Old bike finds:

KChurch86

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So my coworker came up to me and said his brother was in the process of cleaning some stuff out and he had a couple old bikes. He showed me a couple pictures that peaked my interest so today we went up and I came home with 3 of the 5 bikes he had.

One was an unknown road bike, probably early 1980's, no ID left on the thing anywhere - I passed that one up.

The second was an Elgin, girls bike, looked complete. There was no way to get to it though, it was buried in the back of an Astro Van destined for the shredder. I wanted to dig it out and snag it, but there was just no way to get it out without taking out a ton and a half of other scrap metal (which included lots of other bike parts... :( ) so I had to pass up the Elgin as well.

Here's what I did come home with:

An incomplete New Departure rear hub:

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A skiptooth crank/chainring, with bearings but no cups:

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This Ross Armstrong:

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It's got a Schwinn Messinger seat on it:

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Nice front rack:

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Sturmey Archer 3 speed:

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Also this Schwinn:

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And also this unknown girls bike:

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Pretty thick repaint:

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Front blackout hub:

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I'm probably going to sell these, either whole or piece by piece. I may hang on to one of the 3-speed hubs/shifters for use on one of my vintage project bikes, but the rest will likely be sent to new homes.
 
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