On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:30 AM, JoelMatthews <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the Schwinn cruisers were very practical around town bikes.
> Schwinn made some very nice traditional road style bikes as well.
> Paramount and Zolare duly accepted, they were not necessarily
> attractive or light as they could have been.  But they were durable,
> fun to ride bikes.  I had a Continental in high school.  It did
> everything it had to do with no complaints about my negligent school
> boy maintenance.  I did not get the Stingray at the time, and still
> don't get it.
>
> One thing I often wonder is what may have happened had Schwinn been
> able to hold out in Chicago.  Could it have adapted its electroplating
> machinery to lighter steel?  If so, could it have fended off the low
> cost Taiwanese manufacturers for the practical market?  I imagine all
> the machinery has now been melted down for scrap.  In order to answer
> my questions I would have to build an entirely new manufacturing line.
>


Rivendell Reader #5 had an article called "Inside the Varsity" that
had some good details on the EF process, iirc.
-sv

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