It somewhat gives legitimacy to some of the crazy designs we see today - Canyon's Grail bars & Cannondale's single tube forks come to mind. This was likely a very innovative bike for the time, proving that some designers are always trying to provide customers with something they didn't know they wanted.
Nice! Imagine how 80 years from now they going to see today's bicycles. Can you imagine how much room for improvement might be out there? ...... great vid Kev. I Love bikes, all types and you sure don't discriminate them 👍is a great thing......and yes take it for spin.
Yeeeea ive been waiting for a new bike vid! I wanna see you de-rust it and rehaul it. RJ, i mean Kev the bike guy! Amazing bike id have it in my living room as decoration after rehaul and ride it on weekends :)
Damn! That looks like an awesome design! With the seattubeless design I imagine this would be an extremely comfortable bike to ride! And I really, really wonder how this frame design would hold up today and I think you'd be the perfect person to check it out! So, yeah, I really hope you manage to give this one a go!
Oh you have to go ride that. We need to see it going down the road. I got to be honest if it weren't so close to Christmas I'd buy that and restore it. Cool bike.
When you go back and look at the "historical" prices for entry bicycles they all run around $400-600 in todays money. Specialtiy bikes like Tandems typically ran $2500-$3500. This is what changed my mind about "entry level" bicycle pricing.
I recently bought a 63’ Murray sky bolt 64 for 20 dollars and I am rebuilding it. Old bikes are so fun and look great!!!!! I recommend you buy a old bike to fix up too.
KevCentral fair comment Kev but I'd still love to see u ride and review your riding experience as u do with your big box bikes. It would show how cycling has changed over the years. 😊 Cheers, Shakkers 🇬🇧
Very nice bike. I'd throw my hat into the ring with a guess about those two front metal arms - they might be some sort of dampening, since they remind me of suspension on the old timey motorcycles of the era. Or, maybe they held some sort of light, or just fender supports. Interesting to try and guess, very interesting bike.
Well Kev U know U want to ride it, and could blame U, but maybe only a quick ride. One look tells me that it needs "TLoC" truck load of care. Man would I like to bust my knuckles on that. As far as the 2 front fork tubes, I believe they were a decorative addition with a nod to the girder forks found on some of the Indian mc's of the era. Of course I could be wr...wro...wrong, oh that hurt...😎
I like how you went with vintage if you want to ride it but at the same time preserve it clean and rebuild it i would swap the rims single wall steelies bend easily so riding those wouldnt be the best idea i would put the rims aside and not try any jumps or off road
I got a 1956 Columbia torpedo that’s a girls model, and everything is original except the trotes and the chain and I go the chain about 6 months ago and the tires a year and a half ago, I also rode on the original tires and chain for 6 years
The inflation calculators shouldn't be taken seriously because numbers after (about) 1970 are just completely useless and hugely underestimate the rate of inflation. In fact, if you look at prices for 1969, you should at least double whatever the inflation adjusted price claims to be. This was a time when Gold was $35/oz and Silver was $1 per oz! If you use gold, divide the original price by 35 and then multiply it by the current price of gold, though a 10 year average is probably better.
Lovely bike! I bet that frame is fairly springy! Better ride it Might give you inspiration to design similar for a 10 speed cruiser with modern alloys!
It ain't old, it's just cheap. Look at the budget shifters on the tops of the handlebars. Those disc brakes are factory, the frame is made to take them, but the bike is just a budget bike, walmart quality at best, pretending to be a modern road bike in hopes they'll sell a few to some suckers.
Get the friggin bike I personally own a 1976 Puch Jungmeister city bike with a torpedo&sachs 3 speed internal gear hub. Use it for commuting and bad weather riding. Even did a double century on it.
That thing being 60lbs sounds awful, but mainly because it doesn't look like it has the wheel size to really capitalize on the weight. I have a 60+lb fat bike from sears. I've upgraded the heck out of it, noseless saddle, bmx bars, toe clip pedals, a rear rack, and 26x4.0 Duro Fleetwood road tires. I have a new sealed bottom bracket coming in the next few days too. It's honestly really comfortable to ride over longer distances because it has so much inertia and absorbs all the road irregularies. Once up to a reasonable speed I don't have to keep my cadence up and can "rest" between moments of pedalling while in the saddle, still moving. It also flies down hills. The only real disadvantage is that hills above a certain steepness rapidly slow me to a crawl, and I can't do any fancy wheelies or jumps.
