KilroyCD said:
Looks wonderful, but does it not hurt the bike? No danger of all that water rusting it up over Christmas?
KilroyCD said:
fatwoul said:Looks wonderful, but does it not hurt the bike? No danger of all that water rusting it up over Christmas?
Actually, Cowboy76's answer notwithstanding, this bike is already pretty rusty. It's a 20 inch child's bike that I actually have no other use for, so I was not concerned about rust. However, I was giving consideration to repainting the bike to protect it a bit, but that was only after putting it up again this season. I'll probably do it next summer.fatwoul said:Looks wonderful, but does it not hurt the bike? No danger of all that water rusting it up over Christmas?
Memory Lane Classics has the 28" bars in two styles. As for the gooseneck (also called stem), check the websites I gave you the links for, or do an eBay search under "bicycle neck" and you should find a bunch of classic styles. If you search "bicycle stem" you'll get almost all modern types.cowboy76 said:Yes of course! A GOOSENECK!! I just could NOT think of it!!
Yes I want to put back the exact same style handlebars that originally came on it, I saw them BUT they were too small,...only a 26" spread on them,...they came with a 28", if you can spot one or two on ebay let me know. As far as the original gooseneck,...teh chrome is peeling off!! I'm going to save it though, if I get cash to blow I'll get it rechromed sometime later in life. I need the trusses, (they're also peeling), and the rear tail light (hmm,...maybe it was just a reflector??,..cant remember,..that isn't very important to me really). Hmmm,....lets see,...those parts and,....possibly a nice crank, chain (any will do obviously), and possibly a repro seat,..thought about recovering mine,..not sure what all's involved in it though...yeah, I guesss thats it.
cowboy76 said:I'm sorry, I was just feeling goofy really, hope you wern't thinking I was being smart....its just my weird sense of humor,..dont mind me!
KilroyCD said:Memory Lane Classics has the 28" bars in two styles. As for the gooseneck (also called stem), check the websites I gave you the links for, or do an eBay search under "bicycle neck" and you should find a bunch of classic styles. If you search "bicycle stem" you'll get almost all modern types.
For truss rods, eBay is your best choice. The truss rods that Memory Lane has on their website (in the accessories section) and that BikeWorldUSA has are generic, and more like the 1950s Schwinn Phantom style.cowboy76 said:I just took a look at Memory Lane's website!!! They're GREAT!!! They have almost EVERYTHING I'm looking for but the gooseneck and the front fork struts!!!!! WOW! The nice thing is, its not very expensive either,...whoohoo!!:eusa_clap:
KilroyCD said:Hi all, SGB asked me to post a couple photos of his bike, as he doesn't have a photo hosting account. He has a 1946 Schwinn DX (BF Goodrich badged) that was rebuilt by a friend of his to represent a WWII US Army bike. Perhaps SGB can give us more of the story behind this bike. Here are the photos:
cowboy76 said:Finally,..I just came back from the garage,....here's my Roadmaster and my wife's Rollfast.
Now that I look at the Roadmaster, I notice that the fender struts ar not he same as the ones I've seen in the 1939 Cleveland Welding Company's catalogue I found online. The struts on mine are straight, the ones in the one in the catalogue are curved,....
Roadmaster,....
Rollfast,.....
KilroyCD said:Your Roadmaster was definitely repainted at some point in time.
KilroyCD said:One interesting thing about the Rollfast is that it has a Hawthorne chain ring. Hawthorne was the Montgomery Ward brand, and DP Harris (Rollfast) made some of their bikes. I wonder if the chain ring was replaced or if it's original to the bike?
KilroyCD said:One thing you may want to consider doing is to take the chains off and soak them in something like WD-40. Those are skip-tooth chains, and they are no longer made. Diamond chain stopped making them I believe in 2005, and remaining stocks of NOS skip-tooth chain have steadily been climbing in price. Both your chains show surface rust, and you want to try to free up any frozen links.
Very cool. I like their art deco headbadge as well. Their website still shows the Flyer model, but it doesn't have the fender flares. The Flyer Deluxe 6 has them, but it's not a single speed like yours. Looking at their offerings, I really like the "Trucker" model.Johnny B said:The flared fenders were 45% the reason I wanted it, the moulded in tank another 45%, and the deco-stlye "M" with the Manhattan skyline painted on the front fender the last 5%. All the other models had at most 2 of the three- flared fenders but no tank, the M but no flare, etc.
It had been discontinued by the time I bought it, and it took finding a bike shop in Oregon- halfway across the continent from me- who had the last one that rolled off the factory line to bring it home