Garage Sale find- old bike

[moosedog]

I couldn't pass this one up. April 1974, girls 24 inch "Breeze" by Schwinn. $35 as it sits. Everything works on it, tire inflated, ready to go, all original.
I am going to buff it up with Mother's and that's it. Wife likes it better than her 1990's Schwinn.

Now all I need is a mid 1960's Schwinn "Jaguar" in black.

 

[A10]

Nice old bike.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Or if you can find an Orange Krate! The ultimate fantasy dream bike when I was a kid. But they cost a ton of money now.

 

[bdGreen]

I couldn't pass this one up. April 1974, girls 24 inch "Breeze" by Schwinn. $35 as it sits. Everything works on it, tire inflated, ready to go, all original.
I am going to buff it up with Mother's and that's it. Wife likes it better than her 1990's Schwinn.

Now all I need is a mid 1960's Schwinn "Jaguar" in black.

Makes my butt hurt just looking at that seat...

bdGreen

 

[wetdog]

Even has the tire driven generator for the light. Nice find.

 

[Onomea]

Nice bike! Amazing that the tires are still sound after all these years. Would not expect that.

 

[cowboy4evr]

Moosedog , Nice fine ! I noticed it has the tire rubbing generator for the lights . I had a bike with that on it . It sure increased the power to pedal the bike but it did work . Regards, Paul

 

[moosedog]

In the 1990's I bought the "Orange Crate" repop when they came out for my son. He barely rode it and I ended up selling it. Is that an original Orange Crate Wyatt?

 

[Wyatt Burp]

In the 1990's I bought the "Orange Crate" repop when they came out for my son. He barely rode it and I ended up selling it. Is that an original Orange Crate Wyatt?

I think so. Just grabbed a picture in a search. I didn’t know they reissued them.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

3 Christmas' ago I bought my wife a Schwinn so she could tool around the neighborhood. She hadn't ridden a bike since the summer of 1976 when home for the 4th of July. So in the spring we were getting things set up for her. As she peddled along beside me, so commented that she didn't think she had ever been this fast on a bike. I ask how she could tell and she said by the wind whistling over her ears. I looked at my bike's computer and saw we were going 4 MPH! I said I think you went faster than this when you were in college, we are doing all of 4 miles per hour. "But the wind was never like this!" I reminded her that when I started dating her in 1976 her Chestnut hair was almost to her waist, and the air never got close to her ears!

Ivan

 

[ACORN]

If it were mine I’d put one of the lard arse seats on it and ride it myself, girls bike or not. It sure beats banging your love bells of that cross bar.

 

[walnutred]

Nice find.

 

[rubiranch]

I couldn't pass this one up. April 1974, girls 24 inch "Breeze" by Schwinn. $35 as it sits. Everything works on it, tire inflated, ready to go, all original.
I am going to buff it up with Mother's and that's it. Wife likes it better than her 1990's Schwinn.

Now all I need is a mid 1960's Schwinn "Jaguar" in black.

That's an awesome bike. Good on you.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

Those pics bring back some memories . Only the really cool kids had those Orange Krates . The rest of us just had to piece bikes together to make one that looked like that . Nobodies mentioned the old playing card and clothes pin trick . Let's see who remembers that .

 

[ACORN]

Those pics bring back some memories . Only the really cool kids had those Orange Krates . The rest of us just had to piece bikes together to make one that looked like that . Nobodies mentioned the old playing card and clothes pin trick . Let's see who remembers that .

We’d also partially inflate those long skinny balloons and attach them to the frame so they’d rub the spokes. Made a deeper, thumping sound.

 

[kraynky]

I probably ruined some expensive baseball cards on my bike spokes as a kid. The cards were a dime a dozen, when you bought bubble gum like I did.

I had one of those banana seat, high rise handlebars tall sissy bar bikes as a kid, but it was a plain ole one speed. I did have a nice fat slick on the rear though. Had near constant scabs on my ankles from my feet sliding off the pedals and scraping the center bolt.

Anybody else yanked on the handlebars trying to ride a wheelie, and yank them right out? I was constantly wrenching on that bike, painting it and "sopping it up". Streamers coming out the handlebar grips,........ wow, what memories......

I never saw an Orange Crate bike, but if I had, I would have wanted one. Might have been out right after I got my first car, and ditched the bike forever.

 

[jack the toad]

We’d also partially inflate those long skinny balloons and attach them to the frame so they’d rub the spokes. Made a deeper, thumping sound.

Yep, we'd do that and on occasion 2 on the frame and 2 on the forks.

 

[ACORN]

I probably ruined some expensive baseball cards on my bike spokes as a kid. The cards were a dime a dozen, when you bought bubble gum like I did.

I had one of those banana seat, high rise handlebars tall sissy bar bikes as a kid, but it was a plain ole one speed. I did have a nice fat slick on the rear though. Had near constant scabs on my ankles from my feet sliding off the pedals and scraping the center bolt.

Anybody else yanked on the handlebars trying to ride a wheelie, and yank them right out? I was constantly wrenching on that bike, painting it and "sopping it up". Streamers coming out the handlebar grips,........ wow, what memories......

I never saw an Orange Crate bike, but if I had, I would have wanted one. Might have been out right after I got my first car, and ditched the bike forever.

I always had an old hand me down bike. Never a cool kid bike. A neighbor kid had a bike he hot rodded with a sissy bar and banana seat. Apparently he wasn’t real good at tightening bolts or nuts. He was pedaling up a hill, standing on the pedals, and just as he dropped down on the seat, the seat came off the post. Jammed his “spheres” right down on the post. That was probably 50 years ago and it still makes me cringe just thinking about it.

 

[moosedog]

OUCH! That hurts just thinking about it.
How about doing that "wheelie" and watching your front wheel come off the frame? You just know this is going to be a rough landing.

 

[sureshotbob]

As a kid I always had bikes that were hand me downs or several put together from parts.

After working all summer when I was 15 I saved enough for one of the Schwinn Orange Krate bikes with the 5 speed.
I don't remember what I paid for it but I was one proud and happy kid.