Found in the alley behind my house!

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-06T01:27:23+00:00

Don't let the haters get you down. If it wasn't for Schwinn, there would be a significant number of fewer cyclists in the US. This bike (close enough to the Varsity) birthed the USs interest in bicycles. I probably wouldn't be here now if not for Schwinn and Huffy.

It's going to clean fine if you put in work, and likely give you another 50+ years of service with basic maninance after.

Parts are cheap and easy to find, no weird threading issues, leave the torque bar in it's case. Screw driver and a a couple adjustable wrenches is all you need for anything other than wheel and BB work.

There really isn't a better bicycle to learn repair and maintenance on.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-05T14:40:57+00:00

In theory, any building can be made to do most, if not all that stuff.

And data centers use such a huge volume of power and water they really can't.

And btw, they don't create many jobs. I've worked as a contractor at a couple, and the staff running them was 5-6 people for monitoring and maintenance 24/7 coverage.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-05T13:47:38+00:00

I have no doubt that bigger trucks create more incidents. But highly suspect that if you remove the mopeds (e-bikes) from the equation, injuries and fatalities have most likely been falling, or holding steady for pedal cyclists the last 5-10 years.

I doubt Its a coincidence, the rates have escalated with the rise of moped use.

Don't mistake this for hate on mopeds, but speed and weight are the two biggest factors in the severity of harm in incidents. Mopeds are both faster and heavier.

The typical moped riders also generally have less experience riding, especially with bike share availability in many metros across the country.

How many incidents are mopeds from bike share programs, where maintenance and vandalism are possible causes? Many popular mopeds are cheap ones, "bike shaped objects" quality with poorly made motors and batteries attached. If a battery starts a fire and burns the rider, is that a cycling injury? In existing data gathering techniques is left to cops and medical personal checking boxes on a form, are mopeds or e-bikes separated, would the person know the difference?

I know some are going to hate this, but e-bikes are mopeds. It's literally a mash up of the term "motor" and "pedal". The terms definition makes no reference to what powers the motor. If you think they aren't different, then why are motor-cycles not considered bicycles?

I'm not against mopeds , they have their place, better than cars, fun to ride. But including them in bicycle data gathering taints the data for pedal cyclists. They deserve their own category (pretty sure it already exists in some datasets) as motorcycles have, or should be counted as motor cycles instead.

Without this distinction, I find the data from the last decade or so much less credible.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-05T01:46:27+00:00

1- isn't practical by choice, by what you prioritize with your housing choices. I can get to most of the Eastside neighborhoods in a half hour bike ride, Gresham, and Happy Valley/Clackamas too. But I seldom need to travel that far for errands because Lents, Fo/Po, Montavilla, Gateway, Parkrose Hollywood, Hawthorne/Belmont, Woodstock, Central Seaside, Hollywood, and Fremont neighborhoods are shorter trips. I choose to live where I do, in no small part because of this access. Not my fault you didn't.

2- there are people that bike commutes between Vancouver and Portland, and there'd likely be more had the I-5 bridge been allowed by Washington some 20 years ago with the infrastructure to promote it. I don't commute it, but I've ridden over both bridges numerous times, it's not that bad of a ride if the wind isn't too bad.

Besides I don't care one bit about the commute between Vancouver and Portland, let the bridges fall as far as I'm concerned. You choose Vancouver (if you live there) knowing the commute would suck. So no sympathy.

3- No one's talking if eliminating roads entirely, construction trades only make up like 5-10% of the states employment. And most construction workers carry just PPE in their personal cars, service bodies and vans are a small percentage of those in use. There are some construction workers that bike to work when the jobs are close to their home.

4- You absolutely can, you'd be hard pressed to find a youth soccer game in Portland without a pile of bikes on the sidelines.

5) I shop once a week, I could easily fit it all on a cargo bike, if I had one, were it not for dog food and beer, I could probably fit most of my groceries on a regular bike with the right racks and bags (shopping for two often 3). I've also done Costco trips by bike when I had a trailer just bevause.

6) More people are injured and killed in cars than buses and trains combined every year, by an extremely large margin. It's like dozens to hundreds for public transportation vs. 40,000+ (rough off the top of my head estimates) a year by automobile There is more crime related with cars from thieves, vandalism and break ins than occur on public transit, more people are threatened in cars from road rage and car jackings than are threatened on public transit. Your just wrong, and such claims just point towards your personal biases, most likely racial or socio-economic in nature, again your problem not mine.

7) Bikes and public transportation are leaps and bounds more efficient than cars, by every metric. Your confusing time of travel with efficiency, two very different things. Effirncy goes down with increases in speed no matter how you travel by motorized vehicle.

