An Unstable Mind

My Schwinn Continental

So there I am, pumping air into the tire of my new continental, which by the way, appears to be a 74, not a 73, and is in Chestnut not sunrise. The tires looked good and fairly new, just somewhat flat.  So I'm pumping away, headed to 80 lbs (its a 75-90lb tire) and POW!!!  Of course I was on the phone talking and was completely unprepared for it.  Apparently the tube was original, but the tire was not.  Eh, after changing my shorts, I was fine.  It seems a trip to the bike shop is due soon, I am out of tires, and tubes.

Little Green Varsity

It may not look bad now, but the polishing was already started.

My youngest daughter adopted the green Schwinn varsity that I found in the farmers pile mentioned in an earlier post.  A lot of surface rust on the rims and chrome.  some nicks and scratches, bad tires, porous tubes, and the original chain ring was bent.  We dug out another varsity, a brown one that was in the same pile, only slightly larger frame, and began swapping the good for the bad.  She polished the parts up with steel wool, and I serviced the bottom bracket and headset.