| Re: 40-Year Old Schwinn Super Sport, fillet brazed, 1965 model in Radiant Coppertone
On 31 Jan 2005 13:00:15 -0800 gillies@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Gillies)
wrote:
>John Mustarde <jmustarde@cox.net> writes:
>
>>38 years later I found this Super Sport parked at a second-hand store.
>>I know now I should have saved up for the Super Sport many years
>>ago... but the Collegiate never let me down, and its fenders came in
>>handy a few times, so who's to say...
>
>personally, i think the difference between a collegiate (38 lbs) and a
>super sport (probably 34 lbs) was smaller than the difference between
>a super sport and a "lightweight" (25 lbs) bicycle 38 years ago ...
I'm pretty sure the Super Sport comes in at just under 30 lbs. I could
weigh mine; there are quite a few things changed on it, but I doubt if
much weight has been removed.
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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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