What year is this?

[phantom]

This one is an 87 # 0627

 

[GTs58]

Here's the 1987 catalog page for the Cruisers. I wonder what the color option deal is here on the two years 86 & 87.

The OP'S bike has a 1987 color option that wasn't available in 1986, but it was in 1987. Final build day was

August 14, 1986 (Thu)

Day 226

So that color was either a late option for 1986 or it took months for the new year's models to float over the pond.

 

[Rusty Klunker]

Two ways to tell on the Hungary,Taiwan,China built Schwinns.
SN: Y"6"701191
HB: 2266
1986
86, probably a Taiwan but could be Hungarian built.
Looking at the chainguard mount and forks you can tell its a mid 80's bike. Not sure whats up with the color.

 

[CaptBrent]

So Giant started making Schwinns in 77 and went to the head badge numbering. https://www.bicycle-and-bikes.com/bicycle-brands/giant-bikes/. But if it went through 87 you just need to compare the way the model looks to the catalog to see if your 7 is a 77 or 87?

Thanks for the info and pics, everyone

 

[CaptBrent]

Two ways to tell on the Hungary,Taiwan,China built Schwinns.
SN: Y"6"701191
HB: 2266
1986
86, probably a Taiwan but could be Hungarian built.
Looking at the chainguard mount and forks you can tell its a mid 80's bike. Not sure whats up with the color.

It has a label that says made in Taiwan. One less mystery.

 

[juvela]

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LUV how the mailbox so perfectly blocks the view of the red vehicle from this perspective

with a mail box out at the curb like that I certainly would not want to come out to check the post in me housecoat and curlers!


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[GTs58]

So Giant started making Schwinns in 77 and went to the head badge numbering. https://www.bicycle-and-bikes.com/bicycle-brands/giant-bikes/. But if it went through 87 you just need to compare the way the model looks to the catalog to see if your 7 is a 77 or 87?

Thanks for the info and pics, everyone

Giant did not make bikes for Schwinn in the 70's. The first imports were from Japan and that was the 1974 Le Tour I believe. The first imported cantilever framed models was in 1985.
You're correct on how to pinpoint the decade of the Schwinns with the build dates on the head badge.

 

[marching_out]

1986. I thought I had determined this was a Giant built bike but for the life of me I can't remember how I got to that conclusion. It was built in Taiwan. Maybe that's it.

 

[GTs58]

1986. I thought I had determined this was a Giant built bike but for the life of me I can't remember how I got to that conclusion. It was built in Taiwan. Maybe that's it.
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So you're saying that's a 1986 model and not a 1985 as the build day on the badge would suggest?

 

[marching_out]

So you're saying that's a 1986 model and not a 1985 as the build day on the badge would suggest?

Crappy picture. This one is better.