5/4/2023 0 Comments Schwinn heavy duti for sale![]() But it’s going to be a few years down the road before I have the cash for something like that. It is not, and will never be, a true cargo bike. There’s a few things that made me reconsider.įirst, it would be nice to have a more “cargo” bike again. Maybe there is a place in the fleet for it after all. Spring and summer came and went and I could not muster the energy to relist.Īnd then as the months went on, I came back around to the Heavy Duti. Oh yeah, I want you to strip down the bike and only send me the frame.” (Did I mention the part about local sales only?)ĭejected, I decided to mothball the Heavy Duti until I figured out its final fate. “I want you to spend a lot of time and energy to take a bunch of detailed photos of the bike, as I plan to use it for ‘racing’.Oh yeah, I want you to ship it, even though you explicitly stated local sales only.” “I will offer half of what you are asking, even though you said it’s a firm price.“I want to buy your bike, but tomorrow I will realize I have no money.”.I only got three bites, none of them good: I made a half-hearted attempt to sell it then, and tried again in spring. I've recently purchased an Heavy Duti Schwinn.You may remember that towards the end of last year I decided that my Schwinn Heavy Duti was one bike too many. I'm trying to figure out what the actual year is. The serial number is on the bottom of the crank housing and it indicates a 1974. The problem is the forks are of the tubular steel type and not what you see in the Schwinn catalogues of that year. ![]() The brochures show them with the forged "thin" forks. When did Schwinn start using these forks on the Heavy Duti bikes? It also has an Shimano rear hub with the right s-2 wheels and the made in germany hub up front. No neck serial number and it has the round Schwinn Quality badge and not the long oval "SCHWINN" piece. Vintage schwinn heavy duti for sale serial number# Thanks: JimDoes the frame have original paint that says heavy Duti? I only ask because it sounds like the bike has been pieced together with some old and some later parts. The forks are definitely from much later. As near as I can tell, the hollow unicrown fork came in around the mid 1980s. The round head badge is from much later as well. Does the head badges screw on, or was it glued on? Are there old holes where the oval badge would have been monted with screws, as it would have been in 1974? But, yeah, as far as pre-war 26" bikes go, Schwinn made some of the hottest-looking ones. MY experiences with these bikes has been that Schwinns tend to be durable, and some other builders (eg, AMF) tended to be more prone to failure, but other good makers, like Westfield (makers of Columbia and other marques) and Schneider (Colson, etc) made stuff that was just as resilient to abuse and neglect. Most all of these old and old-style bikes have the same basic Achilles's heels: the narrow seatposts bend, the seatstays snap where they meet the seat-tube, and the thin stamped drop-outs will fold or "blast out" from a lot of heavy hits. And, of course, the ubiquitous bent forks that plague bikes of almost every style and vintage. I get the whole Schwinn nostalgia thing, but having grown up in the 80s, I was riding bikes at a time when Schwinn's shine was fading rapidly, and was seen as being kinda fuddy-duddy. Not nearly as cool or polished as things like Redlines, Diamondbacks, GTs and Dynos. As we got older, MTBs took over, and we lusted after Specialized, Gary Fishers, things like that. If you were stuck on a hand-me down Stingray in the 80s, that was seen as borderline child abuse by the kids with the cool BMX bikes. So, maybe that's got something to do with it, for me. As it stands now, I love old bikes, and i have a particularly soft spot for old American bikes. Schwinns have the advantage of being top-sellers for decades, so there's plenty to choose from out there, at a price. But I don't have any extra appreciation for their design or build quality. I've found many of their designs to be derivative of others', and the QC tended to be good, but some stinkers slipped by, too. But, yeah, as far as pre-war 26" bikes go, Schwinn made some of the hottest-looking ones.Have you ever tried 7/8" 6061 solid rod? Cheap, light enough, takes a nice polish and won't bend. That's what the original Klunker Crew ran. We never needed to on the Stin-rays because we slammed the seat down low, and on cruisers we didn't ride like loons. Sounds like we are a decade apart and that makes all the difference. ![]() ![]()
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