Schwinn TWINN tandem makeover
1 year, 11 months ago.
Tarbell has been working on her for a few months now, and she’s gone from beater/basketcase to beautiful bicycle. Truly a wondrous transformation from rustbucket to droolicious bicycle-built-for-two.
Behold Eloise, the Schwinn TWINN tandem. Custom paint, new running gear, re-chromed cranks, Shimano 7-speed hub gearing, and custom reproduction badges.
If you have an old classic in the garage, bring her in and we’ll see what we can do to get her rolling again.
Single Speed conversions are happening now! There’s life after death for these old steeds! Who says hot rods have to run V-8’s? Not US!
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hi i have an old schwinn le- tour 12 spd that i am restoreing the serial number is on the left rear drop out which numbers in the serial number would tell me that year the bike is also when was the le-tour 12 spd first made
thankyou
vince gibson
i am rebuilding one now, its a two speed kick back. Yours looks great. I would eventually like to replace the fenders and seats, as well as the stickers, mine are almost all off!
any idea where i can get these?
thanks
jim
What a beautiful job!
I too have an old Schwinn Twinn with the 2-speed kick-back and (like Jim Torrey – above) I would need fenders, seats and stickers to restore mine. Most of the chrome/unpainted metal is also rusted a bit and there are a couple of spokes missing.
I’d love to just bring the bike to you guys and have you do create an “Eloise” with mine (especially with more speeds), but I suspect the cost would be beyond what I could justify. Faced with the prospect of doing this myself, any guidance, suggestions, info you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much,
Richard
Richard, we will be happy to help you realize your dreams. Bring in your bike and we can talk budget with you… Anything from a quick tuneup and new tires, to a complete teardown and rebuild, to a full retromodstoration. We don’t really do concours restoration… we prefer to use better-than-original components to make the bike safer, lower maintenance, and more fun to ride.
Eloise is a retromod: pretty much the only things that are original are the frame, fork and cranks.
If you just want some advice, surf over to our bicycle maintenance forum, sign up, and begin asking questions by starting a few discussions.