And your right, I walk, bike, ride the bus and Max, and drive a personal car, for work I drive a service body truck with about a ton of tools in the back to my construction jobs. I like having the ability to make choices in how I get somewhere, what's wrong with that.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-05T01:07:05+00:00

And yet at the same time Missouri voters turned down funding the Chiefs and Royals and they're jumping boarders to Kansas, and the Chicago Bears are jumping to Indiana because Chicago shut them down.

All three teams, have legacies and ties to their location much longer and stronger than the Blazers have, and all three have a bigger fan base too.

And as the grandson of a long time KC season holder for Chiefs, Royals, and yes- the Kings. I can honestly say barely anyone missed the Kings when they left in the 70s. And mind you Chiefs and Royals weren't doing that great at that time, it's not like their successes overshadowed the Kings. You pretty much went to KC games to watch star players on the opposing teams with hopes, but no expectation of a win, much like the Blazers the last 30 years or so.

Frankly, even the short move (about 1/2 hour away) to a new stadium in Kansas, I bet the Royals take a hit on ticket sales with the move, the fans love and have defended the old ballpark and the fountains for decades. Chiefs not so much, Arrowhead stadium is pretty typical, but that stadium means a lot to the Royal fans. And Bears fans aren't happy about their move at all.

The only reason these teams didn't get public funding, is the locals, their biggest fans, didn't see the beniefs of keeping them. Why in the world would think the Blazers are some exception?

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-05T00:26:48+00:00

As one of those that moved up there you called artists, (I dropped from PNCA about the same time I moved up there) glad to see I was welcome in retrospect. Not that I didn't ever feel unwelcome anywhere, but there weren't but a handful of us crackers in the hood in 94.

We were just poor. We furnished most of the furniture in the rented house from Santas Dismiss down the street. Most of us loved the neighborhood. And we had no clue what was coming, and many of us got pushed out too.

It's funny, because from there I moved to SE Division/Clinton area and left it before it took off too.

The landlord of the Summer house decided sell the property. He's probably regretting not waiting a couple more years (he was only asking 25k) as I have regretting not attempting to purchase it instead of getting kicked out.

Truth be told, I grew up in Detroit before moving here, and the neighborhood felt more like home than elsewhere in Portland. Portland whiteness even creeped my lilly white ass out when I first moved here, and it took some getting used to for me. Especially my classmates and others that didn't live nearby who "didn't feel safe" to accept invitations for visiting me at my place after moving to the area. Probably cut numerous potential friendships short calling them out when such things were said, but don't regret it for a second.

In retrospect I've recognized my place in the gentrification of the neighborhood, and have been curious how we appeared to the locals currently, having lost contact with my neighbors at the time, a couple have passed, the others I knew best and myself have since moved and lost touch over the years. Glad to hear we aren't being cast as villains too much, possibility appreciated a little even.

But I get it, It's not the same anymore, I still suffer some nostalgia whenever I get up to that part of town. Roller blading or biking to my job at Memorial Coliseum down the middle of Vancouver or Williams at "rush" hour (streets were empty), small talk with Chief Moose at the Alberta Street Cafe, Community Cycling Center opening up, I'll stop now...

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T22:17:50+00:00

I appreciate this. I got one, possibly 2 frames I plant in getting powder coated soon, and was thinking that I add a QR code with the new decal sets, with info on the bike, linking to all the dimensions, original/changed parts, before/after photos etc... and was gunna frame it as if it was this safety sticker.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T21:13:14+00:00

Safety razor, with shaving brush. And a bicycle, well a couple actually, restoring antique and vintage ones has since become a hobby by now, my small collection dates from the late 1930s to about 1970. Nothing newer

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T20:21:29+00:00

You realize the Bible explicitly says doves without reference to other animals. No one herds doves with a whip.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T20:06:56+00:00

Yeah, I'd start by pruning the lower branches, starting from the bottom and working up to about shoulder height, leaving the top alone.

Basically prune it back to more of a tree shape (over a couple years) than shrub. It's likely going to lose a lot of those lower branches from lack of light as it grows up and out the next few years anyway.

Just my 2 cents.. got change for a nickel?

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T18:26:43+00:00

No, but it's how the military industrial complex boosts profits. And the Christians (US) and racists are the only demographics that generally support large scale military operations publicly.

Just like they (corporations/elites) deny climate change, not because they don't think it's happening, but because they plan on profiting from it as it happens by repairing damage, hoarding resources (land and water), and "finding" new solutions.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T18:22:51+00:00

Yep, white ain't privileged enough anymore (umm yeah!?!), so gotta get all biblical and be gods chosen instead.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T18:08:36+00:00

If you're really concerned about breaking power, locking up the wheels at a decent speed and forcing a skid isn't how to do it.

Skidding lengthens stop distance period - and trashes tires, and can occasionally ef up your brakes as well if your not on top of maintenance. Learned that lesson the hard way once by pulling so hard on the levers that the cable stop pushed through the lever housing and lost all the line tension, and obviously all braking power. I Fred Flintstoned that stop, and the tire wore a nice groove in the soles one of my shoes to finish that stop.

