i remember this schwinn.....

[Bendix]

....saw this on cl tonight- i did the shimano 3s cb/s-7 rebuild at least 10-12 years ago! neat to see it's still going

http://boulder.craigslist.org/bik/2116581479.html

 

[CCR]

Pat yourself on the back, it's still riding great too !!! Neat to see stuff like that resurface after a while

 

[rydr1]

I didnt get to see the bike, but that would be so cool to find something you have worked on years ago.

 

[subadrew]

ha!!!!!!!

you mean this 62 schwinn?

I made the trip up last night to pic it up. Was sorta bummed when I heard it had the shimano wheels, but the seller offered to sell it considerably cheaper than listed without me even asking. Haven't even ridden it yet.

Happen to have the headbadge and reflector? It needs some cleanup/maintenance, and I think I can restore some color back to the seat (that pic he had for the listing made it look a little better than it is). I might try to find some single speed wheels for it. Was it originally a single or did the sturmey get yanked?

 

[Bendix]

ha!!!!!!!

you mean this 62 schwinn?

I made the trip up last night to pic it up. Was sorta bummed when I heard it had the shimano wheels, but the seller offered to sell it considerably cheaper than listed without me even asking. Haven't even ridden it yet.

Happen to have the headbadge and reflector? It needs some cleanup/maintenance, and I think I can restore some color back to the seat (that pic he had for the listing made it look a little better than it is). I might try to find some single speed wheels for it. Was it originally a single or did the sturmey get yanked?

it don't think it has "shimano wheels". if i remember correctly (and i may not ) only the rear hub is different, a salvaged shimano 3s (fairly uncommon with a coaster brake) laced into the original schwinn s-7 rim. it originally had a bendix 2s. you can tell it never had a sturmey archer 3s since the seatstay bridge isn't the type to take a handbrake (s-a hubs on that bike would have been freewheeling, and the bike would have been covered in unsightly cables and scratchety clamps). i never owned the bike, i just did the 3s conversion. headbadges are all over ebay, and aren't expensive for those middleweights. replacement wheelsets, if they're not s-7, tend to look funny (to me) under the fenders due to the slightly smaller diameter. corvettes show up fairly often, not sure i'd pump too much money into it, should be a practical rider as is....heck- tubes and tires, 3s hub, shifter, cable, custom wheel build- the original customer probably had more money just into that than you do in the whole bike!

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Am I seeing things or does that have a shifter on the non-drive side? Every 3 speed i have seen had it on the drive side??? Is that a rare hub model or have I just been working on the wrong stuff? :?

 

[Bendix]

Am I seeing things or does that have a shifter on the non-drive side? Every 3 speed i have seen had it on the drive side??? Is that a rare hub model or have I just been working on the wrong stuff? :?

the old shimano three speeds with coaster brakes aren't very common, i haven't been able to scrounge one from a scrap bike or toasted wheel in years. :wink:

 

[subadrew]

i thought it was weird too when I first actually looked at it. It was sorta a "somethings different here". And I remembered all my other shimano 3 speeds had it on the drive side and no coaster (on the 333's). I did just confirm they are S-7 rims. Awesome! I thought the rims had been swapped from something else... not re-hub-ed. Woulda been nice with the bendix, but I think it'll turn out to be a nice rider, if a bit small. I'm gonna try to straighten out the fenders a bit, then I'll show it off.

Nice work on the wheels. Still very true =). Small world.

 

[XC204]

Nice bike Drew I had a ss version a few years ago it was one of my abandoned rescue bikes it sat around on the ground for too many weeks in an empty overgrown lot behind a strip mall with flat tires. It needed a home. It cleaned up nice and got tires and tubes and fender braces.

By xc204 at 2009-08-18