Bill, I noticed on in the Flicker album you stated that you were going to dimple the chainstays to get a bit more clearance. Can you explain how you go about doing this?
On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 7:44:36 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
