Oh yeah you’re right. I have another old Schwinn with non-original fenders that attach to the axle so I forgot that it isn’t standard. I’m thinking somebody just kind of mashed together a Western Flyer and a Schwinn at some point. That serial number just adds to the mystery
I agree on the little guy. It all matches up too closely to be anything else I think. I just want to find a number to confirm but it’s still eluding me.
Here are the pictures of both sides of the crankset. No obvious date or clues that I can see but hopefully more educated eyes will be able to...
Got some post-initial-scrub glamour shots for y’all. Not a whole lot of new revelations but a couple little things.
it appears the roadmaster was re-painted at some point (which tracks because my aunt told me that grandpa re-painted one blue for her a long time ago). There’s some gray and...
Oh that thing is cool! Beautiful work on that little buddy. My little one does kind of look like it. I just realized I didn’t get a good picture of the crank on it so I’ll have to snap a new picture and post it up too
Thanks! I’m pretty excited about them all. I’ll have to give the little one a good scrubbing and look for the number again. I couldn’t see a number on the bottom bracket or the dropout but I’ll give it another go over.
Thanks for the info on the Roadmaster. I’m in love with that thing. I looked...
That’s what somebody over on the cabe said too. I ran the serial number after you mentioned it, and you’re right it does come up is 1953. The only model that it really looks like from that years catalog is the Spitfire. I asked this over on the cabe as well and it may be a dumb question but did...