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Voyageur Ii

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RustyHornet

I live for the CABE
Just picked this one up tonight. First road bike over ever bought while actually looking for one. Never could hold onto them, but wanted a nice one for my collection and to ride on the country roads where I live. This ones got a neat story. The friend I got it from got it from the son of the original owner. He was a buyer for Schwinn. He traveled the world buying the components used to build the Paramounts. When he retired, this was his gift from the company. Supposedly he hand picked all the components that went on it, although some have been upgraded over the years now. It will be kind of a rolling clean up for me, as I plan to ride it while detailing it out and servicing it. As soon as I saw it, I fell it love. I knew it was going to be mine. Onto the pictures.

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At some point I'd like to return it back to stock. To me it looks like only the shifters and rear derailleur have been replaced.
 
I ordered some white tires and bar tape for this last night. It doesn't need tires, but I wanted to class it up a little bit and couldn't find all gray tires. Bar tape because I can't stand the foam pads, make the bike seem cheap to me. I want the bike to 'pop' more than it already does.
 
This reminds me a lot of the original issue Schwinn Voyageur.

That's because they were basically the same bike. The Voyageur II was a renamed World Voyageur, with the only differences being the name (decals and badging), paint colors and the addition of a 25" frame size.
 
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