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The market has split into lousy department-store bikes and real bikes sold through specialist retailers. If I recall, it was what Schwinn called a “cantilever” frame, where the seat stays pass by the seat cluster and continue on in a graceful curve to join the bottom of the head tube. Older Schwinn “cruisers”, such as… Continue reading Chicago Schwinns

There are really two kinds of cyclists; enthusiasts who ride regularly and dilettantes who ride two or three times a year. The latter choose a bicycle almost entirely on price, because they don’t schwinn beach cruiser know any other criteria on which to judge bicycles. These customers don’t care that the bike will start disintegrating… Continue reading Chicago Schwinns