Name/Title
1937 Schwinn DXDescription
The frame was found in early 1974 by Joe Breeze, Otis Guy & Marc Vendetti in a junkyard outside Clayton or Antioch, east of San Francisco Bay. It's built up like many of the "klunkers" used on Mount Tamalpais and at Repack during mountain biking's formative years of the 1970s.
Breeze won Repack on this bike in 1977. In 1979, Chris McManus rode it over Pearl Pass, from Crested Butte to Aspen, in the Fourth Annual Pearl Pass Klunker Tour, mountain biking's oldest and longest-running event.
Double-top-tube Schwinn ballooners of 1934 to 1944 were sought after in the 1970s for off-road riding. Originally these bikes were equipped with fenders, chain guard, kickstand, rear rack, and for some models, even a faux gas tank to house a battery for a headlight. Full dress, these bikes would weigh in at 65 pounds.
Breeze stripped off the superfluous parts and built this bike up for off-road use. He added the AMC Flash badge, found in 1974 on a 1940s Schwinn at the Richmond dump. Repack-ready, this bike weighs 48 pounds. The bike's original, factory paint job was blue with ivory spears. It had been augmented (pre-junkyard) in red and green.Acquisition
Accession
L-2013.11.14-Crested ButteAcquisition Method
On LOAN to Marin Museum of Bicycling