So I sold a few bikes to pay for a mountain bike. You guys snapped up two of my three 650B bikes, and wanted the frames, but not the wheels. So I found myself with a surplus of 650B tires, and tried to sell off some, but you hardly bought any of them. So, it was irresistible, unavoidable that I buy a cheap vintage road bike to do a 650B conversion on. Right? Right!?
I worked at a Schwinn Shop through the mid 1980s, so I have a long standing softspot for mid-1980s Schwinn road bikes. A standard ebay outing includes searches for Paramount, Peloton, Super Sport, Prologue, Circuit, Premis. They were all made either in the US or Japan. Many had Columbus or Prestige tubing. They had great fork crowns for 650B, generally. The only downer was that virtually all of them did not have fender eyelets. A recent find had me looking through an archived scan of the 1985 Schwinn Catalog. Flipping the virtual pages I was reminded of a model I had been overlooking: the Schwinn Tempo. The 1985 Tempo was the number 4 model road bike (Paramount > Peloton > Super Sport > Tempo). The Super Sport and Tempo both have a Columbus "Tenax" label, but the not-very-well-kept-secret was that Schwinn bought up a whole mess of cosmetic blem Columbus SL and SP at a discount and agreed to label it Tenax. Thanks to the sneaky light tubing, the stock bikes were respectably light. List weight of the Tempo was 22 lbs. An added plus is that the Tempo was the only "Competition" road bike that year with eyelets for fenders. So, having added the Tempo to my standard search, I found one almost instantly on ebay. It looks like a completely stock attic-find. I got it at a half-way decent price ($249) and a horrible shipping cost ($95), but now I've got my Winter Project, again, thanks to you. I'm going to do a 650B conversion on this nice 1985 Schwinn Tempo. <http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QNYAAOSwo6lWQSP5/s-l1600.jpg> Anybody want to trade me or sell me a Nitto stem with a 25.4 clamp diameter and a 10cm or 11cm extension? Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
