Two modern bikes and an old lady.

[DJ Bill]

Here's what I picked up this week.. There are more but these are the ones I played with today.
The mountain bike I talked about in another thread, the Schwinn(yeah right..) Cruiser is a prospect for another 700 rim and maybe a 3 speed, and the monarch?? Firestone Cruiser I just couldn't walk away from .Earlier in the weekend I picked up a near perfect Ladies Cranbrook and a junior size Mountain bike so we might have some donors with parts now..

Here I was mocking up lady Firestone with some 26 inch rubber....

Here's the Firestone after some cleaning with steel wool and lacquer thinner (not!)

I'm thinking of swapping out the crank and wheels from the Cranbrook so it is ridable until I find the right stuff.

ANd here's the Schwinn which was given up for junk:

It has nice crunchy rotating assemblies.. gonna have to do some cleaning and greasing soon. It is amazingly light and I love the big front tire. I might go for a mate on the back with a multispeed hub. I wonder if an old School Sturmey Archer would work in there..

Gotta go, gotta be somewhere in 20 minutes...

 

[horsefarmer]

That blue Schwinn sure has some funky dropouts.

 

[DJ Bill]

That blue Schwinn sure has some funky dropouts.

yup....weird, like they welded them on in the wrong place..

I googled the Windwood and found out they came with a rack and a bobbed rear fender,, that's what went in the two tabs. Boy, did they have a fugly chain guard..

 

[DJ Bill]

I had some time today to play with my bikes so I did some seriousl thrashing.. Got a rack on my Mesa, fixed a kids bike for sale, and tore apart the Cranbrook.. Put the wheels and crank on the Lady...and the bars on the Schwinn. Did a bit of straightening on the rack.

I think I'm going to have some Cranbrook pieces available soon...

Trying to decide what color the wheels would look good in. Plastidip white??

Fenders will go back on once I get all the uglies straightened out...This bike has been thru some very rough handling at one point. And wouldn't ya know, the Cranbrook chain isn't long enough either.

I do any more I'm gonna have to start a project thread.

Here's the bike inspector at work..

 

[horsefarmer]

"Wouldn't ya know, the Cranbrook chain isn't long enough either."
Wally world will sell you a new chain in a box that's also too short!