@@KevCentral yes it was meant for a streamline shroud that went where those three holes are and wrapped around the upper part of the bottom bracket where the cranks are and also too the chain guard is not for that bike that chain guard belongs to a pre-war 19 34 to 1936 Schwinn the front and rear hubs those pins are meant to be as art deco and cooling fins and also to the frame was designed with the two top tubes was meant to give the Ryder some comfort.
Growing up, my dad bought each of his four sons one bicycle. Each of us got a Schwinn Racer. It's a steel frame 26" wheel with a 3-speed Sturmey Archer hub. In the early 60's that Schwinn sold for $59.95. Included fenders, caliper brakes and a sweeping flat handlebar. I rode that bike all the way through college. I wonder what it would sell for if you could find one?
Hey Kev I was wondering what happened to the Schwinn cutback. I've checked Walmart and the Schwinn website and found nothing, I was kind disappointed that it's no longer for sale and hoping you could make a video about it. P.S. I was really hoping to get that bike because it looked like a good bang for the buck.
the hoods on that road bike lol, 17 seconds in and i question the banana fingers that had of owned it. those hoods are so tilted to the sky i thought that bike was praying
There were decent bikes being made then. Remember, that this a kid's bike. This was back when everything was made in America. Almost nothing being made today is going to be around in 50 years,, let alone 80. This was still true in my childhood. But by the time I was a teen in the 80s, more and more stuff was being imported and the quality of just about everything began going down hill. Cheap department store bikes weren't complete junk.
You know what to do Kev, take it to the trails!
Now you have to ride MTB trails on that beast!!
I vote..give it a ride.....should be fun.
I don't think many of the Walmart bikes will be around in 80 years. Thanks for doing a video on this interesting bike.
I would love to see a video of it being restored!!
Of course please ride it, I would love to see this bike back to live. That will be top👍
Somebody please buy it and restore it. Beautiful frame...
Thanks for the upload. This reminded me of a time when, I too lubed my chains with used engine oil
I would love to own a bike this old, beauty piece of history
I own one of these bikes and getting ready to restore. It was my father's bike from the 1930's and the first bike I learned to ride in the 1950's.
you... must... RIDE!!!
It somewhat gives legitimacy to some of the crazy designs we see today - Canyon's Grail bars & Cannondale's single tube forks come to mind. This was likely a very innovative bike for the time, proving that some designers are always trying to provide customers with something they didn't know they wanted.
Great vid Kev! Of course try it out!! Lol
Buy it and restore it
That would be awesome
I can see Frank and Mike loading up that beauty in the back of the Antique Archaeology van
That's a cool bike I have a 1970s mirage race bike which my dad used to have and now I restored it after being abandoned in our garage for 30-40 years
Nice! Imagine how 80 years from now they going to see today's bicycles. Can you imagine how much room for improvement might be out there? ...... great vid Kev. I Love bikes, all types and you sure don't discriminate them 👍is a great thing......and yes take it for spin.
80 years from now all our modern bikes will likely have biodegraded. Thanks for the comment.
Wow that's a keeper it would be a labor of love to bring that to its former glory.
There is a place up by two harbors MN where a guy finds those and puts motors on them then sells them. Awesome fun.
Yeeeea ive been waiting for a new bike vid! I wanna see you de-rust it and rehaul it. RJ, i mean Kev the bike guy! Amazing bike id have it in my living room as decoration after rehaul and ride it on weekends :)
Damn! That looks like an awesome design! With the seattubeless design I imagine this would be an extremely comfortable bike to ride! And I really, really wonder how this frame design would hold up today and I think you'd be the perfect person to check it out! So, yeah, I really hope you manage to give this one a go!
Elgin! That's 5he town where I live! We used to also make watches here, they too are now collectors items
Is it pronounced Elgin or Eljin? In Ottawa we pronounce it with a hard G.
Oh you have to go ride that. We need to see it going down the road. I got to be honest if it weren't so close to Christmas I'd buy that and restore it. Cool bike.
