Late 80's/Early 90's (?) 58cm Schwinn Voyageur Touring Bike w/56cm top tube. Made in Japan by Bridgestone, for Schwinn, this bike has 27" wheels with new Club Roost Cross Terra tires (27 x 1 3/8") and would make and excellent touring rig or all day gravel grinder. This thing is in IMMACULATE condition. Forest Green paint.
$450
I can't believe no one has bought this sweet gem: 1988 RB-2. 53cm c-c, 53cm top tube. Pretty sweet condition, right dowwwn to the bio-pace chainrings. If this doesn't sell by the end of next week, it's getting converted to fixed gear, and the price will go up to prove it. Right now: $350.Happy Nü Metal Year Everybody.
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the ride is sweet, i need that schwinn, lets see if you can find me a 56cm w/56 tt.....or else i will build up the le tour, and cannibalize my rolling stock.
The Schwinn Voyageur went to bar end shifters starting in 1989, so your Voyageur predates that. I'm guessing it's an '87. You might find a Schwinn badge with a four digit number like "1037," which would translate to "103rd day of 1987" for the date of frame manufacture.
I bought my '88 Voyageur brand new off the dealer floor (in Minneapolis, as luck would have it) and have ridden nothing else since. It's a fabulous bike, and rides like modern touring bikes that cost $2,000 or more.
James Atkinson
Asheville, NC
My bad. The bar end shifters for the Voyageur appeared on the 1990 model, not the 1989 model, which still had braze-on shifter levers.
Also, 1988 and 1989 were the only model years to have both the braze-on shifters AND the Emerald Green paint. 1987 Voyageurs were Rose colored.
Thus, your bike is an '88 or '89, not an '87 as I originally had guessed.
Your crankset, red brake hoods, pedals, and some other components appear to be after-market additions. For what it's worth, the original cranksets on the '88 and '89 models are among the very few differentiators between the two products. '88 used Shimano New DCB-124 "Biopace" chainrings. The '89 used SR SXC-T310 chainrings.
Regardless of model year, it's a great bike.
James Atkinson
Asheville, NC
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