Picked up this Hiawatha at a swap meet this weekend for 20 bucks pre 63 has the original pie crust rear tires missing the fenders though.
Sorry didn't go onto this thread until today I don't think the fork is bent and the car is a 35 olds.
Went too a house rental eviction this morning the house is full from top too bottom with stuff including about 400 bikes found these two stingrays in the garage full of bikes all the way to the rafters and a old frame. Tried getting another stingray all the way into the back looked to be a big and little tire bike she wouldn't sell me that one until she was cleared to start selling. She has a wooden cigar Indian that she's asking 20 grand for.
Did a little research on the frame looks like a vintage delivery bike has the sign and the front basket bracket.
Schwinn Cycle Truck. With the adj. rear drop outs and the top tube to mid tube brace, looks to be pre war.
I guess I have the two Schwinn 26” bikes that my grandparents bought new in 1972. I cleaned up my grandpas bike a few years back but it is now hanging under the lean too with the other one and a couple other bikes. I need to get it down and actually ride it… Both of them are still nice and original paint. Seen hanging on the wall here…
I have what I believe is the same bike. Heavy duty, as in thicker spokes. $10 about 35 years ago from a porch in Blue Eye MO. Does not look as good as yours. I have treated it badly. Ben
heavy duty. I was told that a lot of these were purchased by factories with long corridors for the maint people to ride to do repairs. most of them had baskets to haul parts and a small amt of tools
Interesting. The matching (although not Heavy Duti) women's bicycle does have a basket on the front. When I was a kid, I would ride my own bike with my grandma down to the post office to get the mail that we put in that basket on her bike. Anyway, reminds me of when I started where I work now. There were several 20" BMX bikes out on the shop floor that folks used to get around on. Part of our maintenance crew was fairly regularly servicing bicycles.
Haven't posted for awhile, but my little fleet has had some new additions (as well as several subtractions): From top to bottom, '60 Corvette, '37 Hawthorne Double-Bar roadster, '54 Roadmaster Luxury Liner, '48 Columbia Five Star Superb, '41 Roadmaster 'tall tank', and '39 Hawthorne twin bar.
Beautiful mid week day at Newport Beach Pier looking North towards Long Beach. So glad I retired.....My '50 Schwinn.....
Here’s my Raleigh International as mentioned a couple weeks ago, needs a good cleaning and polishing. Mine was built in 1972 and is all original with the exception of the handle bar tape and the tires, the old sew ups dry rotted. International frames were hand built at the factory in Carlton, mine is 23 1/2” crank to seat tube. It’s a great road bike.
My Baines Whirlwind (aka Flying Gate) lightweight time trials bike, from 1946. The unusual frame design was to get a short wheelbase, which makes these things great for climbing. Also, since cycle racing was an amateur sport in the UK back then, racers had to cover up the bike makers names on the frame, so a distinctive frame design let everyone know what you were riding. This gave us bikes like Bates with cantiflex forks, "curly" Hetchins frames and the Paris Galibier.
I have a blue Continental with head and tail lights on it with the generator that still works like a charm...
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