#Vintageschwinn lemon peeler for sale serial#
#Vintageschwinn lemon peeler for sale professional#

Unless you give them other ideas you may end up with a restored kids’ bike from 1977 as a birthday gift. The old Nitto handlebars were wide and put the rider in a comfortable upright position, and the ergonomic molded grips felt great.īefore you interupt your spouse to show off this web page, excitedly recalling the virtues of your first BMX bike, you should be warned: Your 50th birthday is coming up. This mountain bike was designed with a slack head tube angle and lots of fork rake, nice design elements that made the bike handle beautifully on the trails and kept the rider fairly stable at high speeds. This Schwinn Cimarron, on the other hand, deserves some nostalgia. Some folks reminisce about Schwinn road bikes… Don’t get us started on the Schwinn Varsity 10-speed. Some Schwinn fans reminisce about the 5-speed Sting-Ray or Krate models, bikes that when ridden aggressively were likely to impale the rider with a handlebar end or the shifter knob, bend a fork or break a frame. Those were pretty stylish bikes, but they were outrageously heavy and inefficient… And they were designed for children who sometimes weighed less than the Schwinn they were riding.

People look back fondly on Schwinn’s balloon-tire cruisers of the 1950’s. If you find yourself at a Schwinn “dealership” these days, we suggest that you check out the grills or the lawn furniture instead.

#Vintageschwinn lemon peeler for sale professional#

Professional bicycle stores and trained mechanics are rarely involved in the assembly of new Schwinns. The bikes are built overseas, not in Chicago. The Schwinn family is no longer involved. So with all of that, keep in mind that Schwinn bicycles of today are not the bikes that we hold in such high esteem. They made industrial-age bicycles seem new and exciting during the space-age.įor many of us, Schwinn bicycles are the reason we even ride a bike today. They built bikes for adults at a time when cycling was considered just a childhood activity. They trained bicycle mechanics and helped build professional bicycle dealerships across the country. In the three decades immediately following World War II, Schwinn nearly single-handedly kept the United States riding bicycles. In fact, there are enough of them that we decided that they deserve their own museum section. There are a lot of old Schwinn bicycles kicking around Classic Cycle. PM or post here to express interest.Like most great Schwinn products, this sign is over 60 years old. Would prefer a local sale due to the fact that it has never been disassembled, but will ship if ya gotta have it. It does have a few small nicks in the paint from storage and some components could use a sympathetic cleaning, but basically as close to perfect as it gets. Never been apart, never molested, nothing added, nothing removed, just an honest and correct example. Guaranteed 100% authentic and original as the day it was assembled in 1970, right down to the tires and tubes.

It is as close to NOS as you'll find anywhere and is just begging to become the star of your Schwinn collection! It is now seeing the light of day for the first time in many years and being offered here to CABErs. The kids were the same and not really interested in riding bikes, so both Krates just served as display art in the family living room by the fireplace and were (allegedly) never ridden! Both were purchased from the original owner in the mid-'80s, the Orange Krate was immediately sold to another collector and this Lemon Peeler went into long term storage. This Lemon Peeler and an Orange Krate were Christmas gifts that year for the original owner and his brother from their dad, who worked in the science/space field and was somewhat the nerdy, bookworm type.

#Vintageschwinn lemon peeler for sale serial#

The serial # reveals a build date of October 1970. Okay muscle bike fans, here's your chance to add a true time-warp, 100% original survivor Krate to your collection!