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I just got yelled at by a fellow member... the grip nor the seat are touching the brick wall lol.

Stay tuned, more to come

Schwinn alloy Panther, 20lbs! Detroit.

Do I have to jump over and start a new thread or can I just keep this one rolling?

Just think if Gary Fisher had 5 lb aluminum cantilever frame and fork to build his '38' Excelsior klunker??? Where would we be now? "The history of MTB/BMX". Hmm?

By the end of this thread any of you that read it will be so schooled on these bikes you will realize and benefit from this shear awesome Madness a couple guys over there @ Schwinn back then were tryin to create. It was kind of the end of the road for Schwinn at that point and September 11th...

A great material * typos are killing my but be patient it's worth it

A jig made from 2x4's*. NOT precision but it's 7005 which is a Greek material because you can just let it air cool. Other aluminum's take certain amount of time and temperature on a schedule to cure. 7005 is easy to work with so later you can make adjustments relatively easy

You can definitely tell it was hand built... The welds are not really what you would call uniform, but very heavy duty with great penetration. Yeti was giving Schwinn a hand on some of their stuff back then and if Schwinn dropped off a bunch of mandrel bent tubing and a big literally made out of...

Kept the emblem and as you see a sneak peek of my color choice. Stay tuned...more to come.

Yes!

I will keep dropping pix as I find them. This all started Feb. 2021

Bough another out of Min. to go crazy on. That one ironically out of the same neighborhood for the same price of $255 shipped

Road it* Fell in love... & then...

Wrote it like this for a minute

Pulled the fenders (cuz steel) and bought a Brooks saddle and blue anodized rivets from Crivets because I knew what direction I was going in. Brooks C67

I lost a bunch of photos but that was the Craigslist post from Minneapolis. I stripped all the paint with glass bead.

Yes!

I started with one of these...$255 shipped

Aluminum Schwinn Panther w/MTB geometry. 7005 tubing, 71.5°/73° math, removable derailleur hanger, cable guides, track style horizontal rear dropouts, naked/raw.