Bike info needed
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SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
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- London
The general appearance and one-piece steel cranks combined with a welded frame suggest a fairly cheap import bike from the 80's or 90's. Could be a perfectly good ride, but looks pretty unremarkable.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
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- Accra, Ghana
I'm guessing you're in the US. The name MXL means nothing to me but maybe some of our stateside cousins might have an idea.
The one piece crank suggests a make and price point similar to Huffy.
The one piece crank suggests a make and price point similar to Huffy.
That is what i would like to know
classic33
Leg End Member
Columbus made the MXL tubing, MXL made bicycles. Sometimes using MXL tubing.
Any other details visible on the headtube decal? It doesn't match the frame.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
As with @Cycleops , I would venture to guess that is a Columbia- built five speed, along the lines of a Sears Free Spirit. It could also be a Huffy. Sears and other department stores bought bicycles mostly from Columbia and Huffy to re-brand with their name. Besides Sears, who sold bicycles under J.C. Higgins, Ted Williams, and Free Spirit Names at different times, also J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward, Coast to Coast, and other stores had this arrangement, although Sears also had some buy-up models made by Puch, and during the bicycle boom they all had Italian made bicycles, including K-Mart, which had an All-Pro with red, white, and green labeling, instead of red, white and blue labeling, which I believe was made by Chiorda. But this appears to be a basic trade model 5 speed, built to a price point. Reliable, simple, but ungodly heavy and slow. I believe it to be a Columbia, because of the patterns of holes on the dork disc (spoke guard). It could also be a Murray, but they usually didn't have as much rebranding as Columbia and Huffy.
i did not see anything
BalkanExpress
Legendary Member
- Location
- Brussels
Pushing it a bit
Back to the OP, it looks to have the makings of a fine around town bike. If possible Throw on a front porteur rack and enjoy.
classic33
Leg End Member
Used Columbus MXL tubing, made by a company who made a few with that tubing.Pushing it a bit
Back to the OP, it looks to have the makings of a fine around town bike. If possible Throw on a front porteur rack and enjoy.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
I'm guessing this is a 1020 steel, allied with MXL in name only.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
That doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly good bicycle, capable of doing anything a bicycle does. What size are the tires? 26" decimal, or 26" fractional? That could eventually be the deal killer. 26" fractional tires(26x1 1/4, 26x1 1 1/2 may be quite harder to come by than 26 x1.5. The rim sizes are different.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/26.html
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/26.html
