From Evan Sultanik

Finally finished my Schwinn!

A couple months ago I found a Schwinn Sprint in the trash. The story on how I found it is available here. Since then, I have stripped it of all its unnecessary parts and converted it to a fixed gear. I now use it as a rain/beater bike when I don’t want to use my IRO Mark V. Here’s a “before” picture:

and here’s an “after” picture:

You can click on each of the pictures to see higher resolution versions, in addition to other pictures. Today I was riding the Schwinn, since it was raining all day. This morning I was in the middle of a skid when, abruptly, the right toe strap broke! This caused my foot to fly off the pedal, something that is pretty bad on a fixed gear bike, not to mention during a skid. Luckily I had some room to slow down and come to a stop. Here’s a picture of the broken strap:

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