Well I stand corrected too! So I guess for 62 and 63 an Ashtabula BB Superior existed.
Someone with energy could make a big chart of these mid line fluctuations over the years between gas-pipe, cro-mo; fillet brazed, welded or lugged; Ashtabula or "continental" (threaded) bb; and the various "lightweight" brand names. Superior, World, New World, Continental, Sierra, Sport (or Sports?) Tourer ...
Joe B-Z
GNNJ
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:42 PM Subject: Now Schwinn Superior
> I agree with Bruce. I don't know of a Superior without a threaded BB.
>
> I think this model name went back to the 1890s and was Schwinns top
> lightweight until the Paramount and then represent the second US built
line
> in many incarnations. It seemed to come and go in the model line. The
> Schwinn World or New World would be the model with an Ashtabula crank In
the
> early 50's, even the Continental had a threaded BB.
>
> My wife has a Superior from about 1975. For some reason they changed the
> Sport Tourer name to Superior for those last few years.
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Schrader" <bcschrader@yahoo.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:54 PM
> Subject: [CR]Re: Paramount Quality
>
>
> > My memory says that all Schwinn Superiors, whether
> > fillet brazed or lugged had threaded bottom brackets
> > and three piece cranks. The fillet brazed Super
> > Sports used straight gage cromo tubing and one piece
> > cranks (steel, forged, Astabula).
> >
> > Bruce Schrader
> > San Francisco
> >
> > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:33:39 EDT
> > From: DavidS4410@aol.com
> > To: monkeylad@mac.com, sterling@tns.net
> > Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: Re: [CR]Paramount Quality
> > Hi Brandon,
> > In regard to Schwinn Superiors, are you talking about
> > the late
> > 50s-early 60s
> > version
> > with the filet brazed cromo frame and one piece crank,
> > or the later 80s
> > version with nervex lugs and 531 tubing.
> > Dave Staub
> > Orange, Ca
> >
> >
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