[CR]On topic....but otherwise exceptional:

Take a look at list member (on hiatus) Rick Chasteen's Schwinn stiff gear.

http://www.63xc.com/rickc/super.htm

It's been described as Darth Vader-like. Black Maverick seems like a good name for it.

I ridden it a couple of times and it is a pleasure.

The Schwinn cantilever frame production goes back to 1938. I wonder if Henry Meyer and the 30's Schwinn team ever got a wild hair to set up something like this.

Calvert Guthrie
Kansas City