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Found an old Schwinn in a barn near Topeka that had me scratching my head
I was out on a service call last month for a seized boiler in an old farmhouse near Topeka. While I was waiting for the pipes to drain, the owner asked if I wanted to see his dad's old bike collection in the barn. There was a late 60s Schwinn Continental that had been hanging from the rafters for maybe 40 years, but someone had swapped the original steel rims for these cheap aluminum replacements. The tires were dry rotted and flat, but the rims still had the old sales tag showing $12.99 from a hardware store that closed in 1982. Has anyone else run into a bike where the previous owner made a weird upgrade that just doesn't make sense?
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