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Reply To: The Clarence Pickard Challenge

skb-mpls, January 29, 2023 at 12:26 pm

Hurray for you!
I had a Schwinn Varsity bike in the late 60’s and early 70’s. I delivered nearly 100 DesMoines Register every morning. That bike was quite a workhorse. It was terribly abused by me however. With the wire baskets full of Sunday papers – I would hop curbs instead of going up and down driveways etc…

My father took this bike to the Ames bike shop & the owner stated that that bike was the most abused bike he had ever seen.
Now I never hop curbs and avoid potholes at all cost. My Single Speed Fairdale Parser urban city bike I sold recently (for more money than I paid for it) had 15,000 miles on it & I had never had to true the wheels…
skb

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