Saw this locked to a lamp post near the train station today. Apparently the
Schwinn Montague had a two joint seat tube based break-apart mechanism which was functionally the same as the modern
Ritchey BreakAway but, from the looks of it, less secure. I say less secure because the seat post joint uses more or less a
bathroom stall hasp which can probably rotate and creak and contributes little to frame strength or stiffness. Anyway, someone
still makes the Montague, albeit with a different, novel break-apart mechanism.
Saw this locked to a lamp post near the train station today. Apparently the Schwinn Montague had a two joint seat tube based break-apart mechanism which was functionally the same as the modern Ritchey BreakAway but, from the looks of it, less secure. I say less secure because the seat post joint uses more or less a bathroom stall hasp which can probably rotate and creak and contributes little to frame strength or stiffness. Anyway, someone still makes the Montague, albeit with a different, novel break-apart mechanism.
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