In the bottom bracket photo above you can see the threads are pretty rusty and dry, I cleaned them and gave them a quick re-tapping since, they look much better.Īt this point I started work on the water bottle cage bosses. Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame Polished - Decal Removed Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame Polished - Seat Lug Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame Polished - Bottom Bracket Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame Before - Bottom Bracket Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame Before - Drop Outs Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Frame - Before Polishing For how much the decals flaked of what remains is extremely stubborn, they should have made the entire decal the way they made the remaining! The paint polished very nice, there are a lot of scrapes and chips though. The decals are shot and are going to be removed. I actually like the gold, back in 1984 when I was 7 or 8 someone in the neighborhood got a new Corvette this same color and I thought it was the most beautiful car I have seen, not so much now though. For now it will stay the dark gold color maybe in the future a matte black or raw look. The frame paint is in okay shape and dirty. Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Original Handlebars - Before Schwinn Le Tour Luxe - Rear Rack - Before I am very excited to work on this Le Tour, touring bicycles are my favorite and making this a better tourer will be fun. Lastly maybe bar end shift levers will be installed if I can find some older friction levers for a good price, it is not easy to find them at a good price and new bar end shift levers are for 9 and ten speed rears and run in the hundreds of dollars. It took some effort to find a 21.1 mm riser stem but did find one. The riser handlebars will be replaced with the original drop bars and a new riser stem. For now the frame will receive matte black paint in the areas of the brazing and will be decided later if the whole frame will go matte black. The rear rack is an original Jim Blackburn rack that will be painted matte black to match the front touring rack. The second modification is brazes on the fork for the front rack, currently it has a u-bolt to hold the front rack on. The down tube already has water bottle cage brazes. The first modification is a water bottle cage brazes on the seat tube to replace the clamp version. This Schwinn Le Tour Luxe is getting a restoration and some modifications to make it better for touring. I loved that bicycle and had multiple, multiple, ten of thousands of miles on it and for some stupid reason I sold it some time ago. We all have a favorite bike that is just right in some way. It is Pat's favorite bicycle, he has toured Ireland with it.
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