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Here's what I picked up this week.. There are more but these are the ones I played with today.
The mountain bike I talked about in another thread, the Schwinn(yeah right..) Cruiser is a prospect for another 700 rim and maybe a 3 speed, and the monarch?? Firestone Cruiser I just couldn't walk away from .Earlier in the weekend I picked up a near perfect Ladies Cranbrook and a junior size Mountain bike so we might have some donors with parts now..
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Here I was mocking up lady Firestone with some 26 inch rubber....
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Here's the Firestone after some cleaning with steel wool and lacquer thinner (not!)
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I'm thinking of swapping out the crank and wheels from the Cranbrook so it is ridable until I find the right stuff.

ANd here's the Schwinn which was given up for junk:
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It has nice crunchy rotating assemblies.. gonna have to do some cleaning and greasing soon. It is amazingly light and I love the big front tire. I might go for a mate on the back with a multispeed hub. I wonder if an old School Sturmey Archer would work in there..

Gotta go, gotta be somewhere in 20 minutes...
 
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That blue Schwinn sure has some funky dropouts.:cool:
yup....weird, like they welded them on in the wrong place..
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I googled the Windwood and found out they came with a rack and a bobbed rear fender,, that's what went in the two tabs. Boy, did they have a fugly chain guard..
 
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I had some time today to play with my bikes so I did some seriousl thrashing.. Got a rack on my Mesa, fixed a kids bike for sale, and tore apart the Cranbrook.. Put the wheels and crank on the Lady...and the bars on the Schwinn. Did a bit of straightening on the rack.

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I think I'm going to have some Cranbrook pieces available soon...:dance2:

Trying to decide what color the wheels would look good in. Plastidip white??

Fenders will go back on once I get all the uglies straightened out...This bike has been thru some very rough handling at one point. And wouldn't ya know, the Cranbrook chain isn't long enough either.

I do any more I'm gonna have to start a project thread.

Here's the bike inspector at work..
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"Wouldn't ya know, the Cranbrook chain isn't long enough either."
Wally world will sell you a new chain in a box that's also too short! :crazy:
 
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