Schwinny
I live for the CABE
Looking down the row, this String for Schwinn lightweights doesn't get a lot of attention. Just the couple questions Ive asked this year are still high up. Kinda looks like Im hogging the bandwidth.
Let me know if I am, but I know how things get slow after awhile....
Anyway, I like to build bikes around parts at a hobby pace, and if you read a post below about a stem, that's the part Im going to build the next bike around.
The goal is for me to do the 57 mile run, in the Tour De Tucson next November. Then when that's done, it will be my getting across town bike to replace the nra MASI that holds that place now.
I want to build a vintage racer look-a-like that won't ask too much of my decrepitness and won't be too fragile to ride daily.
Here is the start:
A damaged, repaired and re-conditioned Schwinn track stem and a nearly new Brooks B17S. I wish they wouldn't have stamped that it was a girls model into the leather, but I like a wider, smaller seat rather than a crack filler "racing" seat. Gotta be somewhat period and style also and this one was half price with two rides on it so....
I dont want to take a 3pc crank Frame off the market, so I plan on using an early one piece crank 21-23" lightweight frame.
I've also got a one piece 7" stroke bayonet crank on its way but have thought about an adapter to 3pc for the larger BB. Im dabbling in forks and may have hit on a good one to accept the stem and fit the bill.
Right now, the plan is a sparse bike. 2spd coaster brake. Maybe not even a front Brake. The handlebars have to be tourist, or flipped to track racer style for me to be able to hold on.
So I thought I would put it together here on this thread and solicit advice, experience, ideas and parts If that's ok?
The two biggest things to ponder of course is the frame and the wheels. The best choices for frames are wide. Id like to go early or light. Or... light and early. Or light and late. That might depend on availability of course but ideas are for a pre-war standard frame, or the ultimate might be a Chro-Mo brazed frame like a Super Sport if that will accept an early fork.
Comments, thoughts and beratements?
Let me know if I am, but I know how things get slow after awhile....
Anyway, I like to build bikes around parts at a hobby pace, and if you read a post below about a stem, that's the part Im going to build the next bike around.
The goal is for me to do the 57 mile run, in the Tour De Tucson next November. Then when that's done, it will be my getting across town bike to replace the nra MASI that holds that place now.
I want to build a vintage racer look-a-like that won't ask too much of my decrepitness and won't be too fragile to ride daily.
Here is the start:
A damaged, repaired and re-conditioned Schwinn track stem and a nearly new Brooks B17S. I wish they wouldn't have stamped that it was a girls model into the leather, but I like a wider, smaller seat rather than a crack filler "racing" seat. Gotta be somewhat period and style also and this one was half price with two rides on it so....
I dont want to take a 3pc crank Frame off the market, so I plan on using an early one piece crank 21-23" lightweight frame.
I've also got a one piece 7" stroke bayonet crank on its way but have thought about an adapter to 3pc for the larger BB. Im dabbling in forks and may have hit on a good one to accept the stem and fit the bill.
Right now, the plan is a sparse bike. 2spd coaster brake. Maybe not even a front Brake. The handlebars have to be tourist, or flipped to track racer style for me to be able to hold on.
So I thought I would put it together here on this thread and solicit advice, experience, ideas and parts If that's ok?
The two biggest things to ponder of course is the frame and the wheels. The best choices for frames are wide. Id like to go early or light. Or... light and early. Or light and late. That might depend on availability of course but ideas are for a pre-war standard frame, or the ultimate might be a Chro-Mo brazed frame like a Super Sport if that will accept an early fork.
Comments, thoughts and beratements?
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