06-12-2009, 07:27 AM
Black wrote:
[quote=billb]
I think of "beach bikes" as having much larger baloon tires than that.
:-)
(will check out those links later)
Correct-- this one would have just been called a "touring" bike.
The seat being all the way down makes it look like a cruiser or kid's bike a bit though.
It's a 5 speed Schwinn Collegiate, Campus Green, late 60s / early 70s.
In the early 70s while in High School I worked in a Schwinn bike shop, don't remember what those sold for at the time, they were less popular than the 10-speed Varsity, which I recall selling for $69 at that time.