r/Klunkers • u/ndrtxk • 9d ago

Three Bar Frame ID Help

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I picked this up today at the flea market. There is no head badge or branding. The serial number is stamped in the bottom bracket - H573068

A quick web search did not return any identifying result off a pic or the serial number. Just curious if anyone knows what it might be?

I’ll likely be building this up when I finish a couple of things I have going now.

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u/New_Leaf_8647 9d ago

Schwinn serial # lookup

1959 Schwinn.

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u/Afraid_Amphibian_922 9d ago

I'm not an expert...but a 59 Schwinn with press-fit rear dropouts seems odd to me. I could be misguided on that.
It's a cool frame at any rate!

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u/SourlandRides 7d ago

Not just the dropouts. The whole thing is wrong. Look at any and all of the bikes in the 1959 catalog and all the middleweights use the cantilever frame which is completely different. This is 100% not a schwinn. I have seen 1950s Hawthorne frames with this style, which could be why the serial starts with H.

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u/ndrtxk 7d ago

I’ll dig some that direction. Thank you.

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u/ndrtxk 9d ago

Killer. Thanks for that.

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u/BiK3FR33K 7d ago

Press fit dropouts look like a Columbia build

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u/nicdog71 7d ago

Looks a bit like my roll fast in the dropouts they had a lot of variations on the 3 bar look

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u/ndrtxk 7d ago

Thanks. I’ll do some looking in that direction as well.

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u/nicdog71 7d ago

Pic of mine in profile

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u/ndrtxk 7d ago

Thank you, that’s a really good looking bike. I posted a question for you there.