Mountain bikes

Coaldigger, post whatever information you have on that old Schwinn (size, condition, model name, etc.). To buy something of old Schwinn quality now, you're paying thousands of dollars. There are people willing to kill in slow and painful ways to get hold of old Schwinns. An old Schwinn road bike usually can easily be set up as a sweet cyclocross bike capable of handling non-technical trail riding.
 
wintermute said:
Coaldigger, post whatever information you have on that old Schwinn (size, condition, model name, etc.). To buy something of old Schwinn quality now, you're paying thousands of dollars. There are people willing to kill in slow and painful ways to get hold of old Schwinns. An old Schwinn road bike usually can easily be set up as a sweet cyclocross bike capable of handling non-technical trail riding.
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Sweet! How much can I get for this old Schwinn?
Does a '97 Homegrown FS count? The brakes work.

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wintermute said:
Coaldigger, post whatever information you have on that old Schwinn (size, condition, model name, etc.). To buy something of old Schwinn quality now, you're paying thousands of dollars. There are people willing to kill in slow and painful ways to get hold of old Schwinns. An old Schwinn road bike usually can easily be set up as a sweet cyclocross bike capable of handling non-technical trail riding.
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I'll let you know , the bike is at my parents house (if dad didn't trash it:eek:)
I'm telling you, it's in rough shape ! It was like new back when I had it, it came from MI. my grandpa found it at a garage sale & brought it home to me.
It looks like something from a marry poppins disney type movie. Not a mountian bike ! Big 'ol seat & heavy as lead ! it was Gold in color w/ chrome fenders & book rack or Rat Trap or whatever you want to call it.
 
Finally took a couple pics of my other bikes today.

Trek 4100
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Diamondback Reactor
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Hey guys I got out for a few today & played around with the MonGoose. The other day after I posted the pics I sprayed all the moving parts & chain down with "PB Blaster" Today I worked all the moving parts to make sure everything worked. Next I filled the tires w/ air & knocked off the dust. Then I went for a ride around the yard to check it out. Everything worked, just had a few squeeks that I'm gonna work out of it. The Breaks worked GREAT :thumbup: Like I said this bike is pretty much Brand New, just needs a little TLC. I forgot how uncomfortable the seat was :o I still got the Huffy on order but I'm gonna keep the mongoose to play with. I know these aren't your $ High-Dollar $ bicycles but still fun to ride.
 
Since we've completely butched this thread (sorry coaldigger), I just wanted to post a photo of my humble steed that I took today:

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Nice Bianchi. :thumbup: The celeste looks a bit darker than I'm used to seeing, is it the light? Now you just need to put some real (Campy) parts on it and you'll be set. :p
 
That's a tourer, vret. Cantis were the only option for folks running larger tires/rims on their touring bikes.
Some of the contemporary jobs do come with V-brakes now, but you need special levers to pull enough cable.
 
I know what it is, I was just razzing ya. :D I think spending the last decade running a bike shop made me bit of a gear snob too. :o
 
Good eye BlackHills. It's actually not celeste, they named the color of that bike "Gang Green". I love that bike. it is truly the bastard child of the Bianchi line. No Campy, instead it has a mixture of Cane Creek, Shimano, and Sugino components. Don't diss the canti brakes! this thing is never going to bomb down the side of the mountain, so the cantis are fine and it's easier to modulate how hard you're braking than the V-brakes (plus that particular model uses V-brake pads, so there's plenty of braking surface).

The Volpe's marketed as a light tourer/cyclocross, so I split the difference and switched components out for Cane Creek brake levers (hey, they at least LOOK like Campys :) ), Salsa Bell Lap bars, Shimano bar end shifters (I hate indexed shifting and this was easier than getting downtube shifters put on), Salsa stem, Brooks saddle, Ritchey seatpost, MKS rattrap pedals, and Continental TravelContact tires - work great on the roads and dirt trails.

The thing really is a mutt - sort of an Uber-Hybrid! I'm glad it's sparked discussion and amusement!
 
wintermute said:
Good eye BlackHills. It's actually not celeste, they named the color of that bike "Gang Green".
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Interesting....Ibis had a "Gang Green" color back in the day, I guess Bianchi borrowed the name. I'm with you on the cantis, I prefer them to v-brakes by far. The Vs feel like an on/off switch compared to cantis IMO and I went down many a steep hill with cantis before Vs were invented w/o a problem. Other than the shimaNO stuff I'd say you have a pretty good component mix. :)

As for the good-eye, this poor picture is why it didn't look right to me. :D

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It's the first year Cross Project USA that was sold as a frameset only. I imagine it was the last lugged cyclocross bike made by any major manufacturer. The brakes are Avid Tri-aligns cantis. There's even a celeste Avocet 40 on the bars. :cool: I bought it to use as my 'rainy day bike' and have some snap-on fenders for it.
 
BlackHills said:
It's the first year Cross Project USA that was sold as a frameset only. I imagine it was the last lugged cyclocross bike made by any major manufacturer. The brakes are Avid Tri-aligns cantis. There's even a celeste Avocet 40 on the bars. :cool: I bought it to use as my 'rainy day bike' and have some snap-on fenders for it.
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Rainy day bike? Dang, that would be my Sunday Best bike!
 
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