Spitfire Rebuild

[ricksterr1221]

nobody LIKES IT :lol:

Not to worry there Rick, I like this bike plenty. The two tone paint it has is actually my favourite Schwinn paint scheme. Great patina on it, it's weathered, but not cruddy looking. It's Just right in my books.

You may want to tweak your forks though, they look a bit bent back. The handling will be that much better when they're at the factory rake.

-Mp

Handles fine Its a ratrod not a show bike haha, How would i straighten it? heat?

 

[Rat Rod]

Your bike shop should have a tool that looks like a big car jack that they can use to bend your forks back into the original shape.

 

[ricksterr1221]

Thanks steve, If they cant fix it ill get a different fork. Would it really make it handle that much better? I bent them last year crashed it badddd

 

[Chainsaw]

Spin them around backwards and run into something! :mrgreen:

Bike looks real good Ricky! I may have to come down and take it for a spin! What's the forks like? They look like some that I might have. Shoot me a close up!

 

[ricksterr1221]

Will do man! any 26 inch schwinn blade will work well mens Because of stem length. Ill go snap a picture brb jim.

 

[ricksterr1221]

GETTING Packed, We got kitchen and utility redone, MOM NEEDS TO GET STUFF OUT OF GARAGE!!!

 

[october]

the struts are a nice touch...

 

[CCR]

sharp man !!! howabout usin some of those boxes to ship me some of those bikes !!! ya know while the kitchen and utility room are gettin redone !!! j/k :lol:

 

[ricksterr1221]

the struts are a nice touch...

Yeah, I might try flipped bars tomorrow, Would be like a board tracker!!

 

[Hooch]

i had a similar bike Ricky
wish I woulda kept it!

 

[ricksterr1221]

You've had at least one of everything!! :shock: Mine looks older, Is it? im almost positive shes a 58.

 

[Hooch]

I never got a chance to date mine it was in that big load I bought a few weeks ago and on the way home I traded it for that sweet blue American!

 

[ricksterr1221]

Oh u got a better bike So did u clean er up and all yet? Well i know u did but have u done anything 2 it, Like bars? anything?

 

[Hooch]

the american I sold as it was

 

[ricksterr1221]

Hahaha thats great. So how many bikes you got? Do u even know lol? i cant part with my bikes idk why, I get it ride it and i get attatched.. Ya know? Haha i never told you guys the story when i baught the bike did i?? Ahh a good story for to morrow. make some of you laugh lol.

 

[Hooch]

i suppose theres 25- 30 bikes around here lol
lately I forget what I have because stuff moves so fast
picked up a sweet late 1940s hawthorne today

and tomorrow morning I am getting a prewar schwiinn

 

[ricksterr1221]

Ill trade ya for my spitfire. lol i wish. I love the lines of that bike.

 

[ricksterr1221]

Hooch, Where do u find them all? Im moving to Iowa! dang it i want some olllld bikes. Mine are 2 new. What model prewar do u know?

 

[Hooch]

he said its a mid 30s schwinn with a tank and wood wheels
but hes pretty cluless so I will know more when I see it tomorrow morning

 

[ricksterr1221]

lol u gonna offer? say 50 see what he says.