24" Straight Bar Schwinn Typhoon..... TimeLine PIC HEAVY!

[Skipton]

The best 50 bucks I ever spent on a CL bike! :mrgreen:
Got it home in October 2008 and sprayed it with PB blaster.
With plans to tear it down and redo it. My son Taber who was 7 at the time notice the tires held air, and starting ride it right then.
He told me... " Put whitewalls on it and call it done!"
He has been riding it a lot since then.
Just last week I found "Cheap" 24" S7s whitewalls for it.

Who knew you could do free style tricks on a 1961 straight bar Schwinn Typhoon?

Taber's original 50 year old tire on the typhoon finally gave up in January 2012 :shock:

:wink:

He always wanted whitewalls..

The 24" bike might not fit him for much longer :roll: :wink:
Thanks for looking!

 

[Mastec]

Very cool pictures.

 

[badlandkustoms]

8) All Great pics, But this is my favorite

Looks like he has it loaded down for a long day :lol:

 

[Jpromo]

Wow, that bike looks like it's been loved these past few years. It's been used and appreciated for its original utilitarian purpose. Thanks for sharing! I think all of us saw our childhood in these pictures.

 

[MplsCoaster]

Wow, that bike looks like it's been loved these past few years. It's been used and appreciated for its original utilitarian purpose. Thanks for sharing! I think all of us saw our childhood in these pictures.

+1, I'd say the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree! The whitewalls with the white rims look really cool and make the the bike pop!

 

[Skipton]

Thanks everyone!
The little Schwinn sure gets a lot of love!.... And brings lots of fun to us!

 

[Tychevelle]

Thats very cool! its awesome that it still gets ridin like it would have back in the 60's as just a reg ol bike hope when I have kids they love bikes like I do... even tho they wont get to ride daddies "special bikes" lol Thanks for the pic of it with white walls also, I have a 63 26" typhoon thats all patina'd and ive been thinking white walls might look odd on white rims but i think it looks good on yours and mines the same color

Ty

 

[Skipton]

Thanks Tychevelle,

Some of my best childhood memory's are about riding and building bikes.. Hope my kids enjoy them also. :wink:
I wasn't sure the whitewalls would look good, but I really like how they make the patina white rims pop! :mrgreen: