Show your Mead Cycle Co. Bicycles

[vintage2wheel]

ALL ... just opened a New Thread on Pre-1933 Bicycles >>> "Show Your Primo Badges ... "

......... patric cafaro

No PM please ... contact me thru a thread OR direct >>> [email protected]

its under general.... here is the link
http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?33187-Show-Your-Primo-Badges-currently-owned-or-not

 

[hoofhearted]

SORRY ... THE BADGE THREAD is in the "General Discussion about Old Bicycles".

.......... patric

OF ALL THE THINGS i've ever lost .. i miss my mind, the most.

 

[hoofhearted]

SHAUN ... thank you for posting a re-direct !!!

........ patric

 

[chitown]

1909 Mead Sentinel

not mine btw. I don't think those are correct period wheels though being metal clad. I'm not sure when they started making those. Thought that was more a 20's thing. Corrections welcome.

thanks,

Chris

 

[pelletman]

Mead Sentinel

 

[chitown]

Pelletman, nice early Mead example! Love those spoon brakes.

Here's a close up of a poster with a copyright of 1897:

 

[pelletman]

Thanks! I guess I have to assume the coaster brake doesn't belong on this bike since it has the spoon brake..

 

[dfa242]

I was wondering the same thing as I looked at the pics - it's a great coaster though. Maybe they were sometimes used together with spoon brakes? Dunno.

 

[chitown]

Maybe they were sometimes used together with spoon brakes? Dunno.

There was some people in the industry that weren't sold on the coaster brake idea. In fact it was illegal to sell a bike in France, England, Germany or most of Europe that did not have a hand brake in the early 1900's. That may be why some of the early caliper type brakes were from Europe while in America the coaster brake was being put on most of the new bikes. American manufacturers were restricted from selling in Europe because they did not allow for a coaster brake only bike to be imported!!! This is one of the reasons stated in early tariff hearings in the US Congress to increase tariffs on European imports. But more on that in my J L Mead thread later. So I can see having both put on as an upgrade or "just to be sure" kinda thing, not totally trusting these new "coaster" brakes.

Back to more pics of Meads! These courtesy of the Smithsonian online collection:

 

[eazywind]

My 1922 Ranger

My 1922 Ranger.