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  • #513
    blue72beetle
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    Got myself a 99 Banger now! It’s pretty rough, but has some good parts on it. I’m getting that frame from 2manyschwins, so it’ll get a huge makover.

    That brings the total to 3.5 Homegrowns.

    Got myself a 99 Banger now! It’s pretty rough, but has some good parts on it. I’m getting that frame from 2manyschwins, so it’ll get a huge makover.

    That brings the total to 3.5 Homegrowns.

    #2465
    blue72beetle
    Participant

    Got my new frame from 2manyschwinns today. It looks sweet, and with my red 2000 frame, I should have enough parts for at least 2 Bangers. Here’s a new group shot.

    #2466

    I guess you cant have TOO MANY.

    #2471
    blue72beetle
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    Heh, I’d like to get a couple more. A 98 or 99 Factory hardtail (Red/Silver or Red/Gold please), and the Green 98 Sweet Spot.

    Of course that would only be a collection of 98 and 99 Homegrowns. I think the early bass boat blue and “Phantom” style paint jobs would round out the collection. I’ve never seen one of the Phantom styles before, only in the catalogs.

    Think 3 or 4 Homegrowns is too many? You should see my non-Homegrown Schwinns:

    http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/blue72beetle/Schwinn/?start=all

    #2472

    That 1998 homegrown is absolutely beautiful.all i have left is a 1998 MOAB 1 aluninum and a 2005 schwinn fastback pro.What is amazing i changed to a full carbon frame with all my Fastback parts and only lost a pound.Tha fastback was a great climber.I got the fastback to just under 19lbs by replacing the wheelset very inexpensively.Ive tried to sell the frame locally on CL but never even got a hit.Kinda wish i didnt switch the frames.(my wife has diagnosed me with bike ADD).The moab is a great bike that i picked up inexpensively.People see the schwinn name and Think of the wal-mart specials.It was kinda funny to see my roady group with their Madones and orbeas lose the sprint to the town lines.Passed by a schwinn.

    #2477
    CTB
    Member

    Blue, your HG4B is interesting.  Along the way, it looks like someone put the SID shock from an All Mountain version on it, as those shocks were only on the gold/silver frames with the dual-crown fork.  Your collection looks better than mine, that’s for sure.  I have three of my bikes reduced to a pile of parts at this point as I build up my UberBanger for next year.

     

    Our collections are remarkably similar – I have the same color Carbon Sweetspot, I have two blue HG Bangers, I have a red non-HG Banger, but instead of your nice HG hardtail, I have my 98 Moab.  Someday I’ll have an HG hardtail, though.  Just not yet.

    #2480
    blue72beetle
    Participant

    I noticed the weird build on this bike. Has an XTR front derailler (but only 1 chainring), and a regular Deore rear derailler. The higher end (supposedly) SID, and I can’t figure out what the front fork is. I don’t like the crank, if it’s a nice model let me know, because I have no idea. XT hubs, don’t know what the wheels are either. Hayes brakes. Chris Kind headset, which I like. I’ll be taking all my best parts too, and making a nice Banger, with the other two eventually becoming “Beater Bangers”

    I’ve found it interesting that of the three Bangers I have, two of the chainstays say ‘Lawwill’, one is blank. And two of the carbon swingarms have the ‘Easton’ square, one does not. I only wish at least one of them had the black dropouts.

    Speaking of the Gold/Silver frames, those things seem to be rare. I’ve only seen one picture of one, someone over on MTBR has it.

    #2481

    Sent you out a set of discs and front derraileur.VIA USPS.shipped on Monday

    #2482
    blue72beetle
    Participant

    You are awesome. Thanks man.

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