Normally, I’m the one looking for bikes. This one found me.
Years ago in college, I had a crappy Web page (built by my non-code-knowing ass with Adobe PageMill) that had pictures of my two Schwinns and my friends’ bikes. Apparently, a gentleman who lived in southern Illinois and had a bike to unload found that [...]
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1965 Schwinn Twinn
Ready to roll
With gas prices the way they are (and which stand to get worse), this oldie but goodie has become an essential mode of transportation. If my destination/s is within a few miles and what I am fetching/delivering can fit in a backpack, I’m on the bicycle.
I’m lucky enough to live in an area with many [...]
1967 Schwinn Panther
After more than a decade of searching, in May I finally got myself a grown-up Schwinn.
It took that long basically because I was cheap, hoping that serendipity would strike a third time and drop another bike in my lap. It didn’t quite work out that way.
I was thus forced to shop “retail,” which for old [...]
1966 Schwinn Hollywood
This is Mrs. Communist’s ride. I got it for her back in about July 1999, when this picture was taken. Miles was about 7 months old then.
The first bike I got for her was a 1975 Fair Lady, which she said she wouldn’t be caught dead riding, so I got her a more respectable Hollywood. [...]
1978 Schwinn Sting-Ray
I just happened to luck into this bike.
Back in 1996, I was on summer vacation after my first junior year of college. My girlfriend (who’s now Mrs. Communist; poor girl) and I were in Topeka, Kan., for her grandfather’s 80th birthday.
When we got into town, we went to her Aunt Jean’s house. As this was [...]
Slik and tired
One thing you could have read about had I not completely destroyed the first incarnation of this Web log was my longtime but sporadic obsession with postwar Schwinn bicycles.
Long story short: I have a few of those bikes, but for various I had to put the hobby away for several years. At the St. Patrick’s [...]