True Barn find , we bought an old lumber company barn , a picker had it full of stuff , as this bike have any value, it’s a free spirit
by Puzzleheaded-Watch-5
True Barn find , we bought an old lumber company barn , a picker had it full of stuff , as this bike have any value, it’s a free spirit
by Puzzleheaded-Watch-5
17 Comments
Low end 70’s bike boom bike. Not worth putting any time into other than as a learning experience.
Sears-Roebuck department store/catalogue bike. Put a free sign on it at the driveway entrance. Maybe another picker will come along.
No value, really. Pretty much the bottom of the barrel bike boom machine. Maybe worth $20 unless you find someone with a lot of nostalgia for these.
Rule of thumb, if a bike tells you how many gears it has, it’s generally low end and not worth a lot, if anything. Money or time.
That is some SERIOUS crapola. Sorry.
The value is the fun you have riding it!
A bad bike from the ‘70’s.
I was once given a Free Spirit for free and I still paid too much for it.
Sears made Free Spirit. Prob not worth a damn thing. They were the shit in the 70s tho.
Those were known as BSOs (Bike Shaped Object). They have value. Scrap steel goes for about 6 cents a pound, and lucky for you, that’s a very heavy bike.
Nice Sears bike! I paid $20 for one like this.
Low end, one piece American crank, probably the cheapest thing available in it’s time
Worth more in stripped parts than whole, $40 vs $20 👍😁
Those brakes look like Weinmanns; inconsistent with a price-point bike. The early “FreeSpirits” were made in Austria, (Styre-Daimler-Puch), 3-piece cottered cranks and lugged frame. Nice bikes. The later FreeSpirits were abominable machines, but they could be ridden, although hardly a joyous experience. It could easily discourage any interest in cycling. This one, here, is like this. But, at least it an be adjusted and stay adjusted, unlike a lot of big-box bikes of today. I would sort it out and give it away. A bike is better than no bike.
It’s poor college kid transportation at best
I just took a second look. Before scrapping this, pull the wingnuts off the front wheel. They’re worth more than the rest of the bike!
Zero value. It’s basically “department store” junk.