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Another New Book!
"Vintage American Balloon Tire Bicycles 1930s through 1960s." A two volume set, over 500 total pages, covering prewar and postwar American heavyweight bikes.
Covers: Colson, Westfield / Columbia, Cleveland Welding / Roadmaster, Hawthorne, Huffman, Mead, Murray / Mercury, Monark Silver-King, Rollfast, Schwinn, Sears (Elgin and JC Higgins), Shelby, Spiegel (Airman), Western Flyer. And the obscure ones like Evinrude, Iver Johnson, Manton & Smith. Plus a section of motorized bikes, a section of cool period accessories, and a section with some musings on collecting vintage bicycles. Yeah, it's a pretty intense book.
I feel that this is the definitive reference book for American fat tire bikes. Prewar, postwar, the popular, the obscure, the rare, the common.
Pop over to the "Reference Books" page to purchase.
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New Krate Book Here!
Make Your Krate Ride Great! A Practical Bicycle Repair Guide for Fixing Your Schwinn Krate, Sting-Ray, Fastbacks, Manta-Ray, Stardust, Fair Lady, or Slik Chik. (yeah man, that's the title!)
At last! A photo-illustrated step-by-step guide that walks you through getting your Schwinn banana seat bikes mechanically dialed. In this book I take an original '68 Orange Krate (with lots of issues) all the way down to the frame and then build it up again into the smooth and solid bike it was when it left the factory. If you want your banana seat pavement pounders to ride as sweet as they look and don't know where to start, then this is the book for you.
Large font size for workshop use. Lots of pictures. Tons of knowledge. 378 pages. Hundreds of photos. Covers everything you need to know and even a few things that you don't. Hubs (Bendix coaster, Automatic 2, Sturmey 3, freewheelin' 5), forks (springer and Ashtabula), headsets and bottom brackets, wheel truing, chains, freewheels, derailleurs, pedals, and just so much more. All the tips and tricks that I've learned the hard way, they're all in here. The stuff that most bike mechanics at your local shop aren't even hip to.
See the "Reference Books" page to purchase.
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Tech & Spec 1.3
600 pages. Electro-Forged Schwinns 1946 - 1982. Limited to 1118 copies. More pictures. More info. This is the best and most comprehensive overall Schwinn reference book ever created. Available now on the Reference Books page. If I do say so, this book is awesome.
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Sting-Rays and Muscle Bikes of the 1960s and 1970s
Holy frig, but this book has been a long time coming. The wait is over. 286 pages. COLOR! Covering all major muscle bikes from AMF to Vista, and everything in between. Murray, Raleigh, Huffy, Ross, Rollfast, MTD, Columbia, Iverson / Stelber. Plus of course Schwinn, so much Schwinn. Plus pages of rarely seen accessories. Plus the Sears and Montgomery Wards and Penney's branded muscle bikes. All wrapped in an gorgeous and amazing psychedlic cover from the incomparable Mat Mathey. Be warned, this book will fill you with bike lust and may cause you to buy more bicycles. You will suddenly be made aware of bicycles that you never knew you always needed.
Buy some eye drops now, because once you get a copy of this book you won't be able to blink. Click over to the "Reference Books" page to purchase.
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Swap Time!
Is still a long way off. Start saving your cash.
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Iron Ranch 2018
September 15th (Saturday)
23100 NE 10th Ave, Ridgefield WA
See you there!
I've knocked together a separate page for Iron Ranch 2018. Scroll up to the tab menu on the left side of the page. Second tab down is Iron Ranch. Pics and information.
So the word on the street is that the 2018 Iron Ranch Vintage Bicycle Swap Meet will happen September 15th, which is a Saturday. Tell your friends! And as always, bring cash, and prepare to have a great time and meet some fantastic folks. Swap spaces are $20. Leave the dogs at home.
Below is a link to the Iron Ranch calendar, last I checked the Bike Swap wasn't on it, but you should be able to find directions and whatnot.
http://schurmanironranch.com/id2.html
Iron Ranch was great in 2017. Lots of vendors, great weather, great deals. See you at the Ranch in 2018!
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Bendix Wrenches
>>> Back in Stock <<<
Double ended with slight
rotational offset for optimal placement. For working on coaster Bendix hubs two wrenches are required. For working on 2 speed hubs only one is required. $25 plus $4.00 shipping for a pair. (Schwinn catalog not included.) Laser cut steel, nothing fancy, will last practically forever. One end is 7/8", the other is 47/64". These work on Bendix hubs from the 1950s (smooth shell), 1960s (red band) and 1970s, USA and Mexico. These also fit Morrow hubs.
See the bottom of the "Reference Books" page to purchase.
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