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Found this 98 Factory XT for sale. It’s far away from me, so I’ve got a friend picking it up and delivering it to me next month. Seller was gracious enough to allow my friend to pick it up and pay for it for me. I would’ve preferred a Red/Gold or Red/Silver Factory, but this was a good price, and the right size too.
I can’t wait to get it.
Found this 98 Factory XT for sale. It’s far away from me, so I’ve got a friend picking it up and delivering it to me next month. Seller was gracious enough to allow my friend to pick it up and pay for it for me. I would’ve preferred a Red/Gold or Red/Silver Factory, but this was a good price, and the right size too.
I can’t wait to get it.
Looks great. The picture to the left is my 99 Factory Suspension XT. EVERYTHING on it is still stock and rides great. There are some bigger pictures of it on the “Homegrowns Spotted” Forum.
My friend sent me some pictures. The paint has a bunch of chips in it. And it could use new decals (if I could find em, all I really need is some downtube “Schwinn”). But for $350, I think it’s a decent deal.
If you’re talking about these:
They’re close, but not an exact match. The decals in the auction measure 10.5″ x 1″, and the decals on a Homegrown measure around 12 1/4″ x 3/4″.
I’m going to try to bring my 4 Banger frame (same decal) to a graphics place and see if they can reproduce it, as it has a silver border too. If they can’t do it I’ll probably end up using those. I’m a stickler for originality.
I should be getting the bike next week!
Sometimes you can find the BMX sticker sets floating around on eBay. I remember seeing a silver and blue set that would look really good on your bike. I found this gold set a while back:
That looks good. I called my local sticker place, and they said they can only makes stickers from files. The don’t scan or do any sort of graphics design. I have all the stickers except for the downtube, so I’ll be scanning those and getting some quotes from them. I don’t expect them to be cheap, they have a minimum order and it goes by the total footage of the decal material, not quantity.
I may buy some downtube decals from ebay, scan them, and then do some photoshoping to get it close to what was on the Homegrowns. I may also just try taking a picture of the one on my 4 Banger and see how that will turn out, as it’s the same color.
Bike should be here any day now.
You just reminded me that I think I’ve got Schwinn logos as .eps (Adobe Illustrator) files. They’re vector illustrations so you can scale them up or down, depending on whatever size you need. I’ll doodle around some this weekend to see if I can come up with something reasonable looking.
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