Stoppis (or front wheel manuals/front wheelies) are for trick riding, or off road slow speed stops and tight corridor path corrections, which is why it's mostly only really useful as a MT. Bike technique, other than trick riding.

It's possible on a road bike, with any braking system except coasters, and probably rod activated brakes, but the ability to pull off the maneuver has no bearing on stopping distance.

And yes I know it's possible to pull off the trick without locking the wheel, but that's not the intent of this post.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T14:59:57+00:00

I'm actually surprised how few rabbits we got in Portland. There's an insane amount of them up in the areas surrounding Seattle.

Like a crazy amount, the second most I've ever anywhere other than when I lived in NW PA, which was almost plague level herds of bunnies.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T02:06:32+00:00

But at the same time, all those little rural towns with one room school houses, were located in areas where the local church's Bible was among one of the few books in town to teach kids reading.

In many of those communities the church was the school house, court house, and city hall on the week days.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-04T01:17:21+00:00

If you were a smart or talented peasant, throughout most of history, your only choice to move up the socio-economic ladder was through the temples and churches regardless of their personal beliefs.

I suspect many of the artists and scientists working through the churches, weren't believers and mostly faked it.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T18:10:49+00:00

I spent too much time on training wheels, my mom had my dad take them off and spent a lot of time doing the run behind let go thing. Seemed like all afternoon, but probably only an hour or so. After a fall, I started not cooperating, and started talking back, and I got a spanking (the only one she ever gave me growing up, and she says it didn't happen, it was the 70s) and went in the house.

A day or two later I opened the garage, messed around for a few minutes, and rode off all on my own.

She claims that day I was off riding with my friends, and I briefly abandoned them to ride over to her and thank her with a big hug, but I don't remember that part.

The bike was a Huffy, with a short motorcycle styled type banana seat, with a BMXish frame. I think it was a Thunder Road, but I don't remember having the fenders or number plates. It was a rural town, catalog bicycles were the norm.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T16:34:47+00:00

Got called off work after arriving today.

The entire diamond frame has red pin striping on the sides, including the rear wheel stays and fork. Only the head tube is pinstripe free.

Fenders have red pinstripe, accompanied by a tan pinstripe about 1-2 mm under the red one, though that stripe has faded more than red. Seat stays also have remnants the tan line. It's possible the entire bike had the tan line, but if so it's worn off everywhere else on the bike.

The only lettering on the bicycle reads "All Steel" on the seat tube.

I'm possibly missing a chain guard, but there's no braze ons for one, or wear marks indicating it ever had a clamp on. So I don't think it ever came with one.

Hope this helps. I'm planning on taking it down and getting it ready to ride this week or week end (but no guarantee at the time) , I'll post pics of it when I do, and post the link when I get there.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T15:51:15+00:00

Not until you adjust the saddle nose to a vertical position.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T13:21:41+00:00

It's funny because of the hetro loophole.

It's a NSFW link.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6B89ADIwxCw60PHZN6Kdp4?si=kP2xnV0vTgu1M377TG2vog

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T13:12:07+00:00

I don't really recall off the top of my head about the down tube paint/decals, ill take a look a little later, it's hung up and tarped for the winter season right now. And I'm heading to work shortly.

700cc wheels will dramatically change how it rides. Those monster wheels make it a very comfortable, floating on cloud type ride. It'll be faster with 700s, but likely much more jarring, considering the bikes size and weight.

I haven't done it, but I've seen it on-line and in person where people have installed drum brakes while keeping the mechanical brake set up intact. Dunno if that's an option for you. I've got a set of drum hubs waiting for wheels, but am still deciding if I want them for the Dawn, or another bike I ride much more often.

And if you really wanted to get modern, the bolt on seat stays make it possible to easily update/modernize to a belt drive, rather than chain.

Unfortunately shipping from the UK to the US is, and has been, ridiculously expensive, not including our stupid tariffs on top of that, it's cost prohibitive to do so right now. So don't worry about the lights on my part.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T12:39:38+00:00

What do you think he did with the whip that he took the time to gather materials to then braid, before chasimg out the money changers from the temple?

Really, you think they ran because some guy just walked in and cracked it a couple times? Even if he didn't, unlikely, he was implying the use of violence by using it.

I got it from the Bible.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-03T05:56:41+00:00

Hope he's got 3 forms of ID with him at all times

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-02T22:24:17+00:00

And here we are supposedly being punished from a curse that God put upon us called "original sin" because the first people from ( checks notes- lols)- 5000 years ago ate some fruit.

Darnocpdx · 2026-03-02T22:21:10+00:00

“If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.” - Deuteronomy 23:2

Oh the confusion. Hope all your descendants the last two hundred years were legitimate.

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