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I'd be shocked if there's any chromoly in these frames, and don't remember seeing a sticker mentioning it when I stripped mine and painted it: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/2008-or-09-schwinn-jaguar-build-badly-chronicled.93036/ I got around to weighing mine after putting one...

I just bought another one of these for another build -- it took less than five minutes to remove the graphic with some acetone-based nail polish remover and TWO cotton balls, and barely any elbow grease at all! I'm not sure if it was because this one was "new" and the paint wasn't as old or...

It's not quite the same, but I found one of these at my local bike co-op for just a couple of dollars (and it's from Sunlite, so they're still available all over the internet): The painted graphic came off with just a little nail polish remover, a rag, and some elbow grease! :thumbsup: It...

Just as @Big_Ape did, there are a lot of ways to convert a "basic" twist shifter to a frame-mounted stick shift: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/cheap-and-easy-shifter-mount-and-stickshift-conversion.66386/...

ROFL and no kidding! I came to this forum with two badly-executed rat rods (one using my first mountain bike as a starting point and the other with a rather battered craiglist find) and now I'm up to five rat rod bikes that I'm actually proud of...and I was looking at craigslist this morning...

It's possible, but is there enough room to mount a flux capacitor on there? ...and we all know that bike won't be able to get up to 88 mph unless it's thrown off a cliff -- and maybe not even then! :bigsmile: (Seriously, what did the seller do, Google "Schwinn Stingray" and then not even...

He's apparently from quite a family of jackasses: "Newschannel 3 went to Pickett's home on Wednesday for comment, but the family threatened to chase us off the property with a front end loader, and followed us in a car before a brief verbal exchange took place."...

I don't think so -- but it's also been YEARS since I've really felt an original Schwinn banana seat. (I got to ride a vintage Pea Picker about two hundred feet two years ago, but was busier worrying about things like hitting my knees on the handlebars than I was about the seat -- those 20" bikes...

I can't speak for your Speedster, but here's a Schwinn Classic Four with an 18" Retro Cruiser Bicycles seat in the top photo and a 21 3/8" Beach City Bikes seat in the bottom photo: I prefer the longer seat since the sissy bar is vertical, rather than leaning forward as it did with the...

That's a good question -- I'm lucky enough to have a bike co-op nearby, along with a couple of older "local bike shops" with plenty of used parts in the back room! I've been able to pick up some "one piece crank" chainrings like these for only a dollar or two apiece. If you want to buy "new," a...

Would that happen to be a Nexus 4 speed hub? Two of us with Schwinn Classic Four bikes had similar problems, discussed starting on post #23 of this thread: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/3-speed-coaster-for-klunker-use.97546/page-2 "Stock" on ours was 46 tooth chainring, 22...

Yours looks awesome too, horsefarmer! :thumbsup: Mine had the same huge chrome fenders, which is where I first got the idea to make an adult sized Stingray out of it -- but I was a little worried that I'd mess up if I tried to cut the fenders down. That's a GREAT chainguard as well -- is that...

Funny that you should ask.... ;) I haven't actually counted it, but between @horsefarmer and what two random bicycle websites claim came on it, I'm sure it's the "stock" 22t. That 39 x 22 gearing was just about perfect last September, after a spring and summer of riding a bike as often as I...

Awesome timing on this part of the thread -- I bought a Classic Four on craigslist last August and started turning it into another "muscle bike." After I got it home and started reading the same thing about the gearing, I changed it to a 39 tooth chainring and am a lot happier with it now...

This and the video immediately took me back to a "toy kit" that Mattel sold in the 1970's -- the Spinwelder! There are plenty of articles (and videos) that can be found with Google -- just search for "Mattel Spinwelder" -- but the concept was pretty much identical: a short length of...

Awesome find -- congratulations! It's kind of neat how that shifter was almost 20 years ahead of SRAM's "Grip Shift." :113:

That is just -- wow. Goofy, wacky and "pretty far out there" -- but all in GOOD ways! :113: (As often happens with this site, now I'm finding myself wondering if that could work with a larger frame and some 26" and 29" wheels...or maybe a 20+24 up front so the front and rear would NEVER...

Another vote for Niagara Cycle -- I just got my fifth or sixth order from them without any problems. Their website can be a little wonky: I just searched for "BMX stem" and it returned "hits" for plenty of stems, but it also brought up a seatpost clamp, a rear cog and several other parts just...

Yeah, as I was typing that I was thinking of a lot of those exceptions, too -- some of which are sitting in my garage. :21: "What about those oddly sized, older Schwinn seatposts, or my own mountain bike's weird 1 1/8" THREADED fork, or maybe...oh, let's not even MENTION the Alice in Wonderland...

After I discovered this site, I also discovered a local "vintage bike night" event that caters to vintage motorcycle riders but also attracts quite a few owners of vintage-esque bicycle owners. One of the guys who works at the place that hosts the event has a chrome Micargi stretch with the...