the good day

[37fleetwood]

well after my bad day I had a pretty good day today. I was driving home from visiting my Dad and finally tying up the loose ends on putting a V-8 in my Dart when I ended up following an old pickup with a bunch of junk in the back. piled in with the junk was a bike. going down the road a cushion off an old love seat flew out of the truck so I pulled along side at a stop light and told him about the cushion and ask if indeed he was hauling the stuff to the junk. he said he was so I asked about the bike. he said he'd take $5.00 so we went back for the cushion and when we stopped I went into my pocket and found I had a couple ones and a ten dollar bill, so I looked at him, he looked at me and since he didn't say anything I asked if he'd consider $10.00. he laughed and took my ten and I left with the bike. we never found the cushion. here is a photo of the bike:

I'm not into these kind of bikes so this one's going on the bay to help make up for the bad day with the Pilot. I'll need to do a bit of work first, the front hub is broken and a few spokes nipples are broken and the spokes twisted up but I think there may just be a bit of profit in it, at least I hope so.

 

[JRE]

Bummer about the Pilot. Hope you're ok. Nice schwinn Score. Reminds me of the Score I got at weekly farm auction by my house. I scored a 1964 Monark Speedster for $10 brought it home buffed it out and sold it for $100 the next day.

 

[cyclingday]

Nice little consolation to ease the pain of going down on one of your classics.

 

[PCHiggin]

Keeper!

It's a shame the Pilot crashed on you,it is/was a sweet looking bike. You're probably a big guy like me and you need something more substantial under your arse. These bikes were made to hold a 70? or 80? lb. kid and not an over the hill 240 lb'er such as myself. Thank goodness Schwinn way over built their bikes and we can still ride them,without the twisting. Do yourself a favor and make this one a rider. You know about the cool bolt-ons available for it and you'll NEVER break it. If you really don't want it,send me a price, shipped to 48316,in Michigan. Thanks.

Pat