It’s really market dependent. That’s a 1960’s schwinn typhoon, just your run of the mill average cruiser. Nothing particularly special originally, no great components and older style mounting that makes it more difficult to convert to something newer.
The manual is cool, but something people have. It’s in nice shape as well. If you live in an area with a good vintage market and solid bicycle resales, it is basically functional, and the tires hold air, $100? $125? If you ever got a real $200 offer I would say take and run giggling.
If you’re in a place with a poor market it may be worth holding onto or transporting to a bigger city/listing another place. Where I am located, I saw an ad for two schwinn cruisers of about the same nick and a bit newer, both with good tires and tubes and both sat unsold for about a week at $15 dollars each, but we have a terrible bike market and can only use them a small portion of the year.
Keep your eyes open for the right collector and you’ll get a fair price.
That stumpjumper in the back is cool though, that’s a solid piece. Good riders bike, upgradable chassis, quality factory components. That’s the much better one of the two from a technical stance
yes13690 on
Ask $300 & bottom at 250 for the highly desirable Stumpjumper, great colors, and if it’s ’21 or above, that’s another plus.
JolyonWagg99 on
I built my first mountain bike out of a Typhoon. That brings back some memories!
FerdinandTheBullitt on
If someone offered you anything for it at all, I’d take it.
No_Entertainment1931 on
I’d start at free and work my way down
AVerG_chick on
The middleweight schwinns aren’t worth much tbh. Maybe 80$
sargassumcrab on
I would focus on finding a good owner, rather than how much it will go for. Maybe $200 tops?
Value tends to be a lot about who you can connect with. The nice things about the Schwinn are that it looks like it’s in very good condition and was kept inside (you even have the book). Generally speaking, not many people will want it. However, if someone is looking for that sort of thing, they will be very happy to find it, and might pay a bit more because of the condition.
I got an old cruiser like that one and was going to restore it, but it ended up in the trash to my eternal shame. Just like that one it was entirely original, the tires even worked. However, yours is in about 100 times better condition. Mine had lots of surface rust. It was a rim brake with 3 speed hub, and all the wire housings were completely dried and cracking. Yours is better looking too.
Ok_Summer5472 on
That Stumpy in the back is worth probably twice the Schwinn
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It’s really market dependent. That’s a 1960’s schwinn typhoon, just your run of the mill average cruiser. Nothing particularly special originally, no great components and older style mounting that makes it more difficult to convert to something newer.
The manual is cool, but something people have. It’s in nice shape as well. If you live in an area with a good vintage market and solid bicycle resales, it is basically functional, and the tires hold air, $100? $125? If you ever got a real $200 offer I would say take and run giggling.
If you’re in a place with a poor market it may be worth holding onto or transporting to a bigger city/listing another place. Where I am located, I saw an ad for two schwinn cruisers of about the same nick and a bit newer, both with good tires and tubes and both sat unsold for about a week at $15 dollars each, but we have a terrible bike market and can only use them a small portion of the year.
Keep your eyes open for the right collector and you’ll get a fair price.
That stumpjumper in the back is cool though, that’s a solid piece. Good riders bike, upgradable chassis, quality factory components. That’s the much better one of the two from a technical stance
Ask $300 & bottom at 250 for the highly desirable Stumpjumper, great colors, and if it’s ’21 or above, that’s another plus.
I built my first mountain bike out of a Typhoon. That brings back some memories!
If someone offered you anything for it at all, I’d take it.
I’d start at free and work my way down
The middleweight schwinns aren’t worth much tbh. Maybe 80$
I would focus on finding a good owner, rather than how much it will go for. Maybe $200 tops?
Value tends to be a lot about who you can connect with. The nice things about the Schwinn are that it looks like it’s in very good condition and was kept inside (you even have the book). Generally speaking, not many people will want it. However, if someone is looking for that sort of thing, they will be very happy to find it, and might pay a bit more because of the condition.
I got an old cruiser like that one and was going to restore it, but it ended up in the trash to my eternal shame. Just like that one it was entirely original, the tires even worked. However, yours is in about 100 times better condition. Mine had lots of surface rust. It was a rim brake with 3 speed hub, and all the wire housings were completely dried and cracking. Yours is better looking too.
That Stumpy in the back is worth probably twice the Schwinn