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Re: Image comments for My 1981 Schwinn, fully restored.
Posted by: 90130_
Date: 31/07/2012 05:14AM
My younger brothers and I all got Schwinn "Krates" one Christmas....1968 I think. These had the 5 speed gear shift on the top tube, ape hanger handlebars, and springer front forks. They were the so called muscle bikes of the time with plenty of imitators from other brands. Schwinn and other manufacturers stopped putting top tube mounted gear shifters on kid's bikes in 1975 thanks to a mandate by the Consumer Product Safety Commission due to unsubstantiated reports of youngsters hanging their nuts on 'em when they bailed. All bullshit overeaching by a government agency's safety-crats.
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