Sweetspot pivots

Aluminum Homegrown bushings: 44mm OD, 38mm ID, 2mm flange thickness
Exact Homegrown bushing measurements: 44.03mm OD, 38.06mm ID

S-series and Carbon (both S-Series and Homegrown) bushings: 42mm OD, 38mm ID


Rich Adams: Looks like the HG bushings need to be custom made from Tercite (igus G300, L280), but you can still get the bushings that fit the S bikes and the carbon FT. The length will need to be cut down, but that's not too hard. Not positive, but I'd bet these would fit perfect.

Mark Rhomberg: I remember the best bushings we tested were specially machined from a blue material. Poly pro with Teflon embedded? They were too expensive to produce en mass. I think 6x more expensive. The close second was the HG bushing pictured above. Igus bearings tend to chew through the aluminum pivot so make sure you replace the pivot.

1994 MBA suspension designs article

A 1995 article from MBA about full suspension designs.

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Schwinn Sweetspot weights

Homegrown Sweetspot
Rear triangle - 1212g
Pivot tube - 51g
Homegrown 97 front triangle - 981g
Homegrown 99 front triangle - 1042g

S-series Sweetspot
Rear triangle - 1355g
Pivot tube - 82g
19" front triangle - 1144g
19" S Carbon front triangle - 1374g

Rear shocks
Rock Shox Deluxe (700lbs spring) - 430g
Fox Alps - 300g
Rock Shox SID - 250g
Cane Creek AD-10/12 - 225g
Bolts - 45g

1995 Bicycling Sweetspot review

February 1995 Bicycling magazine's full suspension group test, which the Schwinn Homegrown Sweetspot won.

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1996 Schwinn catalog

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