Not sure the bike is even a schwinn.  could be a JC Higgins, Monarch, etc.
You might post in the schwinnbike collector's forum for expert opinions on older schwinns.
http://www.schwinnbike.com/usa/eng/forums/

Rick


At 09:31 PM 7/2/2009, you wrote:

thanks Steve, I was thinking that too.  And i thought the chain was pre 50's  Guess i will try to get a Ser# off it,  the stem too says Schwinn.  What suprised me was it rode nice, very smooth.  The fork does looks like a replacement fork
Gary

----- Original Message -----

From: Steve Birmingham

To: Bicycle_Restoration@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:55 PM

Subject: RE: [Bicycle_Restoration] Mystery bike

It looks very schwinn like to me, although the fork isn’t what I’d expect. There’s a couple places with decent serial # decoding for Schwinns

to tell the year.

The inch pitch chain is mostly pre WWII, but there were ½ inch pitch chains back into the teens at least, and some inch pitch chains used into the 1960’s

And old stock inch pitch track rings were only put on clearance by one distributor in about 2002. So lots of overlap.

But a balloon tire bike with inch pitch is likely pre 1950, and more likely 1930’s

Steve B

From: Bicycle_Restoration@yahoogroups.com [ mailto:Bicycle_Restoration@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary

Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 05:42 PM

To: Bicycle_Restoration@yahoogroups.com

Cc: RICHARD HERNANDEZ

Subject: [Bicycle_Restoration] Mystery bike

Here is the only bike i have found this year, pickin's are getting tough.  any help on what it might be?

it does have the old style chain, what years did they change to the modern style?

Gary

http://yfrog.com/7246604571j

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5552/46604571.jpg

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