Three Second Rate Muscle Bikes For $100

[professor72]

Definitely a schwinn tornado frame, 20". 1960 I believe. All the rest are classic pig bike combo parts. I have a 20" frame like this myself. Fairly hard to find frame in 20" size.

 

[bob the bike seller]

Definitely a schwinn tornado frame, 20". 1960 I believe. All the rest are classic pig bike combo parts. I have a 20" frame like this myself. Fairly hard to find frame in 20" size.

I do not believe Schwinn had the twinn bar underneath the top bar as shown in these photos.....at least I have never seen one......1960 Schwinn does NOT show this twinn bar........

 

[bob the bike seller]

Frame chain ring and guard are Schwinn

you sure about that frame? the TWINN bars under the top bar do not look like ANY Schwinn I have seen........

 

[bob the bike seller]

love the green columbia

 

[Dave K]

Yeah they made that frame in 1959. Not super common but have seen a few.

 

[bob the bike seller]

Yeah they made that frame in 1959. Not super common but have seen a few.

you are correct, good sir...20", 1959 Schwinn Tornado.........

 

[Intense One]

That Schwinn is a Pig Bike at it's finest. They would take the old 20 inch bikes and put banana seats and high rise bars to make muscle bikes. Forks look Huffy. They changed the fenders out. I believe they refer to that style frame as straight bar frame.

Here piggy piggy. Definitely a pig bike like Jaxon said!

 

[professor72]

Here my tornado 20". January 1960 date

 

[professor72]

Also have a Hawthorne from 1964 that is similar to the firestone. I found it in a 1964 Montgomery wards catalog listed as a "super mustang dragster" model if I remember correctly.

 

[partsguy]

Also have a Hawthorne from 1964 that is similar to the firestone. I found it in a 1964 Montgomery wards catalog listed as a "super mustang dragster" model if I remember correctly.

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My '61 Monark came to me with a seat identical to that. Ugly as all hell. A member here said it must have belonged to Ron Jeremy. Ewww....lol. I haven't seen a seat like that since then!