| Re: 40-Year Old Schwinn Super Sport, fillet brazed, 1965 model inRadiant Coppertone
> 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...
Donald Gillies wrote:
> 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 ...
The Super Sport was a premium quality frameset, albeit a bit
heavy. The Super Sport's heft reflectd equipment choices as
much as the frame tubes. A closed top steel seatpost, steel
cranks and Brooks saddle didn't help.
A typical lightweight race bike then was 20~21lb on a 5.5lb
frameset. The SuperSport years of my Schwinn catalogs don't
show bike weight. That starts in 1974 when the Sports Tourer
(SuperSport with aluminum crank) lists at 32lbs. Your
'probably 34lb' seems right. Collegiates were 43lb.
So, yeah, a niggling 11-12 pounds or so either way.
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