Budget Bikepacking Build-Off: Logan’s 1988 Schwinn High Sierra

Before the bike was schwinn bike even in my possession, I already had ideas brewing about how I’d build a bag system for it. Over the past couple of years, most of my bikepacking setups have included a rack-top bag, so that was a no-brainer. I opted to make my own rear rack using an… Continue reading Budget Bikepacking Build-Off: Logan’s 1988 Schwinn High Sierra

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Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes, E-Bikes, and More Schwinn sold an impressive 1.5 million bicycles in 1974, but would pay the price for failing to keep up with new developments in bicycle technology and buying trends. As a result, Schwinns became increasingly dated in both styling and technology. By 1957, the Paramount series, once a premier… Continue reading schwinn mountain bike 297

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Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes, E-Bikes, and More We have print at home, paperless and collection options available. In the late 1960s, the Varsity and Continental pioneered the use of auxiliary brake levers, which allowed the rider to rest hands on the straight, horizontal center section of the ram’s horn handlebars, yet still have braking control.… Continue reading schwinn mountain bike 288

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Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes, E-Bikes, and More During the next twenty years, most of the Paramount bikes would be built in limited numbers at a small frame shop headed by Wastyn, in spite of Schwinn’s continued efforts to bring all frame production into the factory. Another problem was Schwinn’s failure to design and market its… Continue reading schwinn mountain bike 27

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Merida TFS Matts Hardtail HTB Medium Frame Hardtail Mountain Bikes By 1990, other United States bicycle companies with reputations for excellence in design such as Trek, Specialized, and Cannondale had cut further into Schwinn’s market. Unable to produce bicycles in the United States at a competitive cost, by the end of 1991 Schwinn was sourcing… Continue reading schwinn mountain bike 242