When you go back and look at the "historical" prices for entry bicycles they all run around $400-600 in todays money. Specialtiy bikes like Tandems typically ran $2500-$3500. This is what changed my mind about "entry level" bicycle pricing.
I recently bought a 63’ Murray sky bolt 64 for 20 dollars and I am rebuilding it. Old bikes are so fun and look great!!!!! I recommend you buy a old bike to fix up too.
Ride it! I have a 1968 Schwinn 3 speed.
That's insanely cool. Buy it!
Its cool get it ride it
That bike is a gem 💎
Man that thing is a beast but a beautiful one at that I love these old bikes especially this one since its so "Aero" like everything else in the 30s.
Definitely ride it. Would be an experience
Now that is a sexy bike, love the cruisers.
Buy it!
Buy it!
Upgrade it!
Ride it!
That is super cool than any bike today
Wowed on this 38 twin bar seat adjustment. 👍👀
That art deco fender will actually catch more water than a flat one. Form and function, baby.
Dont let RJ see this or its gone
That’s awesome!
Edit: Kev thanks for hearting my comment!
Buy it, that would be awesome
Deffinatly ride it! Awesome piece of nostalgia
you should totally ride that!
subscribed👍🏼like much of the elgin bluebird bike design😍cool vintage bike👏🏻
This would be a great restoration project. I'd really like to see you take it on AND make you a profit on reselling!
I don’t have access to everything it would take to properly restore it.
KevCentral fair comment Kev but I'd still love to see u ride and review your riding experience as u do with your big box bikes. It would show how cycling has changed over the years. 😊 Cheers, Shakkers 🇬🇧
Cool old bike! Take it for a ride, old bikes just have a cool feel to them!
I think it would be more of a collector's item I don't think I would ride it not knowing how rusted the inside the frame could be
want to see you fix the whole bike and ride it! it will be a kickass video!
Very nice bike. I'd throw my hat into the ring with a guess about those two front metal arms - they might be some sort of dampening, since they remind me of suspension on the old timey motorcycles of the era. Or, maybe they held some sort of light, or just fender supports. Interesting to try and guess, very interesting bike.
Very cool... Would like to see someone restore this
Buy it
ride it for sure
Defenetly try to ride it and film it, this thing looks beautiful!
Well Kev U know U want to ride it, and could blame U, but maybe only a quick ride. One look tells me that it needs "TLoC" truck load of care. Man would I like to bust my knuckles on that. As far as the 2 front fork tubes, I believe they were a decorative addition with a nod to the girder forks found on some of the Indian mc's of the era. Of course I could be wr...wro...wrong, oh that hurt...😎
Buy it and ride it!
Ride it! I don't know if I'd take a cool piece like that on mountain bike trails or not, although it looks basically bullet proof, lol.
I like how you went with vintage if you want to ride it but at the same time preserve it clean and rebuild it i would swap the rims single wall steelies bend easily so riding those wouldnt be the best idea i would put the rims aside and not try any jumps or off road
I would love to see this being restored (without taking away it's old bike charm ofc haha).
I got a 1956 Columbia torpedo that’s a girls model, and everything is original except the trotes and the chain and I go the chain about 6 months ago and the tires a year and a half ago, I also rode on the original tires and chain for 6 years
Beautiful bike!
The inflation calculators shouldn't be taken seriously because numbers after (about) 1970 are just completely useless and hugely underestimate the rate of inflation. In fact, if you look at prices for 1969, you should at least double whatever the inflation adjusted price claims to be. This was a time when Gold was $35/oz and Silver was $1 per oz! If you use gold, divide the original price by 35 and then multiply it by the current price of gold, though a 10 year average is probably better.
Reminds me of my brother's old bike I rode uphill (the whole way) on my paper route when I was a kid.
It looks so cool!
Buy it!!!! Restore!
id love to restore this thing! really cool!
Yes, definitely get it
That classic was made to be ridden. If you can without damaging it you must. Ride it
And usually those who wait and decide to go back to get it it's usually gone for waiting too long
Buy it ride it and love it
Oh come on Kev you know you want to ride it!!!!!
Lovely bike!
