Heres a couple of bikes I picked up recently.
A homemade steer from the rear tandem, skiptooth, the rear sprockets are welded together, has decent coke bottle grips, one decent set of aero pedals, rear wheel is a Morrow hub with big spokes, it needs some work to get it nice, OK LOTS of work, but I will ride it anyway this Thursday for the Coasters BC Tandem Night pub ride.
And I got me a Schwinn Meteor, thats what it sayes in the rust on the chainguard, I guess a 1952 or 53 model, serial number on left side rear dropout is B29162, it has the brass head badge, and S-2s. I got a call from a guy who read the article about the Coasters bike show last weekend. In the article I was quoted as saying that the people who were there had an accumulation of hundreds more bikes at home, but everybody was still looking for cool old bikes. Well this guy,( and a nice 86 year old lady who thought her late 1970s huffy 3 speeds I might want) looked me up and asked me what the Schwinn might be worth, I told him I'm no expert on prices, I looked at his bike, I bought it, $80.
A homemade steer from the rear tandem, skiptooth, the rear sprockets are welded together, has decent coke bottle grips, one decent set of aero pedals, rear wheel is a Morrow hub with big spokes, it needs some work to get it nice, OK LOTS of work, but I will ride it anyway this Thursday for the Coasters BC Tandem Night pub ride.
And I got me a Schwinn Meteor, thats what it sayes in the rust on the chainguard, I guess a 1952 or 53 model, serial number on left side rear dropout is B29162, it has the brass head badge, and S-2s. I got a call from a guy who read the article about the Coasters bike show last weekend. In the article I was quoted as saying that the people who were there had an accumulation of hundreds more bikes at home, but everybody was still looking for cool old bikes. Well this guy,( and a nice 86 year old lady who thought her late 1970s huffy 3 speeds I might want) looked me up and asked me what the Schwinn might be worth, I told him I'm no expert on prices, I looked at his bike, I bought it, $80.