Re: [CR]Schwinn Continental identification

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:32:42 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Schwinn Continental identification
In-reply-to: <05a901c631e6$95a0a490$6401a8c0@HPLAPTOP>
To: The Maaslands <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
References: <05a901c631e6$95a0a490$6401a8c0@HPLAPTOP>
cc: CR <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

G0 is July 1960 but one other list I checked said 1961.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: The Maaslands
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:16:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]Schwinn Continental identification


> A friend of mine has an older Schwinn Continental frame that he

\r?\n> wants to

\r?\n> put on ebay, but is having trouble dating it properly. To the best

\r?\n> that

\r?\n> I can tell, the frame is likely from the 50's or early 60's as it

\r?\n> was

\r?\n> originally fitted with a suicide front derailleur, which I believed

\r?\n> was

\r?\n> only used up until about 1962-3.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> The decals are quite nice. The serial number is GO 15594

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Can anybody tell me what parts would have originally been fitted to

\r?\n> this

\r?\n> bike and a more precise estimate of the correct age?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Steven Maasland

\r?\n> Moorestown, NJ