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Got the bike repacked and put back together. Replaced the grip shifter with a trigger shifter. Replaced the brake pads, cables and housings. Replaced the shift cable and housing. Found a seat and grips I like, but had already done white cable housings so I plan on changing those to black. Just need a bulb for the rear light and remount it. The tires are weather checked but will work for now. It's a solid heavy bike. Overall very pleased with it.
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Went and looked at, but won't be picking them up until Monday. 3 very interesting ones I have to do some research on. One I'm just not sure who made it, no head badge and the quick picture of the serial number was too blurry.

1st up is this 20" skip tooth Girls Hawthorne.
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2nd one is really interesting. It's a Collegiate, but I do not believe it's a Schwinn.
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This one is the one that the picture I took of the serial number was too blurry for me to make out.
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This one we haven't talked about yet, but I'm confident I'll be owning it as well.
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I got just the wheel, no bike and I've never seen this brake arm or the cog with the holes all the way around it.
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I had to hurry out the door to get to work on time so I didn't have time to get pictures of everything. Lots of nos parts for hubs, brakes etc. 5 other bikes I did have time for pictures of.
It's going to be a long 2 days.
 

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Went and looked at, but won't be picking them up until Monday. 3 very interesting ones I have to do some research on. One I'm just not sure who made it, no head badge and the quick picture of the serial number was too blurry.

1st up is this 20" skip tooth Girls Hawthorne.
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2nd one is really interesting. It's a Collegiate, but I do not believe it's a Schwinn.
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This one is the one that the picture I took of the serial number was too blurry for me to make out.
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This one we haven't talked about yet, but I'm confident I'll be owning it as well.
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I got just the wheel, no bike and I've never seen this brake arm or the cog with the holes all the way around it.
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I had to hurry out the door to get to work on time so I didn't have time to get pictures of everything. Lots of nos parts for hubs, brakes etc. 5 other bikes I did have time for pictures of.
It's going to be a long 2 days.
So, after some cyberspace poking around found the Collegiate is a 1939-1941 Elgin. That the Airman break arm is a Spiegel mail order catalogue part for the Airman bike.

And I ran out of time and fell asleep before I did much investigation on the Hawthorne.
 
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1977 Schwinn Speedster. Paid $15.

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90's Mongoose Raid freestyle BMX. Traded for some work on a neighbor's bike.

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1999 Haro Bikes Zippo.

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Worksman Side by Side Trike. Was just given to me. No seats or front wheel.

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Put the 1953 Huffman together.

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Put together a 1960 Murray "Something " Flite.

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Got another 1969 Schwinn Typhoon frame and chaingard, forks then added parts from the parts pile.

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And built myself a trailer. White parts are an old bed frame and the side rails are the back of my old futon. Couple of old forks and some balloon wheels and tires.
 

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