schwinnlax
Finally riding a big boys bike
I was in the local Salvation Army store yesterday, and they had what looked like a pre-war DX. It was completely painted over and had no headbadge. I did not have my phone with me, so I could not take pictures. Planning to go back on Monday. How can I tell if this is a Schwinn or some other maker? Did other bike companies make bikes very similar to the DX? This bike had the rear dropouts facing the back, hence my assumption that it is prewar. It also had a larger area around the dropouts that seems to be for the bike stand, but I can't remember if there were holes in them to mount the stand. Looked at a lot of pictures of Schwinn DX's here and it seems bikes with the stand mounted on the dropouts had a straight down tube rather than a curved one. Is that always the case? I'm pretty sure this bike had a curved down tube. Also had chrome fenders. Both wheel rims were painted with pin stripes, but they were a mis-match. One was a cream color with red stripes, the other was a reddish color with pin stripes. I believe the front forks were tubular rather than blade. Seat post also looked smaller than the normal post war Schwinn seat post. However, the top two curved tubes did look right for a Schwinn DX. Just not sure if other manufacturers made this style. Where would the serial number be, and how many digits? They had $150 price on it, which seems pretty high for SA.