NO MORE SCHWINNS!!!

[LIVE TO RIDE]

HAHA,I thought that would get your attention.So I went to my local LBS yesterday and he said Schwinn will no longer be building the OG style cruiser frame.They are going to go to the more updated frame styles like the Dyno,Felt and the other altered styles.So if this is true,I guess we'll see what is to come.

 

[BlsdEsq]

Which LBS do you go to? I'm right next to Downey.

 

[LIVE TO RIDE]

There is a shop right below florence on Lakewood blvd. in the same parking lot as the oldest McDonalds.I think its Franks bike shop.No old stuff in there,but its a place I hit every now and then for a change.My main shop I hang at is at Russells bike shop on firestone.Me and Chimi chunga are going to be gettin a ride together are you down to ride!!??What city are you out of?

 

[karfer67]

the tittle got my eye lol but if that is true then the writing is on the wall for schwinn. they dont get it and we are propably going to drop them as well because of warrenty issues then when we ask them about them they say no one else is having the problem. i cant tell u how many seats alone we warrentied last year it was almost embaracing. they suck and unless they spend some cash and do it the right way they can keep the oval badge for all i care. sorry for the rant

 

[LIVE TO RIDE]

No its true!Do you think the Og originators of the Schwinn name would be happy with what they're product is today?Stocked deep as one of the crappier bikes today.Low end parts being sold in deptment stores.I know alot of older bikes were bought through department stores but at least they were descent bikes.My buddie bought a full suspention bike from target the other day and he asked me to align the rear tire.I came to find out the whole rear triangle was welded on completely crooked!Looked like a salvage title car drivin down the street all crooked.Its ashame but thats were they're name is today.Thats just me and Im sure other people have a better veiw on a todays Schwinn.

 

[sensor]

I came to find out the whole rear triangle was welded on completely crooked!Looked like a salvage title car drivin down the street all crooked.

its called dog tracking
as for new schwinns.......there good to cut up :wink:

 

[LIVE TO RIDE]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Unfortunatly thats the truth.

 

[deorman]

I bought a Windwood not too long ago to hold up a motor kit, it was straight, but it's no Schwinn either, bearing cages were junk. I have seen some other models that are, as you say, complete crap.

 

[herr_rudolf]

Does anybody know the cut-off year 'good schwinn/bad schwinn'? In case an 'old' schwinn DOES pop up over here...

 

[roadmaster]

then im as happy as a clam to have my 62' american heavy duti cruiser. that bike is more reliable than the sun itself, but of course... its an old school "chicago built" schwinn. i was going to buy a 2010 schwinn cruiser (a cheaper walmart delmar or?) around christmas next year (cuz its cheap enough to see for myself it their quality has fallen THAT low), but now... i don't know.

as for around what year can you tell a good schwinn from a bad. the schwinns we get at the LBS are always a little better than xmart schwinns, and i don't exactly know why it is that way. i believe it was around 95' or like 96' that schwinn anounced their bankruptcy and their whole ad slogan: "we fell, we got up, end of apology." well, no schwinn... not the end of apology but the end of quality. from there on, i havent heard of a worthy schwinn and id say that their best days were pre 90's. 80's good, but 70's and earlier the best.

ill just chaulk up this sad news as another nail in schwinn's coffin.

 

[sensor]

Does anybody know the cut-off year 'good schwinn/bad schwinn'? In case an 'old' schwinn DOES pop up over here...

anything up to 80/81...that was around when they started building them overseas

 

[Bigcam59]

Funny I just posted an article I wrote back in 2004 about the death of the old Schwinn on my club website ( http://www.teamterrapin.webs.com)

 

[aka_locojoe]

Funny I just posted an article I wrote back in 2004 about the death of the old Schwinn on my club website ( http://www.teamterrapin.webs.com)

http://teamterrapinbikeclub.webs.com/ramblings.htm

 

[roadmaster]

and it is a sad thing. when i first got into bikes, i held the schwinn name in high reguard and am glad that my 62' american HD is one of these bikes i grew up hearing about. my newest schwinn is an 86' tempo road bike, and its alright. i also have an early 2000's sidewinder hardtail mountain bike i was going to build up, but this bike is SO HEAVY and its not even 100% complete! need a special tool to get out the cartridge bottom bracket (and don't even get me started on cartridge bottom brackets, thats a whole nother post) and since i don't have one (but could easily get access to one) im gonna part this thing out for my clunker build (when is the next one by the way?).

guess im gonna have to get used to names like schwinn, cadillac and hummer that started off with this almost larger than life reputations going down the drain (and thats now a drain imported from china and sold at walmart). and it was earlier asked what would the original creaters of the OG cruiser frame say if they got wind of this news and say what was wearing a schwinn badge... well, i can imagine that they are rolling over in their graves. a comeback would be sweet, but im not holding my breath and thats what gives the companies like felt and electra, who put out a nice product, a chance to take the torch.