It's Friday, so that means it is time for
Coffee Brake: DT's weekly break from the mundane VW Eos and ElCamonda listings. This week I want to discuss pedal power...no...not pedal cars, but those two wheeled things called bicycles. I've owned and ridden many over the decades, starting when I was about 4 years old on a little red bike whose make/model has been lost to failed neurotransmitters. In my college years I rode a non-suspended Trek mountain bike for fun and commuting that is still somewhere in my garage. Later I picked up a Kona cross country full suspension bike (used, of course) that I used for weekly mountain biking and then I had a 90's Battaglin road bike.
Ford had the Model T. Volkswagen had the Beetle. And the Schwinn Bicycle Company of Chicago, Illinois had the Varsity. Like the other two, the Schwinn Varsity was not a very good bike itself, but Schwinn timed the market just right to when the boomers were transitioning from their banana seat bikes to "lightweight" European derailleur bikes. If you are of that boomer age, you either owned a Varsity or knew someone who did. Find this 1970's era Schwinn Varsity for sale in Lewiston, ID for $95 via craigslist.
