't marked.Both his her rear rim laced to sturmey archer 3-speed stamped 48 date code.
His:
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Her:
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His front rim laced to unmarked hub with black center metal band. Is Schwinn hub?
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Her front rim to Schwinn scripted hub:
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Side note: not sure purpose of metal (clipped on?) bands front hubs are.
Your unmarked rims may be early chrome S-6's, @SirMike1983 said in another thread he thinks the early S-6's weren't marked at all. But I've seen chrome S-6's from the early '70's that weren't marked either, and by then the tooling was worn down enough that it didn't leave the crisp knurls seen on the earlier rims. And like @GTs58 says, it looks like the form on one may be slightly more rounded, but I can't tell for sure, that valve stem nut may be throwing me off. If the tires are all Schwinn's 597 bead seat diameter and the rims are all tubular then they're all most likely S-6's. The only other 597 mm rims I've seen are Dunlop and they were clearly marked and the 599 rims I've seen have all been single wall. But these lightweights can still surprise me, so that's just my best guess.
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