Got this vintage Sears bike for free (neighbor was throwing it out) four years ago. Cleaned it up and have been using it as a backup commuter.
Weighs 33#’s with down-tube shifters. Pretty cool piece of nostalgia haha
by Bubbly_Bet2357
Got this vintage Sears bike for free (neighbor was throwing it out) four years ago. Cleaned it up and have been using it as a backup commuter.
Weighs 33#’s with down-tube shifters. Pretty cool piece of nostalgia haha
by Bubbly_Bet2357
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The angle of those bars makes my head hurt. I know vintage bikes tended to be designed that way, but ugh.
Those aren’t down tube shifters. Those are stem shifters.
33 lbs is actually lighter than I would have guessed…
That one doesn’t look to be anything special, but some of those were decent frames.
Sears had a contract with Puch for a while in the late 60s & early 70s, including some touring bikes.
Early 70s. In the 80s I resurrected one of those from behind a shed, combining the best parts of 2 bikes, and commuted to college on it for my first semester. It was a heavy POS but it never quit going.
My first grown-up bike was a Free Spirit. Poorly constructed, the brakes would rub like crazy and it made all sorts of squeaky sounds.
Still, I was pretty proud when I rode my first 20 mile ride on it.