La Salle

[axsepul]

Does any body have any info on this bike? I've looked around but no luck. I saw one this weekend but didn't take a picture. It had straight bar frame, heart skiptooth sprocket, tank and according to the owner the bike is from 1948. It also had a weird fork with two pieces sticking out which the truss rods go thru. It was not a key locking fork. I do know it was built by schwinn but it ends there. Any pictures of any in original conditions?

Forgot to add that the bike had a phantom style chainguard

 

[Bendix]

sounds like a description of a prewar fork....(?!)

original paint? if was a repaint it could be the guard was added later.....

owners are notorious for not knowing the true age of their bikes, although they typically overestimate.... :roll:

here's the only link to a lasalle i can remember at the moment- the pics on this link can be enlarged to see detail....




http://clunkers.net/eric_lasalle.html

 

[axsepul]

the bike i saw had been repainted with the hornet style paint stencil but is the same bike and set up as the one in that link

could it be possible that the bike i saw was a 1958 la salle

the guy told me that in this book EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE Vol. 2 there is one. but for some reason i dont trust that book to be used as reference.

http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/content.ph ... YCLE-Vol-2

 

[Bendix]

it's hard to make out little frame details based on copies of old ads....


if it has that EXACT frame w/the rear facing dropouts, seat stays brazed onto the back of the seat tube, and that fork, it's prewar- you should grab it!


now.


but i'm showing my bias toward prewar schwinn frames.....

 

[axsepul]

The bike doesn't have rear facing dropouts

 

[B607]

The fork you described is called a braced truss fork. Very solid forks. The last ones Schwinn put on bikes was around 1950. The frame might be a '58 but the fork is not. Gary

 

[axsepul]

The fork you described is called a braced truss fork. Very solid forks. The last ones Schwinn put on bikes was around 1950. The frame might be a '58 but the fork is not. Gary

Thanks. So this means that the picture of the la salle bike in the book evolution of the bicycle vol.2 is also wrong. Right?

 

[Outlaw90]

skiptooth in 58????

 

[axsepul]

TYPO I meant 48

 

[B607]

Braced truss fork and skip tooth would be correct on some models in '48. Gary