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so my neighbor saw me working on my rollfast and said he had an old schwinn in his garage. i went to look at it thinking it was some rusty old p.o.s. but it was a clean schwinn i'm thinking late 70's early 80's it has a big drum brake and i think it's a 5 speed. not sure on that, i know it has gears but not how many. he wanted me to restore it but then he said to just buy it off him. i know i can get it for less then $100. is it worth just cleaning up and sale it for more then what i paid for it. i was going to strip it down and put every thing on my huffman frame but is it worth more to leave alone. i don't really care about a schwinn form the 70's or 80's. what does something like that go for. it 100% complete schwinn blue frame and forks
 
If it's an 80s Schwinn Cruiser or Cruiser 5 with a drum brake out back and in decent shape the bike should fetch at least $500 on Ebay easily.

If it truly does have a drum brake out back you better hand him the money quick before he does any searches. :wink:
 
WELL I GUESS I WON'T PART IT OUT THEN. GOING TO GO BUY IT TODAY OR IN THE NEXT FEWE DAYS. THE BIKES NOT GOING ANY WERE ANY TIME SOON AND I KNOW HE DOESN'T HAVE THE INTERNET SO HE WONT BE LOOKING UP WHAT ITS WORTH. I'M NOT TRYING TO PULL A FAST ONE BUT HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THIS BIKE, AND SAID IF I NEED ANY PART OF IT I CAN STRIP IT DOWN AND USE WHAT EVER I WANTED OFF IT, BUT I THINK I'LL KEEP IT COMPLETE, AND SELL IT FOR PARTS THAT I WANT FOR MY BUILDS
 
got the bike for $25 bucks rides nice and i'm going to sell it after i clean it up, for more projects
schwinn1.jpg
 
Wow...you scored big my friend. :D

Blade forks, high flanged hubs, the rear atom drum brake...awesome stuff.

Give that bike a serious detail job and you could have a $475 plus profit on your hands.
 
SMUT PEDDLER said:
got the bike for $25 bucks rides nice and i'm going to sell it after i clean it up, for more projects
schwinn1.jpg

Wow, a very "Klunkish" bike as is, good score. Clean it up and enter it in the buildoff,then sell it. 8)
 

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