i'm totally diggin this. good work on the recreation.

sweet

Thanks for all the nice comments, guys!

Rugged and classic look.

So many great memories. Awesome build brother!

Seanable wrote:

Hey I am tripping out on your bike here. I know this is an ancient thread..but I had to comment.
I had an almost identical Schwinn when I was a youngster in Southern California. In the age of FMF, and Mongoose BMX bikes...my bike was unique. I followed no trend. I liked spokes, I loved the look of the old Schwinn frames, The Ashtebula forks, cranks, and gooseneck were stout but carried that same Schwinn style but had "Ashtebula" displayed so it was obvious they were custom stuff . I had a banana seat and the frame https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=171 … 4761225742was painted flat black. The dang tires are even the same. The ONLY difference would be the sissybar. Mine was chrome and looped just over the back of the seat.
My mind is blown. I built my bike myself. If it would get a rattle I would stop...no matter where...and fix it. My friends would all trip on me for that. There is a cemented up riverbed which flows through the L.A. basin. It is the San Gabriel River flood control project. In the winter the water, without the normal resistance of a natural river basin with trees, bushes, rocks and bends, rages through the flood control channel. It is around 100 yards wide and concrete with sides that slope upward at 45 degrees. It is like a long funnel snaking through several cities and counties from the San Gabriel mountains to where it dumps into the ocean at Seal Beach, Ca. Every neighborhood, every street, every boulevard, every gutter on every building ultimately drains into this channel. I rode my beloved Schwinn down the side of this flood control channel, why? , who knows? I did fall into the raging waters, as did my Schwinn bicycle. I, thank God, was yanked out of the water by a teenager a few years older than me...my bike was gone. This was surely a lesson on the finality of making poor decisions...and their consequences. A lesson I will repeat many many more times in my life...
Seeing the pics of this bicycle has a flood of memories coming back. The majority of which were wonderful.
I am still, very much, that kid riding his Schwinn that was much heavier than the bikes his friends rode. The only difference is instead of a Schwinn Stingray I ride a Shovelhead. They look very similar really. https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ … e=5FB1F94E

right on man, glad it brought back some good memories for you. I just replaced the stock cranks with schwinn diamond cranks from a 76 varsity. this is very long overdue.