Below is an after and before of this ‘57 Schwinn 24” I built. I love the 1976 Schwinn Bicentennials they offered with this accessory seat. So I built my own version. I don’t care for adults on 20” bikes as they look out of proportion with the tall seat posts. I’ve had this bike in the back...
Had a busy weekend with the grandson’s birthday party and helping my parents with some brush cleanup but I was able to get the bike finished up.
I don’t really care for the block style Schwinn lettering in the mid 70’s, I had purchased an earlier set of decals for the top tube, but the color...
The kid at work had some extra primer so I threw the frame in the booth and took advantage of it. I’m hoping to get it sprayed next week so I can start assembly on it soon.
I ended up sending my seat to Joe Crawford and he covered it for me in record time.
I sent a bunch of stuff off to get plated. I was pretty happy with everything except for the sprocket. I’m gonna reach out and see if they will do anything about it.
I need to get off my ... and get the...
My swimtrunk purchase was a fail to use as the material to cover the seat. I bought the trunks large thinking it would give me more material. The problem is that the pattern is too large and doesn’t look right on the seat. Back to the drawing board.
I was able to get the lower half of the seat pan painted at work today Just happen to be painting an Acura so I threw this in the booth I have the upper half repaired and painted After blasting it was pretty rough I had to patch some holes in it and threw some krylon at it Hoping to...
Got off my butt tonight and got into the shop. I moved the front mount for the chain guard . Then trimmed up the back of the guard to follow the back of the chassis a little better. I then removed the lower fender mount from the kickstand bracket. I had purchased a new Schwinn headstock...
I spent the whole day there with my Dad about 7 years ago. When Bill died I figured the kids would kill the program. This year they bought the Darryl Starbird museum and the Unser museum. I’d say it’ll be around for a long time.
This is a no update update. Life has gotten in the way of progress in the bike. Finished a re wire project on a friends 65 Malibu and made a 300 mile round trip for cars and coffee at the Speedway Motors museum last weekend. Kids graduation, yard work etc. I’m hoping to get back on it soon...