The bottom bracket on some of these bikes can break during use, causing the rider to lose control, posing a fall and crash hazards to the user. For EU and UK, please contact your Marin dealer. A custom color is expensive as they have to buy the paint and mix it.Due to privacy concerns, only US and Canadian dealers/consumers are allowed to use this online form to submit claims. Be flexible on the color and live with a color that is going on a car.
It is hard to paint like pro (with a booth). If you leave any rust it will eventually bubble through the paint. They will tell you if you got all the rust.
When (if) it comes paint time consider a car paint shop where they have a real paint booth and professional paint. If you could restore THAT bike that would be cool.īased on a comment to your own answer you trying a restore. Yes you may have more than just surface rust here but it would only take an hour to find out. If you can sand to bare metal by hand in a few minutes then you only have surface rust. If inside looks OK then hit the worst rust with 600 sand paper. If you have rust from the inside then give up. Pull the seat and fork and see if it is rusted from the inside. Pull the rear wheel and check the dropout - if bad give up. To me it is worth seeing how bad that frame is. Stuff that is definitely bad you can most likely replace: wheels, fork, headset, handle bars, crank, seat post and seat. Would an expert agree on the likelihood of this bike being a 1956/57 Schwinn Spitfire?ĭoes anyone know about this Komet Super denotation? so I would assume that the bike was built in the Fall of 56, sent to a local hardware/farm storm where it sat for a year in inventory and picked up that next fall/winter. My mother in law was given the bike at 6 or 7 years of age.
Built: 09/06 to 09/07 of 1956.Ģ - The only example I can find of a Top Tube connected to the down tube with a Welded tube (I am unsure of the term used to identify this) was on a '57 Spitfire. The M0D502 serial renders this on the Schwinn Cruisers Website.īuilt: 08/13 to 08/23 of 1954 or. I have come to this conclusion on two parts. From what I can tell the bike seems to be a 1956/1957 Schwinn Spitfire Ladies - Model F71c.īelow is a 1956 Schwinn Spitfire - Model F71c. When I arrived home from work I flipped the bike over, got some of the serial numbers. Thank you for all of your help and encouragement. look the Schwinn again and that distinction will come alive for you. the Murray frame extends about two inches to a point, beyond the drop-out slot. I've a zillion Schwinn and a few Murray bikes. frame joints and even tubing size are not Schwinn work or design. the blue example with basket is right on.Ī Schwinn? NO WAY. Murray was ONE of the manufacturers of Sears JC Higgins badged bikes. The man above who ID'd your bike as a JC HIGGINS sold by Sears was telling you correct.
check out late 1950s to 1960s catalogs for the 5 digit model number that's between MOD and the lower larger serial number. the factory was removed from Ohio and located in Tenn. Serial number on bottom bracket means before 1965.
Your serial number description STATES that this is a "Murray of Ohio" manufactured bike.