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You could find a schwinn king size. They are out there.

go to your local salvage and buy the appropriate tubing. go to your local muffler shop and ask (pay) them to bend your tubing in the middle. take it home, measure twice, cut once. drill your own holes.

I work for a big nationwide assembly company and trust me that we the assemblers did not lube anything. We did not adjust anything but the brakes and gears. That being said, I assembled a few of those bikes and always thought they should have come with an internally geared hub. They are pretty...

Well, I guess every coaster brake needs a reaction arm, eh?

Fewer balls, lower rolling resistance. In the old days before sealed bearings and ball cages, free balls were the rule. the pros would remove a ball or two to gain an edge with lower rolling resistance. It worked apparently. also, if you disassemble a sealed bearing, you'll find a cage in them...

I was riding my 1959 Schwinn Wasp 650b conversion. I built it yesterday using some parts I had and a few from the LBS. (New wheels, new bottom bracket new tubes new chrome chain) I geared it a bit too high not taking into account the larger wheels. It's 46x16 now, think I'm going to try 46x18...

Beautiful. Nice work there.:cool:

The serial P80463 only appears once in the two data bases I use for dating Schwinns. P was used in both 1955 and 1956, but your bike is out of the range of numbers used in 1956 according to http://www.re-cycle.com/history/schwinn/swnb_serial.aspx and...

Post more pictures with better detail, and details that can't be seen need to be described, like pin holes in the fenders, rust, etc.

My Hooptie, It's a work in progress that started off life as a 1965 Typhoon.

Excellent :)