Schwinn Lasalle

[JunkBikeRider]

A guy calls me on a old vintage lawn mower I have on CL and says he has a Lasalle bicycle and wants to know if I'm interested in a partial trade, well I woundn't be on this forum if I wasn't interested in getting rid of an old Lawnmower and getting another old bicycle. Besides I bought the lawnmower because it had a round gas tank and it was going to be used as the fuel source for a rat rod motorized bicycle.
Well any ways it ends up a girls bike but it does have a brass headbadge and it's black and It does have some other cool features like a really sweet seat , oh ya the AS&CO chain ring. 8)
What year do you guys think it is??
I think its a 48
It has black fenders and a bolt on kickstand, serial # is on the bottom bracket and all the above mentioned goodys. Oh ya it has 26x175 tires.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice old girl, it has some really nice parts on it!

Luke.

 

[Jpromo]

This would be from the New World line of bicycles. Very nice! It looks like you've got the telephone dial freewheel in back with the dual handbrakes. I have one set up like this but my calipers and levers aren't original. Then the desirable AS&CO 3-piece crank. From the serial, I'd put it at either a 1940 or '41. Cheers!

 

[JunkBikeRider]

I too originally thought a pre war from the serial and the bolt on kick stand, I put the # into a schwinn data base and it came back 48 but the data base can't backup the pre 48 #'s.
Any body out there know if the lightweights had weld on kick stands in 46 also??
That might help pin point the age of this one.