I bet that frame is fairly springy!
Better ride it
Might give you inspiration to design similar for a 10 speed cruiser with modern alloys!
Ride it, ride it, ride it, RIDE IT!
ah man that older ancheer looks cool.
and someone put disks on it
It ain't old, it's just cheap. Look at the budget shifters on the tops of the handlebars. Those disc brakes are factory, the frame is made to take them, but the bike is just a budget bike, walmart quality at best, pretending to be a modern road bike in hopes they'll sell a few to some suckers.
@@Metal-Possum yep right you are
Get the friggin bike
I personally own a 1976 Puch Jungmeister city bike with a torpedo&sachs 3 speed internal gear hub. Use it for commuting and bad weather riding. Even did a double century on it.
The double frame structure flex could inspire the modern bike ,kinda like hardtail expanded all the way through
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That thing being 60lbs sounds awful, but mainly because it doesn't look like it has the wheel size to really capitalize on the weight. I have a 60+lb fat bike from sears. I've upgraded the heck out of it, noseless saddle, bmx bars, toe clip pedals, a rear rack, and 26x4.0 Duro Fleetwood road tires. I have a new sealed bottom bracket coming in the next few days too. It's honestly really comfortable to ride over longer distances because it has so much inertia and absorbs all the road irregularies. Once up to a reasonable speed I don't have to keep my cadence up and can "rest" between moments of pedalling while in the saddle, still moving. It also flies down hills. The only real disadvantage is that hills above a certain steepness rapidly slow me to a crawl, and I can't do any fancy wheelies or jumps.
Yes buy it
Sweet dude. Nice vid.
dude I wonder how much this thing weights, very cool
Cool bike
Man, you scored!
I didn’t actually buy it. Just saw it at a shop and took a look.
Bikes are made to be ridden, ride that bastard!
One of the first bmx
Nice, relatively complete old bike! I wonder if those extra holes were for a motor kit?
I think they were for the shroud that was originally around the bottom bracket.
@@KevCentral yes it was meant for a streamline shroud that went where those three holes are and wrapped around the upper part of the bottom bracket where the cranks are and also too the chain guard is not for that bike that chain guard belongs to a pre-war 19 34 to 1936 Schwinn the front and rear hubs those pins are meant to be as art deco and cooling fins and also to the frame was designed with the two top tubes was meant to give the Ryder some comfort.
Nice brother
No seat tube. That is wild!!!
Try it😁😁
Thats a nice bike
Bye it it will be worth it put some ace kit Jessicas on cant wait
Ha!
That is so cool!
Growing up, my dad bought each of his four sons one bicycle. Each of us got a Schwinn Racer. It's a steel frame 26" wheel with a 3-speed Sturmey Archer hub. In the early 60's that Schwinn sold for $59.95. Included fenders, caliper brakes and a sweeping flat handlebar. I rode that bike all the way through college. I wonder what it would sell for if you could find one?
My favorite bicycle i ride everywhere is a 1937 ccm with 29 inch wheels. I am 17
New daily commuter? Restoration project? Another bike for the collection? All three? Let’s hope so!
Ha!
Hey Kev I was wondering what happened to the Schwinn cutback. I've checked Walmart and the Schwinn website and found nothing, I was kind disappointed that it's no longer for sale and hoping you could make a video about it. P.S. I was really hoping to get that bike because it looked like a good bang for the buck.
the hoods on that road bike lol, 17 seconds in and i question the banana fingers that had of owned it. those hoods are so tilted to the sky i thought that bike was praying
They are wonky for sure
buy it
There were decent bikes being made then. Remember, that this a kid's bike.
This was back when everything was made in America. Almost nothing being made today is going to be around in 50 years,, let alone 80. This was still true in my childhood. But by the time I was a teen in the 80s, more and more stuff was being imported and the quality of just about everything began going down hill.
Cheap department store bikes weren't complete junk.
Toss a 4 stroke kit on it and no hill would stop you on that.
I ride all the bikes in my collection including my 1981 mongoose supergoose
AWESOME!!!
Ride it Kevin!!
I prefer riding my Priority 600 😁
Pre war bikes are very valuable. With a little tlc you can easily double your money.