Review of Standard Catalog Of Schwinn Bicycles 1895-2004

Standard Catalog Of Schwinn Bicycles 1895-2004
Average Rating: 1.5 Total Reviews: 3
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Boo-hiss :(

On: 2007-03-19

This book was disappointing. Its title lead me to believe that it would be an extensive and thorough compilation of most, if not all of the bikes Schwinn produced; not so!

I own a 1970 Schwinn Twinn Tandem bike, and was hoping I would read and see information on tandems. They picture one tandem, and have very little information about it. They also fail to depict several other models. If you look at an orignal Schwinn catalog, youll find that they built dozens of models each year! Do a google search and youll find it.

One of Schwinns more popular models was the "Typhoon", and I dont even see a mention of it! What a crock!

I have a Standard Catalog of Corvette, and its is much more thorough than this one for the bike.

My opinion

On: 2007-01-16

The book is well written for the casual interest, yet it does not detail the financial woes that Schwinn had prior to its demise. The photos are good, not enough information that a "Catalog" should have. I was hoping for model names and production fiqures year by year, but such was not contained. Im sure there are better histories out there.

Don't waste your money - There are better books

On: 2005-01-20

After reviewing this book I was very disappointed. The title should have been "just another picture book of a few guys bikes". The title "standard catalog" is very deceiving. The content does not even scratch the surface of the vast array of of bicycles built by Schwinn down thru the years. There are no charts of models built, no production numbers, no serial numbers, really nothing in the way of valuable information to the collector. Nothing more than pictures of a select few bicycles and some cheesy history thrown in for copy. Even my untrained eye spotted several inaccuracies in the pictures of the restored bicycles shown.
I will say that the photography is quite good and the paper quality is great. My "new" copy arrived with the binding separating and some pages coming out. This would make an excellant book to keep next to the commode in case of emergency!!!
Perhaps the next time the author decides to tackle such an undertaking, some amount of research would be in order instead of relying on the Schwinn name to sell a book. Im not into burning books but this on comes close.