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Okay, about what I was guessing from the relatively straight chain stay. I'm in the market for something with a little more bottom bracket drop, but this is a really cool frame and a great deal at this price. Good luck with the sale!

Anyone able to further ID this frame? I'm interested but I'd like to see what it looks like built up (or at least with a fork) to get a better idea of the geometry. Trying to search Google for 80's ladies Schwinn cruisers proves to be an exercise in frustration.

Interested in both - Shimano 3SC/3CC hubs as well as the Shimano 3SC ball ring removal tool. Let me know if you have any of the above for sale. Thanks!

He's from my hometown; I might be able to get you in contact with him if you still need to.

While we're at it, are the wheels available?

Looking to build up a bike for some light klunking (I likely won't get as adventurous as the stuff you see in klunking videos, but the bike is still likely going to take a bit of a beating). I pretty much only have experience building up commuters, so I'm wondering what's good for klunker...

So I meant to document this build through the whole process of putting it together, but you know how that goes ... it's too exciting to get everything together! In any event, it's about to all be broken back down anyways, because I'm about to drop it off at the powder coaters' real soon. I...

You're a far better person than I am; I try to reuse as much of a bike as I can, but when it comes to something like spokes I tend to buy them new. Then again, most of the hubs I use I've obtained off of Ebay or here on RRB, and I seem to always get them hub-only, so I don't really have a lot...

I'm using ISO 590 rims (the 26 x 1 3/8 rims used on old lightweight/British cruisers), so unfortunately I won't be able to use your measurements right now, but I might be lacing another one of these hubs up to some ISO 559's soon depending on how this one turns out. I'm about to hook up the...

Good call on spoke washers; that thought never crossed my mind as I've never needed them before, but these bends near the flange don't look too good.

Well, I took the hub, rim, spokes, and spoke nipples into the LBS today, let them do their own measuring, and they came up with the exact same results (171mm). They couldn't figure it out either. Judging by how much of a difference cutting 4mm off the spokes the first time made, I estimated...

Ah, I see what you mean now. And going off of my memory I'd say you are correct, but now that I have the hub in my hands and I am measuring it, it looks like the holes are exactly the same distance from the flange as my single-speed hubs (1.8mm). That would've been a good explanation, though.

Not a kickback, but a Bendix manual 2-speed. And paper-thin was a bit hyperbolic, but I'm coming up with a 2.5mm flange thickness on most of my other coaster brakes (including my Bendix kickbacks) and the Bendix manual's flange is a half a millimeter thinner. That said, I'm not concerned about...

Hmm, I suppose the spoke nipples could have something to do with it, but, again, these spokes/nipples are the same ones I use on every build and have never had a problem. I can't help but feel it has something to do with the rather sharp angles that a 3x pattern causes when the flange is such...

The rim's ERD is actually 578mm; that's what UniversalCycles' website lists it as and that's what my measurements have always come up as. I'm using Wheelsmith 2.0 straight-gauge spokes along with Wheelsmith 14g brass nipples. That combination has never steered me wrong before either.

I certainly can (and most likely will) continue going down the trial and error route; I'm just curious if there is something about my hub/rim/lacing pattern combination that is causing me to get incorrect results.

My wife supports my bike hoarding habit too, which has it's benefits, but I'd probably have a lot more living space if she didn't let me buy half of what I want to buy :D. I'd probably post in the "Wanted" forum here on Ratrod about the Sachs hub. Sometimes there are plenty of them on Ebay...

I've built dozens and dozens of wheels and never had my trusty spoke length calculator steer me wrong, but I recently tried lacing up a Bendix Aviation manual 2-speed hub to a Sun Ringle CR-18 (ISO 590) rim. For a 3x lacing pattern the calculator recommended me 275.4mm spokes, which I ordered...

No problem! I seem to see people on this forum posting all sorts of sweet deals on this bike when they pick it up in-store. I've been to numerous Wal-Mart's all over Wisconsin and none of them carry it. The online price of $139 isn't terrible either, but I sure wouldn't mind scoring one for $69!

SRAM has created a three speed version of their Automatix hub, but unless you live in rural Africa, you cannot currently get your hands on it. On to the Swindler - first off, take the rear wheel off your bike and measure the space between the rear dropouts (the slots that the rear wheel goes...